Depeche Mode

Released: March 22, 2013

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Ben Hillier

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
It was you that took my soul
And threw it in the fire
And tamed it in the rapture
And filled me with desire

[Pre-Chorus 1: Dave Gahan]
Now I'm pure, now I'm clean
I feel good and serene
In you

[Interlude]

[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
There is no denying
How I have been changed
You won't hear me crying
Now misery is strange

[Pre-Chorus 2: Dave Gahan]
I can dream, I can fly
Now it seems I get by
With you

[Interlude]

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Goodbye again
Goodbye again

[Interlude]

[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
I was always looking, looking for someone
Someone to stick my hook in
And pull it out and run

[Pre-Chorus 3: Dave Gahan]
Now I'm caught on your ride
All my thoughts are entwined
In you

[Interlude]

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Goodbye again
Goodbye again

[Interlude]

[Verse 4: Dave Gahan]
If you see me walking
To the golden gates
Then turn around, stop talking
Stop and hesitate

[Pre-Chorus 4: Dave Gahan]
I'll be waiting up there
With my fate in the air
For you

[Interlude]

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Good goodbye [x10]

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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