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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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...-4743599 You'll never guess which pop band has the most sophisticated song lyrics of all time]</ref> {{Template:Lyrics|Macro|

...ou can listen to the unfortunately poor-quality audio and read transcribed lyrics below: |+ class="nowrap" | Lyrics

...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>|

{{Template:Lyrics|Last Call For Liquid Courage|

...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|

{{Template:Lyrics|I Feel No Guilt|

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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]].

{{Template:Lyrics|Edge To Life|

"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>|

{{Template:Lyrics|My Joy|

{{Template:Lyrics|Radio News|

{{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

{{Template:Lyrics|Curse|

{{Template:Lyrics|Monument|

{{Template:Lyrics|More Than A Party|

{{Template:Lyrics|Always You|

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

{{Lyrics|Get The Balance Right|

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{{Template:Lyrics|Any Second Now|

..., 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|

{{Template:Lyrics|Better Days|

{{Template:Lyrics|Boys Say Go|

{{Template:Lyrics|A Photograph Of You|

...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|

{{Template:Lyrics|Fools|

{{Template:Lyrics|Before We Drown|

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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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{{Template:Lyrics|Breath Control|

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

{{Template:Lyrics|What's Your Name|

{{Template:Lyrics|Flexible|

{{Template:Lyrics|In Sympathy|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Landscape Is Changing|

{{Template:Lyrics|Death's Door|

...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?

{{Template:Lyrics|(Set Me Free) Remotivate Me|

{{Template:Lyrics|And Then...|

{{Template:Lyrics|Dangerous|

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"The lyrics to '[[Poison Heart]]' are more of an internal dialogue, but 'Worst Crime' i {{Template:Lyrics|The Worst Crime|

{{Template:Lyrics|Light|

{{Template:Lyrics|Nodisco|

{{Template:Lyrics|Shout|

{{Template:Lyrics|Now, This Is Fun|

{{Template:Lyrics|Never Let Me Go|

{{Template:Lyrics|Judas|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Child Inside|

{{Template:Lyrics|Incubus|

...ng that Marvin Gaye performed, that kind of soul-y song, its got beautiful lyrics and it was great to sing, it was one of the most challenging songs for me t {{Template:Lyrics|In Chains|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Darkest Star|

{{Template:Lyrics|My Secret Garden|

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

{{Template:Lyrics|Dressed In Black|

{{Template:Lyrics|Perfect|

{{Template:Lyrics|Two Minute Warning|

{{Template:Lyrics|Work Hard|

...f Vince Clarke's demo can be heard [[#Demo excerpt|below]]. [[#Lyrics|Full lyrics are also available]]. {{Template:Lyrics|Television Set|

{{Template:Lyrics|Damaged People|

{{Template:Lyrics|Ghost|

{{Template:Lyrics|Martyr|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Things You Said|

{{Template:Lyrics|Soft Touch / Raw Nerve|

{{Template:Lyrics|I Want It All|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Sweetest Condition|

...s Rumours. Was that intentional? Did they want to change anything with the lyrics?

{{Template:Lyrics|New Dress|

{{Template:Lyrics|Missing Piece|

{{Template:Lyrics|Free|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Bottom Line|

{{Template:Lyrics|Always|

{{Template:Lyrics|Happiest Girl|

{{Template:Lyrics|Insight|

{{Template:Lyrics|Soul With Me|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Sun And The Moon And The Stars|

{{Template:Lyrics|Little Soul|

{{Template:Lyrics|People Are Good|

{{Template:Lyrics|All That's Mine|

{{Template:Lyrics|Fragile Tension|

{{Template:Lyrics|Happens All The Time|

{{Template:Lyrics|Stalker|

...time, there are many times I've found myself praying to something. If the lyrics are contradicting themselves, it's because I'm contradicting myself all the

{{Template:Lyrics|Newborn|

{{Template:Lyrics|Get Right With Me|

{{Template:Lyrics|Angel|

{{Template:Lyrics|Sea Of Sin|

{{Template:Lyrics|Soothe My Soul|

{{Template:Lyrics|Surrender|

...on depechemode.com's official {{EL|http://archives.depechemode.com/lyrics/ lyrics}} page, or if the track never materialized past the demo stage and a record *[[I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead]] - early live version with totally different lyrics and arrangement; see [[1980-1x-xx / 1981-02-xx Unknown Venue, England, UK]]

{{Template:Lyrics|Jezebel|

{{Template:Lyrics|Corrupt|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Sun And The Rainfall|

{{Template:Lyrics|Caroline's Monkey|

...f Earth in my home studio but didn't know who was going to sing on it. The lyrics are so beautiful and evocative and I wanted to see if I could take this son

{{Template:Lyrics|No More (This Is The Last Time)|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Love Thieves|

{{Template:Lyrics|Tora! Tora! Tora!|

{{Template:Lyrics|Pipeline|

{{Template:Lyrics|Don't Say You Love Me|

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*At the beginning of 'Strangelove', Gore flubbed the lyrics, and live musician [[Peter Gordeno]] jokingly began playing the melody of '

{{Template:Lyrics|Drifting|

{{Template:Lyrics|Goodbye|

{{Template:Lyrics|My Favourite Stranger|

...s very happy, I think he feels a lot more involved now writing some of the lyrics and I think, the atmosphere generally during the recording of this album-is F:We just thought it was a really good song, it has good the lyrics, it has a good tune, and sounds like it was in Violator, it is not necessar

{{Template:Lyrics|Stories Of Old|

...y I'm a traditional songwriter, in the way that I use melodies, chords and lyrics. Only the instrumental part is a unanimous Depeche Mode decision. But for m {{Template:Lyrics|Wrong|

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{{Template:Lyrics|Higher Love|

{{Template:Lyrics|Leave In Silence|

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...se it's an important part of an artwork, at the same level as composition, lyrics and and arrangements. Thank you."

{{Template:Lyrics|The Sinner In Me|

...honest, when Martin wrote the song and he brought it to us and I read the lyrics and stuff - it's actually one of my favourite songs on the album - but when {{Template:Lyrics|Little 15|

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{{Template:Lyrics|Pleasure, Little Treasure|

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{{Template:Lyrics|Freestate|

{{Template:Lyrics|Welcome To My World|

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...A few hiccups throughout the performance with triggering notes or fumbling lyrics. Notably during "In Your Room." Regardless of my harsh critique, the show w

{{Template:Lyrics|Should Be Higher|

{{Template:Lyrics|Come Back|

...emode.com/lyrics/shakethedisease.html Depeche Mode official site archives, lyrics section: "Shake The Disease"]</ref> The differences are italicized below: {{Template:Lyrics|Shake The Disease|

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...ere, it did not work. That's why we wanted it to be on the live album. The lyrics are timeless. They talk of money, power and corruption. {{Template:Lyrics|Everything Counts|

{{Template:Lyrics|It Doesn't Matter|

{{Template:Lyrics|Nothing's Impossible|

{{Template:Lyrics|Lie To Me|

{{Template:Lyrics|Something To Do|

{{Template:Lyrics|A Question Of Lust|

{{Template:Lyrics|Somebody| In a place like this<ref>Martin Gore occasionally sings these additional lyrics during live performances.</ref>

...inaccurate. I'd personally love to see these covers updated with accurate lyrics. |+ class="nowrap" | Lyrics

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{{Template:Lyrics|Love In Itself|

{{Template:Lyrics|My Little Universe|

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...ixture of electronic beats with acoustic blues guitar and some really good lyrics and a great catchy chorus. So it was great that we recorded that song first {{Template:Lyrics|Dream On|

...s is home" (meaning his new hometown, not necessarily the song title). The lyrics took a new meaning with that.''

{{Template:Lyrics|I Am You|

{{Template:Lyrics|Peace|

{{Template:Lyrics|Just Can't Get Enough| [[File:Just Can't Get Enough lyrics sheet.jpg|thumb|right|Hand-written lyrics by Vince Clarke, as seen in [[BONG 24|BONG magazine, issue 24, page 18]]]]

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...njoy The Silence']. 'Enjoy...' was in my mind a lot when I was writing the lyrics to that. It's about being still and just being OK with that with nothing go

{{Template:Lyrics|I Want You Now|

{{Template:Lyrics|Freelove|

{{Template:Lyrics|The Meaning Of Love|

{{Template:Lyrics|Clean|

{{Template:Lyrics|Told You So|

...The Time", or "Ghost Of Modern Time". [[Addiction|You can find transcribed lyrics for that song here.]]

{{Template:Lyrics|Ice Machine|

{{Template:Lyrics|See You|

{{Template:Lyrics|Eternal|

{{Template:Lyrics|Photographic|

{{Template:Lyrics|Here Is The House|

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...have missed going to one. Maybe someone missing keys or fumbling with the lyrics. I will say, consistently, that Christian Eigner is a machine behind the dr

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...g while I was on tour? I guess so, I write all the time — you know, I mean lyrics or whatever you wanna call them, just sort of train of thought as they call ...as quite different, although you know for me when I'm writing melodies and lyrics, I'm always thinking about the same as I was with Paper Monsters it's like

{{Template:Lyrics|Slow|

{{Template:Lyrics|Going Backwards|

{{Template:Lyrics|To Have And To Hold|

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...released, I received a lot of letters from people who were shocked by the lyrics. They wanted to have "Blasphemous Rumours" banned on the radio. {{Template:Lyrics|Blasphemous Rumours|

{{Template:Lyrics|So Much Love|

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...e that my penultimate question. Did you ever feel, as you were reading the lyrics and getting the transcriptions of the music, did you feel a kinship with hi

{{Template:Lyrics|Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth|

{{Template:Lyrics|A Question Of Time|

...l commitment even further. In the future we will try to make our music and lyrics so obvious that no message remains unheard, that no one can close their eye

...l commitment even further. In the future we will try to make our music and lyrics so obvious that no message remains unheard, that no one can close their eye

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{{Template:Lyrics|Precious|

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...impromptu addition of a few lines from "Lightning Man" being added to the lyrics of "Enjoy The Silence", making the LiveHereNow recording from this show an

...iod, and I know you don't write the lyrics, but I was amazed that Martin's lyrics were so fitting, or seem so fitting, for Dave's state of mind, I guess. And Anton: I always think because I'm foreign and don't really listen to the lyrics initially, till I get a feel of the music or of the sound of a voice that w

{{Template:Lyrics|One Caress|

{{Template:Lyrics|Speak To Me|

{{Template:Lyrics|John The Revelator|

...obo27''' understandably does not wish to share or sell the audio. The full lyrics to the unknown vocal song were also graciously provided to DM Live Wiki, se |+ class="nowrap" | Lyrics

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