Depeche Mode

Released: February 11, 2002

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Mark Bell

[Chorus]
To the soul's desires, the body listens
What the flesh requires, keeps the heart imprisoned
What the spirit seeks the mind will follow
When the body speaks, all else is hollow

[Verse 1]
I'm just an angel
Driving blindly through this world
I'm just a slave here
At the mercy of a girl

[Refrain]
Oh, I need your tenderness
Oh, I need your touch
Oh, I dream of one caress
Oh, I pray too much

[Chorus]
To the soul's desires, the body listens
What the flesh requires, keeps the heart imprisoned
What the spirit seeks the mind will follow
When the body speaks, all else is hollow

[Verse 2]
You keep me waiting
For the promise that is mine
Please stop debating
Please stop wasting your time

[Refrain]
Oh, I need your tenderness
Oh, I need your touch
Oh, I dream of one caress
Oh, I pray too much

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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Exciter (2001)
Goodnight Lovers (2002)

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