Released: September 17, 1990
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Flood Depeche Mode
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Wanted to feel the joy
Wanted to feel the joy
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our eyes
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our thighs
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Bridge: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
And I would have to pinch her
Just to see if she was real
Just to watch the smile fade away
See the pain she'd feel
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Wanted to feel the joy
Wanted to feel the joy
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Wanted to feel the joy
Wanted to feel the joy
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our eyes
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our thighs
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Bridge: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
And I would have to pinch her
Just to see if she was real
Just to watch the smile fade away
See the pain she'd feel
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Wanted to feel the joy
Wanted to feel the joy
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
more tracks from the album
DMBX: Singles 25-30
- Death’s Door (Live) [Liévin, 29/7/93]
- Higher Love [Adrenaline Mix Edit]
- Walking in My Shoes (Random Carpet Mix)
- In Your Room (Extended Zephyr Mix)
- Happiest Girl (Jack Mix)
- Walking in My Shoes [Anandamidic Mix]
- In Your Room (The Jeep Rock Mix)
- Sea of Sin (Tonal Mix)
- Policy of Truth (Capitol Mix)
- World in My Eyes (Oil Tank Mix)
- Policy of Truth (Trancentral Mix)
- Condemnation (Paris Mix)
- Death’s Door (Jazz Mix)
- 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]
- Rush (Amylnitrate Mix) (Instrumental)
- I Feel You [Helmet at the Helm Mix]
- Happiest Girl [The Pulsating Orbital Vocal Mix]
- Kaleid (Remix)
- Kaleid (When Worlds Mix)
- In Your Room (Live) [Liévin 29/7/93]
- World In My Eyes (Mayhem Mode)
- In Your Room (Apex Mix)
- Higher Love (Adrenaline mix)
- Dub in My Eyes
- Policy of Truth (Beat Box)
- Policy of Truth (Pavlov’s Dub)
- My Joy (Slow Slide Mix)
- I Feel You (Life’s Too Short Mix)
- My Joy
- One Caress
- I Feel You
- World in My Eyes
- Policy of Truth
- In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)
- Happiest Girl (Kiss-a-Mix)
- Walking in My Shoes (Ambient Whale Mix)
- World in My Eyes (Mode to Joy)
- Walking in My Shoes (Grungy Gonads Mix)
- Happiest Girl (The Pulsating Orbital mix)
- Walking in My Shoes (Extended 12" Mix)
- Rush (Spiritual Guidance Mix)
- Rush (Wild Planet mix)
- I Feel You (Afghan Surgery Mix)
- Kaleid
- Sea of Sin (Sensoria)
- Walking in My Shoes
From the albums
- DMBX: Singles 25-30 (2004)
- Remixes 2. 81–11 [Limited Edition] (2011)
- Remixes 2. 81-11 [US Dub Version] (2011)
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- Behind the Wheel
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