Condition Icon – Home

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The song is taken from the cover album ‘Strange Inspirations’. This is not a pure Depeche Mode cover album, as it also includes cover versions of bands such as Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and Real Life. The versions are all rather experimental in nature and stand out clearly from the original.

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Michael M. Müller

Although I already owned all regular releases, I started "seriously" collecting Depeche Mode's releases from all over the world in the late 80s. But when the internet and espacially eBay came up, I wanted to specialise my collection, because with eBay it was not a question of "how to find a rarity?" anymore, but just a question of "who pays the most?". That was the start of my collection of Depeche Mode cover versions.

I really like it when artists create a completely new mood in a cover version. For me, the best covers are very often just unknown tracks on an artist's album, while many tribute compilations are just "sound-a-likes" without own creativity.
Picture of Michael M. Müller

Michael M. Müller

Although I already owned all regular releases, I started "seriously" collecting Depeche Mode's releases from all over the world in the late 80s. But when the internet and espacially eBay came up, I wanted to specialise my collection, because with eBay it was not a question of "how to find a rarity?" anymore, but just a question of "who pays the most?". That was the start of my collection of Depeche Mode cover versions.

I really like it when artists create a completely new mood in a cover version. For me, the best covers are very often just unknown tracks on an artist's album, while many tribute compilations are just "sound-a-likes" without own creativity.

More info about Depeche Mode's original "Home"

Depeche Mode - Uselink

Released on: Ultra

Release year: 1997

Track type: Regular album track

Lyrics of "Home"

Here is a song
From the wrong side of town
Where I’m bound
To the ground
By the loneliest sound
That pounds from within
And is pinning me down

Here is a page
From the emptiest stage
A cage or the heaviest cross ever made
A gauge of the deadliest trap ever laid

And I thank you
For bringing me here
For showing me home
For singing these tears
Finally I’ve found
That I belong here

The heat and the sickliest
Sweet smelling sheets
That cling to the backs of my knees
And my feet
I’m drowning in time
To a desperate beat

And I thank you
For bringing me here
For showing me home
For singing these tears
Finally I’ve found
That I belong

Feels like home
I should have known
From my first breath

God send the only true friend
I call mine
Pretend that I’ll make amends
The next time
Befriend the glorious end of the line

And I thank you
For bringing me here
For showing me home
For singing these tears
Finally I’ve found
That I belong here