Released: September 13, 1993
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Flood Depeche Mode
[Verse 1]
Condemnation, tried
Here on the stand with the book in my hand
And truth on my side
Accusations, lies
Hand me my sentence, I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride
[Chorus]
If for honesty you want apologies
I don't sympathise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
[Verse 2]
Condemnation, why?
Because my duty was always to beauty
And that was my crime
Feel elation, high
To know I can trust this fix of injustice
Time after time
[Chorus]
If you see purity as immaturity
Well, it's no surprise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
Condemnation, tried
Here on the stand with the book in my hand
And truth on my side
Accusations, lies
Hand me my sentence, I'll show no repentance
I'll suffer with pride
[Chorus]
If for honesty you want apologies
I don't sympathise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
[Verse 2]
Condemnation, why?
Because my duty was always to beauty
And that was my crime
Feel elation, high
To know I can trust this fix of injustice
Time after time
[Chorus]
If you see purity as immaturity
Well, it's no surprise
If for kindness you substitute blindness
Please open your eyes
Songs of Faith and Devotion
- Walking in My Shoes
- Interlude #4 (My Kingdom Comes)
- Condemnation (Paris Mix)
- In Your Room (Apex Mix)
- Walking in My Shoes (Grungy Gonads Mix)
- In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)
- My Joy (Slow Slide Mix)
- I Feel You (Life’s Too Short Mix)
- My Joy
- Higher Love
- One Caress
- Rush
- Get Right with Me
- In Your Room
- Judas
- Mercy in You
- Condemnation
- I Feel You
- Death’s Door (Jazz Mix)
- Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993)
- 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