Depeche Mode

Released: March 17, 2017

Songwriter: Christian Eigner Dave Gahan Peter Gordeno

Producer: Brendan Morawksi James Ford

[Chorus 1: Dave Gahan]
I've felt better
I've been up all night
I can feel it coming
The morning light
The air is so cold here
It's so hard to breathe
We better take cover
Will you cover me?

[Verse 1: Dave Gahan]
Way up here with the Northern lights
Beyond you and me
I dreamt of us in another life
One we've never reached

[Chorus 2: Dave Gahan]
You know we're sinking
We could fade away
I'm not going down
Not today
The air is so cold here
Too cold to see
We have to take cover
Cover me

[Verse 2: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Way up here with the Northern lights
Beyond these broken bars
I pictured us in another life
Where we're all super stars

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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