Depeche Mode

Released: April 4, 1997

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Tim Simenon

[Verse 1]
Like a cat dragged in from the rain
Who goes straight back out to do it all over again
I'll be back for more
It's something that is out of our hands
Something we will never understand
It's a hidden law

[Chorus]
The apple falls
Destiny calls
I follow you

[Verse 2]
Like a pawn on the eternal board
Who's never quite sure what he's moved towards
I walk blindly on
And heaven is in front of me (Heaven is in front of me)
Your heaven beckons me enticingly
When I arrive it's gone

[Chorus]
The river flows
The wise man knows
I follow you

[Post-Chorus]
I'm yearning, I'm burning
I feel love's wheels turning

[Verse 3]
Like a moth on love's bright light
I will get burned each and every night
I'm dying too

[Chorus]
The sun will shine
The bottom line
I follow you

[Post-Chorus]
I'm yearning, I'm burning
I feel love's wheels turning

[Verse 4]
Like a moth on love's bright light
I will get burned each and every night
I'm dying too

[Chorus]
The sun will shine
The bottom line
I follow you
The sun will shine
The bottom line
I follow you
The sun will shine
The bottom line
I follow you
The sun will shine
The bottom line
I follow you

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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