Depeche Mode

Released: October 29, 1984

Songwriter: Vince Clarke

Producer: Depeche Mode Daniel Miller Gareth Jones

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Running through my head secretly
The shouts of the boys in the factory
I ring you on the telephone silently
Like blood, like the wine in the darkroom scene

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
The darkroom scene
Darkroom scene

[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
A letter, once composed
Seven years long and as tall as a tree
Reading on the wall
Emissions, efficiency

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Efficiency
Efficiency

[Bridge: Dave Gahan]
Resurrect (Resurrect)
As a feeling (As a feeling)
On my window (On my window)
Of a past reunion (Reunion)

[Verse 3: Dave Gahan]
Rеsurrect, as a feeling
On my window of a past reunion
Vision of a picture likе the city
And the air we breathe

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
The air we breathe
Air we breathe

[Verse 4: Dave Gahan]
She stood beside me once again
I knew her face
We met before in the street
Recalling all the children dancing at our feet

[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
The dancing feet
Dancing feet
"Yeah!"

[Outro: Dave Gahan]
"Hello!"

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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From the albums

Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody [single] (1984)
X¹ + X² (1991)
Rare Early Live Performances (2006)

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Ice Machine (Live) [Liverpool, Empire Theatre, UK - 1984/09/29]Depeche Mode

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