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Cover Me

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Dave Gahan wrote the song together with Peter Gordeno and Christian Eigner.

Dave Gahan told Rolling Stone:

"It's about a person who travels to another planet only to find that, much to his dismay, it's exactly the same as earth. It's a different planet but the same. He really can't get away from himself. If he wants things to change, he's going to have to implement it."

He elaborated on the song WFUV Radio:

"The song is kind of inspired by this guy that finds another world to live [in], but finds out it's exactly the same as this one. And he is just chasing his own tail. The song is in two halves, and the second half is supposed to take you out of this world, and the first half is this sort of confessional. I would say it's got a lyrical content which is the beautiful side of the things that are in our world today. So it's a moment on the album which isn't so pointing-the-finger-and-blaming. And the blame also falls on ourselves. Martin is not just saying "Hey, whatchagonnadoaboutit", he's taking responsibility, and I hear that in those songs. And 'Cover Me' really does take responsibility, and it's asking also for help."

Keyboard programmer Matrixxman said in an interview with Mode2joy.pl:

"Cover Me required some quality time. Maybe there were some other [songs off 'Spirit' too that were difficult to make] but this one stands out in my mind. This particular track Dave wrote initially. He was adamant that we should all try to get busy and „fuck it up” as the kids would say. At first I had a tough time coming up with compelling things for this tune but Dave did a great job of urging us to get weird and creative. James did some really cool tweaking of the voicing of the chords which helped push it in a darker direction. I came up with a sort of Pink Floyd-ish arpeggiated synth pattern that I hummed to Martin and we set about making that. Kurt worked his synth magic as well. Next thing you know, all of the contributions really brought the track to life. It took on this eerie, cinematic quality that wasn’t previously present.

The coda [in the track] was either James [Ford's idea] or Dave’s doing, but creatively speaking, it was an amalgamation of everyone’s talent then and there. I’m happy that the arpeggio thing I contributed helped tie it together. Kurt [Uenala] came up some epic synth stuff as well."

Dates with available recordings of Cover Me

There are currently 42 recordings of Cover Me available.

Dates where Cover Me was played

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

Cover Me was played 139 times during this tour.

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