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7. The Landscape Is Changing
8. Told You So
List of Construction Time Again songs
9. And Then...
Told You So
Album-CTA.jpg
Song
Artist
Depeche Mode
Album
Songwriter
Produced by
Recorded at
The Garden (London)
Label
Length (mm:ss)
4:26
Tempo
130 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Key
A♭ Minor
Engineering
Ferg Peterkin
Gareth Jones
Tonmeister
Mixed at
Hansa Mischraum
Mastering
Christian Stegmaier
Design
Martyn Atkins
Town & Country Planning
Illustrations
Ian Wright
Originally released
August 22, 1983
Played live
130 times *
Total live plays
130 times *

'Told You So' is a song from the 1983 album Construction Time Again by Depeche Mode.

Lyrics


Told You So

And do those feet in modern times

Walk upon the flowers

And walk upon their brothers

While their heads are busy lying low

Trying to keep to cover


Something went wrong

Along the way

Everybody's waiting for

Judgment day


So they can go

Told you so


Bring me my gun of itching desire

Bring me my bullets and I will fire

Sights set higher than the tall church spire

Something went wrong

Along the way

Everybody's waiting for

Judgment day


So they can go

Told you so


So they can go

Told you so


Standing in line

The blind lead the blind

Waiting and waiting

For an overdue sign

Brothers and sisters

Playing Chinese whispers

If things aren't suited

Then they'll get diluted


There's one more dead with a hole in his head

He shouldn't have said all the things he said

Many tears were shed for the blood he bled


Something went wrong

Along the way

Everybody's waiting for

Judgment day


So they can go

Told you so


Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1983 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Martin Gore 1983 home demos

The second generation tape that contains the demo for 'Told You So'.

'Told You So' is one of several song demos prepared by Martin Gore for the 1983 Construction Time Again album. Notably, the second verse has a different lyric compared to the album version. It sounds like Gore sings "I've gone to shoot the eyelet in the tall church spire" (it is very hard to understand that line, accuracy not guaranteed); the album version says "sights set higher than the tall church spire".

Dates with available recordings of Told You So

There are currently 93 recordings of Told You So available.

Dates where Told You So was played

1983-1984 Construction Time Again Tour

Told You So was played 49 times during this tour.

1984-1985 Some Great Reward Tour

Told You So was played 81 times during this tour.

1986 Black Celebration Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

1987-1988 Music For The Masses Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

1990 World Violation Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

1993 Devotional Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

1994 Exotic Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

1997 Ultra Parties

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

1998 The Singles Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

2001 Exciter Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

2003 Paper Monsters Tour (Dave Gahan solo)

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

2003 "A Night With Martin L. Gore" (Martin L. Gore solo)

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

2005-2006 Touring The Angel

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

  • Told You So was not played during this tour.