Depeche Mode

Released: April 4, 1997

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Tim Simenon

[Verse 1]
I can hear your soul crying
Listen to your spirit sighing
I can feel your desperation
Emotional deprivation

[Pre-Chorus]
Let yourself go, let yourself go
Let your feelings show

[Verse 2]
Picking up the conversation
Deep in your imagination
Tune into the lonely voices
Talking of their only choices

[Pre-Chorus]
Let yourself go, let yourself go
Let your spirit grow

[Chorus]
Step out of your cage and onto the stage
It's time to start playing your part
Freedom awaits, open the gates
Open your mind, freedom's a state

[Verse 3]
I can taste the tears falling
The bitterness inside you calling
Yearning for a liberation
Emotional emancipation

[Pre-Chorus]
Let yourself go, let yourself go
Let your senses overflow

[Chorus]
Step out of your cage and onto the stage
It's time to start playing your part
Freedom awaits, open the gates
Open your mind, freedom's a state

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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