Depeche Mode, a pain that I'm used to

Another track from the new Depeche Mode album, Playing the angel, has been leaked onto the Internet. The opening track: A pain that I'm used to.

Like the upcoming single, Precious, the new track is a song that old fans should be able to enjoy, with it's Music for the Masses-feel. This is a hard, metallic and dark Depeche Mode, that compares favourably to their best efforts from the 1980s. Check out http://clientes.gimexico.com/edgar/ for an MP3-version of this song.

If I hadn't already heard Precious, I would have said that A pain that I'm used to should be picked as a single from the album - it certainly has the potential. And if these two songs are anything to go by, the album is bound to be their best in two decades!

Here's my take on the lyrics for A pain that I'm used to:

I'm not sure what I'm looking for anymore,
I just know that I'm harder to console.
I don't see who I'm trying to be instead of me,
but the key is a question of control.

Can you say what you're trying to play anyway,
I just pay while you're breaking all the rules.
All the signs that are defined have been underlined,
devils stride on the drive that is you.

<chorus>
All this running around but it's getting me down,
just give me a pain that I'm used to.

I don't need to believe
all the change you conceive,
you just need to achieve
something that brings fruit.
</chorus>

There's a hole in your soul like an animal,
with no conscience, repentance unknown.
Close your eyes, pay the price for your paradise,
devils feet on the seeds of a stone.

I can't conceal what I feel, what I know is real,
no mistake in the fate, I care.
We're a a pair, in the air, I will leave it there,
but I'm now full of hope, not despair.

<chorus> x 2

Playing the angel should be in a record store near you on October 17. Be there!