I remember at college in 1989 a friend proposed to his girlfriend my singing her Depeche Mode's "Somebody". At the time this seemed supremely lame to me, mostly because it was from like 1984, three albums earlier. It was a high school song.
Now, though, and for several years, I've found "Somebody" to be quite a touching song. Touching, but not unaware that overly romantic notions of love can "make you sick":
...But when I'm asleepOf course, this is on the same album as "Master and Servant"; I guess what Martin Gore is trying to tell us is that relationships can be complex.
I want somebody
Who will put their arms around me
And kiss me tenderly
Though things like this
Make me sick
In a case like this
I'll get away with it.
And when I'm awake
I want somebody
Who will put a ball gag on me,
whip me mightily,
