Released October 1981
STUMM 5
HIGHEST CHART POSITION- US: 192 UK: 10
Click on a song to see the lyrics
Song in blue is instrumental
All songs written by Vince Clarke except *
* Written by Martin L. Gore
2. Puppets 3. Dreaming of Me 4. Boys Say Go! 5. Nodisco 6. What's Your Name? 8. Tora! Tora! Tora!* 9. Big Muff* 10. Any Second Now 11. Just Can't Get Enough |
New Life
I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit, red danger
Complicating, circulating
New life, new life
Operating, generating
New life, new life
Transitions to another place
So the time will pass more slowly
Features fuse and your shadow's red
Like a film I've seen now show me
Your face is hidden and were out of sight
And the road just leads to nowhere
The stranger in the door is the same as before
So the question answers nowhere
I stand still stepping on the shady streets
And I watched that man to a stranger
You think you only know me when you turn on the light
Now the room is lit, red danger
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
o "The Singles 81>85"
o "Catching Up With Depeche Mode" (US)
o 'New Life' single
Puppets
Get that feeling
Head is reeling
You think you're in control
But you don't know me babe
I can move you
I can soothe you
I can take you places in a different way
I don't think you understand
What I'm trying to say
I'll be your operator baby
I'm in control
Watch your action
Close reaction
And everything you're thinking babe inside your head
Conversation, my creation
Nothing that you do
You do unless I said
You don't know the consequences
Of the things you say
I'll be your operator baby
I'm in control
All the things you tried to do babe
And all the words we said before
Are only part of what I started baby
And you can't stop me anymore
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" Album
Dreaming of Me
Light switch
Man switch
Film was broken only then
All the night
Fused tomorrow
Dancing with a distant friend
Filming and screening
I picture the scene
Filming and dreaming
Dreaming of me
So we left
Understanding
Cleancut so we're sounding fast
Talked of sad
I talked of war
I laughed and climbed the rising cast
Quickly I remembered
Fused and saw a face before
Timing reason
Understanding
Like association whore
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
o "The Singles 81>85"
o "Catching Up With Depeche Mode" (US)
o 'Dreaming of Me' single
Boys Say Go!
Boys say go!
Boys say go!
Boys say go!
Boys say go!
You don't understand
This is a demand
And I think that I have to show you
Try to look inside
Take me for a ride
In the day and the night
Get to know you
Boys meet boys get together
Boys meet boys live forever
Don't say no
Boys say go
I can run away
If you never stay
And the rain and the pain and the sorrow
I'm not very sure
When you close the door
If the end is the same as tomorrow
Boys!
Boys!
Boys say go!
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
Nodisco
I saw you in the picture
I saw you play the part
This ain't nodisco
There's a thousand watts in you
You take this too far
This ain't nodisco
Sometimes when I wonder if you're taking a chance
This ain't nodisco
And you know how to dance
Move me disco
Baby don't you let go
This ain't nodisco
Part one
Act one
Everyone pretend
This ain't nodisco
This is more a story
And we're reaching the end
This ain't nodisco
Always makes me happy when you're taking a chance
This ain't nodisco
And you know how to dance
Move me disco
Baby don't you let go
This ain't nodisco
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
What's Your Name?
Sometimes watch you walk the street at midnight
Sometimes I can feel you in the air
Looking good
Knew you would
All the time I understood
Hey you're such a pretty boy
Hey you're such a pretty boy
Hey you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty
Everybody seems to look your way now
(Everybody seems to look your way)
Everybody wants to know your name
(Hey, hey, what's your name)
Feeling right
Just tonight
Hear them say you're out of sight
All the boys we got to get together
All the boys together we can stand
We can go
Never know
All the things we need to show
Hey you're such a pretty boy (you're so pretty)
Hey you're such a pretty boy (you're so pretty)
Hey you're such a pretty boy
You're so pretty (P-R-E, double-T-Y)
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
Photographic
A white house, a white room
The program of today
Lights on, switch on
Your eyes are far away
The map represents you
And the tape is your voice
Follow all along you
Till you recognize the choice
I take pictures
Photographic pictures
Bright light
Dark room
Bright light
Dark room
I said I'd write a letter
But I never got the time
And I'm looking to the day
I mesmerize the light
The years I spend just thinking
Of a moment we both knew
A second passed like an empty room
It seems it can't be true
I take pictures
Photographic pictures
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
o "The Singles 81>85" -(Some Bizzarre Version on 1999 re-issue)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
They were raining from the sky
Exploding in my heart
Is this the love in disguise
Or just a form of modern art
From the skies you can almost hear their cry
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the town they were going down
Tora! Tora! Tora!
I had a nightmare only yesterday
You played a skeleton
You took my love then died that day
I played an American
From the skies you can almost hear them cry
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the town they were going down
Tora! Tora! Tora!
I played an American
Written by Martin L. Gore
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
Big Muff
Instrumental - no lyrics
Written by Martin L. Gore
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
Any Second Now
She remembered all the shadows and the doubts
The same film
Vivid pictures like a wall that's standing empty
And the night so still
Such a small affair a relapse someone closing
Like the nightclub door
Here again and when you speak I watch you move away
And seem so sure
She is hoping to forget and the moment
Almost slips away
When the colours move apart and I wonder
If you want to stay
And I need to change you like the words I'm reading
Don't you understand
This the warning and the message I remember
As you touch my hand
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: Martin L. Gore
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
o B-Side on 'Just Can't Get Enough' single
Just Can't Get Enough
When I'm with you baby, I go out of my head
And I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough
All the things you do to me and everything you said
And I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough
We slip and slide as we fall in love
And I just can't seem to get enough
We walk together, we're walking down the street
And I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough
Every time I think of you I know we have to meet
And I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough
It's getting hotter, it's our burning love
And I just can't seem to get enough
And when it rains, you're shining down for me
And I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough
Just like a rainbow you know you set me free
And I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough
You're like an angel and you give me your love
And I just can't seem to get enough
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o "Speak and Spell" album
o "The Singles 81>85"
o "Catching Up With Depeche Mode" (US)
o Live version appears on "101"
o 'Just Can't Get Enough' single
I Sometimes Wish I Was Dead
New sound all around
You can hear it too
Getting hot, never stop
Just for me and you
Playing on my radio and saying that you had to go
New day turn away
Wipe away the tear
New night, feel right
Knowing that you're here
Dancing with you all the time, and don't you think that it's a crime
Back street never meet
Never say goodbye
I know where you go
But I don't know why
You say that it's from above, and I say this is modern love
Written by Vince Clarke
Vocals: David Gahan
Appears on:
o UK version of "Speak and Spell" album