| Depeche Mode – Macro Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I used to think it's about sex, but after reading the lyrics more carefully it's quite clear to me that it's about drugs. It sounds like a pretty accurate description of a party or concert as seen from the eyes of someone who's under the influence of drugs. | |
| Depeche Mode – Lilian Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think it's either about his one-sided infatuation with a schoolgirl who teases him but doesn't really want to be with him, or perhaps even a student falling for his teacher, knowing it's an impossible infatuation. Considering Martin is known for his love for young girls, it's probably the first option ;). | |
| Depeche Mode – I Feel You Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think this song is about the love and connection between a performing artist and his crowd and fans. | |
| Depeche Mode – A Question Of Lust Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think that this song is about being in a relationship with someone who isn't trusting enough, and is paranoid about Martin being away on tours with the band. She knows him well, including all of his weaknesses- thus she knows that he's got a weakness for alcohol and is constantly afraid he'll get drunk and cheat on her. Thus the lines: "But I need to drink more than you seem to think before I'm anyone's"- saying he's not as "easy to get" as she thinks- he needs to drink more than she thinks before he succumbs to another girl. He is asking his girlfriend to trust him, despite his weaknesses and mistakes, explaining in the chorus that if she won't trust him, eventually "what they've build up" will "crumble to dust". The song explains the reasons he does stay with her, despite his weaknesses and the temptations, saying that at the end of the day, he'd rather be at home with her, even if he's touring around the world, far away from her. Imho, it's quite similar to "Enjoy the Silence" in this matter. It's sad to know that eventually, everything they've built up did crumble to dust. I think that Martin must've matured quite a bit since writing this song... Well, it's definitely been a while ;). |
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| Depeche Mode – Home Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Actually, I think that this song is about the band and his friendship with its members. I think he's talking about his life before the band, how the circumstances were against him and his passion to make music (poverty, bad socio-economical state etc.). He felt like the place he came from and his "status" etc. were bound to keep him trapped in a state of poverty and despair for the rest of his life, and prevent him from developing and fulfilling his musical aspirations and achieving his dreams. But once he found his band mates, who gave him the chance and format to create music and help him realize his dream, he gives them credit for "saving" him from his destiny and giving him the chance of rising above it. The band members are his true friends and partners, and in the band he feels like "home"- that's where he felt like he should've been his entire life, that's what he was meant to do. And the band made it possible for him to achieve all that. "Here is a song from the wrong side of town where I'm bound to the ground by the loneliest sound that pounds from within and is pinning me down" - It starts before the band was formed, where he started out: the "wrong side of town", lack of opportunities and possibilities created by a poor socio-economical state, perhaps. He's "bound to the ground by the loneliest sound", meaning he's got no ones to create his music with, and he hasn't found his real friends yet. He's feeling the sound punding within him, but he's got no one to play it with, thus it is a lonely sound. He hasn't found his true "home", thus the feeling of loneliness and being bound to the ground and pinned down- petrified and crippled by his feelings of loneliness and despair. The musical references make it more obvious to me that the song is about the band and his musical career- the "loneliest sound" "pounds from within" him, it's his passion and his true calling, but at this point he isn't able to discover it and make it happen. "Here is a page from the emptiest stage a cage or the heaviest cross ever made a gauge of the deadliest trap ever laid" - Another reference to a musical career- an empty stage. He feels like he belongs on a stage, but again- he's got no one to make that dream come true with. He's alone on the stage. I think that the references to a "cage", "heavy cross" and "the deadliest trap ever laid" aren't necessarily talking about drugs, but about the circumstances in which he was brought up, where he started out his life. Coming from a poor, "bad" neighborhood is a deadly trap, and a cage- as many people never manage to escape these circumstances and end up poor and bourish just like their parents. They never manage to escape "the wrong side of town" and rise above it. "And I thank you for bringing me here for showing me home for singing these tears finally I've found that I belong here" - I think it's directed at his bandmates, and Dave in particular ("singing these tears"- Martin writes most of DM's lyrics, thus his tears are in his lyrics. Dave sings these tears). He feels like the band is his home, like that's what he was meant to do his entire life. "The heat and the sickliest sweet smelling sheets that cling to the backs of my knees and my feet I'm drowning in time to a desperate beat" - Perhaps the reference is either to the sheets at his old home at the "wrong side of town", or perhaps those are the sheets at some hotel room during a band tour. Those sheets remind him of the poor times at his childhood home- "I'm drowning in time to a desperate beat"). "God send the only true friend I call mine pretend that I'll make amends the next time befriend the glorious end of the line" - Perhaps he's referring directly to Dave. Dave is from the same place Martin is, Essex, so perhaps he is "from the wrong side of town" just like Martin is. Maybe that's the meaning of the lines "Pretend that I'll make amends the next time / Befriend the glorious end of the line"- this time his only true friend is Dave, who's just "as bad" as Martin is. He pretends like "the next time" (perhaps his next incarnation, his "next chance"?) he's "make amends" and befriend "the glorious end of the line"- on his next incarnation he'll "be better" and befriend someone from a better status. That sounds very cynical to me. |
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