Depeche Mode

Released: September 24, 1984

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Depeche Mode Gareth Jones Daniel Miller

[Chorus]
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one

[Verse 1]
Experiences have a lasting impression
But words once spoken don't mean a lot now
Belief is the way, the way of the innocent
And when I say innocent, I should say naive

[Pre-Chorus]
So lie to me, but do it with sincerity
Make me listen, just for a minute
Make me think there's some truth in it

[Chorus]
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one

[Verse 2]
Promises made for convenience
Aren't necessarily what we need
Truth is a word that's lost its meaning
The truth has become merely half-truth

[Pre-Chorus]
So lie to me, like they do it in the factory
Make me think that at the end of the day
Some great reward will be coming my way

[Chorus]
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one
Come on and lay with me
Come on and lie to me
Tell me you love me
Say I'm the only one

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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