Released: June 13, 1981
Songwriter: Vince Clarke
Producer: Daniel Miller Depeche Mode
[Verse 1]
She was silent, trying to be
Like the girl who acted on the TV
Always knowing when to say
Wishing for a moment so that they could see
[Pre-Chorus]
Staring in the night
A picture in my room
And I think that she knew her lines
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
[Verse 2]
Carefully watching waiting
As I stood upon the back streets and we start to play
I was screaming louder
As the curtains fall between us in a twisted way
[Pre-Chorus]
Staring in the night
A picture in my room
And I think that she knew her lines
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
Placing all the questions
In the minutes of a game we won so long ago
Dangerous and beautiful
The radio transmission that I have to know
[Pre-Chorus]
You could never run
You could never stay
And I think you belong to me
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
She was silent, trying to be
Like the girl who acted on the TV
Always knowing when to say
Wishing for a moment so that they could see
[Pre-Chorus]
Staring in the night
A picture in my room
And I think that she knew her lines
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
[Verse 2]
Carefully watching waiting
As I stood upon the back streets and we start to play
I was screaming louder
As the curtains fall between us in a twisted way
[Pre-Chorus]
Staring in the night
A picture in my room
And I think that she knew her lines
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
Placing all the questions
In the minutes of a game we won so long ago
Dangerous and beautiful
The radio transmission that I have to know
[Pre-Chorus]
You could never run
You could never stay
And I think you belong to me
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
[Chorus]
Break away tonight
I wanna hold your hand
We've got to get it right
We've got to understand
MODE
- Oh Well [Single Edit]
- Photographic (Some Bizzare Version)
- Happiest Girl (Jack Mix)
- Sea of Sin (Tonal Mix)
- Black Day
- Newborn
- Sibeling
- Stjärna
- Further Excerpts From: My Secret Garden
- Breathing in Fumes
- Kaleid
- Oberkorn (It’s a Small Town)
- Excerpt From: My Secret Garden
- Fly on the Windscreen
- Sonata No.14 in C#m (Moonlight Sonata)
- 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)
- Slowblow
- Painkiller
- 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
- Shout!
- Ice Machine
- Dangerous
- Death’s Door
- Dirt
- Headstar
- Surrender
- Martyr
- It’s Called a Heart
- Get the Balance Right!
- Fools
- Flexible
- My Joy
- Now, This Is Fun
- Only When I Lose Myself
- Route 66
- Shake the Disease
- Work Hard
- Any Second Now
- New Life [single] (1981)
- Speak & Spell (1981)
- X¹ + X² (1991)
- DMBX1: Singles 1-6 (1991)
- MODE (2020)
- Enjoy the Silence
- Personal Jesus
- Policy of Truth
- Where’s the Revolution
- Strangelove
- Never Let Me Down Again
- 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
- So Much Love