Depeche Mode

Released: September 22, 2017

Songwriter: David Bowie

Producer: Andrew Krasniak

[Intro]

[Chorus]
I
I will be King
And you
You will be my Queen
Though nothing
Will keep us together
We can beat them
Forever and ever
We can be Heroes
Just for one day

[Verse 1]
And you
You can be mean
And I
I'll drink all the time
’Cause we're Lovers
And that is a fact
Yes we're Lovers
And that is that

[Refrain]
Though nothing
Will keep us together
We can beat them
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
Just for one day

[Verse 2]
I
Well I wish I could swim
Like the dolphins
Like dolphins can swim

[Refrain]
Though nothing
Will drive them away
We can beat them
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
Forever and ever
What d`you say?

[Chorus]
And I
I would be King
And you
Would be my Queen
Oh, nothing can keep us together
We can beat them
Forever and ever
We can be Heroes
Just for one day

[Verse 3]
So I
I can remember (I remember)
Standing
By the wall (By the wall)
And the guns
Shot above our heads (All around us)
And we kissed
As though nothing could fall (Nothing could fall)

[Refrain]
And the shame
It`s there on the other side
Oh, we can beat them
Forever and ever
We can be Heroes
Just for one day
What d`you say?

[Hook]
We can be heroes
Just for one day
We can be heroes

[Refrain]
Oh, nothing
Will keep us together
Maybe we’re lying
Then you better not stay
We can be Heroes
Just for one day

[Outro]
(O o ohhh o)
We can be Heroes
(O o ohhh o)
Just for one day
(O o ohhh o)
Just for one day...

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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