Released: November 7, 1986
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Daniel Miller Depeche Mode Gareth Jones
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Oh God, it's raining, but I'm not complaining
It's filling me up with new life
The stars in the sky bring tears to my eyes
They're lighting my way tonight
[Pre-Chorus: Dave Gahan]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Just for a day on a day like today
I'll get away from this constant debauchery
The wind in my hair makes me so aware
How good it is to live tonight
[Pre-Chorus: Dave Gahan]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
But they're not like tonight
[Interlude]
[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
Oh God, it's raining and I'm not containing
My pleasure at being so wet
Here on my own, all on my own
How good it feels to be alone tonight
[Pre-Chorus: Dave Gahan]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
When my eyes had been so red
I'd been mistaken for dead
But not tonight
Oh God, it's raining, but I'm not complaining
It's filling me up with new life
The stars in the sky bring tears to my eyes
They're lighting my way tonight
[Pre-Chorus: Dave Gahan]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Just for a day on a day like today
I'll get away from this constant debauchery
The wind in my hair makes me so aware
How good it is to live tonight
[Pre-Chorus: Dave Gahan]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
But they're not like tonight
[Interlude]
[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
Oh God, it's raining and I'm not containing
My pleasure at being so wet
Here on my own, all on my own
How good it feels to be alone tonight
[Pre-Chorus: Dave Gahan]
And I haven't felt so alive
In years
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
The moon is shining in the sky
Reminding me of so many other nights
When my eyes had been so red
I'd been mistaken for dead
But not tonight
Video Singles Collection
- But Not Tonight [Pool Version]
- It’s No Good [Video Mix]
- Barrel of a Gun [Single Version]
- World in My Eyes [Video Mix]
- Policy of Truth [Video Mix]
- Enjoy the Silence [Video Mix]
- Everything Counts [Live Video Mix]
- Stripped [Single Version]
- A Question of Time [Video Remix]
- A Question of Lust [Video Mix]
- Blasphemous Rumours [Single Edit]
- Master and Servant [Single Version]
- Everything Counts [Single Version]
- Home [Radio Version]
- Only When I Lose Myself [Video Mix]
- But Not Tonight [Robert Margouleff Remix]
- Soothe My Soul [Radio Edit]
- Personal Jesus [The Stargate Video Mix]
- Fragile Tension [Radio Mix]
- Hole to Feed [Video Mix]
- Wrong [Video Mix]
- A Pain That I’m Used To [Video Mix]
- Freelove [Video Mix]
- I Feel Loved [Video Mix]
- Dream On [Single Version]
- People Are People [Single Version]
- Leave in Silence [Single Version]
- See You [Single Version]
- Should Be Higher (Live) [Berlin, O2 World, Germany - 2013/11/27]
- Behind the Wheel (Remix)
- It’s Called a Heart
- Get the Balance Right!
- Shake the Disease
- Soothe My Soul
- Heaven
- Precious
- One Caress
- Suffer Well
- John the Revelator
- Little 15
- I Feel You
- The Meaning of Love
- Martyr
- Goodnight Lovers
- In Your Room (Zephyr Mix)
- Condemnation (Paris Mix)
- Love, in Itself.2
- Enjoy the Silence (Reinterpreted)
- Strangelove [Video Edit]
- Somebody (Remix)
- Peace [Video Mix]
- Useless (Remix)
- Never Let Me Down Again [Single Version]
- Strangelove [Single Version]
- Walking in My Shoes [Single Version]
- People Are People (Different Mix)
- Personal Jesus [Single Version]
- Just Can’t Get Enough
- Modern Girls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1986)
- The Videos 86﹥98 (1998)
- Video Singles Collection (2016)
- 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