Photographic

My Favorite song on 'Speak and Spell'. SO spooky and eerie! I heard through the grape vine that this song is actually about a stalker-moreover one who compulsively photographs his victim.....

Crime scene photographer, taking the picture of his long lost love who committed suicide.

Read the lyrics and think about it.

Oh, if only Vince Clarke could be remembered for this and the rest of the electropop genius on "Speak and Spell" and not Erasure.

so new romance.

Very synth - good early Depeche Mode song.

This song live sounds excellent. I get happy every time I listen to the Bizarre Version.

I prefer the Bizarre Version, as I worship heavy synth. I actually only like 2 bands without synths, I just realized. I fucking LOVE a good keyboard, and this song, Bizarre version, is an absolute favorite. Along with Shake the Disease, for the use of the dark carnival sounding synth, sounds like something out of the xfiles. Definitely a top 5.

1. Shake the Disease
2. Photographic (Bizarre)
3. Everything Counts
4. Suffer Well
5. Never Let Me Down Again I'm honestly not sure if these are all really popular songs, as I don't listen to the radio, just the albums and MP3s

great song ! this song reminds of that horror movie...'peeping tom' 1960.

Great song indeed, one of my favorites.

But man, did I butcher the second-to-last line or what. All this time I thought it was [including the other lines in context]:

"The years I spend just thinking Of a moment we both knew A second glass, like an interlude It seems it can't be true..."

I'll admit I'm a terrible lyric-interpreter. I'm not sure exactly what this song is about, but I really doubt it's about being a photographer. Maybe life, experiences, [etc., etc.] and especially meaningful memories inspire the song's writer like a wondrous or spectacular view, object, scene, or what have you -would inspire a photographer.

I forgot to add that my interpretation is mostly referring to the song's chorus - "I take pictures/photographic pictures".