Depeche Mode--"Dream On"

"Dream On"是一首充滿勇氣的歌。

像DM這樣的電子音樂元老，竟然拿一首以空心吉他為主線的歌曲作為"Exciter"專輯的第一主打，當時應該讓不少歌迷和樂評跌破眼鏡。詞在譴責以外又充滿愛憐地撫慰歌曲當中的梟雄。

雖然藥物問題早已經是老梗，不過這是Martin把Dave過去狀態描寫得最貼切的歌曲之一，甚至比Dave本人寫得更好。所以我感受到，兩人之間有愛。

當你枯瘦的手指環住我
修長而無力
死亡迫在眉睫
上天看得到我眼中的景象嗎？

你這蒼白、病懨懨的孩子
死亡和生命妥協的產物
踏入了邪門歪道

輕忽因果報應
你夜夜笙歌
你得到的東西不會讓你送命
但小心你給了別人什麼

來不及遲疑
痛苦已就緒，等你
立刻接受它的訓誡

不請自來的族類
侵入你遲鈍的肌膚
突變後寄生在你體內

高燒襲來
你顫抖不止、身體扭曲
抓遍全身
依舊奇癢難耐

你感受到愛了嗎？
你感受到愛了嗎？

夢中人

怪罪命運對你的詛咒
讓你蒙受宇宙之重的恥辱
它已經記熟台詞
充分演練

所以能吸取你的意志、強壓你下墜
到達神聖絕跡之地
再無任何事物得以崇敬

輕忽因果報應
你夜夜笙歌
你得到的東西不會讓你送命
但小心你給了別人什麼

你感受到愛了嗎？
你感受到愛了嗎？

夢中人

As your bony fingers close around me
Long and spindly
Death becomes me
Heaven can you see what I see

Hey you pale and sickly child
You're death and living reconciled
Been walking home a crooked mile

Paying debt to karma
You party for a living
What you take won't kill you
But careful what you're giving

There's no time for hesitating
Pain is ready, pain is waiting
Primed to do it's educating

Unwanted, uninvited kin
It creeps beneath your crawling skin
It lives without it lives within you

Feel the fever coming
You're shaking and twitching
You can scratch all over
But that won't stop you itching

Can you feel a little love
Can you feel a little love

Dream on dream on

Blame it on your karmic curse
Oh shame upon the universe
It knows its lines
It's well rehearsed

It sucked you in, it dragged you down
To where there is no hallowed ground
Where holiness is never found

Paying debt to karma
You party for a living
What you take won't kill you
But careful what you're giving

Can you feel a little love
Can you feel a little love

Dream on dream on