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== Lyrics == These are the lyrics of the song as performed by Depeche Mode.

Martin Gore almost forgets the lyrics when he sings [[Blue Dress]]'s line "something so worthless / serves a purp

...sfreak.com/g/gerry+and+the+pacemakers/i+like+it_20631727.html the original lyrics}}, but a couple short verses are chopped off and there are slight differenc {{Template:Lyrics|I Like It|

...leases. This title does not make sense when considering the context of the lyrics, and is presumably the result of a misheard lyric which translated to a mis {{Template:Lyrics|Until You've Sown The Seed|

"It may not be the best song of [Iggy Pop's] 'The Idiot', but the lyrics are crisp."

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...ged, so it became like the sort of er, inspired the song and certainly the lyrics and I started thinking a lot about, I don't know thinking that you've got, ...sung in my true voice, the way I just sort of spit things out. As for the lyrics, well, all these things creep in from what I read, what I see. And I do bel

...joy it with us, and they don't have to find anything from the music or the lyrics, as long as they enjoy it. ...d, (audience laughs), and eh, we never eh, we've always asked him what the lyrics meant, but but don't know. You'd have to ask Vince.

...ke it mesh well with what I would sing. I think I wrote 5 or 6 versions of lyrics because I was so nervous to make it work… It’s a special song to me, it ...el pretty lucky that I was even given the opportunity to have my voice and lyrics on a song with such an iconic artist.”

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{{Template:Lyrics|All By Themselves<ref>Thanks to Ronny for transcribing the lyrics. Please note that this is our best effort; the song's vocals are very diffi

...nuine recording of Depeche Mode). A stream of the entire track, as well as lyrics transcribed to the best of our ability, are below. {{Template:Lyrics|Reason Man|

...creen projection to the song 'Black Celebration' as well as words from its lyrics, and held it up while the song was being performed.

...ith And Devotion]]', and they reported: "For the bridge, Gahan learned the lyrics backwards, phonetically, and sang them over a mirror image of the melody; t {{Template:Lyrics|Mercy In You|

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...ser All The Time', or 'Ghost Of Modern Time'. The entire track, as well as lyrics transcribed to the best of our ability, are below. {{Template:Lyrics|Addiction|

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Dave Gahan starts singing the lyrics to 'In Your Room' too early but corrects himself after the first couplet.

{{Template:Lyrics|If You Want| ...to / Even though you still may not want to<ref>There is a single change in lyrics between the album and the demo versions in the last line of the song. The p

Martin forgets some of the lyrics of [[Somebody]], and in the middle of the song, he says "This is a song for

Mats: What is the difference in the writing process for songs with lyrics versus instrumental songs? ...riting instrumentals. For me, I think music always comes a lot easier than lyrics do. I go in, knowing that there won't be any vocals. I wanted this album to

...ed to add lyrics to them later on. Perhaps Dave is meaning to say that the lyrics of 'Wagging Tongue' were written by both of them, and/or that the song was {{Template:Lyrics|Wagging Tongue|

...d changes takes their place to produce atmosphere, and the attention is on lyrics, melody and sound. This particular song was accepted as the 'B'-side to Peo {{Template:Lyrics|In Your Memory|

"Except for the Germans, no one will understand the lyrics of this song, the sense of isolation, the lucidity that can be felt with it

...hey 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 'Sometime {{Template:Lyrics|Sometimes|

...r than what he was told by Paul. I did ask Vince for the original, written lyrics back but he said he'd lost them. ...ored below''), claiming in the description that his brother Paul wrote the lyrics, with Vince Clarke having written the music. Adam later clarified to DM Liv

...e working title for "Rush" as "I Rush For You", along with tentative verse lyrics "See the tears from my eyes - Heard my truths become lies". {{Template:Lyrics|Rush|

...ttle bit of footage by Alan Wilder of Martin Gore can be seen, singing the lyrics of "Breathing In Fumes". In another shot of old footage in the same documen {{Template:Lyrics|Breathing In Fumes|

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...is available to [[Let's Get Together#Listen|listen to below]]; transcribed lyrics are also available below. ...t's Get Together<ref>Thanks to Ifyazel Lima Hernández for transcribing the lyrics.</ref>|

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...said "This record is bad". But I think we did suffer a bit because of the lyrics. ...he lyrics, I mean, a few people like yourself actually understand what the lyrics are saying.

...ing for me and I started to formulate what became the vocal melody and the lyrics for that song. So actually, I'd actually written, I heard that song in its ...n my head and in my heart; so I was dying to get on a mic and sing it. The lyrics are about sitting, waiting for something to come - protection of some kind,

..., including two versions of [[Secret To The End]]. The first demo contains lyrics that were slightly different from the final version, most notably the the a {{Template:Lyrics|Secret To The End|

Lyrics for [[Tomorrow's Dance]] and [[Reason Man]] can be found by clicking on the For this song, we have provided lyrics, examples of live performances, and a short snippet of Vince's original dem

...anging later on for future versions, the original song title remained. The lyrics are also surprisingly macabre for a Vince Clarke-penned composition. *The Spring 1981 live version, which has the final lyrics but a different arrangement, and can be heard here: [[1981-04-06 Bridge Hou

...but Ben [Hillier] thought that it would be a good idea if Dave were to add lyrics and melodies to it. So that's what he did, and during a recording session I {{Template:Lyrics|Long Time Lie|

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...everything all worked out on the piano and the whole vocal melody and the lyrics worked out before I went anywhere near a computer. {{Template:Lyrics|Heaven|

...10 FUV Live, WFUV 90.7 FM, New York City, NY, USA|on WFUV Radio]] that the lyrics were inspired by the song that ultimately became '[[Europa Hymn]]' from Mar ...what to do with this, maybe you can come up with a vocal melody, and some lyrics." It stayed with me for a bit, and then I was looking through some of my ol

...Gahan]] can be seen reading from a music stand with the "Goodnight Lovers" lyrics printed on it. The top of this page reveals the working title for the song, {{Template:Lyrics|Goodnight Lovers|

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...elta Machine]]''. Maybe there's something "bluesy" in the way we write the lyrics." {{Template:Lyrics|Poorman|

...it is the lyrics might be depressing but the music is so pretty. Once the lyrics stop it ends on this nice lilting gentle piece of music. That's the little {{Template:Lyrics|Fail|

...s not bad to be myself. This song was made quite quickly. When I wrote the lyrics of this song, the vocal part was circling in my head. This song is inspired {{Template:Lyrics|Miles Away / The Truth Is|

...t' complements another song on the album called '[[The Worst Crime]]'. The lyrics to 'Poison Heart' are more of an internal dialogue, but 'Worst Crime' is lo ...uote>Sometimes it's hard to talk about things you've written in songs, the lyrics and stuff. You don't know where they come from, sometimes. It's sort of a t

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...t was going to play out. I think Down is like one of the strongest sort of lyrics and melodies on the album, and I particularly like the slow drawly sort of

...y an instrumental that I wrote. And Dave liked it so much that he put some lyrics to it." {{Template:Lyrics|Oh Well|

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...rtin's story. It is not known which band member is singing and the song or lyrics are yet untranscribed. {{Template:Lyrics|Shouldn't Have Done That|

...nning of the show, Dave's teleprompter malfunctioned and he messed up some lyrics during [[Going Backwards]].

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"I wrote [the song] with Dave in mind. He wrote the melody and lyrics soon after he was sick, which I think influenced the reflective tone." ...and had melody and lyric ideas immediately. Dave worked on the melody and lyrics alone so I heard the melody for the first time over the phone. After changi

...ings, Depeche Mode's Highline Sessions cover version is referenced for the lyrics displayed on this page.</ref>|

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{{Template:Lyrics|Control Freak| Yes, but it doesn't refer to the lyrics, it's just the name of the song. I found it funny somehow. However, it does

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Reversed lyrics heard at the end of the song are Martin's vocals of "Don't play with my wor {{Template:Lyrics|My Cosmos Is Mine|

<blockquote>"I'll try and explain [the lyrics] to you. Do you know... when you feel... absolutely like shit? And you feel {{Template:Lyrics|I Feel Loved|

...as "Cliché" due to the song's tongue-in-cheek lyrics, and due to misheard lyrics the song is also sometimes referred to as "Until You Saw The Sea". ...er:Ronny|Ronny]]. They are included in this fileset as ''lyrics.txt''. The lyrics for each track can also be found if you click on their title in the track l

Martin Gore explained the lyrics in the 1997-01-25 issue of NME: "['Barrel Of A Gun'] started off with a very strong melody, and the lyrics were there. [Martin] had a little loop on the demo, a bass, a pad, and a co

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..., someone named Adam Spector claimed that his brother Paul had written the lyrics to 'New Life' (you can read that [[New Life|here]]). In July 2020, a former {{Template:Lyrics|Dreaming Of Me|

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...esults were really beautiful - the innocent guitar line with the 'knowing' lyrics and Dave's feeling - I love it! All the beats and sounds just followed the {{Template:Lyrics|When The Body Speaks|

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...special" version of "Master & Servant" showed it's face - Dave fumbled the lyrics, and left the singing to the crowd for almost the entire song (he did thank

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...here Dave might need to turn his voice up to 11, he smoothly delivered the lyrics as Christian’s booming drums hit us like a hammer. You could practically

...right|x240px|Bong Magazine Issue 24, Page 18, with Vince Clarke's original lyrics for [[Just Can't Get Enough]].]] *Vince's original demo lyrics for [[Just Can't Get Enough]] says "and when it rains, you're shining '''ou

...n at the whole side of Rock 'n' Roll and have fun with it, even though the lyrics represent a true part of my life at that time. The tin man and the lion cha

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...ml depechemode.com official archive section: "Interlude No. 2 - Crucified" lyrics]</ref>

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...um. It was only at the end of its production, after I had gathered all the lyrics written by the various contributors, that I had to find something that woul ...e usual way in that] that you wrote the music first and then you chose the lyrics and vocalists?

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