A Pain That I'm Used To
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| Song | A Pain That I'm Used To |
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| By | Depeche Mode |
| Songwriter | Martin L. Gore |
| Produced by | Ben Hillier |
| Recorded at | Sound Design (Santa Barbara) |
| Length (mm:ss) | 4:11 (album version) 3:23 (radio edit 1) 3:27 (radio edit 2) |
| Tempo | 108 (verse) 110 (chorus) 112 (drop) BPM |
| Time signature | 4 4 |
| Key | B♭ Major |
| Programmed by | Dave McCracken Richard Morris |
| Engineered by | Ben Hillier Richard Morris |
| Mixing assistance | Devin Workman Kt Rangnick |
| Mastered by | Emily Lazar |
| Mastering assistance | Sarah Register |
| Recording assistance | Nick Sevilla Arjun Agerwala Rudyard Lee Cullers Devin Workman Kt Rangnick |
| Art direction | Anton Corbijn |
| Design | Anton Corbijn Four5one.com |
| Photography | Anton Corbijn |
| Recorded | January–July 2005 |
| Originally released | 12 December 2005 |
| Live performances as Depeche Mode | 482 times * |
| Total live performances | 482 times * |
"A Pain That I'm Used To" is a song from the 2005 album Playing The Angel by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 12 December 2005.
Notes
Ben Hillier told Home:
"Getting the verses of ['A Pain That I'm Used To'] right was really difficult. The choruses always worked very well, and the riff sections always worked very well. We had all sorts of things going on on the verse. We probably did 6 or 7 different versions of that before we settled on the final one. Not radically different versions, but yeah..."
From an interview with programmer Dave McCracken for Home:
"'A Pain That I'm Used To' was really hard, the chorus was brilliant, but the verses didn't work, we did several versions of that. Actually, Ben is probably right [in the above interview for HOME], it was [indeed] pretty hard."
Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher told the November 2005 of Keyboard magazine:
Gore: "[The analog bass in the intro] was one of the most difficult things to get right."
Fletcher: "That song did start in Santa Barbara. It went through lots of stages. We were settled on the basic arrangement – the 'siren' intro, then pulsating bass, then Dave [Gahan] comes in with the opening line – the rhythm just never seemed to groove properly. Otherwise, this may have been our easiest album to make other than Speak and Spell."
Hillier told the same magazine:
[The Voyetra-8 is] that bottom end on ["A Pain That I'm Used To"].
Lyrics
A Pain That I'm Used To
I'm not sure
What I'm looking for anymore
I just know
That I'm harder to console
I don't see who I'm trying to be
Instead of me
But the key
Is a question of control
Can you say
What you're trying to play anyway
I just pay
While you're breaking all the rules
All the signs that I find
Have been underlined
Devils thrive on the drive
That is fuelled
All this running around
Well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe
All the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve
Something that rings true
There's a hole in your soul
Like an animal
With no conscience
Repentance unknown
Close your eyes
Pay the price for your paradise
Devils feed on the seeds
That are sown
Can't conceal what I feel
What I know is real
No mistaking the faking
I care
With a prayer in the air
I will leave it there
On a note full of hope
Not despair
All this running around
Well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe
All the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve
Something that rings true
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©2005 EMI Music Publishing Ltd., Assigned by Grabbing Hands Music Overseas Ltd. All rights reserved.
Music video
Live performances
- Main article: Available recordings of "A Pain That I'm Used To"
- Main article: List of dates where "A Pain That I'm Used To" was played
Trivia
- 'A Pain That I'm Used To' was featured in season one episode fifteen of the Fox television series Bones.
- A unique instrumental version featuring a cold outro ending on the "siren"-like musical part that omits the synth arpeggio that is present in other versions of the track was featured in a trailer for the 2010 Walt Disney film The Sorcerer's Apprentice starring Nicolas Cage.
