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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Precious (page 2/ 7) ------ performed by Depeche Mode THINGS GET BROKEN | Reviewer: khalidar | 12/25/08 Its a sad song, But sometimes, when we love, we can't only think about ourselves. Is it true that there are NO PERFECT PERSON in this world...and love is just words and feelings, that has no building for the future. What do we live for? We live only for Love? Love is a tragedy when there is no intentions and meaning why it is built. Love becomes nothing when there is no forgiving and believing. If we are looking for romantics words and excitement, then we are just actors in love... Hmm.. | Reviewer: Blake | 12/21/08 For me, I see it as a song about someone who is really suffering and going through a lot of pain..such as constant bullying or degrading of the spirit. "Fragile and precious things need special handling...My God what have we done to you?" can symbolize that someone has a very sensitive and fragile self-esteem or sense of self, and how someone [or someones] have totally destroyed them. Then it says "Angels with silver wings shouldn't know suffering...if God has a master plan...I hope it's your eyes He's seeing through.." this to me means that a person is a good, innocent person [who can be compared to as an angel] keeps trying to get through and make it, but keeps getting broken, and how if God ever has a plan, the narrartor hopes that He can create it according to all the suffering the person is going through and how He can make it better and fix those things. (ie cruelty, hatred, isolation...etc.) But that's just me though. :) Multiple layers of meaning | Reviewer: Scott | 12/16/08 Good poetry, and songs, have layers of meaning. As Martin Gore has said, he wrote the song for his children about his divorce. His children are "precious and fragile things" that "shouldn't know [the] suffering" of their parents divorce, and the poet laments "My God what have we done to you?" His children are "angels with silver wings". They are innocents; caught in the middle of their parents' fighting. Like any parent, he wishes he could take the pain, not take it away, but take it in place of them, to sacrifice himself for them. "Things get damaged. Things get broken." These are literal statements that one can visualize broken dishes and other household items. The writer wonders how if there's a God this could be happening, but that if there is he hopes God has empathy for them. Finally he concludes with the hope that the children will learn to trust in their parents, and still love both of them. "keep room in your heart for [the] two of them." The next level I see is that the song is about marriages and relationships. A marriage or relationship is a "precious and fragile thing" too. "Things" like trust and love get damaged and broken by lies, words said, and words unsaid. When he states "I thought we'd manage" he typifies the common tendency to try to hold things together, for the children, for convenience, for whatever. We'll manage. The end of the song, viewed as a message to his children about relationships, takes on the added message that the children of divorce tend to be distrustful, and prone to repeat the mistakes that lead to bad relationships. "Keep room in your heart for two" could be a hope that they are able to build loving relationships and marriages in their future despite this divorce in their past. The third level is on a grander scale. Perhaps from the viewpoint of an "angel" or a third person omniscient narrator. Perhaps "Jesus"? The precious and fragile things are humans, and the creator laments "what have we done to you?" From his perspective, we are "angels with silver wings" meant for better than this. "Have faith in both of us" means have faith in God? I'm not so sure I buy this angel/Jesus perspective, but I do think there is a third level, and it is the third person dispassionate observer, who's commenting on the human condition, as if from above. "What have we done to you?" as he might ask if he were God. But then he steps back into his own perspective, and wonders if God has a master plan. Again, wondering how there can be a God "with a Master Plan" that involves all of this suffering of men, women, and children. "Things get broken... [and] damaged." Like the contract between man and God. All in all the poem/song evokes torment, guilt, remorse, regret, sacrifice, and terrible sadness. And that's just the start. This is a wonderful work. I agree with Camilla | Reviewer: olivia | 11/12/08 I really love this song and like Camilla I also think that it's about a child in the midlle of two separated parents... but poetry is an universal language and sometimes it can take us to many different places... great song fantastic band Love | Reviewer: Daniel | 10/20/08 D.Mode is just so damn deep with few words. Love is what impulses everyone to feel this song, or what we percept of "it".suffering,self-sacrifice, blablabal...like Ryan said, something that is religious, love and ourselves. Steve the Canadian | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/30/08 This is a song about the universe. It can only last so long. We are the angels with silver wings. He wishes he could take the pain of life from you. Depeche Mode does not write songs about relationships. Watch the video, life is a machine. Divorce or something like that | Reviewer: Camila | 7/31/08 To me, this song is more about a divorce and what happens with children after this. I really love this song, but one day, when I was traveling, I realized that, maybe, this "angel with silver wings" could be a child, who doesn't deserve the pain of a divorce... Emiliano just said this :P but I think it's pretty difficult to understand as a song about kids and not about a couple. At the end, we only see what we want to see :) Response to short'nsweet | Reviewer: Jerry | 7/13/08 Go find them now...use the internet...I found her...41 years old now (I'm 40) ... we were engaged 20 years ago and I ran away before we got married and closed the door on her, my friends, her famiy....I ended all contact with everyone.... I contacted her last May...I thought she would hate me... she took me back with open loving arms... I love her. In the past because we loved eachother we didn't contact eachother because we thought eachother had moved on ... she called me a dumb ass for not contacting her sooner. It's beautiful now ...I cry tears of joy now. ... she lives in my town. Has the same friends and family with her and I'll get to meet them all soon..It's a wonderful thing...I'm happy again... We used to go to Depeche Mode concerts together ... and now I hope to go to another one with her now as adults. "I still wonder" | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/11/08 oh yes, it also reminds me of my recent and past relationship... exactly like the words say: " Things get damaged Things get broken / I thought we'd manage /But words left unspoken /Left us so brittle /There was so little left to give I also still wonder... It´s a shame we can´t fix things sometimes DM - Still Awesome!! | Reviewer: Jesse | 1/16/08 Heard this on Smallville Season 5. I was already a DM fan - this song just helped to cement the relationship and prove that my favorite 80s band is still awesome!! Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7