Depeche Mode

Released: March 22, 2013

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Ben Hillier

[Verse 1]
There is darkness and death in your eyes
What have you got buried inside?
The shallow grave in your soul
The ghosts that have taken control

[Chorus]
You really should have dug a little deeper there
Body parts are starting to appear and scare
The child inside away

[Verse 2]
Each tear that flows down your face
Trickles then picks up the pace
And turns to a river inside
A river that will not subside

[Chorus]
I can hear that dreadful overflowing sound
And watching from afar I see a child is drowned
The child inside your heart

[Verse 3]
I can see you drifting away
Heading for the light
I can see you drifting away
Every night
Why were you always inside?
On days when the weather was fine
And while we were running around
You were nowhere to be found

[Chorus]
You know you should have taken all your dolls to bed
Well you were made to play games with your soul instead
The child inside you died

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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