Depeche Mode

Released: March 27, 2006

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Depeche Mode Ben Hillier

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
What are you hiding from?
You are part of the sum
What has been going on?
Your confidence is gone

[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
What are you waiting for?
Answers that question more
Uninvited they will come
Are you expecting some?

[Refrain: Dave Gahan]
Dance is... dance...
Dance is... dance...
Dance is... dance...
Dance is... dance is gone

[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
You have seen better days
You have lived better ways

[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
(Are you expecting some?) What are you hiding from?
You are part of the sum
What has been going on?
Your confidence is...

[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
You have seen better days
You have lived better ways

[Verse 4: Martin L. Gore]
Where are you heading to?
What plans will you pull through?
With trouble in the wings
Will you risk anything?

[Verse 5: Dave Gahan]
What are you hiding from?
You are part of the sum
What has been going on?
Your confidence is-is-is...
What are you hiding from?
You are part of the sum
What has been going on?
Your confidence is-is-is...

[Verse 6: Dave Gahan]
What are you hiding from?
You are part of the sum
What has been going on?
Your confidence is gone

[Verse 7: Dave Gahan]
What are you hiding from? (What are you waiting for?)
You are part of the sum (Answers that question more)
What has been going on? (Uninvited they will come)
Your confidence is-is-is... (Are you expecting some?)

[Verse 8: Dave Gahan]
What are you hiding from?
You are part of the sum
What has been going on?
Your confidence is...
What- what are you hiding from?
You are part of the sum
What has been going on?
Your confidence is... what?

[Verse 9: Martin L. Gore]
Where are you heading to?
What plans will you pull through?
With trouble in the wings
Will you risk anything?

[Refrain]
Dance is... dance...
Dance is... dance...
Dance is... dance...
Dance is... dance is gone
Dance... dance is...
Dance... dance is...
Dance... dance is...
Dance... dance is gone

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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