Precious

To me it's seems like it's idealism in love. Witnessing your loved ones beauty and optimism in the face of a very apathetic and bleak humanity, and believing that love and all things good will prevail in the end.

Inevitably, their soft heart is crushed under the weight of the masses expectations of survival in the world, and that initial beauty you fell in love with in regards to them is slowly fading away. Kind of like the innocence of a child being destroyed, and wanting to hang on to that fragile quality for as long as possible because it's so few and far in the "real world".

The narrator wants to save this trait and laments the loss of it in an equally beautiful way.

"If God has a master plan That only He understands I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through"

The persons vision was so pure and wholehearted that it was Paradise, and if God knows what he's doing all along and will eventually bring prosperity, the person hopes that it's through their loved ones eyes because nothing can get more perfect than the vision they previously had.

Another fine example of how Martin Gore has the ability to see things from a perspective of absolute clarity. Having been a child that went through divorce I would have liked to think that my parents thought this way, but I don't believe they did. It is an ugly process, and in families with children there is unavoidable collateral damage. In a way only Gore can craft, his plea to God is groundshaking. I hope if you have a master plan, that you are seeing the result of what you have created through the eyes of the innocent that are sentenced to live through the strife. That is absolute revelation that he understands the situation his children find themselves in. If Martin Gore had lived and died a long time ago, no doubt he would be held in the same breath of some of the poets and literaries that the world holds dear today.

"angels with silver wings Shouldn't know suffering I wish I could take the pain for you"

I agree

"If God has a master plan That only He understands I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through"

Great lyrics.

Well, I'm sorry to say this if it is not a public knowledge. Martin is/was currently undergoing a divorce and this song is said to be written about his children.

The song is very Depeche-like. Nothing new but hey, it sounds good, anyway. Dave's vocals are amazing.

this is a great song and the lyrics are on point about the delicate and difficult process of divorce and how the child is caught in the middle

Wanting to protect your girlfriend :) that's the impression I get, or someone you love... you feel like they don't deserve the pain that life brings :)

i know it all

I agree with the divorce scenario.. Dave does sound amazing just as ever. DM still has it after all these years. and will continue to outlast all the passing trends of today.

Ekizzle get off this board