Depeche Mode

Released: March 22, 1993

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Flood Depeche Mode

[Verse 1]
I can taste more than feel
This burning inside is so real
I can almost lay my hands upon
The warm glow that lingers on

[Chorus]
Moved, lifted higher
Moved, my soul's on fire
Moved, by a higher love

[Verse 2]
I surrender all control
To the desire that consumes me whole
And leads me by the hand to infinity
That lies in wait at the heart of me

[Chorus]
Moved, lifted higher
Moved, my soul's on fire
Moved, by a higher love
By a higher love

[Post-Chorus]
Heaven bound on the wings of love
There's so much that you can rise above

[Chorus]
Moved, lifted higher
Moved, moved by a higher love
By a higher love

[Post-Chorus]
I surrender heart and soul
Sacrificed to a higher goal

[Outro]
Moved, moved by a higher love
By a higher love, by a higher love
By a higher love, by a higher love
By a higher love, by a higher love
By a higher love
Higher love, higher love

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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