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Peace
Song	Peace
By	Depeche Mode
Songwriter	Martin L. Gore
Produced by	Ben Hillier
Recorded at	Sound Design (Santa Barbara) Chung King (New York)
Length (mm:ss)	4:28 (album version) 3:36 (single version)
Tempo	138 BPM
Time signature	4 4
Key	G Major
Programmed by	Luke Smith
Engineered by	Ferg Peterkin
Engineering assistance	Josh Garcia Jesse Gladstone Anthony Palazzole
Mastered by	Stephen Marcussen
Art direction	Anton Corbijn
Design	ShaughnessyWorks Tea Design
Recorded	May - December, 2008
Originally released	15 June 2009
Live performances as Depeche Mode	22 times *
Total live performances	22 times *

"Peace" is a song from the 2009 album Sounds Of The Universe by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 15 June 2009.

Notes

Martin Gore told Billboard:

"I wrote ['Little Soul' and 'Peace'] back to back, and the flow of the album started to make more sense. I really felt they had a spirituality to them. That somehow set a cornerstone for the rest of the writing."

Martin Gore told Mojo magazine in 2009:

"['Peace' and 'Little Soul'] are two of the most spiritual songs I've ever written. Peace will come to me. Inner peace. I don't want to come across as a born-again Christian or some New Age hippy. But maybe it is about feeling more connected to the universe."

Martin told Think-silly.com in February 2009:

"'Peace' is my personal favourite. I think it could be one of the best songs I have ever written. It could be the next single."

Martin also told Keyboard magazine:

"Two of the songs I wrote back to back: 'Peace' followed by 'Little Soul.' They were, for me, quite spiritual sounding. Although they sound nothing like it, it almost felt a little bit like something from [Stevie Wonder's] Innervisions. There's something spiritual in that sense to them. It might seem really weird to be talking about Stevie Wonder. There's nothing that we ever do that really sounds like somebody else directly. I think it’s in my warped head, there’s something Stevie Wonder-like about 'Little Soul'."

Dave Gahan told Under The Radar magazine:

"When Martin played it to me for the first time I turned around and said, 'I think that's one of the best songs you've ever written.' Even in the demo form it was apparent that it was so full of melody, I thought it was just beautiful. Sometimes I don't know where he comes up with this stuff to be honest."

Lyrics

Peace

Peace will come to me

Peace will come to me

I'm leaving bitterness

Behind this time

I'm cleaning out my mind

There is no space

For the regrets

I will remember to forget

Just look at me

I am walking love incarnate

Look at the frequencies

At which I vibrate

I'm going to light up the world

Peace will come to me

Peace will come to me

I'm leaving anger in the past

With all the shadows

That it cast

There is a radar in my heart

I should have trusted

From the start

Just look at me

I'm a living act of holiness

Giving all the positivity

That I possess

I'm going to light up the world

Peace will come to me

Just wait and see

Peace will come to me

It's meant to be

Peace will come to me

Just wait and see

Peace will come to me

It's an inevitability

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©2009 EMI Music Publishing Ltd licensed by Grabbing Hands Music Ltd All rights reserved.

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "Peace"

Main article: List of dates where "Peace" was played

Depeche Mode songs released as singles 1981-1985: Dreaming Of Me • New Life • Just Can't Get Enough • See You • The Meaning Of Love • Leave In Silence • Get The Balance Right • Everything Counts • Love In Itself • People Are People • Master And Servant • Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody • Shake The Disease • It's Called A Heart 1986-1989: Stripped • But Not Tonight • A Question Of Lust • A Question Of Time • Strangelove • Never Let Me Down Again • Behind The Wheel • Little 15 • Personal Jesus 1990-1998: Enjoy The Silence • Policy Of Truth • World In My Eyes • I Feel You • Walking In My Shoes • Condemnation • In Your Room • Barrel Of A Gun • It's No Good • Home • Useless • Only When I Lose Myself 2001-2009: Dream On • I Feel Loved • Freelove • Goodnight Lovers • Precious • A Pain That I'm Used To • Suffer Well • John The Revelator / Lilian • Martyr • Wrong • Peace • Fragile Tension / Hole To Feed 2013-2017: Heaven • Soothe My Soul • Should Be Higher • Where's The Revolution • Going Backwards • Cover Me 2023: Ghosts Again Recoil songs released as singles 1992-1998: Faith Healer • Drifting • Stalker / Missing Piece 2000-2008: Strange Hours • Jezebel • Prey • Allelujah Dave Gahan songs released as singles 2003-2008: Dirty Sticky Floors • I Need You • Bottle Living / Hold On • A Little Piece • Kingdom • Saw Something / Deeper And Deeper 2012-2015: Longest Day • Take Me Back Home • All Of This And Nothing • Shine Martin Gore solo songs released as singles 1989-2003: Compulsion • Stardust • Loverman 2012-2015: Spock • Single Blip • Aftermaths • Europa Hymn • "Pinking" (Christoffer Berg Remix) Official releases Studio albums • Live albums • Compilation albums • Video albums • Singles