Depeche Mode 'Black Celebration' 1986 |
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Black Celebration
author: Martin Gore
Let's have a black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
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To celebrate the fact
That we've seen the back
Of another black day
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I look to you
How you carry on
When all hope is gone
Can't you see
***
Your optimistic eyes
Seem like paradise
To someone like
Me
***
I want to take you
In my arms
Forgetting all I couldn't do today
***
Black celebration
Black celebration
Tonight
***
To celebrate the fact
That we've seen the back
Of another black day
***
I look to you
And your strong belief
Me, I want relief
Tonight
***
Consolation
I want so much
Want to feel your touch
Tonight
***
Take me in your arms
Forgetting all you couldn't do today
***
Black celebration
I'll drink to that
Black celebration
Tonight
Fly On The Windscreen - Final
author: Martin Gore
Death is everywhere
There are flies on the windscreen
For a start
Reminding us
We could be torn apart
Tonight
***
Death is everywhere
There are lambs for the slaughter
Waiting to die
And I can sense
The hours slipping by
Tonight
***
Come here
Kiss me
Now
Come here
Kiss me
Now
***
Death is everywhere
The more I look
The more I see
The more I feel
A sense of urgency
Tonight
***
Come here
Touch me
Kiss me
Touch me
Now
Touch me
Touch me
***
There are flies on the windscreen
There are lambs for the slaughter
There are flies on the windscreen
***
Come here
Touch me
Kiss me
Touch me
Now
Touch me
Touch me
A Question Of Lust
author: Martin Gore
Fragile
Like a baby in your arms
Be gentle with me
I'd never willingly
Do you harm
***
Apologies
Are all you ever seem to get from me
But just like a child
You make me smile
When you care for me
And you know...
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It's a question of lust
It's a question of trust
It's a question of not letting
What we've built up
Crumble to dust
It is all of these things and more
That keep us together
***
Independence
Is still important for us though (we realise)
It's easy to make
The stupid mistake
Of letting go (do you know what I mean)
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My weakness
You know each and every one (it frightens me)
But I need to drink
More than you seem to think
Before I'm anyone's
And you know...
***
It's a question of lust
It's a question of trust
It's a question of not letting
What we've built up
Crumble to dust
It is all of these things and more
That keep us together
***
Kiss me goodbye
When I'm on my own
But you know that I'd
Rather be home
***
It's a question of lust
It's a question of trust
It's a question of not letting
What we've built up
Crumble to dust
It is all of these things and more
That keep us together
Sometimes
author: Martin Gore
Sometimes
Only sometimes
I question everything
And I'm the first to admit
If you catch me in a mood like this
I can be tiring
***
Even embarassing
But you must
Feel the same
When you look around
You can't tell me honestly
You're happy with what you see
Oh sometimes
Only sometimes
You must be...
You must be...
As embarassing as me
Sometimes
It Doesn't Matter Two
author: Martin Gore
As I lay here with you
The shame lies with us
We talk of love and trust
That doesn't matter
***
Though we may be the last in the world
We feel like pioneers
Telling hopes and fears
To one another
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And oh what a feeling
Inside of me
It might last for an hour
Wounds aren't healing
Inside of me
Though it feels good now
I know it's only for now
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The feeling is intense
You grip me with your eyes
And then I realise
It doesn't matter
A Question Of Time
author: Martin Gore
I've got to get to you first
Before they do
It's just a question of time
Before they lay their hands on you
And make you just like the rest
I've got to get to you first
It's just a question of time
***
Well now you're only fifteen
And you look good
I'll take you under my wing
Somebody should
They've persuasive ways
And you'll believe what they say
***
It's just a question of time
It's running out for you
It won't be long
Until you do
Exactly what they want you to
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I can see them now Hanging around
To mess you up
To strip you down
And have their fun
With my little one
***
It's just a question of time
It's running out for you
***
It won't be long
Until you do
Exactly what they want you to
***
It won't be long
Until you do
Exactly what they want you to
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Sometimes I don't blame them
For wanting you
You look good
And they need something to do
Until I look at you
And then I condemn them
I know my kind
What goes on in our minds
***
It's just a question of time
It should be better
It's just a question of time
It should be better with you
It's just a question of time
Stripped
author: Martin Gore
Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let the hours pass
***
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day
***
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
***
Metropolis
Has nothing on this
You're breathing in fumes
I taste when we kiss
***
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Where everything's ours
For a few hours
***
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
***
Let me hear you
Make decisions
Without your television
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me
***
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
***
Let me hear you speaking
Just for me
***
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
***
Let me hear you crying
Just for me
Here Is The House
author: Martin Gore
Here is the house
Where it all happened
Those tender moments
Under this roof
Body and soul come together
As we come closer together
And as it happens
It happens here
In this house
***
And I feel your warmth
And it feels like home
And there's someone
Calling on the telephone
Let's stay home
It's cold outside
And I have so much
To confide to you
***
With or without words
I'll confide everything
***
Here is the house
Where it all happened
Those tender moments
Under this roof
Body and soul come together
As we come closer together
And as it happens
It happens here
In this house
***
So we stay at home
And I'm by your side
And you know
What's going on inside
Inside my heart
Inside this house
And I just want to
Let it out for you
***
And I feel your warmth
And it feels like home
And I feel your warmth
And it feels like home
***
Here is the house
Where it all happened
Those tender moments
Under this roof
Body and soul come together
As we come closer together
World Full Of Nothing
author: Martin Gore
Close
Naked
Skin on skin
Tears are falling
Tears of joy
Her first boy
His first girl
Makes a change
***
In a world full of nothing
Though it's not love
It means something
***
She's lonely
And he says
It's for her only
That he lusts
She doesn't trust him
Nothing is true
But he will do
***
In a world full of nothing
Though it's not love
It means something
***
It's easy to slip away
And believe it all
***
Though it's not love
It means something
Dressed In Black
author: Martin Gore
She's dressed in black again
And I'm falling down again
Down to the floor again
I'm begging for more again
But oh what can you do
When she's dressed in black
***
My mind wanders endlessly
On paths where she's leading me
With games that she likes to play
And words that she doesn't say
Not when whe're alone
And she's dressed in black
***
As a picture of herself
She's a picture of the world
A reflection of you
A reflection of me
And it's all there to see
If you only give in
To the fire within
***
Dressed in black again
***
Shadows fall onto me
As she stands there over me
And waits to encompass me
I lay here helplessly
But oh what can you do
When she's dressed in black
***
Dressed in black again
New Dress
author: Martin Gore
Sex jibe husband murders wife
Bomb blast victim fights for life
Girl Thirteen attacked with knife
***
Princess Di is wearing a new dress
***
Jet airliner shot from sky
Famine horror, millions die
Earthquake terror figures rise
***
Princess Di is wearing a new dress
***
You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world
***
In black townships fires blaze
Prospects better premier says
Within sight are golden days
***
Princess Di is wearing a new dress
***
You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world
***
Princess Di is wearing a new dress
B-sides
Breathing In Fumes
single: "Stripped" / author: Martin Gore
Instrumental
But Not Tonight
single: "Stripped" / author: Martin Gore
Oh God it's raining
But I'm not complaining
It's filling me up with new life
The stars in the sky
Bring tears to my eyes
They're lighting my way tonight
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And I haven't felt so alive
In years
***
Just for a day
On a day like today
I'll get away from this constant debauchery
The wind in my hair
Makes me so aware
How good it is to live tonight
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And I haven't felt so alive
In years
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The moon
Is shining in the sky
Reminding me
Of so many other nights
But they're not like tonight
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Oh God it's raining
And I'm not containing
My pleasure at being so wet
Here on my own
All on my own
How good it feels to be alone tonight
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And I haven't felt so alive
In years
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The moon
Is shining in the sky
Reminding me
Of so many other nights
When my eyes had been so red
I'd been mistaken for dead
But not tonight
Black Day
single: "Stripped" / author: Martin Gore, Alan Wilder, Daniel Miller
Celebrate the fact
That we've see the back
Of another black day
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Black day
Black day
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I want to take you in my arms
Forgeting all I couldn't do today
***
Black day
Black day
Christmas Island
single: "A Question Of Lust" / author: Martin Gore, Alan Wilder
Instrumental
1986
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