Broken

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7. Broken
List of Delta Machine songs
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Broken
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Song Broken
By Depeche Mode
Songwriter Dave Gahan
Kurt Uenala
Produced by Ben Hillier
Recorded at Sound Design (Santa Barbara)
Jungle City (New York)
Length (mm:ss) 3:58
Tempo 120 BPM
Time signature 4
4
Key G Minor
Programmed by Christoffer Berg
Engineered by Ferg Peterkin
Engineering assistance Tomas del Toro-Diaz
Will Loomis
Dan Tobiason
Mixed by Flood
Mix engineering Rob Kirwan
Mixing assistance Drew Smith
Vocal recording Kurt Uenala
Mastered by Bunt Stafford-Clark
Design Anton Corbijn
Photography Anton Corbijn
Recorded March–October 2012
Originally released 22 March 2013
Live performances as Depeche Mode 0 times *
Total live performances 0 times *

"Broken" is a song from the 2013 album Delta Machine by Depeche Mode.

Lyrics


Broken

If you want control

Without any pain

How long will you suffer

How long you reign


You see, the friend that I need

Cannot be found

Replaced by another

Wearing his crown


There's a place where I go

Without any sound

Only you can reach me

Only you're allowed


Then you're so far away

You're so far from here

Do you remember

A time without tears


When you're falling I will catch you

You don't have to fall that far

You can make it, I will be there

You were broken from the start


When you were a child

You'd dream all day long

You'd dream of the future

And get lost in your songs


Now that time is gone

It's lost for you now

Words long forgotten

Forgotten somehow


When you're falling I will catch you

You don't have to fall that far

You can make it, I will be there

You were broken from the start


Songwriter: Dave Gahan / Kurt Uenala
Publishing Information: ©2013 EMI Blackwood Music Inc. o/b/o / JJSR Productions Inc. (BMI) / Chocolate Robot (ASCAP). All rights reserved.

Music video

A live studio session music video for 'Broken' was uploaded to the official Depeche Mode YouTube account on 27 April 2013.

Of this live recording, engineer Kurt Uenala said on Facebook:

"Happy [Roland TR] 808 day! I programmed that beast to build this song and also to drive the Jupiter 8 bass (thanks for letting us borrow that, Alicia Keys [who was recording in the studio next door -ed.]). What a pain it was (especially since it lost all its sequencing data the morning of filming) but how wonderful the outcome was..."

Dates where Broken was played

Broken has never been played live.