Released: December 6, 1993
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Steve Lyon Alan Wilder
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Condemnation, tried
Here on the stand with the book in my hand
And truth on my side
Accusations, lies
Hand me my sentence, I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
If for honesty you want apologies
I don't sympathise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
[Interlude: Hildia Campbell & Samantha Smith]
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Condemnation, why?
Because my duty was always to beauty
That was my crime
Feel elation, high
To know I can trust this fix of injustice
Time after time
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
If you see purity as immaturity
Well, it's no surprise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
[Outro: Hildia Campbell, Samantha Smith & Dave Gahan]
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Alright!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Come on, now! Come on!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Oh!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Yeah!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh
"Thank you."
Condemnation, tried
Here on the stand with the book in my hand
And truth on my side
Accusations, lies
Hand me my sentence, I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
If for honesty you want apologies
I don't sympathise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
[Interlude: Hildia Campbell & Samantha Smith]
Ooh
Ooh
Ooh
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Condemnation, why?
Because my duty was always to beauty
That was my crime
Feel elation, high
To know I can trust this fix of injustice
Time after time
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
If you see purity as immaturity
Well, it's no surprise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
[Outro: Hildia Campbell, Samantha Smith & Dave Gahan]
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Alright!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Come on, now! Come on!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Oh!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh ("Yeah!")
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh
"Thank you."
Devotional
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- Everything Counts (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Enjoy the SIlence (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Personal Jesus (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Stripped (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Behind the Wheel (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Death’s Door (Live) [Liévin, 29/7/93]
- Never Let Me Down Again (Live) [Liévin, 29/7/93]
- Fly on the Windscreen (Live) [Liévin, 29/7/93]
- World In My Eyes (Live) [Liévin, 29/7/93]
- Policy of Truth (Live) [Liévin, 29/7/93]
- Higher Love (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Rush (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- In Your Room (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Judas (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Mercy in You (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Condemnation (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Walking in My Shoes (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- Halo (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
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- Just Can’t Get Enough
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- Precious
- People Are People
- Behind the Wheel
- Cover Me
- Blasphemous Rumours
- Going Backwards
- Shake the Disease
- World in My Eyes
- Stripped
- It’s No Good
- Somebody
- I Feel You
- Halo
- Scum
- So Much Love