What Is The Meaning Of My Secret Garden By Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode 'A Broken Frame' 1982

Song Lyrics by Album

Depeche Mode

Leave In Silence

author: Martin Gore

I've told myself so many times before

But this time I think I mean it for sure

We have reached a full stop

Nothing's going to save us from the big drop

***

Reached our natural conclusion

Outlived the illusion

I hate being in these situations

That call for diplomatic relations

If I only knew the answer

Or I thought we had a chance

Or I could stop this

I would stop this thing

From spreading like a cancer

***

What can I say

I don't want to play anymore

What can I say

I'm heading for the door

I can't stand this emotional violence

Leave in silence

***

We've been running around in circles all year

Doing this and that and getting nowhere

This will be the last time

I think I said that last time

***

If I only had a potion

Some magical lotion

That could stop this

I would set the wheels in motion

My Secret Garden

author: Martin Gore

My secret garden's not so secret anymore

Run from the house holding my head in my hands

Feeling dejected, feeling like a child might feel

It all seems so absurd

That this should have occurred

My very only secret

And I had to go and leak it!

My secret garden's not so secret anymore!

***

No, my secret garden's not so secret anymore!

Run through the fields, down to the edge of the water

Can't stay long, here comes the reason why -

She'll catch me if she can,

Take me by the hand

I'll have to keep on running

And I just can't see the fun in

My secret garden not being secret anymore!

***

It used to be so easy

On days such as these she'd

Search and search for hours

In among the flowers

I loved it! - I loved her!

Play the fool, act so cruel - I loved it!

Read her book, take a look - I loved her!

***

It all seems so absurd

That this should have occurred

My very only secret

And I had to go and leak it!

My secret garden's not so secret anymore!

Monument

author: Martin Gore

When the site was found

We laid the foundations down

It didn't take long before

They came back tumbling down

Don't build at night

You need a little light

How else are you going to see

What it is going to be like

***

So we picked up our tools

And we worked in the morning light

With the last stone placed

Wasn't it a wonderful site

But it fell back down

And scattered all around

Anything passes

When you need glasses

***

My monument

It feel down

My monument

It feel down

***

Work all of my days for this kind of praise

It fell down

Work all of my days

It fell down

Nothing To Fear

author: Martin Gore

Instrumental

Depeche Mode

See You

author: Martin Gore

All I want to do is see you again

Is that too much to ask for

I just want to see your sweet smile

Smiled the way it was before

Well I'll try not to hold you

And I'll try not to kiss you

And I won't even touch you

***

All I want to do is see you

Don't you know that it's true

I remember the days when we walked through the woods

We'd sit on a bench for a while

I treasure the way we used to laugh and play

And look in each others eyes

You can keep me at a distance if you don't trust my resistance

But I swear I won't touch you

***

Well I know five years is a long time and that times change

But I think that you'll find people are basically the same

***

If the water's still flowing we can go for a swim

And do the things we used to do

And if I'm reluctant you can pull me in

We can relive our youth

***

But we'll just stay friendly like sister and brother

Though I think I still love you

Satellite

author: Martin Gore

Now hear this my friends

I'll never be the same again

Going to lock myself in a cold black room

Going to shadow myself in a veil of gloom

I will function, operate

I will be a satellite of hate

***

Driven to this point by a chain of events

Each one pushed me nearer the edge

Going to send my message through to you

You'll receive the signal too

I will function, operate

I will be a satellite of hate

***

Higher, Higher

***

Disillusioned - I was disenchanted

Forgot the love that had been implanted

Heard the lies and I felt the cold

It broke my heart and I lost control

Now I'm a satellite of a free state

I'm a satellite of hate

Depeche Mode

The Meaning Of Love

author: Martin Gore

I've read more than a hundred books

Seeing love mentioned many thousand times

But despite all the places I've looked

It's still no clearer

I'm still no nearer

The meaning of love

***

Noted down all my observations

Spent an evening watching television

Still I couldn't say with precision

Know it's a feeling and it comes from above

But what's the meaning

The meaning of love

(tell me)

***

From the notes that I've made so far

Love seems something like wanting a scar

Well I could be wrong

I'm just not sure you see

I've never been in love before

***

Next I asked several friends of mine

If they could spare a few minutes of their time

Their looks suggested that I've lost my mind

Tell me the answer

My Lord high above

Tell me the meaning

The meaning of love

***

From the notes that I've made so far

Love seems something like wanting a scar

Well I could be wrong

I'm just not sure you see

I've never been in love before

***

The meaning of love

(tell me)

Tell me the meaning of love

(tell me)

A Photograph Of You

author: Martin Gore

What good is a photograph of you

Everytime I look at it

It makes me feel blue

***

What use is a souvenir

Of something we once had

When all it ever does is

Make me feel bad

***

I wish I could tear it up

But then again I haven't the guts

I wish I could throw it on the fire

I wish I could

But to say I would

I'd be a liar

***

What good is a colour print

Of a little baby doll

When just one little glance

Is enough to make me feel dull

***

I hoped I would misplace it

But then I take such good care of it

I wish it would disappear

I say I wish

But then I relish

It being here

Shouldn't Have Done That

author: Martin Gore

Plans made in the nursery

Can change the course of history

Remember that

***

Mummy's annoyed, says go and play

Don't show your face

Stay away all day

Shouldn't have done that

***

A small boy and his infantry

Marching around so naturally

Shouldn't have done that

***

Grows up and goes to school

Such a nice boy

Obeys all the rules

Mummy's proud of that

***

Leaves school to follow his ambition

Knows what he wants

To be a politician

Shouldn't have done that!

The Sun And The Rainfall

author: Martin Gore

Someone will call

Something will fall

And smash on the floor

Without reading the text

Know what comes next

Seen it before

And it's painful

***

Things must change

We must rearrange them

Or we'll have to estrange them

All that I'm saying

A game's not worth playing

Over and over again

***

You're the one I like best

You retain my interest

You're the only one

If it wasn't for you

Don't know what I'd do

Unpredictable like the sun

And the rainfall

B-sides

Depeche Mode

Now, This Is Fun

single: "See You" / author: Martin Gore

Here speaks the voice of reason

It's talking to me

Loud and clearly

And obviously

It's something to say

***

Here comes another sentence

It is relentless

It tries my patience

But nevertheless

It's for our concern

***

We can't see the benefits

So we'll ignore it

Or disobey it

And then we'll say that

This is fun

***

This is real fun

This is fun

Depeche Mode

Oberkorn (It's A Small Town)

single: "The Meaning Of Love" / author: Martin Gore

Instrumental

1982