Depeche Mode

Released: July 11, 1983

Songwriter: Vince Clarke

[Intro: Dave Gahan]
"This is Boys Say Go!"

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
You don't understand
This is in demand
And I think that I have to show you
Try to look inside
Take me for a ride
In the day and the night get to know you

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Boys meet boys, get together
Boys meet boys, live forever
Don't say no
Boys say go!

[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
I can run away
If you never stay
And the rain and the pain and the sorrow
I'm not very sure
When you close the door
If the end is the same as tomorrow

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Boys meet boys, get together
Boys meet boys, live forever
Don't say no
Boys say go!

[Interlude: Dave Gahan]
"So hey!"
"Come on!"
"Let's sing, everybody, come on!"

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
You don't understand
This is in demand
And I think that I have to show you
Try to look inside
Take me for a ride
In the day and the night, get to know you

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Boys meet boys, get together
Boys meet boys, live forever
Don't say no
Boys say go!

[Outro: Dave Gahan]
"Thank you"
"Thanks very much"

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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