ALBUM: Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again (1983) Love In Itself More Than A Party Pipeline Everything Counts Two Minute Warning * Shame The Landscape Is Changing * Told You So And Then All songs written by Martin L Gore expect * written by Alan Wilder SONG: Love In Itself - Construction Time Again All of these insurmountable tasks That lay before me All of the firsts And the definite lasts That lay in store for me There was a time When all of my mind was love Now I find That most of the time Love's not enough In itself Consequently I've tendency To be unhappy, you see The thoughts in my head All the words that were said All the blues and the reds Get to me All of these absurdities That lay before us All of the doubts And the certainties That lay in store for us SONG: More Than A Party - Construction Time Again Lots of surprises in store This isn't a party It's a whole lot more We've had enough of this blind man's buff You've kept us in the dark for long enough This is more than a party More than a party More than a party Keep telling us we're to have fun Then take all the icecream so we've got none The failed magician waves his wand And in an instant the laughter's gone Lots of surprises in store This isn't a party It's a whole lot more SONG: Pipeline - Construction Time Again Get out the crane Construction time again What is it this time We're laying a pipeline Let the beads of sweet flow Until the ends have met though Could take a long time Working on the pipeline Taking from the greedy Giving to the needy On this golden day Work's been sent our way That could last a life time Working on the pipeline From the heart of our land To the mouth of the man Must reach him sometime We're laying a pipeline Taking from the greedy Giving to the needy SONG: Everything Counts - Construction Time Again The handshake seals the contract From the contract there's no turning back The turning point of a career In Korea being insincere The holiday was fun-packed The contract, still intact The grabbing hands grab all they can All for themselves - after all The grabbing hands grab all they can All for themselves - after all It's a competitive world Everything counts in large amounts The graph on the wall Tells the story of it all Picture it now See just how The lies and deceit gained a little more power Confidence - taken in By the sunset and a grin The grabbing hands... Everything counts in large amounts SONG: Two Minute Warning - Construction Time Again We're lying by the orange sky Two million miles across the land Scattered to the highest high Expect they'll either laugh or cry No sex, no consequence, no sympathy You're good enough to heat Two minute warning Two minutes later When time has come My days are numbered The dawning of another year Marks time for those who understand One in four still here While you and I go hand in hand No radio, no sound, no sin, no sanctuary So welcome to your last Two minute warning... The sun, the solitude, the cemetery So welcome to your last Two minute warning... SONG: Shame - Construction Time Again Do you ever get that feeling When the guilt begins to hurt Seeing all the children Wallowing in the dirt Crying out with hunger Crying out in pain At least the dirt will wash off When it starts to rain Soap won't wash away your shame Do you ever get the feeling That something isn't right Seeing your brother's fists Clenched ready for the fight Soon the fighting turns to weapons And the weapons turn to wounds So the doctors stitch and stitch And stitch and stitch and stitch And stitch and stitch Surgery won't improve your pain It all seems so stupid It makes me want to give up But why should I give up When it all seems so stupid Do you ever get the feeling That something can be done To eradicate these problems And make the people one Do you ever get that feeling Something like a nagging itch And all the while the doctors Stitch and stitch and stitch And stitch and stitch Hope alone won't remove the stains Shame SONG: The Landscape Is Changing - Construction Time Again The landscape is changing The landscape is crying Thousands of acres of forest are dying Carbon copies from the hills above the forest line Acid streams are flowing ill across the countryside 'Cause I don't care if you're going nowhere Just take good care of the world I don't care if you're going nowhere Just take good care of the world Now we're re-arranging There's no use denying Mountains and valleys Can't you hear them sighing Evolution, the solution or the certainty Can you imagine this intrusion of their privacy Token gestures, Some semblance of intelligence Can we be blamed for the security of ignorance SONG: Told You So - Construction Time Again And do these feet in modern times Walk upon the flowers And walk upon their brothers While the heads are busy lying low Trying to keep to cover...oh Something went wrong Along the way Everybody's waiting for Judgement day So they can go Told you so Bring me my gun of itching desire Bring me my bullets and I will fire Sights set higher than the tall church spire Standing in line The blind lead the blind Waiting and waiting For an overdue sign Brothers and sisters Playing Chinese whispers If things aren't suited Then they'll get diluted There's one more dead with a hole in his head He shouldn't have said all the things he said Many tears were shed for the blood he bled SONG: And Then - Construction Time Again Let's take a map of the world Tear it into pieces All of the boys and the girls Will see how easy it is To pull it all down and start again From the top to the bottom and then I'll have faith or, I prefer To think that things couldn't turn out worse All that we need at the start's Universal revolution (That's all!) And if we trust in our hearts We'll find the solutions Took a plane across the world Got in a car When I reached my destination I hadn't gone far Let's take the whole of the world The mountains and the sand Let all the boys and the girls Shape it in their hands