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| Song | Sometimes |
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| By | Depeche Mode |
| Songwriter | Martin L. Gore |
| Produced by | Depeche Mode Gareth Jones Daniel Miller |
| Recorded at | Westside Genetic (London) Hansa Mischraum |
| Length (mm:ss) | 1:53 |
| Tempo | 125 BPM |
| Time signature | 4 4 |
| Key | G Major |
| Programmed by | Martin L. Gore |
| Engineering assistance | Richard Sullivan Peter Schmidt |
| Additional engineering | Kevin Paul Kevin Vanbergen Roger Johnson |
| Additional mixing | Kevin Paul |
| Mastered by | 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 | 17 March 1986 |
| Live performances as Depeche Mode | 0 times * |
| Total live performances | 0 times * |
"Sometimes" is a song from the 1986 album Black Celebration by Depeche Mode.
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.
