@ALBUM: A BROKEN FRAME
(C) 1982
All songs written by Martin L. Gore.
Depeche Mode:
Martin Gore
Andrew Fletcher
David Gahan

Songs
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Leave in Silence
My Secret Garden
Monument
Nothing to Fear (Instrumental)
See You
Satellite
The Meaning of Love
Further Excerpts from My Secret Garden (Instrumental)
A Photograph of You
Shouldn't Have Done That
The Sun & the Rainfall

Note:  These lyrics are correct to the best of my ear's
knowledge.  I have tried to be careful at decoding the words;
lines I am not sure of are preceded by three question marks.
If you have a correction to make, please write to me.
Thanks and enjoy.

GOPHERed from cs.uwp.edu on 18 March 1993
Corrected and FTPd to ftp.uwp.edu on 22 March 1993
Dale W.R. Rosenthal   dwr1@cornell.edu

@SONG: LEAVE IN SILENCE 6:21
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 gonna save us from the big drop

I've reached a natural conclusion:
Out with the illusion
I hate being in these situations
Back off of 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
Do we listen that in getting nowhere
This'll be the last time
I think I said that last time

If I only had a potion
Some magical lotion
I could stop this
I would stop this
I would set the wheels in motion

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


@SONG: MY SECRET GARDEN 4:45
My secret garden's
Not so secret anymore
Run from the past
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
And 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 a 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


@SONG: MONUMENT 3:14
When the site was found
We laid the foundations down
It didn't take long 
Before they came back tumbling down
Don't go at night
You need a little light
How else you gonna see
What it's gonna 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 sight?
But it fell back down
And scattered all around
Anything passes when you need glasses
My monument:  it fell down

Work all of my days
For this kind of praise
It fell down


@SONG: NOTHING TO FEAR 4:16
(Instrumental)


@SONG: SEE YOU 4:35
All I want to do is see you again
Is that too much to ask for?
I just want to see your sweet smile
Smile 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'd walk through the woods
And sit on the bench for a while
I treasure the way we used to laugh and then
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
All I want to do is see you 
Don't you know that it's true?

Well I know five years is a long time
And that times change
But I think that you will 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
???But if I could nudge him
???He could pull me in
???And we could be real voyeurs
???Oh the print is friendly,
Like sister and brother
But I think I still love you
All I want to do is see you
Don't you know that it's true?


@SONG: SATELLITE 4:40
Now hear this my friends
I'll never be the same again
Gonna lock myself in a cold black room
Put a shadow o'er myself
And a veil of gloom
I will function, operate
I will be
A satellite of hate

Driving to this point by a chain of events
Each one pushed me nearer the edge
Gonna send my message through to you
And you'll receive the signal too
I will function, operate
I will be
A satellite of hate
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 instinct 
I'm a satellite of hate
A satellite of hate
Higher


@SONG: THE MEANING OF LOVE 3:06
I've read more than a hundred books
Seen love mentioned many thousand times
But despite all the places I've looked
It's still no clearer
It's just not enough
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
No, it's a feeling and it comes from above 
But what's the meaning, the meaning of love?
The meaning of love
Tell me the meaning of love

From the notes that I've made so far
???Love seems something like wanting Asgaard
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 look suggested that I'd lost my mind
Tell me the answer
My love high above
Tell me the meaning, the meaning of love
Tell me the meaning of love

From the notes that I've made so far
???Love seems something like wanting Asgaard
Well I could be wrong
I'm just not sure you see,
I've never been in love before
Tell me the meaning of love
Tell me


@SONG: FURTHER EXCERPTS FROM MY SECRET GARDEN 4:20
(Instrumental)


@SONG: A PHOTOGRAPH OF YOU 3:04
What good is a photograph of you?
Every time 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 color print of you, baby doll
When just one little glance is enough to make me feel dull?
I want 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 really wish it'd be here

What good is a photograph of you
Every time I look at it 
It makes me feel blue


@SONG: SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT 3:10
Plans made in the nursery
Can change the course of history
Remember that

Mom is annoyed, says go and play
Don't show your face 
Stay away all day
Shouldn't have done that

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


@SONG: THE SUN & THE RAINFALL 5:02
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
The games that we're 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

Things must change 
We must rearrange them
Or we'll have to estrange them
All that I'm saying
The games that we're playing
Over and over again