"Somebody" by Depeche Mode

I had another song picked out for today but I wasn't feeling it. Instead, I've decided to share my favorite Depeche Mode song! That seems like kind of a bizarre sentence - what normal person has a favorite Depeche Mode song? Can you even name another Depeche Mode song? Didn't think so. Anyway, I feel like I've been posting too much contemporary pop lately, so I thought some 80s New Wave would be a nice change. And I haven't heard it in a very long time and I was thinking about it yesterday. I swear, I do have a plan for this blog. It's just I have this bad tendency to....change my mind at the last minute. Some people would call it being spontaneous, others would just call it annoying. I know The Husband isn't very fond of this "switching boats mid-stream" business. He says it makes it difficult to buy me things, but I'm generally so easy-going, I'm just happy he actually thought enough to consider buying something for me. Oh well. I think being flexible and adaptive a very important personality trait. Makes it somewhat easier to deal with the chaos.

I want somebody to share

Share the rest of my life

Share my innermost thoughts

Know my intimate details

Someone who'll stand by my side

And give me support

And in return

She'll get my support

She will listen to me

When I want to speak

About the world we live in

And life in general

Though my views may be wrong

They may even be perverted

She'll hear me out

And won't easily be converted

To my way of thinking

In fact she'll often disagree

But at the end of it all

She will understand me

I want somebody who cares

For me passionately

With every thought and

With every breath

Someone who'll help me see things

In a different light

All the things I detest

I will almost like

I don't want to be tied

To anyone's strings

I'm carefully trying to steer clear of

Those things

But when I'm asleep

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

It's not a very long song, lyrically, so - fuck it - I posted all the lyrics. Like always, I think the beauty of the song is in its simplicity and honesty. Isn't that all we're looking for? Someone who just understands.

Anyway, I don't have much to say today. I'm not feeling that great - sore throat, just generally low energy and empty. I will mention how I found this song, though. It was when YouTube was still young and the most common thing you'd find on the website is video compilations of movie clips and various songs. In fact, that was the only way you could find songs back then. You didn't have artists dropping their new videos straight onto the platform back in the day. True to form, I was searching for "Moulin Rouge" clips, which is how I found "Somebody." Someone had put together a montage of Satine and Christian with Depeche Mode as the backdrop. Unfortunately, that video is no longer on YouTube. Out of nostalgia, I tried to find it but to no avail. It lives on only in my memory now. Instead, please enjoy the delightfully kitschy original music video from the 80s.

"Somebody" Video