Depeche Mode

Released: September 19, 1983

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Daniel Miller Depeche Mode

[Intro]
"This is 'A Photograph of You'. Come on, everybody!"

[Verse 1]
What good is a photograph of you?
Every time I look at it it makes me feel blue
What use is a souvenir of something we once had
When all it ever does is make me feel bad?

[Chorus]
I wish I could tear it up
But then again I haven't the guts
I wish I could throw it on the fire, I wish I could
But to say I would, I'd be a liar

[Verse 2]
What good is a colour print of a little baby doll
When just one little glance is enough to make me feel dull?

[Interlude]

[Chorus]
I hoped I would misplace it
But then I take such good care of it
I wish it would disappear, I say I wish
But then I relish it being here

[Bridge]
What good is a photograph of you?
Every time I look at it it makes me feel blue
Every time I look at it it makes me feel blue

[Outro]
Feel blue, feel blue
Feel blue, feel blue
Feel blue, feel blue
Feel blue, feel blue
Feel blue, feel blue
Feel blue, feel blue
"Thank you."

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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