Depeche Mode

Released: May 15, 2001

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Mark Bell

[Verse 1]
Put on your blindfold and a dress that's tight
And come with me on a mystery night
Open your eyes
Follow our stars under a painted sky
We'll leave the world behind, we're learning to fly
We used to get by

[Interlude]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

[Verse 2]
Forget the pictures on your TV screen
We'll steal the visions that you keep for your dreams
You can turn me on
I was blind then I saw the light
My angel coming in a brilliant white
Shine for me

[Interlude]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

[Chorus]
You've been hanging from a rope of mediocrity
Strung up by your insecurities
You can shine for me
Somebody has to shine for me
It's difficult not to shine for me

[Verse 3]
Follow our stars under a painted sky
We'll leave the world behind, we're learning to fly
We used to get by
Forget the pictures on your TV screen
We'll steal the visions that you keep for your dreams
You can turn me on

[Interlude]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

[Chorus]
You've been hanging from a rope of mediocrity
Strung up by your insecurities
You can shine for me
Somebody has to shine for me
It's difficult not to shine for me
Somebody has to shine for me
It's difficult not to shine for me

Depeche Mode are recognized as one of the most artistically influential bands of the late 20th century. Commercially, they have released 14 studio albums to date, and sold more than 100 million records. Their most recent album, Spirit, hit the streets in March 2017.

The band got their start in Basildon, Essex in 1980, and named themselves after a French fashion magazine. They rose to fame with hits that have become “Just Can’t Get Enough” (1981), “Everything Counts” (1983), and “People Are People” (1984), to name a few. One of their most famous concerts was at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in 1988.

Martin Gore has been the band’s primary songwriter since Vince Clarke left in the early 1980s (and went on to form Yazoo and Erasure). Alan Wilder replaced Clarke on keyboards in 1982, but left in 1995 (reinvesting his creative energy in his band, Recoil, which he had started in 1986). Since then, the band has comprised frontman Dave Gahan, multi-instrumentalist Martin Gore, and keyboardist Andy Fletcher—all of whom are original members.

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