Terminal Front – John The Revelator

Associated artists/bands: Terminal Front

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"Terminal Front – John The Revelator" is available on following Depeche Mode compilations and/or tributes

Jul. 10th, 2017

Digital only

Ultra > Angel (A Tribute To Depeche Mode)

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Thomas Frenken

I am the founder and main author of the international synth pop magazine Electrozombies. Since my childhood I have been a devotee of melancholic, gloomy electronic music. Started in the late 70s with minimal electro band Kraftwerk and become a real synth pop fan through Depeche Mode's hit 'People Are People' in 1984.

I took over the depechemodecovers.com website in 2024 and relaunched it. As a big fan of Depeche Mode and cover versions, I dedicate myself passionately to this project.

Thomas Frenken

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More info about Depeche Mode's original "John The Revelator"

Released on: Playing The Angel

Release year: 2005

Track type: Regular album track

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Lyrics of "John The Revelator"

John the Revelator
Put him in an elevator
Take him up to the highest high
Take him up to the top
Where the mountains stop
Let him tell his book of lies

John the Revelator
He’s a smooth operator
It’s time we cut him down to size
Take him by the hand
And put him on the stand
Let us hear his alibis

By claiming God
As his only right
He’s stealing a god
From the Israelites
Stealing a god
From a Muslim, too
There is only one god
through and through

Seven lies, mulitplied by seven, Multiplied by seven again
Seven angels with seven trumpets
Send them home on the morning train

Well who’s that shouting?
John the Revelator!
All he ever gives us is pain
Well who’s that shouting?
John the Revelator!
He should bow his head in shame

By and by
By and by
By and by
By and by