Released: September 28, 1998
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Producer: Flood Depeche Mode
[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you?
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
[Chorus 1: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
[Chorus 2: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth
[Post-Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
Now you're standing there tongue-tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
[Chorus 3: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth
[Post-Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Interlude]
[Outro: Dave Gahan, (Martin L. Gore)]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before (The time before)
Never again is what you swore
The time before (The time before)
Never again is what you swore
The time before (The time before)
Never again is what you swore
The time before
You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you?
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through
[Chorus 1: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilised
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied
[Chorus 2: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth
[Post-Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
Now you're standing there tongue-tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
[Chorus 3: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth
[Post-Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before
[Interlude]
[Outro: Dave Gahan, (Martin L. Gore)]
Never again is what you swore
The time before
Never again is what you swore
The time before (The time before)
Never again is what you swore
The time before (The time before)
Never again is what you swore
The time before (The time before)
Never again is what you swore
The time before
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
- 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