World In My Eyes

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World In My Eyes
Song Artist Depeche Mode Album Violator Songwriter Martin L. Gore Produced by Depeche Mode Flood Recorded at Logic Studios, Milan Puk Studios, Denmark The Church, London Label Mute Records Length (mm:ss) 4:26 (album version) 4:00 (single edit) Tempo 122 BPM Time signature 4 4 Key B♭ Minor Engineering assistance Daryl Bamonte Dick Meaney David Browne Mark Flannery Mixing François Kevorkian Recorded 1989-1990 Originally released 2 September 1990 Played live 709 times * Total live plays 709 times *

"World In My Eyes" is a song from the 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 2 September 1990.

Notes

Martin Gore says in the 17 February 1990 issue of NME:

Stuart Maconie: On the opening track "World In My Eyes" you seem to be saying 'Just for this moment pleasure and gratification are all that matters'. It's almost like (deep breath) existentialism.

Martin Gore: Yes, and it’s a very positive song. It's saying that love and sex and pleasure are positive things.

Gore described the evolution of the studio recording of "World In My Eyes" in BONG magazine issue 37:

I remember the original demo of "World In My Eyes" being slightly faster and maybe slightly more obvious. While we were recording it in Milan, Dave was going away for a couple of days, so we worked on it and turned it into this really moody piece. I can remember Dave arriving back in the studio, slightly jet-lagged and being totally shocked, thinking that we just ruined the song, but half a day later he came back and said 'That's really good, the way it's turned out'. It always takes a while to get used to things.

Alan Wilder explains in an editorial on Shunt, the official Recoil website:

"World In My Eyes" had in fact been recorded very early on during the Milan session and, perhaps for this reason, displayed familiar Depeche elements linking it with previous albums. It was completed in London and with its 'drop' 3rd verse and use of vocal double-tracking to fill out and build the later choruses, was probably the most 'electro' sounding track on the LP - something of a homage to Kraftwerk, in a rhythmical sense at least. Laughing in the face of criticism that electronic music was 'soulless' and would only appeal to a small eclectic audience, its success exhibited one of Depeche Mode's most fundamental philosophies.

2006 remaster engineer Kevin Paul explained in a November 2007 interview for Sound On Sound magazine:

I had about 20 or 30 different tapes for "World In My Eyes" and I had to get them all to sync up and try to find the missing sounds. There is a snare-drum drop which is reversed — completely flipped. It wasn't on any of the tapes and it turned out it was most likely to have been done on an Akai with an Atari, run wild, so that was something Roger [Johnson] had to do. He had to find the sample and flip it and get the sound back. Everything then was backed up on floppy disks which now no-one can ever work. It is nigh-on an impossibility to get them to work as they did back then.

Andrew Fletcher explains in a 2017 interview for Hotmix Radio: "For me, ["World In My Eyes"] really shows how we've managed to have all these people from different countries all over the world together, liking Depeche Mode."

Lyrics

World In My Eyes

Let me take you on a trip

Around the world and back

And you won't have to move

You just sit still

Now let your mind do the walking

And let my body do the talking

Let me show you the world in my eyes

I'll take you to the highest mountain

To the depths of the deepest sea

And we won't need a map

Believe me

Now let my body do the moving

And let my hands do the soothing

Let me show you the world in my eyes

That's all there is

Nothing more than you can feel now

That's all there is

Let me put you on a ship

On a long, long trip

Your lips close to my lips

All the islands in the ocean

All the heaven's in motion

Let me show you the world in my eyes

That's all there is

Nothing more than you can touch now

That's all there is

Let me show you the world in my eyes

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1990 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Music video

Main article: Available recordings of "World In My Eyes"

Main article: List of dates where "World In My Eyes" was played

Trivia

• The arrangement used for "World In My Eyes" as it was performed on the first half of the World Violation tour was dropped in favour of a new arrangement, which saw use from 1990-10-14 Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany til the end of the tour.
• "World In My Eyes" has been sampled in the following songs by other artists:
  • "Don't You Wanna Come?" - Kyper (1992)
  • "Versatylin' Stylin" - The Next School (1990)
• "World In My Eyes" has been covered by Simbolo, The Cure, China-Touch, Inscape feat. DJ Worlock, Ákos, Sonata Artica, Running With Scissors, Mikro, Insular, Acylum, Rockabye Baby!, and Chateau Pop.

Depeche Mode songs released as singles 1981-1985: Dreaming Of Me • New Life • Just Can't Get Enough • See You • The Meaning Of Love • Leave In Silence • Get The Balance Right • Everything Counts • Love In Itself • People Are People • Master And Servant • Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody • Shake The Disease • It's Called A Heart 1986-1989: Stripped • But Not Tonight • A Question Of Lust • A Question Of Time • Strangelove • Never Let Me Down Again • Behind The Wheel • Little 15 • Personal Jesus 1990-1998: Enjoy The Silence • Policy Of Truth • World In My Eyes • I Feel You • Walking In My Shoes • Condemnation • In Your Room • Barrel Of A Gun • It's No Good • Home • Useless • Only When I Lose Myself 2001-2009: Dream On • I Feel Loved • Freelove • Goodnight Lovers • Precious • A Pain That I'm Used To • Suffer Well • John The Revelator / Lilian • Martyr • Wrong • Peace • Fragile Tension / Hole To Feed 2013-2017: Heaven • Soothe My Soul • Should Be Higher • Where's The Revolution • Going Backwards • Cover Me 2023: Ghosts Again Recoil songs released as singles 1992-1998: Faith Healer • Drifting • Stalker / Missing Piece 2000-2008: Strange Hours • Jezebel • Prey • Allelujah Dave Gahan songs released as singles 2003-2008: Dirty Sticky Floors • I Need You • Bottle Living / Hold On • A Little Piece • Kingdom • Saw Something / Deeper And Deeper 2012-2015: Longest Day • Take Me Back Home • All Of This And Nothing • Shine Martin Gore solo songs released as singles 1989-2003: Compulsion • Stardust • Loverman 2012-2015: Spock • Single Blip • Aftermaths • Europa Hymn • "Pinking" (Christoffer Berg Remix) Official releases Studio albums • Live albums • Compilation albums • Video albums • Singles