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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode


Background information
Origin Basildon, Essex, England
Genre(s) New Wave
Synthpop
Years active 1980—present
Label(s) Capitol Records
Reprise Records
Mute Records
Sire Records
Associated acts Yazoo
Erasure
Recoil
Website Website
Members
David Gahan
Martin Gore
Andrew Fletcher
Former members
Vince Clarke
Alan Wilder



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Depeche Mode Album


Speak & Spell (1981)
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Big Muff (instrumental)
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I stand still stepping on a shady street
And I watch that man to a stranger
Think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit Red Danger

Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life

Transition to another place
So that time will pass more slowly
Your features fuse and your shadow's red
Like a film I've seen, now show me

Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life

The place is hidden and we're out of sight
And the road just leads to nowhere
The stranger in the door is the same as before
So the question answer's nowhere

Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life

I stand still stepping on a shady street
And I watch that man to a stranger
Think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit Red Danger

. . .


Get that feeling, head is reeling
You think you're in control, but you don't know me baby
I can move you, I can soothe you
I can take your places in a different way
And I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say
I'll be your operator baby, I'm in control

Watch your action, close reaction
And everything you're thinking babe inside your head
Conversation, my creation
Nothing that you do unless I said
And you don't know the consequences of the things you say
I'll be your operator baby, I'm in control

All the things you try to prove, babe
All the words we said before
I'm only part of what I started, babe
You can't stop me anymore

Get that feeling, head is reeling
You think you're in control, but you don't know me baby
I can move you, I can soothe you
I can take your places in a different way
And I don't think you understand what I'm trying to say
I'll be your operator baby, I'm in control

. . .


Light switch
Man switch
Film was broken only then
All the night
Fused tomorrow
Dancing with a distant friend

Filming and screening
I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming
Dreaming of me

So we left
Understanding
Cleancut so we're sounding fast
Talked of sad
I talked of war
I laughed and climbed the rising cast

Quickly I remembered
Fused and saw a face before
Timing reason
Understanding
Like association whore

. . .


You don't understand, this is in demand
And I think that I have to show you
Try to look inside, take me for a ride
In a day and the night get to know you

Boys meet, boys get together
Boys meet boys it's forever
Don't say no, boys say go!

I can run away never stay
And the rain and the pain and the sorrow
I'm not very sure when you close the door
In the end it's the same as tomorrow

Boys meet, boys get together
Boys meet boys it's forever
Don't say no, boys say go!

. . .


I saw you in the picture, I saw you play the part
This ain't nodisco
There's thousand watching you
You take this too far
This ain't nodisco
Sometimes when I wonder if you're taking a chance
This ain't nodisco and you know how to dance

Move me disco
Baby don't you let go
This ain't nodisco

Part one, act one
Everyone pretend
This ain't nodisco
This more a story
And we're reaching the end (the end)
This ain't nodisco
Always makes me happy when you're taking a chance
This ain't nodisco and you know how to dance

Move me disco
Baby don't you let go
This ain't nodisco

I saw you in the picture, I saw you play the part
This ain't nodisco
There's thousand watching you
You take this too far
This ain't nodisco
Sometimes when I wonder if you're taking a chance
This ain't nodisco and you know how to dance

Move me disco
Baby don't you let go (3x)
This ain't nodisco

. . .



Sometimes watch you walk the street at midnight
Sometimes I can feel you in the air
Looking good
Knew you would
All the time I understood

Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
Hey, you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty

Everybody seems to look your way now
(Everybody seems to look your way)
Everybody wants to know your name
(Hey, hey, what's your name)
Feeling right
Just tonight
Hear them say you're out of sight

All the boys we got to get together
All the boys together we can stand
We can go
Never know
All the things we need to show

Hey you're such a pretty boy (you're so pretty)
Hey you're such a pretty boy (you're so pretty)
Hey you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty (P-R-E, double-T-Y)


. . .


A white house, a white room - the programme of today
Lights on, switch on your eyes are far away
The map represents you and at the tape is your voice
Follow all along you till you recognize the choice

I take pictures, photographic pictures
Bright light, dark room
Bright light, dark room

I said I'd write a letter, but I never got the time
And I'm looking to the day I mesmerize the light
The years I spent just thinking of a moment we both knew
A second passed like an empty room, it seems it can't be true

I take pictures, photographic pictures
Bright light, dark room
Bright light, dark room

I take pictures, photographic pictures
Bright light, dark room
Bright light, dark room

Bright light, dark room (repeat until fade)

. . .


They were raining from the sky
Exploding in my heart
Is this the love in disguise
Or just a form of modern art?

From the skies you could almost hear the cry
Tora! Tora! Tora!
An atomic bomb going down
Tora! Tora! Tora!

I had the nightmare only yesterday
You played the skeleton
You took my love the dark dark day
I played an American

From the skies you could almost hear the cry
Tora! Tora! Tora!
An atomic bomb going down
Tora! Tora! Tora!

I played an American (repeat until fade)


. . .

Big Muff (instrumental)

[No lyrics]

. . .


She remembered all the shadows and the doubts
The same film

Vivid pictures like a wall that's standing empty
And the night so still

Such a small affair, and we let someone close it
like the night club door

Here again and when you speak I watch you move away
And seem so sure

She is hoping to forget
And the moment almost slips away

When the colours move apart
And I wonder if you want to stay

And I need to change you
Like the words I'm reading
Don't you understand

This the warning and the message
I remember as you touch my hand

. . .


When I`m with you baby
I go out of my head
I just can`t get enough
I just can`t get enough
All the things you do to me
And everything you said
I just can`t get enough
I just can`t get enough
We slip and slide as we fall in love
And I just can`t seem to get enough

We walk together
We`re walking down the street
I just can`t get enough
I just can`t get enough
Everytime I think of you
I know we have to meet
I just can`t get enough
I just can`t get enough
It`s getting hotter, it`s a burning love
And I just can`t seem to get enough

I just can't get enough (x16)

And when it rains
You`re shining down for me
I just can`t get enough
I just can`t get enough
Just like a rainbow
You know you set me free
I just can`t get enough
I just can`t get enough
You`re like an angel and you give me your love
And I just can`t seem to get enough.

I just can't get enough (repeat 'til fade)

. . .


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