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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
Dave Gahan told [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/mar/19/depeche-mode The Guardian in 2009]:  
Dave Gahan told [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/mar/19/depeche-mode The Guardian in 2009]:  
<blockquote>This is one of the songs I wrote on the album, a very cynical song about wanting to fill a gaping hole but not knowing what to fill it with. About sometimes the idea having a hole to feed all being a figment of my imagination when I'm actually fine."  
<blockquote>"This is one of the songs I wrote on the album, a very cynical song about wanting to fill a gaping hole but not knowing what to fill it with. About sometimes the idea having a hole to feed all being a figment of my imagination when I'm actually fine."
</blockquote>
 
He explained it in more detail in a syndicated interview by Steffen Rüth (translated from German):
<blockquote>
"It is about the fact that I am always thinking that there is something else out there - a person, a relationship, a drug, an adventure, whatever - that can finally fulfill my needs. Well, then you give into this stuff or person, with which you were so obsessed - and then you're disappointed. That's how it always goes. No matter what it is, no matter how great I am doing or how happy I am: I will never get into the state that I want to reach. My cynical self will appear in such moments. And I actually don't like this part of my character anymore. But it simply cannot be turned off easily. But I am pressing the pause button more frequently than ever anyway."
</blockquote>
</blockquote>


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Notes

Dave Gahan told The Guardian in 2009:

"This is one of the songs I wrote on the album, a very cynical song about wanting to fill a gaping hole but not knowing what to fill it with. About sometimes the idea having a hole to feed all being a figment of my imagination when I'm actually fine."

He explained it in more detail in a syndicated interview by Steffen Rüth (translated from German):

"It is about the fact that I am always thinking that there is something else out there - a person, a relationship, a drug, an adventure, whatever - that can finally fulfill my needs. Well, then you give into this stuff or person, with which you were so obsessed - and then you're disappointed. That's how it always goes. No matter what it is, no matter how great I am doing or how happy I am: I will never get into the state that I want to reach. My cynical self will appear in such moments. And I actually don't like this part of my character anymore. But it simply cannot be turned off easily. But I am pressing the pause button more frequently than ever anyway."

Dates with available recordings of Hole To Feed

There are currently 61 recordings of Hole To Feed available.

Dates where Hole To Feed was played

2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe

Hole To Feed was played 103 times during this tour.

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

  • Hole To Feed was not played during this tour.

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

  • Hole To Feed was not played during this tour.
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