Depeche Mode

Released: October 20, 1997

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Tim Simenon

[Verse 1]
Well it's about time
It's beginning to hurt
Time you made up your mind
Just what is it all worth?

[Chorus]
All my useless advice
All my hanging around
All your cutting down to size
All my bringing you down

[Verse 2]
Watch the clock on the wall
Feel the slowing of time
Hear a voice in the hall
Echoing in my mind

[Chorus]
All your stupid ideals
You've got your head in the clouds
You should see how it feels
With your feet on the ground

[Interlude]

[Verse 3]
Here I stand the accused
With your fist in my face
Feeling tired and bruised
With the bitterest taste

[Chorus]
All my useless advice
All my hanging around
All your cutting down to size
All my bringing you down
All your stupid ideals
You've got your head in the clouds
You should see how it feels
With your feet on the ground

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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