Slow

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Slow
Song	Slow
By	Depeche Mode
Songwriter	Martin L. Gore
Produced by	Ben Hillier
Recorded at	Sound Design (Santa Barbara) Jungle City (New York)
Length (mm:ss)	3:45
Tempo	94 BPM
Time signature	3 4
Key	D Minor
Programmed by	Christoffer Berg
Engineered by	Ferg Peterkin
Engineering assistance	Tomas del Toro-Diaz Will Loomis Dan Tobiason
Mixed by	Flood
Mix engineering	Rob Kirwan
Mixing assistance	Drew Smith
Vocal recording	Kurt Uenala
Mastered by	Bunt Stafford-Clark
Design	Anton Corbijn
Photography	Anton Corbijn
Backprojection images	Anja Grabert
Recorded	March–October 2012
Originally released	22 March 2013
Live performances as Depeche Mode	27 times *
Total live performances	27 times *

"Slow" is a song from the 2013 album Delta Machine by Depeche Mode.

Notes

'Slow' is the first Martin Gore-penned song known to have been written and shelved before eventually seeing use on an album years after the time of its writing.

Daryl Bamonte told HOME in 2006:

"[...] Then when Martin recorded his demo's for [Songs Of Faith And Devotion] there was a really good song called 'Slow', which was excellent, had a sort of 'Dressed In Black' feel to it, I don't think the band even recorded that track."

Steffen Rüth asked Dave Gahan about this song in 2013, and he replied:

"I think it was a song from even earlier than that maybe. Maybe it was a song that was written for Songs Of Faith And Devotion. I don't really remember. It might be Songs Of Faith And Devotion it was written for. But at the time... as soon as I heard it, I said to Martin: "That's an old song." And he said: "Yeah, I needed to reinterpret it." He'd kind of reworked it. When Martin was demoing before, I seem to remember sitting in a meeting when we listened to the demos, and Alan [Wilder] kind of not getting it, just kind of... well, out of songs that we were going to record it just wasn't chosen at that particular time. So I guess Martin put it away, and it fits really well with everything we're doing now. Because of its blues influence, and I think Martin pulled from that school a lot more on this record."

Rüth also interviewed Martin Gore, and asked about this song:

Rüth: It is the case in a song like 'Slow' [that a positive sounding song is put together with blues]. Stylistically it is a blues song, but lyrically it's about...

Gore: ... sex. [laughs] Let's call it like it is. 'Slow' is a sensitive, erotic song about the joy of sex. Sometimes, things are very simple.

Andrew Fletcher told Exclaim! (archived):

"That, believe it or not, was a song that was written for Songs Of Faith And Devotion and for some bizarre reason never got recorded. Martin was going through his demos and came across it and said "Actually, this is quite good" so he did a new demo and it's a great song."

Lyrics

Slow

Slow, slow

As slow as you can go

So I can feel all I want to know

Slow, slow

I'll go with your flow

Let the world keep its carnival pace

I prefer to look into your beautiful face

What a waste

Let the stars continue to fly by

I don't have one desire to understand why

I don't try

Slow, slow

As slow as you can go

I want my senses to overflow

Slow, slow

And doesn't it show

I don't need a race in my bed

When speed's in my heart

And speed's in my head

Instead

It's tempting for fools to rush in

When something's so good

Why should we rush a thing

It's a sin

Slow, slow

As slow as you can go

That's how I like it

I like it

I don't need a race in my bed

When speed's in my heart

And speed's in my head

Instead

Slow, slow

As slow as you can go

That's how I like it

I like it

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©2013 EMI Blackwood Music Inc. o/b/o itself and / Grabbing Hands Music Ltd. (BMI). All rights reserved.

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "Slow"

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