Released: April 29, 1985
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Gareth Jones Daniel Miller Depeche Mode
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
I'm not going down on my knees, begging you to adore me
Can't you see it's misery and torture for me?
When I'm misunderstood
Try as hard as you can, I've tried as hard as I could
To make you see
How important it is for me
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Post-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
Understand me, understand me
Understand me, understand me
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Some people have to be permanently together
Lovers devoted to each other forever
Now I've got things to do
And I've said before that I know you have too
When I'm not there
In spirit, I'll be there
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Post-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
Understand me, understand me
Understand me, understand me
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
I'm not going down on my knees, begging you to adore me
Can't you see it's misery and torture for me?
When I'm misunderstood
Try as hard as you can, I've tried as hard as I could
To make you see
How important it is for me
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Post-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
Understand me, understand me
Understand me, understand me
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Some people have to be permanently together
Lovers devoted to each other forever
Now I've got things to do
And I've said before that I know you have too
When I'm not there
In spirit, I'll be there
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Post-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
Understand me, understand me
Understand me, understand me
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
[Interlude]
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Here is a plea from my heart to you
Nobody knows me as well as you do
You know how hard it is for me to shake the disease
That takes hold of my tongue in situations like these
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)
- Some Great Videos (1985)
- Shake The Disease (1985)
- The Singles 81﹥85 (1985)
- Catching Up with Depeche Mode (1985)
- Black Celebration (1986)
- Greatest Hits (1987)
- DMBX3: Singles 13-18 (1991)
- The Best of Depeche Mode, Volume 1 (2006)
- The Best of Videos (Volume 1) (2007)
- Video Singles Collection (2016)
- MODE (2020)
- 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