Released: August 11, 1986
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Gareth Jones Daniel Miller Depeche Mode
[Chorus]
Let's have a black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
[Post-Chorus]
To celebrate the fact
That we've seen the back
Of another black day
[Verse 1]
I look to you, how you carry on
When all hope is gone, can't you see?
Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise
To someone like me
[Pre-Chorus]
I want to take you in my arms
Forgetting all I couldn't do today
[Chorus]
Black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
[Post-Chorus]
To celebrate the fact
That we've seen the back
Of another black day
[Verse 2]
I look to you and your strong belief
Me, I want relief tonight
Consolation, I want so much
Want to feel your touch tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
Take me in your arms
Forgetting all you couldn't do today
[Chorus]
Black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
Black celebration (I'll drink to that)
Black celebration
Tonight
Black celebration (I'll drink to that)
Black celebration
Tonight
Black celebration (I'll drink to that)
Black celebration
Tonight
[Outro]
"Thank you! Alright! Good evening, Birmingham! Woo! Thank you."
Let's have a black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
[Post-Chorus]
To celebrate the fact
That we've seen the back
Of another black day
[Verse 1]
I look to you, how you carry on
When all hope is gone, can't you see?
Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise
To someone like me
[Pre-Chorus]
I want to take you in my arms
Forgetting all I couldn't do today
[Chorus]
Black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
[Post-Chorus]
To celebrate the fact
That we've seen the back
Of another black day
[Verse 2]
I look to you and your strong belief
Me, I want relief tonight
Consolation, I want so much
Want to feel your touch tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
Take me in your arms
Forgetting all you couldn't do today
[Chorus]
Black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
Black celebration (I'll drink to that)
Black celebration
Tonight
Black celebration (I'll drink to that)
Black celebration
Tonight
Black celebration (I'll drink to that)
Black celebration
Tonight
[Outro]
"Thank you! Alright! Good evening, Birmingham! Woo! Thank you."
DMBX3: Singles 13-18
- A Question of Lust
- People Are People (Live) [Basel 30/11/84]
- Black Celebration (Live) [Birmingham, April 1986]
- Stripped (Live) [Birmingham, April 1986]
- Flexible (Remixed Extended Version)
- Fly on the Windscreen (Extended)
- Fly on the Windscreen (Death Mix)
- But Not Tonight (Extended Remix)
- Christmas Island (Extended)
- It Doesn’t Matter Two (Instrumental)
- A Question of Lust (Minimal)
- A Question of Time (Remix)
- Something to Do (Live) [Birmingham, April 1986]
- More Than a Party (Live) [Birmingham, April 1986]
- A Question of Time (Extended)
- Black Celebration (Black Tulip Mix)
- Christmas Island
- Sonata No.14 in C#m (Moonlight Sonata)
- Shake the Disease (Remixed Extended Version)
- Stripped
- Little 15
- But Not Tonight
- Shake the Disease
- Flexible
- It’s Called a Heart
- Something to Do (Metal Mix)
- Fly on the Windscreen
- Stripped (Highland Mix)
- Fly on the Windscreen (Quiet Mix)
- Breathing in Fumes
- Stjärna
- Shake the Disease (Edit the Shake)
- Black Day
- It’s Called a Heart (Extended)
- A Question of Time (New Town Mix/Live Remix)
- Black Celebration (1986)
- DMBX3: Singles 13-18 (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