Depeche Mode

Released: May 15, 2001

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Mark Bell

[Verse 1]
We're the horniest boys with the corniest ploys
Who take the easiest girls to our sleaziest worlds
With our lecherous plans in our treacherous hands
You'd be wasting your time saying, "No, it's a crime"

[Pre-Chorus]
All that we live for, you'll regret
All you remember, we'll forget

[Chorus]
We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
We're twilight's parasites
With self-inflicted wounds
We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
Heavenly oversights
Eating from silver spoons

[Verse 2]
With our decadent minds and our innocent lines
You'll be playing our games with your bodies in flames
When delirious fun has seriously begun
You'll be down on your knees, you'll be begging us, "Please"

[Pre-Chorus]
All we're demanding, you'll supply
All we're accused of, we'll deny

[Chorus]
We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
We're twilight's parasites
With self-inflicted wounds
We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
Heavenly oversights
Eating from silver spoons
We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
We're twilight's parasites
With self-inflicted wounds
We are the dead of night
We're in the zombie room
Heavenly oversights
Eating from silver spoons

[Outro]
We are the dead of night

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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