Chords for Depeche Mode - The Making Of Delta Machine EPK

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A few times on this record we'd loosely start working on a song.
_ _ _ [A] They want me to sing so they can [Am] start building the song around it.
And I'd been working [Am] on these songs for a couple of months
before we started recording.
Martin gave me all the demos,
set up a vocal mic through the speakers, and I start just singing. _
It was you that took my soul _
[A] And threw it in the [Am] fire
After I finished, I turned around and Martin just looked at me
and nodded his head like this.
You [G] know, that was the best feeling. _
It's obvious that [E] when we get together and Dave starts singing the songs
that I've demoed at home, it doesn't matter how good the demo is,
the moment [Fm] Dave's voice goes on it, it kind of gives [Am] it a stamp of approval
and a stamp of authority.
_ _ _ _ If we're about to make a record or we're talking about making a record,
he will go into his studio and start to formulate ideas
to see if something's happening, _ _ _ you know, see [A] if it's percolating. _ _ _
_ For the first time ever really,
when the band and Ben listened to the [G] songs, the demos for the first time,
we were [E] _ amazed by the quality of the songs,
but [G] particularly amazed in the direction.
I think it made the [Fm] recording of this record a lot easier
because we [Am] had _ a basic _ template
that [G] we knew that we liked.
[Dm] _ [Am] Strongly _ drawing on a blues influence,
that [F] Delta blues thing.
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[D] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ Crawling, [A] a bit sleazy, [F] a bit dirty.
_ _ [G] Sometimes we [A] try out ten different approaches to it
and there'll usually be one that's reggae,
that never works, but we always try it.
Each [Am] song has a punch to it in some kind of way and it's direct
and if [Gb] that song's driven by a riff, we work around that.
If a song's driven by the vocal melody and the vocal part,
then everything's got to work around that.
_ _ A song [Bbm] like Heaven, for instance, was an obvious _ _ example of that,
where we were very _ conscious about not _ [Db] _ overworking the musical elements
[Eb] so they distracted from [Gb] _
the [Bbm] vocal.
_ To me, [Db]
Heaven is one of [Eb] the reasons why I [Gb] still make music.
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_ Sometimes I [Ab] sigh away
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ [Bbm] Silently I slowly [Ab] _
lose [Db] _ _ [Gm] myself _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] Once in a while a song comes along,
_ [Ab] something that I have to sing, not [Eb] something I want to sing.
[Gb] It feels like it's [Bbm] putting on a pair of boots
that I've worn for [Ab] years, that I love.
It fits.
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I dissolve _ [Db] in [Bbm] interest
I knew that this was going to [Db] be the linchpin.
Everything has [Ebm] got to be as good as this.
I will [Db] sing with [Bbm] _ joy
_ [Db] Heaven _ is interesting [Eb] because [Ebm] _ Martin really cracked it with Heaven.
[Bbm] _ _ Pretty much, apart [Ab] from Dave's voice being there, but not Martin's voice,
[Gb] the actual finished thing is pretty similar.
_ _ Soothe My Soul is another.
_ A lot of the time when we start an album, we have a song
and it might work quite well, but we want to take it in a different direction
and make it better.
Martin has this [G] thing, _ _ he doesn't like sometimes the pop side of what we do,
but then he goes ahead and writes _ _ a pop tune. _ _ _ _
_ And that took a lot of work.
I can go to [Gm] the south of Ireland.
Yeah, _ [Bb] I want to.
I love Southern Ireland.
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_ Shall we do it? _ _ _ _
Let's just do this really fast and we'll keep working [Ab] on the other one.
It [G] sounds really good. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I think it sounds better just [Ab] staying on that.
[D] I look forward to every day in the studio when we're working. _
It's a joy to get up and go to work. _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ [C] Only one way, only one way.
[G] Only one way, only one way.
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[B] _ Better?
Yeah, it was really good.
But you only need, it's a loop.
It's playing the same thing.
_ _ _ It'd probably be better if you just take one little good bit.
[Gm] Do one little good bit a bit more first though.
_ _ _ A bit longer.
Yeah, when there's one little good bit I'll let you know.
_ _ _ _ I find it a miracle that we're still able to do this this far into our career.
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[F] _ _ _ [Eb] It's a fairy tale for us in the band.
We never [F] dreamed of this.
But one thing _ we knew is we [Eb] wanted to keep [Bbm] it as well once we got it.
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[Ebm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] Replaced by another, [F] _ _ _ _ wearing [Eb] his crown.
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_ _ You know, we've had our struggles and our ups and downs.
But I think I'm supposed to do it.
I mean, _ [G] I'm not good at anything else.
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