Depeche mode - Enjoy the silence

Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world

Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can't you understand
Oh my little girl

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Enjoy the silence

I want you now

Tomorrow won't do
There's a yearning inside
And it's showing through
Reach out your hands
And accept my love
We've waited for too long
Enough is enough
I want you now

My heart is aching
My body is burning
My hands are shaking
My head is turning
Do you understand
It's so easy to choose
We've got time to kill
We've got nothing to lose
I want you now

And I don't mean to sound
Like one of the boys
That's not what I'm trying to do
I don't want to be
Like one of the boys
I just want you now

Because I've got a love
A love that won't wait
A love that is growing
And it's getting late
Do you know what it means
To be left this way
When everyone's gone
And the feelings they stay
I want you now

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Titre : A Pain That I'm Used To [Ajouter ce morceau à mon blog]
Album : Playing The Angel
Année : 2005
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A pain that i'm used to

I'm not sure what I'm looking for anymore
I just know that I'm harder to console
I don't see who I'm trying to be instead of me
But the key is a question of control

Can you say what you're trying to play anyway
I just pay while you're breaking all the rules
All the signs that I find have been underlined
Devils thrive on the drive that is fueled

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

There's a hole in your soul like an animal
With no conscience, repentance, oh no
Close your eyes, pay the price for your paradise
Devils feed on the seeds of the soul

I can't conceal what I feel, what I know is real
No mistaking the faking, I care
With a prayer in the air I will leave it there
On a note full of hope not despair

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

A pain that i'm used to

I'm not sure what I'm looking for anymore
I just know that I'm harder to console
I don't see who I'm trying to be instead of me
But the key is a question of control

Can you say what you're trying to play anyway
I just pay while you're breaking all the rules
All the signs that I find have been underlined
Devils thrive on the drive that is fueled

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

There's a hole in your soul like an animal
With no conscience, repentance, oh no
Close your eyes, pay the price for your paradise
Devils feed on the seeds of the soul

I can't conceal what I feel, what I know is real
No mistaking the faking, I care
With a prayer in the air I will leave it there
On a note full of hope not despair

All this running around, well it's getting me down
Just give me a pain that I'm used to
I don't need to believe all the dreams you conceive
You just need to achieve something that rings true

Depeche Mode (DM) est un groupe new wave britannique originaire de Basildon et formé en 1980. Groupe majeur de la scène anglo-saxonne et chef de file du courant new wave, il est l'une des rares formations des années 1980 issues du Royaume-Uni à être parvenu à « survivre » à cette décennie tout en maintenant un succès international relativement constant, devenant ainsi un pilier incontournable de l'électro-pop. Son nom - choisi à la hâte à quelques minutes du début de l'un de leurs premiers concerts - provient d'un magazine de mode français.

Stevo Pearce, manager du groupe Soft Cell et fondateur du label Some Bizarre Records, les repère et sort le titre Photographic sur une compilation intitulée Some Bizarre Album (1981) où ils côtoient d'autres futurs groupes-phares des années 1980 tels que The The et Soft Cell. Daniel Miller les fait ensuite signer sur son label Mute Records en 1981. Le groupe est toujours resté fidèle à ce label jusqu'à maintenant.

Depeche Mode connaîtra son premier grand succès aux États-Unis en 1984/1985 avec le single People Are People.

Le succès grandissant de leur synthpop au style très empreint de musique industrielle atteint son paroxysme en 1990 avec l'album Violator incluant les titres Personal Jesus, Policy Of Truth et surtout Enjoy The Silence. Les années 1990 sont marquées par l'addiction à la drogue, l'overdose et la tentative de suicide de Dave Gahan, qui ne sera désintoxiqué qu'en 1996, mais aussi par le départ d'Alan Wilder en 1995. Mais leur créativité transparaît toujours dans les albums qui suivent (Ultra en 1997, Exciter en 2001 et Playing The Angel en 2005).

La quasi-totalité des chansons est composée par Martin L. Gore (essentiellement en mode "mineur"), sauf celles du premier album (Speak and Spell) qui étaient majoritairement l'½uvre de Vince Clarke, rapidement parti fonder Yazoo puis son groupe actuel, Erasure. Depuis 2005, le chanteur Dave Gahan participe à l'écriture des morceaux.

Depeche Mode réussit le tour de force de ramener vers lui des publics extrêmement variés, mêlant des mélodies souvent accrocheuses et des paroles simples mais touchantes, à une musique électronique dont l'approche reste résolument "rock", Martin Gore ayant beaucoup fait pour qu'on ne considère pas DM uniquement comme un groupe "de synthés" en apportant sa conception originale de la guitare, basée sur des riffs simples et des sons très travaillés.