The Child Inside

The Child Inside
Song Artist Depeche Mode Album Delta Machine Songwriter Martin L. Gore Produced by Ben Hillier Recorded at Sound Design (Santa Barbara) Jungle City (New York) Label Columbia Mute Records Length (mm:ss) 4:16 Tempo N/A BPM Time signature N/A Key N/A Programming Christoffer Berg Engineering Ferg Peterkin Engineering assistance Tomas del Toro-Diaz Will Loomis Dan Tobiason Mixing assistance Drew Smith Vocal recording Kurt Uenala Mastering Bunt Stafford-Clark Design Anton Corbijn Recorded March - October, 2012 Originally released March 22, 2013 Played live 35 times * Total live plays 35 times *

Lyrics

The Child Inside

There is darkness and death in your eyes

What have you got buried inside

The shallow grave in your soul

The ghosts there have taken control

You really should have dug a little deeper there

Body parts are starting to appear and scare

The child inside away

Each tear that flows down your face

Trickles then picks up the pace

And turns to a river inside

A river that will not subside

I can hear that dreadful overflowing sound

And watching from afar I see a child is drowned

The child inside your heart

I can see you drifting away

Heading for the light

I can see you drifting away

Every night

Why were you always inside

On days when the weather was fine

And while we were running around

You were nowhere to be found

You know you should have taken all your dolls to bed

But you were made to play games with your soul instead

The child inside you died

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©2013 EMI Blackwood Music Inc. o/b/o itself and / Grabbing Hands Music Ltd. (BMI). All rights reserved.

Dates with available recordings of The Child Inside

There are currently 2 recordings of The Child Inside available.

• 2013-05-04 Palais Nikaia, Nice, France/Source 1
• 2013-09-15 BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, USA/Source 1

Dates where The Child Inside was played

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

The Child Inside was played 35 times during this tour.

• 2013-05-04 Palais Nikaia, Nice, France
• 2013-06-24 SKK Arena, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2013-06-27 Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2013-07-20 Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy
• 2013-08-30 Ovation Hall at the Revel Casino, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
• 2013-09-01 Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON, Canada
• 2013-09-03 Bell Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
• 2013-09-06 Barclays Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
• 2013-09-10 Jiffy Lube Live, Washington D.C., USA
• 2013-09-12 Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood, Atlanta, GA, USA
• 2013-09-14 Live Nation Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds, Tampa, FL, USA
• 2013-09-15 BB&T Center, Sunrise, FL, USA
• 2013-09-18 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, TX, USA
• 2013-09-22 Sleep Train Amphitheatre, San Diego, CA, USA
• 2013-09-24 Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
• 2013-09-26 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountainview, San Francisco, CA, USA
• 2013-09-28 STAPLES Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 2013-10-02 STAPLES Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• 2013-10-06 Pearl Concert Teater at Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, NV, USA
• 2013-10-08 Desert Sky Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ, USA
• 2013-11-07 Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• 2013-11-09 The O2, Dublin, Ireland
• 2013-11-11 Hydro Arena, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
• 2013-11-15 Phones 4u Arena, Manchester, England, UK
• 2013-11-19 O2 Arena, London, England, UK
• 2013-11-21 Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany
• 2013-11-23 TUI Arena, Hannover, Germany
• 2013-11-25 O2 World, Berlin, Germany
• 2013-11-27 O2 World, Berlin, Germany
• 2013-11-29 Jyske Bank Boxen, Herning, Denmark
• 2013-12-01 Messehalle, Erfurt, Germany
• 2013-12-03 ÖVB Arena, Bremen, Germany
• 2014-01-18 Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad, Madrid, Spain
• 2014-01-31 Bercy, Paris, France
• 2014-02-15 Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

• The Child Inside was not played during this tour.

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