Depeche Mode

Released: September 27, 1982

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Depeche Mode Daniel Miller

[Verse 1]
Someone will call, something will fall
And smash on the floor
Without reading the text know what comes next
Seen it before and it's painful

[Chorus]
Things must change
We must rearrange them
Or we'll have to estrange them
All that I'm saying
A game's not worth playing
Over and over again

[Verse 2]
You're the one I like best, you retain my interest
You're the only one
If it wasn't for you, don't know what I'd do
Unpredictable like the sun and the rainfall

[Chorus]
Things must change
We must rearrange them
Or we'll have to estrange them
All that I'm saying
The game's not worth playing
Over and over again

[Outro]
Things must change
Things must change
Things must change
Things must change
(If it wasn't for you, don't know what I'd do)
(Unpredictable like the sun and the rainfall)
Things must change
(Someone will call, something will fall)
(And smash on the floor)
Things must change
(Without reading the text know what comes next)
(Seen it before and it's painful)
Things must change
(You're the one I like best, you retain my interest)
(You're the only one)
Things must change
(If it wasn't for you, don't know what I'd do)
(Unpredictable like the sun and the rainfall)
Things must change
(Someone will call, something will fall)
(And smash on the floor)
Things must change
(Without reading the text know what comes next)
(Seen it before and it's painful)
Things must change
(You're the one I like best, you retain my interest)
(You're the only one)
Things must change
(If it wasn't for you, don't know what I'd do)
(Unpredictable like the sun and the rainfall)
Things must change
(Someone will call, something will fall)
(And smash on the floor)
Things must change
(Without reading the text know what comes next...)

Depeche Mode are recognized as one of the most artistically influential bands of the late 20th century. Commercially, they have released 14 studio albums to date, and sold more than 100 million records. Their most recent album, Spirit, hit the streets in March 2017.

The band got their start in Basildon, Essex in 1980, and named themselves after a French fashion magazine. They rose to fame with hits that have become “Just Can’t Get Enough” (1981), “Everything Counts” (1983), and “People Are People” (1984), to name a few. One of their most famous concerts was at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in 1988.

Martin Gore has been the band’s primary songwriter since Vince Clarke left in the early 1980s (and went on to form Yazoo and Erasure). Alan Wilder replaced Clarke on keyboards in 1982, but left in 1995 (reinvesting his creative energy in his band, Recoil, which he had started in 1986). Since then, the band has comprised frontman Dave Gahan, multi-instrumentalist Martin Gore, and keyboardist Andy Fletcher—all of whom are original members.

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