Depeche Mode

Released: March 17, 2017

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Brendan Morawksi James Ford

[Intro]
Hey, hey, hey, hey

[Verse 1]
Hey, there's no news
Poor man still got the blues
He's walking around in worn out shoes
With nothing to lose

[Verse 2]
Hey, he's on the road
Pushing along his heavy load
Heading for no fixed abode
Shuffling slow

[Bridge]
Hey

[Chorus]
Corporations get the breaks
Keeping almost everything they make
Tell us just how long it's going to take
For it to trickle down
When will it trickle down?

[Verse 3]
Hey, he's on the street
Laying in the snow and sleet
Begging for something to eat
And looking beat

[Verse 4]
Hey, passers-by
They don't dare to catch his eye
Couldn't even tell you why
Or what's happening inside

[Chorus]
Corporations get the breaks
Keeping almost everything they make
Tell us just how long it's going to take
For it to trickle down
When will it trickle down?

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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