For My Murder

Some Die For Money, formerly known as For My Murder or A Dark Place is a 1982 song by Liverpool New Wave band 3D (A Fish in Sea). The song recently gained popularity after a snippet of the song was recorded and uploaded to WatZatSong by terryh and was later uploaded to YouTube by Lost and Obscure. The song was solved in September 3rd 2021, when a YouTube user named allister girvin identified the song as “Some Die For Money” by 3D (A Fish in Sea) from their 1982 John Peel radio session.

Song Background
“Some Die For Money” was recorded by Liverpudlian New Wave group 3D (A Fish in Sea) for their April 1982 session for well-known British radio DJ John Peel. The song was written by the band’s vocalist and percussionist at the time Richie, and was partially inspired by Jack the Ripper. The song was played second in the original broadcast of the session, although repeats in July and December of the same year changed the song to third and first (of the 3D songs played) respectively. Some elements of the song were reincorporated into their 1985 song “The Club”, which acted as a b-side to their third and final single “Dance to Believe”.

terryh and Lost and Obscure
On August 3rd, 2020, user terryh uploaded a snippet of the song to WatZatSong under the name “Rock 80s”. According to the OP, it was recorded off of the now-defunct Radio Trent in Nottingham using a TDK SA Super Avliyn cassette. Almost immediately, the post garnered a decent amount of attention, with the original post having over 900 listens. On August 12th, terryh provided a longer sample of the song (although the beginning was missing), which gained the attention of rybalan and Lost and Obscure, with the latter uploading the longer snippet of the song under the title “Unknown 80s New Wave Song - For My Murder” the following day. The video now has over 35K views.

Lyrics
He’s so cruel (he’s so cruel)

This mystical person of the human race

They never see the death in his face

Dark and night (dark and night)

In dark places is his way

Waiting on his girl to prey

Come with me

We’ll have a good time

Take my hand

And you’ll be mine

Down a dark place

I will take her

And I shall give chase

For my murder

Heard her voice (heard her voice)

Into his trap they had fell

Renewed his passions straight from hell

Dying screams (dying screams)

Love’s intent is not to happen

As not to please this red faced demon

(Instrumental)

And he fooled (and he fooled)

All his friends and people ‘round him

Takes some narrow investigation

Best we’ve found (best we’ve found)

Shades of green across the room

Pictures of death bodies strewn

Down a dark place

I will take her

And I shall give chase

For my Murder

Down a dark place

I will take her

And I shall give chase

For my Murder

Down a dark place

I will take her

And I shall give chase

For my Murder