Released: March 8, 1986
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Daniel Miller Depeche Mode Gareth Jones
[Verse 1]
Oh God, it's raining, but I'm not complaining
It's filling me up with new life
The stars in the sky bring tears to my eyes
They're lighting my way tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Verse 2]
Just for a day on a day like today
I'll get away from this constant debauchery
The wind in my hair makes me so aware
How good it is to live tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
But they're not like tonight
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
Oh God, it's raining and I'm not containing
My pleasure at being so wet
Here on my own, all on my own
How good it feels to be alone tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
When my eyes had been so red
I'd been mistaken for dead
But not tonight
Oh God, it's raining, but I'm not complaining
It's filling me up with new life
The stars in the sky bring tears to my eyes
They're lighting my way tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Verse 2]
Just for a day on a day like today
I'll get away from this constant debauchery
The wind in my hair makes me so aware
How good it is to live tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
But they're not like tonight
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
Oh God, it's raining and I'm not containing
My pleasure at being so wet
Here on my own, all on my own
How good it feels to be alone tonight
[Pre-Chorus]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
When my eyes had been so red
I'd been mistaken for dead
But not tonight
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)
- DMBX3: Singles 13-18 (1991)
- Remixes 81···04 (Rare Tracks) (2004)
- Rare, Deleted & Promo Only Remixes (2006)
- 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