Depeche Mode

Released: August 22, 1983

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Depeche Mode Daniel Miller

[Verse 1]
All of these insurmountable tasks
That lay before me
All of the firsts and the definite lasts
That lay in store for me

[Chorus]
There was a time
When all on my mind was love
Now I find that most of the time
Love's not enough in itself

[Verse 2]
Consequently, I've a tendency
To be unhappy, you see
The thoughts in my head, all the words that were said
All the blues and the reds get to me

[Chorus]
There was a time
When all on my mind was love
Now I find that most of the time
Love's not enough in itself

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]
All of these absurdities
That lay before us
All of the doubts and the certainties
That lay in store for us

[Chorus]
There was a time
When all on my mind was love (love, love, love)
Now I find that most of the time
Love's not enough in itself

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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