Released: September 2, 1990
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Depeche Mode Flood
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 1]
Wanted to feel the joy
Flow between our lips
Wanted to feel the joy
Flow between our hips
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 2]
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our eyes
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our thighs
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Bridge]
And I would have to pinch her
Just to see if she was real
Just to watch the smile fade away
See the pain she'd feel
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 3]
Wanted to feel her joy
Feel it deep within
Wanted to feel her joy
Penetrate my skin
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Outro]
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 1]
Wanted to feel the joy
Flow between our lips
Wanted to feel the joy
Flow between our hips
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 2]
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our eyes
Wanted to feel the joy
Pass between our thighs
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Bridge]
And I would have to pinch her
Just to see if she was real
Just to watch the smile fade away
See the pain she'd feel
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Happiest girl I ever knew
[Verse 3]
Wanted to feel her joy
Feel it deep within
Wanted to feel her joy
Penetrate my skin
[Chorus]
Happiest girl I ever knew
Why do you smile the smile you do?
[Outro]
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
Why do you smile the smile you do?
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- Christmas Island
- Agent Orange
- Dressed in Black [Pre-Release Version]
- Dreaming of Me [Cold End]
- Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead [Flexi Version]
- Esque
- Fpmip
- Zenstation
- Easy Tiger (Full Version)
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- Death’s Door (Jazz Mix)
- Heroes (Highline Sessions Version)
- The Great Outdoors!
- Better Days
- Memphisto
- Free
- In Your Memory
- All That’s Mine
- Always
- Happens All The Time
- Long Time Lie
- (Set Me Free) Remotivate Me
- Oh Well
- Ghost
- The Sun And The Moon And The Stars
- Light
- Pleasure, Little Treasure
- But Not Tonight
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- Ice Machine
- Dangerous
- Death’s Door
- Dirt
- Headstar
- Surrender
- Martyr
- It’s Called a Heart
- Get the Balance Right!
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- Flexible
- My Joy
- Now, This Is Fun
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- Shake the Disease
- Work Hard
- Any Second Now
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- World In My Eyes / Happiest Girl / Sea Of Sin (1990)
- DMBX: Singles 25-30 (2004)
- MODE (2020)
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- Policy of Truth
- Where’s the Revolution
- Strangelove
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- 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
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