4. Enjoy The Silence
(Gore, 1990)
Depeche Mode - Violator
 

“She’s a showgirl, and I call her Isis. She might moonlight over in Vegas. She’s the oldest of the showgirls there, and she’s been around a while. There’s a mothering quality in her; she sees the other women who come through the doors and get extorted. She seens who the puppeteers are, and she sees when they’re lying there, bleeding.” [AP - October 2001]

You personally dedicated Enjoy the Silence to the lab of men...
“I have really let them bring in all the songs. But of course I was very happy when somebody added Enjoy the Silence to the list, it is a beautiful song about the danger of words. How they can make your world collapse sometimes. According to me the man in question asked for the song because he knew what I wanted to demonstrate with this album. The power of words and how they can get a different value if pronounced by the opposite sex.” [Oor - September 8, 2001]

“I went to some male friends and tried to find out which songs changed their lives. Often I was fascinated by the brutality - for example like in Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode - but sometimes also by the depth of mercy, the beauty.”[Visions - September 2001]