Stripped Lyrics
Come with me into the trees
We'll lay on the grass and let the hours pass
Take my hand, come back to the land
Let's get away just for one day
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
[Interlude]
[Verse 2: Dave Gahan]
Metropolis has nothing on this
You're breathing in fumes, I taste when we kiss
Take my hand, come back to the land
Where everything's ours for a few hours
[Chorus: Dave Gahan]
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
[Post-Chorus: Dave Gahan]
Let me hear you make decisions without your television
Let me hear you speaking just for me
About
In the midst of future-facing synth-pop, Depeche Mode’s constant bleak pessimism looks back to romantic-era poets on “Stripped”, a song lamenting that modern society has taken us away from nature, simplicity, and truth.
The song was famously covered by Rammstein who completely subverted the romantic nostalgia of the original.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Yes! Although the album version is longer in length, the final chorus is shorter than that of the 7" single version by almost a half. The latter version’s final chorus has 5 repetitions of the main hook rather than 3:
[Chorus: Dave Gahan & Martin L. Gore]
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
(Let me hear you speaking just for me)
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
(Let me hear you crying just for me)
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
(Let me hear you speaking just for me)
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
(Let me hear you crying just for me)
Let me see you stripped down to the bone
(Let me hear you speaking just for me)
Alan Wilder and producers are quoted in the 2006 documentary of the album:
Alan Wilder:
One of the first tracks we recorded, I think, was Stripped. And that just flowed, probably the only track on the album that did, and it was easy.[1] And I think I have to give credit to Martin’s demo, because recorded the demo using the opening sound to that, which is an Emulator sample of a motorbike, ideally. And we said, “Well, let’s just replicate that in the studio”, and everything else just followed. We recorded Dave’s Porsche, if you’re trying to be [specific], a Porsche, and we recorded its ignition, which starts the track.
Gareth Jones:
Fireworks on Stripped, as well, is another famous piece. Obviously, on November the 5th, it was.
Daniel Miller:
It was rockets that we were doing, so we thought, if we angled them at a fairly low angle, we could set up a series of microphones and we would still be able to pick up the sound as it travelled along. If we straight up, we would have got just one sound, it would just have sort of disappeared, so we did that. We set up a sort of bottle at a very narrow angle and had, like, 5 microphones maybe, at, I don’t know, 15 feet apart, something like that.
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