Who here even listen to the DM song "Stripped"

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Who here even listen to the Depeche Mode song "Stripped". Do you like it or you just like the Rammstien Cover. Also what do you think the lyrics really mean.

Depeche Mode Version- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lrQuiEkOVU
Rammstien Version- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbUej2HR ... re=related

Heh, yeah, I'm more familiar with the Rammstein version, even though I'm probably a bigger fan of DM. Lyrics = let's get out of town and have sex. Also, let's be stripped of the pretenses of civilization and just be who we are, by nature.

Come with me
Into the trees
We lay on the grass
And let the hours pass

Take my hand
Come back to the land
Lets get away
Just for one day

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Metropolis
Has nothing on this
you're breathing in fumes
I taste when we kiss

Take my hand
Come back to the land
Where everythings ours
For a few hours

Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone

Let me hear you
Make decisions
Without your television
Let me hear you speaking
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

I've never heard the Rammstein version but Stripped is one of my favourite songs by Depeche Mode.

To me it means: Make up your mind, speak for yourself, decide, tell me what you think, be honest and tell me what's in your mind.

Like the Rammstein cover, never heard DM's original.

To me it speaks about the dishonesty of the world, the facade that we are all a part of. And the desire to break out of it, and be with a PERSON, without the "world" intruding.

Oh, yeah-sex!

It just means "Be yourself".

so gamefreak, what does it mean to you?

I love lyrics analysis. songmeanings.net is good for that although I regret the lack of a real forum layout.

I am not much into DM but do like this song a lot. Reminds me of Question of Lust somehow, I often link those two songs. To me it sounds like leaving the world and its judgements and opinions behind and take a little time out to focus on just your own little happiness, without worrying about the world out there. The lines about not missing the city and laying on the grass for hours sort of point in that direction.

Yep, yep. I love the Depeche Mode version, which is odd because I'm not a big fan of DM but I AM a fan of Rammstein and I don't like their cover of it, lol.

In general I like bands being creative with languages (for example Orphaned Land who sing in 6 languages on their albums) but Rammstein in anything else than German somehow doesn't do it to me. Their brilliant wordplays in German, the sort of hard and rough language that suits perfectly well with the music, ... In case of Rammstein, their language is almost like an instrument, it isn't the same in English. Just like the English version of Engel is not good at all, while the German original is one of their greatest tracks.