Depeche Mode

Released: March 19, 1990

Songwriter: Martin L. Gore

Producer: Depeche Mode Flood

[Chorus]
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind

[Verse 1]
I stop and I stare too much
Afraid that I care too much
And I hardly dare to touch
For fear that the spell may be broken
When I need a drug in me
And it brings out the thug in me
Feel something tugging me
Then I want the real thing, not tokens

[Chorus]
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind

[Verse 2]
Things you'd expect to be
Having effect on me
Pass undetectedly
But everyone knows what has got me
Takes me completely
Touches so sweetly
Reaches so deeply
I know that nothing can stop me

[Bridge]
Sweetest perfection
An offer was made
An assorted collection
But I wouldn't trade

[Chorus]
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
The sweetest infection
Of body and mind
Sweetest injection
Of any kind

[Interlude]

[Chorus]
The sweetest perfection
To call my own
The slightest correction
Couldn't finely hone
(Nothing can stop me)
The sweetest infection
(Takes me completely)
Of body and mind
(Touches so sweetly)
Sweetest injection
(Reaches so deeply)
Of any kind
(Nothing can stop me)
The sweetest perfection
(Takes me completely)
To call my own
(Touches so sweetly)
The slightest correction
(Reaches so deeply)
Couldn't finely hone
(Nothing can stop me)
The sweetest infection
(Takes me completely)
Of body and mind
(Touches so sweetly)
Sweetest injection
(Reaches so deeply)
Of any kind
(Nothing can stop me)

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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