So Much Love

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So Much Love
Song	So Much Love
By	Depeche Mode
Songwriter	Martin L. Gore
Produced by	James Ford
Recorded at	Sound Design (Santa Barbara) Jungle City (New York)
Length (mm:ss)	4:29
Tempo	140 BPM
Time signature	4 4
Key	C Major
Programmed by	Matrixxman Kurt Uenala
Engineered by	Jimmy Robertson
Mixed by	James Ford
Mixing assistance	Brendan Morawski
Mastered by	Brian Lucey
Studio assistance	Connor Long Óscar Muñoz David Schaeman Brendan Morawski
Drums	James Ford
Art direction	Anton Corbijn
Design	SMEL
Recorded	April–August 2016
Originally released	17 March 2017
Live performances as Depeche Mode	64 times *
Total live performances	64 times *

"So Much Love" is a song from the 2017 album Spirit by Depeche Mode.

Notes

Martin Gore told Rolling Stone France:

"[...] the very last song that I wrote for the album [Spirit] was 'So Much Love', because I felt that I had to write something positive. I felt that I had to say that, with all this going, it doesn't matter what you do to me, there is still a lot of love in me."

Gore told Keys Magazine (translated from German):

"Sounds really influence the composition of a song. An example of this would be the song 'So Much Love'. At the beginning there was a driving main sound, which I programmed on a Eurorack synthesizer. Ultimately it is this sound that helped the track to its somewhat punky feel."

Dave Gahan told Phil Marriott that for 'So Much Love', Depeche Mode wanted "a vintage, kind of broken, busted up drum-sound."

Gahan also told Rolling Stone (archived):

"It's like we have so much love here, we really do, but we're afraid to use it and access it. It's the old John Lennon thing, like, 'love and peace, man.' [...] ['So Much Love'] also reminds me of early electronic stuff, like Tuxedomoon and Cabaret Voltaire, who did kind of punky, distorted songs."

Paradiso asked if 'So Much Love' would not have been better as the final track on Spirit since it would have ended it on a happy note, to which Gahan replied:

"Well, funnily enough, there was one tracklisting on the album where 'So Much Love' was the final song. I did feel like it should be the final song on the album. And Martin felt that we should end the album in a different way, so I was pretty much outvoted. And that's the way it goes, we are a democracy, it doesn't mean I have to be right. I understand what you are saying because I felt that the songs, all the songs on the album, are all leading in a certain direction, and I felt like this was the song that says we all still have so much love in us. Let's have some hopefulness at the end of this dark tunnel. [But] it worked: it would always have worked no matter where it is [on the album]."

Gore told Amazon:

"[...] One of the suggestions was for us to finish [the album] on that song, but it didn't really work. It worked thematically: it would have been great. But it was the only really fast song that we had. And to end on that, people would have to get through all the slow songs before getting to, you know, faster than, I don't know what it is, 110 [BPM] or something."

Lyrics

So Much Love

I can't lie

I can't fake

I can't act

My hands shake

There's disclosure

I must make

There is so much love in me

I can't run

I have tried

There's a thorn

In my side

There is something

I can't hide

There is so much love in me

You can forsake me

Try to break me

But you can't shake me

No

You can despise me

Demonise me

It satisfies me

So

There's a fire

In my veins

The desire

Causes pain

I will say it

Again

There is so much love in me

You can forsake me

Try to break me

But you can't shake me

No

You can despise me

Demonise me

It satisfies me

So

There is so much love in me

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©2016 Sony ATV Music Corp. and Grabbing Hands Music Ltd. All rights on behalf of itself and Grabbing Hands Music Ltd. admin. by Sony ATV Music Corp. (BMI). (USA). Published by Sony ATV Music Publishing Ltd Licensed by Grabbing Hands Music Ltd. (Rest Of The World)

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "So Much Love"

Main article: List of dates where "So Much Love" was played