Released: June 13, 1981
Songwriter: Depeche Mode
Producer: Daniel Miller Depeche Mode
[Verse 1]
I stand still, stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit red danger
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life
[Verse 2]
Transition to another place
So the time will pass more slowly
Your features fuse and your shadow's red
Like a film I've seen, now show me
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life
[Verse 3]
Your face is hidden and we're out of sight
And the road just leads to nowhere
The stranger in the door is the same as before
So the question answer's nowhere
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life
[Verse 4]
I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit red danger
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating generating
New life, new life
I stand still, stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit red danger
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life
[Verse 2]
Transition to another place
So the time will pass more slowly
Your features fuse and your shadow's red
Like a film I've seen, now show me
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life
[Verse 3]
Your face is hidden and we're out of sight
And the road just leads to nowhere
The stranger in the door is the same as before
So the question answer's nowhere
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life
[Verse 4]
I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit red danger
[Chorus]
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating generating
New life, new life
DMBX1: Singles 1-6
- Just Can’t Get Enough
- Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden
- Leave in Silence (Longer)
- The Meaning of Love (Fairly Odd Mix)
- Leave in Silence (Quieter)
- Now, This Is Fun (Extended Version)
- New Life (Remix)
- Shout! (Rio Mix)
- Any Second Now (Altered)
- Oberkorn (It’s a Small Town)
- Excerpt From: My Secret Garden
- See You (Extended Version)
- Leave in Silence
- The Meaning of Love
- Any Second Now
- Dreaming of Me
- Ice Machine
- Shout!
- Now, This Is Fun
- Just Can’t Get Enough (Schizo Mix)
- Oberkorn (It’s a Small Town) [Development Mix]
- New Life [single] (1981)
- DMBX1: Singles 1-6 (1991)
- Enjoy the Silence
- Personal Jesus
- Policy of Truth
- Where’s the Revolution
- Strangelove
- Never Let Me Down Again
- Just Can’t Get Enough
- Wrong
- Everything Counts
- 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