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 2]
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
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Get it right
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 2]
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
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Get it right
- New Life [single] (1981)
- DMBX1: Singles 1-6 (1991)
- Remixes 81··04 (2004)
- 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