Released: February 5, 1990
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Flood Depeche Mode
[Verse 1]
Words like violence break the silence
Come crashing in into my little world
Painful to me, pierce right through me
Can't you understand? Oh, my little girl
[Chorus]
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Vows are spoken to be broken
Feelings are intense, words are trivial
Pleasures remain, so does the pain
Words are meaningless and forgettable
[Chorus]
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Enjoy the silence
Words like violence break the silence
Come crashing in into my little world
Painful to me, pierce right through me
Can't you understand? Oh, my little girl
[Chorus]
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Vows are spoken to be broken
Feelings are intense, words are trivial
Pleasures remain, so does the pain
Words are meaningless and forgettable
[Chorus]
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
[Interlude]
[Chorus]
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
All I ever wanted
All I ever needed is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Enjoy the silence
The Best of Depeche Mode, Volume 1
- Enjoy the Silence
- Never Let Me Down Again [Digitalism Remix]
- Personal Jesus (Heartthrob Rework 2)
- Personal Jesus (Boys Noize Rework)
- Everything Counts [Oliver Huntemann & Stephan Bodzin Dub]
- People Are People (Underground Resistance Remix)
- Everything Counts [Single Version]
- Master and Servant [Single Version]
- See You [Single Version]
- People Are People [Single Version]
- Never Let Me Down Again [Single Version]
- Strangelove [Single Version]
- Personal Jesus [Single Version]
- It’s No Good
- Walking in My Shoes
- Just Can’t Get Enough
- New Life
- I Feel You
- Suffer Well
- Precious
- Shake the Disease
- Martyr
- Dream On [Single Version]
- Enjoy the Silence (1990)
- Violator (1990)
- NOW That’s What I Call Music! 17 [UK] (1990)
- The Singles 86﹥98 (1998)
- Big Shiny 90's (2002)
- DMBX4: Singles 19-24 (2004)
- The Best of Depeche Mode, Volume 1 (2006)
- 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