Významná anglická synthy-popová skupina, zpočátku částečně ovlivněna punkem, později Kraftwerkem a na počátku 80. let často řazena i ke stylu new romance. Vzniká v r. 1976 v Basildonu. Clarke začínal jako kytarista ve sk. Romance In China....

Píseň: So Cruel

Interpret:
Depeche Mode
Album:
B - Sides
We crossed the line
Who pushed who over?
It doesn't matter to you
It matters to me


We're cut adrift
We're still floating
I'm only hanging on 
To watch you go down ... my love


I disappeared in you
You disappeared from me
I gave you everything you ever wanted
It wasn't what you wanted


The men who love you,you hate the most
They pass right through you like a ghost
They look for you,but your spirit is in the air
Baby,you're nowhere


Oh love
You say in love there are no rules
Oh love 
Sweetheart
You're so cruel


Desperation is a tender trap
It gets you every time
You put your lips to her lips
To stop the lying


Her skin is pale like God's only dove
Screams like an angel for your love
Then she makes you watch her from above
And you need her like a drug


Oh love
You say in love there are no rules
Oh love
Sweetheart
You're so cruel


She wears my love like a see-through dress
Her lips say one thing
Her movements something else
Love,like a screaming flower
Love,dying every hour
Love


And you don't know if it's fear or desire
Danger the drug that takes you higher
Head in heaven,fingers in the mire


Her heart is racing, you can't keep up
The night is bleeding like a cut
Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled,
Underfoot


Oh love
You say in love there are no rules
Oh love
Sweetheart
You're so cruel


Oh love
To stay with you I'd be a fool
Oh... sweetheart 
You're so cruel