Depeche Mode

Released: March 17, 1986

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Depeche Mode Gareth Jones Daniel Miller

[Verse 1]
Close, naked, skin on skin
Tears are falling
Tears of joy
Her first boy
His first girl
Makes a change

[Chorus]
In a world full of nothing
Though it's not love, it means something

[Verse 2]
She's lonely
And he says it's for her only
That he lusts
She doesn't trust him
Nothing is true
But he will do

[Chorus]
In a world full of nothing
Though it's not love, it means something

[Bridge]
It's easy to slip away and believe it all
It's easy to slip away and believe it all
It's easy to slip away and believe it all
It's easy to slip away and believe it all

[Outro]
Though it's not love, it means something
Though it's not love, it means something
Though it's not love, it means something
Though it's not love, it means something
Though it's not love, it means something
Though it's not love, it means something
Though it's not love, it means something

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.

more tracks from the album

Black Celebration

From the album

Black Celebration (1986)

Depeche Mode popular songs

World Full of NothingDepeche Mode

Depeche Mode

Black Celebration