Released: March 12, 1984
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Depeche Mode Daniel Miller
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
So we're different colours and we're different creeds
And different people have different needs
It's obvious you hate me, though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you, so what could I have done?
[Pre-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
[Post-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
Help me understand (Help me understand)
Help me understand (Help me understand)
(Help me understand)
[Interlude: Dave Gahan]
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists
Decency (Decency)
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists (So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists)
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fi... (It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fi...)
[Interlude: Martin L. Gore]
(Understand) Help me understand
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists
[Interlude]
[Coda: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it b...?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
So we're different colours and we're different creeds
And different people have different needs
It's obvious you hate me, though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you, so what could I have done?
[Pre-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
People are people, so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully?
[Post-Chorus: Martin L. Gore]
Help me understand (Help me understand)
Help me understand (Help me understand)
(Help me understand)
[Interlude: Dave Gahan]
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists
Decency (Decency)
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists (So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists)
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fi... (It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fi...)
[Interlude: Martin L. Gore]
(Understand) Help me understand
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists
[Interlude]
[Coda: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it b...?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
People are people
Why should it be?
Remixes 81···04 (Rare Tracks)
- Nothing (Zip Hop Mix)
- Freelove (Powder Productions Remix)
- But Not Tonight (Extended US Mix - MP3 Edit)
- Freelove (Josh Wink Dub Mix)
- Little 15 (Bogus Brothers Mix)
- Dream On (Pink Noise Club Mix)
- Behind the Wheel / Route 66 (Megamix)
- But Not Tonight (Extended Remix)
- People Are People (On-USound Mix)
- Master and Servant (U.S. Black and Blue Mix)
- Rush (Black Sun Mix)
- Personal Jesus (Kazan Cathedral Mix)
- Slowblow (Mad Professor Mix)
- 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