If You Want
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8. If You Want List of Some Great Reward songs |
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If You Want
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| Song | If You Want |
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| By | Depeche Mode |
| Songwriter | Alan Wilder |
| Produced by | Depeche Mode Daniel Miller Gareth Jones |
| Recorded at | Music Works (Highbury, London) Hansa Mischraum (Berlin) |
| Length (mm:ss) | 4:40 |
| Tempo | 137 BPM |
| Time signature | 4 4 |
| Key | E♭ Major |
| Engineering assistance | Ben Ward Stefi Marcus Colin McMahon |
| Design | Martyn Atkins David A. Jones Marcx |
| Photography | Brian Griffin |
| Photography assistance | Stuart Graham |
| Recorded | January - August 1984 |
| Originally released | 24 September 1984 |
| Live performances as Depeche Mode | 81 times * |
| Total live performances | 81 times * |
"If You Want" is a song from the 1984 album Some Great Reward by Depeche Mode.
Notes
From the November 1984 issue of International Musician And Recording World:
Alan: "We were doing this combination with Martin doing his Indian voice combined with a bassoon type sound."
Martin: [launches into his Indian voice] "It was pretty ethnic."
Lyrics
If You Want
Working week's come to its end
Party time is here again
Everyone can come if they want to
If you want to be with me
If you want to be with me
You can come with me if you want to
Exercise your basic right
We could build a building site
From the bricks of shame is built the hope
If you want to be with me
If you want to be with me
Even though you may still not want to
Let tomorrow and today
Bring a life of ecstacy
Wipe away your tears of confusion
If you want to be with me
If you want to be with me
You can come with me if you want to
Even though you may still not want to / Even though you still may not want to[1]
Songwriter: Alan Wilder
Publishing Information: ©1984 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Demo version
If You Want is the penultimate track on the 1984 album Some Great Reward and is the second track on Alan Wilder's 1984 "Some Great Reward" demo tape, which consists of four tracks. You can stream the entire demo track below, or download the entire four-track demo tape here.
Live performances
- Main article: Available recordings of "If You Want"
- Main article: List of dates where "If You Want" was played
References
- ↑ There is a single change in lyrics between the album and the demo versions in the last line of the song. The placement of the words "still" and "may" appear in sequence in the demo version, and are reversed in the album version.
