I think much like another song “Anti-Matter” (that's also on the same album as this song), this one is also is inspired by a horrifying van crash the band experienced on Nov 3, 2022. This, much like the other track, sounds like it's an extension what they shared while huddled in the wreckage, as they helped frontman Garrett Russell stem the bleeding from his head wound while he was under the temporary effects of a concussion. The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath.
I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you
I'm asking my friend I need you again
Can you do something for me
Time it just passed and we had some laughs
Maybe it's just about greed
You'll always need me much more
Than I need you
You'll always need me much more
I need you
I'll ask you again but I don't think you've changed
You never did nothing for me
I wonder sometimes if you're looking down
On everything that you see
With all of your gold stories all told
Some things just aren't meant to be
You live in the past shadows don't last
This time it's all about me
I need you
I need you
I need you
I'm asking my friend I need you again
Can you do something for me
Time it just passed and we had some laughs
Maybe it's just about greed
You'll always need me much more
Than I need you
You'll always need me much more
I need you
I'll ask you again but I don't think you've changed
You never did nothing for me
I wonder sometimes if you're looking down
On everything that you see
With all of your gold stories all told
Some things just aren't meant to be
You live in the past shadows don't last
This time it's all about me
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Great version of a great song,
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Okay. I submited this to see... If any die-hard Depeche Mode fans ever read this (doubtfull, but more likely then anyone else, at all.) Do you guys think Dave wrote this about Martin Gore?
If you read the lyrics...
the idea scares me.
@mopo976 I absolutely think so. The parts "With all of your gold stories all told" and "This time it's all about me" especially hammer that down for me. Since Dave said on multiple occasions that he thought that Martin didn't deem his songs good enough to be on a DM record.
Probably, since Martin wrote most of the Depeche Mode lyrics and obviously Dave can't write lyrics worth a shit. "I need you... to give me lyrics..."