Depeche Mode

Released: March 22, 2013

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Ben Hillier

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Welcome to my world
Step right through the door
Leave your tranquillizers at home
You don't need them anymore
All the drama queens are gone
And the devil got dismayed
He packed up and fled this town
His master plan delayed

[Chorus 1: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
And if you stay a while
I'll penetrate your soul
I'll bleed into your dreams
You'll want to lose control
I'll weep into your eyes
I'll make your visions see
I'll open endless skies
And ride your broken wings

[Chorus 2: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world

[Interlude]

[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Watch the sunrise set
And the moon begin to blush
And make it in a search
Translucently too much
And I hold you in my arms
I keep you by my side
And we sleep the devil's sleep
Just to keep him satisfied

[Chorus 1: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
And if you stay a while
I'll penetrate your soul
I'll bleed into your dreams
You'll want to lose control
I'll weep into your eyes
I'll make your visions see
I'll open endless skies
And ride your broken wings

[Chorus 2: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world
Welcome to my world

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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