Wagging Tongue
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Wagging Tongue
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| Song | Wagging Tongue |
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| By | Depeche Mode |
| Songwriter | Dave Gahan Martin L. Gore |
| Produced by | James Ford Marta Salogni |
| Recorded at | Electric Ladyboy (Santa Barbara) Shangri-La (Malibu) |
| Length (mm:ss) | 3:25 |
| Tempo | 100 BPM |
| Time signature | 4 4 |
| Key | A♭ Major |
| Programmed by | James Ford Marta Salogni |
| Engineered by | Marta Salogni |
| Engineering assistance | Francine Perry Grace Banks |
| Mixed by | Marta Salogni |
| Mix engineering | Marta Salogni |
| Mixed at | Studio Zona (London) |
| Mastering engineer | Matt Colton |
| Keyboards | James Ford |
| Art direction | Anton Corbijn |
| Recorded | July–October 2022 |
| Originally released | 24 March 2023 7 July 2023 ("release") |
| Live performances as Depeche Mode | 116 times * |
| Total live performances | 116 times * |
"Wagging Tongue" is a song from the 2023 album Memento Mori by Depeche Mode. On 7 July 2023, it became the third "release" from the album according to the official website's discography section.
Notes
Dave Gahan told Le Journal Du Dimanche:
"I composed it on my guitar, Martin [Gore] enriched and enhanced it."
Gahan elaborated on the Smartless podcast:
"Martin will take one of my songs, for instance, let's say 'Wagging Tongue', which is on this record. I sent my little demo to Martin of me hamfistedly trying to play the guitar, and get the song out and find the chords and all that. And then Martin sends it back with these beautiful Kraftwerk-esque chords and arpeggiated synths and stuff, and I'm like, "Oh, okay..." But that then takes me to another place, you see, because that changes the perception again."
Gahan said to Steffen Rüth for DPA Agency (translated from German):
"[It's] the first song from both of us٭, that ever made it onto a record. I could sense early on that we really hit the mark with this one."
Martin Gore continues:
"The melody is excellent, and the entire song has something intoxicating. It's postive, it's pop, but it's not too much pop."
[٭ 'Oh Well', 'Long Time Lie, and 'You Move' are also songs co-credited to both Gahan and Gore (the latter also appearing onto an album), but in those cases, Gore created them as instrumental records, and Gahan decided to add lyrics to them later on. Perhaps Gahan is meaning to say that the lyrics of 'Wagging Tongue' were written by both of them, and/or that the song was created in the same room.]
Lyrics
Wagging Tongue
You won't do well to silence me
With your words or wagging tongue
With your long tall tales of sorrow
Your song yet to be sung
I won't be offended
If I'm left across the great divide
Believe me, they will follow
Just to watch another angel die
Watch another angel die
You won't do well to darken me
With your secrets and your lies
With your piercing code of silence
Relax enjoy the ride
I'll meet you by the river
Or maybe on the other side
You find it hard to swallow
When you watch another angel die
Watch another angel die
Another sun is rising
Another day has come
You can find me, I'll be waiting
Until the day is done
I won't be persuaded
Kiss your doubts goodbye
Everything seems hollow
When you watch another angel die
Watch another angel die
Songwriter: Dave Gahan / Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) o/b/o JJSR Productions Inc., Grabbing Hands Music Ltd., and EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS)
Music video
Live performances
- Main article: Available recordings of "Wagging Tongue"
- Main article: List of dates where "Wagging Tongue" was played
