Depeche Mode

Released: April 17, 2009

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Ben Hillier

[Verse 1]
One subtle look
God help me
Is all it took
To sell me
One single word
Unspoken
Your name unheard
And I'm broken

[Chorus 1]
The sun and the moon
And the stars in the sky
Are laughing
They've seen it all before
For the wind in the trees
And the waves on the seas
It's the same thing
They can't take any more

[Verse 2]
One gentle touch
And I'm helpless
It's all too much
For my senses
One simple prayer
Denied me
When you're not there
Beside me

[Chorus 1]

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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