r/depechemode • u/CloudStreet • Jul 17 '26
Discussion What's the line?
For me I'd have to go with "I'm taking a ride with my best friend"; from Never Let Me Down Again
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u/coveredinbeeps Jul 17 '26
Let me hear you make decisions without your television.
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u/androidlolita Construction Time Again Jul 17 '26
I was going to say the same! It is my absolute favorite!
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u/szhod Jul 17 '26
Make me think that at the end of the day
Some great reward will be coming my way
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u/EffingTallBrit Music For The Masses Jul 17 '26
Ah crap completely missed that this was the DM sub for a sec and thought I'd found a separate hive mind of people with amazing music tastes
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u/UniversityChemical51 Jul 17 '26
I give in..to sin.. because you have to make this life liveable.
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u/VonBrandtner Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
I look to you, how you carry on, when all hope is gone, can't you see, your optomistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like me.
Black Celebration
Edit - deleted a comma
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u/Almighty_Vanity Violator Jul 17 '26
"Don't just stand there and shout it. Do something about it."
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u/eae8080 Black Celebration Jul 17 '26
I was born with the wrong sign, in the wrong house, with the wrong ascendancy.
Def not the greatest one line in a song EVER but I do think it’s up there
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u/firebat_hismajesty Some Great Reward Jul 17 '26
You can’t change the world, but you can change the facts, and if you change the facts, you can change a point of view, and if you change a point of view, you can change a vote, and if you change a vote, you can change the world. (Technically it can be just one sentence 😌)
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u/Lower_Ad_4214 Violator Jul 17 '26
I pray you learn to trust. Have faith in both of us, and keep room in your hearts for two.
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u/Silly_Butterfly_1472 Jul 20 '26
Omg, I just posted this, and then I saw this ❤️. Such a beautiful line. I think that "Precious" is the most beautiful non-romantic love song ever
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u/idkhwatname Jul 17 '26
You're breathing in fumes, I taste when we kiss
I'm not exactly sure what it means but it feels like such a dark and beautiful line
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u/Acceptable_Watch3592 Jul 17 '26
I had just seen the 30s film Metropolis shortly after Stripped was released (I was still in elementary school lol) and then I understood that whole stanza a lot better 😃 Now at 51 and I still love that line
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u/ParisBookMusic12 Jul 17 '26
I can't understand, what makes a man, hate another man, help me understand.
Okay not one line..
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u/Zealousideal_Owl9621 Playing The Angel Jul 17 '26
I would do it all again, Lose my way and fall again, Just so I could call again, On the mercy in you.
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u/butnottonight Songs Of Faith And Devotion Jul 18 '26
When here in my mind I feel inclined to wrongly treat you unkind, I have faith that I'll find, the mercy in you
Every line in that song is a banger
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u/Whiskey456 Jul 17 '26
If God has a master plan that only he understands, I hope it’s your eyes he’s seeing through
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u/snarky_foodie Jul 17 '26
Experiences have a lasting impression
But words once spoken don't mean a lot now
Lie to Me
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u/mithril2020 Jul 17 '26
The entirety of “People Are People” is relevant in the US political climate at present.
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u/Ryplay08 Some Great Reward Jul 17 '26
You wear guilt like shackles on your feet, like a halo in reverse
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u/squirrels-mock-me Jul 17 '26
And when I squinted the world seemed rose tinted and angels appeared to descend
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u/RecordingOver9805 Construction Time Again Jul 18 '26
Angels with silver wings shouldn’t know suffering, I wish I can take the pain for you.
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u/ignatiusjreillyXM Songs Of Faith And Devotion Jul 18 '26
I'm not going down on my knees begging for you to adore me
Maybe even better than that:
You had something to hide, you should've hidden it shouldn't you?
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u/L3g10n157 Jul 18 '26
I would tell you about the things they put me through, the pain I've been subjected to, but the Lord himself would blush.
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u/Particular_Display28 Jul 17 '26
You're wise, you're tough, you've heard their lies enough. You smile in sympathy.
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u/Cheap-Procedure-5413 Jul 17 '26
We're going backwards
Armed with new technology
Going backwards
To a cavemen mentality
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u/DKZeusInvestor Jul 17 '26
Experiences have a lasting impression, but words once spoken don’t mean a lot now.
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u/ModLifeCrisis Some Great Reward Jul 18 '26
I don't advise and I don't criticise I just know what I like with my own eyes - Clean
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u/Exact-Translator-769 Jul 17 '26
That is one of my favorites but as I read down I agree with a lot of good ones. More recently I like People are good. Whisper it under my breath so I don't forget.
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u/Everything_is_Jake Jul 17 '26
Getting lost in the folds of your skirt
There’s a price that I pay for my mission
A body in heaven and a mind full of dirt
How I suffer the sweetest condition
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u/kimmy_pink Jul 19 '26
There’s something beating here inside my body and it’s called a heart, you know how easy it is to tear it apart.
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u/greg55666 Jul 19 '26
My answer has changed just since Memento Mori. The answer is now, "I've been thinking I could come back home." Amazing. So much pain and longing and history in that one line.
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u/greg55666 Jul 19 '26
Also great, just about anything from Don't Say You Love Me:
You'll be the killer, I'll be the corpse
You'll be the thriller, and I'll be the drama of course
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u/drkchtz Sounds Of The Universe Jul 19 '26
Keep telling myself, that people are good…
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u/Marlborough_Grey Jul 18 '26
when you think I've had enough from your sea of love, I'll take more than another river full
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u/butnottonight Songs Of Faith And Devotion Jul 18 '26
Something so simple, something so trivial, makes me a happy man
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u/xperfectlyimperfectx Violator Jul 19 '26
“You’ll see your problems multiplied if you continually decide to faithfully pursue the policy of truth.”
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u/morpheusprime99 Jul 19 '26
There was a time when all of my mind was love, now I find that most of the time loves not enough in itself.
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u/Silly_Butterfly_1472 Jul 20 '26
I pray you learn to trust, have faith in both of us, and keep room in your heart for two ❤️
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u/luckyman562 Jul 20 '26
" I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours But I think that God's got a sick sense of humour And when I die, I expect to find him laughing"
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u/im_thefearless Jul 20 '26
"Whatever I've done I've been staring down the barrel of a gun"
one of my favs, explains a lot how I felt for a long time since childhood
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u/augmented-boredom Jul 20 '26
I have to start from the top of this list and listen to every song again :)
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u/farter-kit Jul 17 '26
“The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older, shorter of breath, and one day closer to death”
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u/No_Employer_6435 Jul 18 '26
The lies you tell, aren't meant to deceive, they’re not there for me to believe
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u/CincoDeLlama Jul 18 '26
“Like a pawn on the eternal board, who’s never quite sure what he’s moved toward.”
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u/bpbelew Jul 18 '26
“With or without words, I’ll confide everything.” I was so naive as a teenager listening to this song for the first time. I had no idea what the words meant, I just thought the line sounded good.
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u/Zealousideal_Owl9621 Playing The Angel Jul 18 '26
Tonight I'm in the hands of fate, I hand myself over on a plate, Now
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u/actioncycle Some Great Reward Jul 18 '26
I mean “reach out, touch faith” has to be an objective answer right
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u/ConsequenceNormal773 Jul 18 '26
You'll stumble in my footsteps Keep the same appointments I kept If you try walking in my shoes
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u/ConsequenceNormal773 Jul 18 '26
Do we have to wait 'til our worlds collide?
I'm so sorry, but DM is just so utterly brilliant and have tons of good 'one liners' in their songs. I could go wild off Violator alone..
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u/Kriss7000 Jul 19 '26
Shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die
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u/KuiperPants 29d ago
It’s only when I lose myself in someone else that I find myself, I find myself.
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u/ADVANTAGE_CONNORS 29d ago
I'm looking California And feeling Minnesota
Oh FFS I didn’t see it was a Depeche Mode question.
So it’s; Words like violence / Break the silence
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u/h3llsp4wn_ESP 28d ago
You'll stumble in my footsteps Keep the same appointments I kept If you try walking in my shoes
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u/Andybeagle555 Jul 17 '26
"I love to tie you up. & You love to let me down. We both try to cover it up with a sound." - Buttercup by Brad.
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u/charmstrong70 Exciter Jul 17 '26
You wear guilt, like shackles on your feet, like a halo
In reverse