"One Caress" as written by and Martin Gore....
Well, I'm down on my knees again
And I pray to the only one
Who has the strength
To bear the pain
To forgive all the things that I've done
[Chorus]
Oh girl
Lead me into your darkness
When this world is trying it's hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I'm blessed
When you think you've tried every road
Every avenue
Take one more look
At what you found old
And in it you'll find something new
[Chorus]
I'm shying from the light
I always loved the night
And now you offer me eternal darkness
I have to believe that sin
Can make a better man
It's the mood that I am in
That's left us back where we began
[Chorus x 2]
And I pray to the only one
Who has the strength
To bear the pain
To forgive all the things that I've done
[Chorus]
Oh girl
Lead me into your darkness
When this world is trying it's hardest
To leave me unimpressed
Just one caress
From you and I'm blessed
When you think you've tried every road
Every avenue
Take one more look
At what you found old
And in it you'll find something new
[Chorus]
I'm shying from the light
I always loved the night
And now you offer me eternal darkness
I have to believe that sin
Can make a better man
It's the mood that I am in
That's left us back where we began
[Chorus x 2]
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"One Caress" as written by Martin Gore
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If Martin is down on his knees, praying to a woman, he's not in a church! Besides Martin's not a Catholic, thus wouldn't be a kneeler in church anyway.
If he's kneeling before a woman and saying that only the woman has the strength to bear the pain, then it's a dom/sub situation. The kneeler, the sub, does not own his own body, the domme does. So if he's getting a whipping on his body by the domme, since his body belongs to the domme (not his) then while she whips him, she's bearing the pain.
And he's being punished for being a dog--his sins.
"I have to believe that sin
Can make a better man
It's the mood that I am in
That's left us back where we began".
as already mentioned I think this song is about depressions, taking drugs, addiction and thinking about suicide and death.
1. stanza:
resignation, depression (down on my knees) - he wants to ease the pain and find remedy by taking drugs (to bear the pain)
Refrain:
Girl = Drug
Many drugs have female names in the scene:
Cannabis - Mary Jane
Methamphetamine - Tina, Crystal
MDMA - Molly
Salvia - Sally D, Maria Pastora
LSD - Lucy
Cocaine - Snow White
Methcathinone - Cat
Dieacetylemorphine - Heroin (female hero?)
PCP - Angel, Angel Dust
5-MEO-DiPT - Foxy, Foxy Moxy
Oxycontin - Roxy, Roxies
Adderal/Dextroamphetamine - Addy
Atropa Belladonna - Belladonna
Qualudes - Mandy, Mandies
Ketamine - Kitty
every time he takes drugs he feels better (Just one caress
From you and I'm blessed)
2. stanza:
things seem to lose their cruelty and by taking more and different drugs he can make is last (When you think you've tried every road
Every avenue
Take one more look
At what you found old
And in it you'll find something new)
3. stanza
loves his addiction - in his eyes the only way to become " a better man"
considers to overdose (eternal darkness) and die
Love that song