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World In My Eyes
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Song
Artist
Depeche Mode
Album
Songwriter
Produced by
Recorded at
Logic Studios, Milan
The Church, London
Label
Length (mm:ss)
4:26 (album version)
4:00 (single edit)
Tempo
122 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Key
B♭ Minor
Recorded
1989-1990
Originally released
September 2, 1990
Played live
708 times *
Total live plays
708 times *

Notes

Martin Gore says in the 1990-02-17 issue of NME:

Stuart Maconie: "On the opening track 'World In My Eyes' you seem to be saying 'Just for this moment pleasure and gratification are all that matters'. It's almost like (deep breath) existentialism.

Martin: "Yes, and it’s a very positive song. It's saying that love and sex and pleasure are positive things."

Martin Gore in Bong issue no. 37, 1998:

"I remember the original demo of 'World In My Eyes' being slightly faster and maybe slightly more obvious. While we were recording it in Milan, Dave was going away for a couple of days, so we worked on it and turned it into this really moody piece. I can remember Dave arriving back in the studio, slightly jet-lagged and being totally shocked, thinking that we just ruined the song, but half a day later he came back and said 'That's really good, the way it's turned out'. It always takes a while to get used to things."

Alan Wilder wrote in his '86 - 98' editorial:

"'World In My Eyes' had in fact been recorded very early on during the Milan session and, perhaps for this reason, displayed familiar Depeche elements linking it with previous albums. It was completed in London and with its 'drop' 3rd verse and use of vocal double-tracking to fill out and build the later choruses, was probably the most 'electro' sounding track on the LP - something of a homage to Kraftwerk, in a rhythmical sense at least. Laughing in the face of criticism that electronic music was 'soulless' and would only appeal to a small eclectic audience, its success exhibited one of Depeche Mode's most fundamental philosophies."

In 2006, all of Depeche Mode's studio albums were being remastered. Engineer Kevin Paul told Sound On Sound magazine:

"I had about 20 or 30 different tapes for 'World In My Eyes' and I had to get them all to sync up and try to find the missing sounds. There is a snare-drum drop which is reversed — completely flipped. It wasn't on any of the tapes and it turned out it was most likely to have been done on an Akai with an Atari, run wild, so that was something Roger [Johnson] had to do. He had to find the sample and flip it and get the sound back. Everything then was backed up on floppy disks which now no-one can ever work. It is nigh-on an impossibility to get them to work as they did back then."

Andy Fletcher has always said that 'World In My Eyes' is his favourite Depeche Mode song. When Hotmix radio asked him in 2017 asked him to name a classic Depeche Mode song, he named this song and explained:

"For me, [World In My Eyes] really shows how we've managed to have all these people from different countries all over the world together, liking Depeche Mode."

Lyrics


World In My Eyes

Let me take you on a trip

Around the world and back

And you won't have to move

You just sit still


Now let your mind do the walking

And let my body do the talking

Let me show you the world in my eyes


I'll take you to the highest mountain

To the depths of the deepest sea

And we won't need a map

Believe me


Now let my body do the moving

And let my hands do the soothing

Let me show you the world in my eyes


That's all there is

Nothing more than you can feel now

That's all there is


Let me put you on a ship

On a long, long trip

Your lips close to my lips


All the islands in the ocean

All the heaven's in motion

Let me show you the world in my eyes


That's all there is

Nothing more than you can touch now

That's all there is


Let me show you the world in my eyes


Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1990 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Dates with available recordings of World In My Eyes

There are currently 530 recordings of World In My Eyes available.

Dates where World In My Eyes was played

1990 World Violation Tour

World In My Eyes was played 88 times during this tour.

1993 Devotional Tour

World In My Eyes was played 97 times during this tour.

1994 Exotic Tour

World In My Eyes was played 60 times during this tour.

1997 Ultra Parties

  • World In My Eyes was not played during this tour.

1998 The Singles Tour

World In My Eyes was played 64 times during this tour.

2001 Exciter Tour

  • World In My Eyes was not played during this tour.

2003 Paper Monsters Tour (Dave Gahan solo)

  • World In My Eyes was not played during this tour.

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

  • World In My Eyes was not played during this tour.

2005-2006 Touring The Angel

World In My Eyes was played 123 times during this tour.

2009-2010 Tour Of The Universe

World In My Eyes was played 48 times during this tour.

2013-2014 Delta Machine Tour

World In My Eyes was played 6 times during this tour.

2017-2018 Global Spirit Tour

World In My Eyes was played 137 times during this tour.

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