Higher Love Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MapMistress 

Cover art for Higher Love lyrics by Depeche Mode

I really don't see God, nor Jesus Christ at all in this song, but perhaps a Goddess that he is submitting to.

"I can taste more than feel This burning inside is so real I can almost lay my hands upon The warm glow that lingers on"

The warm glow that lingers on is a human Goddess. The "burning" is that Martin--the masochist--has already been tortured and is experiencing that burning sensation from being tortured and he is in full submission to his human Goddess...

"I surrender all control" "I surrender heart and soul"

And he's saying that male submission to a Dominant is a "higher love".