My Cosmos Is Mine

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My Cosmos Is Mine
Song	My Cosmos Is Mine
By	Depeche Mode
Songwriter	Martin L. Gore
Produced by	James Ford Marta Salogni
Recorded at	Electric Ladyboy (Santa Barbara) Shangri-La (Malibu)
Length (mm:ss)	5:17
Tempo	83 BPM
Time signature	3 4
Key	E Minor
Programmed by	James Ford Marta Salogni
Engineered by	Marta Salogni
Engineering assistance	Gregg White Francine Perry Grace Banks
Mixed by	Marta Salogni
Mix engineering	Marta Salogni
Mixed at	Studio Zona (London)
Mastering engineer	Matt Colton
Keyboards	James Ford
Percussion	James Ford
Drums	James Ford
Art direction	Anton Corbijn
Recorded	July–October 2022
Originally released	24 March 2023
Live performances as Depeche Mode	113 times *
Total live performances	113 times *

"My Cosmos Is Mine" is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode and is considered the second "release" from the album according to the official website's discography section.

Notes

Initial snippets of the song were heard as part of the Berlin press conference to announce Memento Mori on 4 October 2022.

The song premiered on YouTube and other streaming services on 9 March 2023, exactly one month after the release of 'Ghosts Again'. There was no countdown to this song becoming available, unlike with 'Ghosts Again'.

Reversed lyrics heard at the end of the song are Martin's vocals of "Don't play with my world / Don't mess with my mind / Don't question my spacetime / My cosmos is mine". Reversed audio snippet:

Martin Gore explained to Steffen Ruth (translated from German):

"[The last track that I wrote] is also the first song on the album, 'My Cosmos Is Mine'. I wrote it shortly after Russia had invaded Ukraine. I thought, "How much should we still bear? What else will be thrown at us?" And my first reaction was to say: I will pull myself back into my little world, leave me alone. The song is about, when dealing with powerlessness, protecting your inner self from the attacks of the world and to, together with your loved ones, prefer to hide somewhere. Which is of course rather shortsighted, because we have to accept the responsibility of our planet's wellbeing, or else no one will be left anymore."

Dave Gahan told Zane Lowe:

"That is actually one of my favourites on the album. Not initially when Martin first sent me the demo, it didn't strike me. But quite often, it's the ones that creep up on me later that I most identify with for some reason. And that song was one of those. I remember singing it, I remember going into into Martin's house and in his studio. And I knew we had captured something, the combination of the song, and I'd found a place where I wanted to be with it. And I feel like I found a meaning in the song that I identified with. It's not something I talked to Martin about, and he might have a completely different concept about the lyrical content of the of the song, but I found my place with that song, and I knew it was going to be the something that was gonna be a great introduction to Memento Mori."

Lyrics

My Cosmos Is Mine

Don't play with my world

Don't mess with my mind

Don't question my spacetime

My cosmos is mine

Don't toy with my heart

Don't knock down my shrines

Don't alter my headlines

My cosmos is mine

No war, no war, no war, no war

No more, no more, no more, no more

No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear

Not here, not here, not here, not here

No rain, no clouds

No pain, no shrouds

No final breaths

No senseless deaths

Don't stare at my soul

I swear it is fine

Its borders are outlined

My cosmos is mine

My cosmos is mine

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) o/b/o Grabbing Hands Music Ltd. and EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS)

Live performances

Main article: Available recordings of "My Cosmos Is Mine"

Main article: List of dates where "My Cosmos Is Mine" was played