Depeche Mode

Released: March 19, 1990

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Depeche Mode Flood

[Verse 1]
Put it on and don't say a word
Put it on, the one that I prefer
Put it on and stand before my eyes
Put it on, please don't question why
Can you believe

[Chorus]
Something so simple
Something so trivial
Makes me a happy man
Can't you understand?
Say you believe
Just how easy it is to please me
Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn

[Verse 2]
Put it on, I can feel so much
Put it on, I don't need to touch
Put it on, here before my eyes
Put it on because you realise
And you believe

[Chorus]
Something so worthless
Serves a purpose
It makes me a happy man
Can't you understand?
Say you believe
Just how easy it is to please me
Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn

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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