Sometimes

Sometimes
Song Artist Depeche Mode Album Black Celebration Songwriter Martin L. Gore Produced by Depeche Mode Gareth Jones Daniel Miller Recorded at Westside Genetic (London) Hansa Mischraum Label Mute Records Length (mm:ss) 1:53 Tempo 125 BPM Time signature 4/4 Key G Major Programming Martin L. Gore Engineering assistance Richard Sullivan Peter Schmidt Additional engineering Kevin Paul Kevin Vanbergen Roger Johnson Additional mixing Kevin Paul Mastering Tim Young Mastering engineer Tim Young Remastering engineer Simon Heyworth Recording Dave Allen Recording assistance Phil Tennant Recording engineer David M. Allen Photography Brian Griffin Photography assistance Stuart Graham Recorded November 1985 - January 1986 Originally released March 17, 1986 Played live 0 times * Total live plays 0 times *

Notes

Martin Gore said in the 1986-02-22 issue of No.1 magazine:

"There is one quite funny song [on Black Celebration] called 'Sometimes' which is about someone who questions their surroundings and ends up becoming tiring and over apologetic."

Vince Clarke wrote an eponymous song for his band Erasure. In June 2017, he told The Quietus:

"Originally the lyric in the chorus wasn't "sometimes" it was "ooh baby". The guy who mixed it said "you can't use 'ooo baby', come up with something else". It was a Mute studio, they had a record cupboard with all their releases in, and I was looking at lyrics on the backs of all these records. Depeche Mode had a song called 'Sometimes' and I thought 'ah well that'll work'. That's how it came about - you're the first person that I've told that to."

Lyrics

Sometimes

Sometimes

Only sometimes

I question everything

And I'm the first to admit

If you catch me in a mood like this

I can be tiring

Even embarassing

But you must

Feel the same

When you look around

You can't tell me honestly

You're happy with what you see

Oh sometimes

Only sometimes

You must be

You must be

As embarassing as me

Sometimes

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1986 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Trivia

• At 1:53 in length, Sometimes is the shortest non-instrumental Depeche Mode song with vocals.

Dates where Sometimes was played

Sometimes has never been played live.

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