Depeche Mode

Released: August 24, 1987

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Dave Bascombe Depeche Mode

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Everybody's looking for someone to follow
Finding the whole thing hard to swallow
Everybody's looking for a reason to live
If you're looking for a reason, I've a reason to give

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Pleasure, little treasure

[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Everybody's looking for a new sensation
Everybody's talking about the state of the nation
Everybody's searching for a promised land
Everybody's failing to understand

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Pleasure, little treasure
Everybody's looking for a reason to live
If you're looking for a reason, I've a reason to give
Pleasure, little treasure

[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
Maternity frocks and paternity suits
If that's what you want, they're waiting for you
Everybody needs some reason or other
You'll find a reason when you discover

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Pleasure, little treasure
Everybody's looking for a reason to live
If you're looking for a reason, I've a reason to give
Pleasure, little treasure

[Outro: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Pleasure, little treasure
Pleasure, little treasure
Pleasure, little treasure
Pleasure, little treasure
Pleasure, little treasure

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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