Reviews for Precious Lyrics

this song reminds me of him...of the boy that got tortured all of middle school and who never experinced love or kindness. the one who only has sad memories,hes the one that i love and the one i want to save <3 i love you john

This is a song wrote for the innocents left behind in every relationship that comes to an end: sons and daughters.The writer asks himself what have they done to their child,if they have hurt him with their decision. Then he tries to explain to his child the reasons why things didn't work with his mother and he hopes all this damage can`t get his child. So, he says to his child that he has to trust in them because after all they are their parents and they love him so much, and begs him to love his mother and his father in the same way ( ..."and keep room in your heart for two...."). This is a beautiful song

when i listened to this, i found it quite hard-hitting. I can relate to the lyrics- here's why.
Me and a girl have been such good friends for so long- loving each other without either one of us knowing it. Every time i try to find the courage to tell her, something happens- something doesn't go how i need it to go.
Its been like that for almost 3 years, with everything going well until it's smashed back down to nothing.
Thats why it means something to me. Read the lyrics and you'll see why.
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Since the first time I heard de song I thought of nature, and all ...we have put her through... so, the song is from humans trying to reconcile with nature, God´s master plan should be from nature perspective, because we are not doing very well..! Angels with silver wings, shouldn´t know severing... and I picture birds entangled with plastic bags, or covered with oil...
Words left unspoken, left us so brittle... we should participate more and more in public politics and make our voice be heard to defend the "little left to give" (to future generations)

and I also, hope that there´s still ...room for both of us... in this world, nature and humans, that righ now seem to be so divorced one from the other.

Somebody commenting before me brought up Martin Gore's explanation about the divorce, and then later said something about it being from God's point of view, about humans. I think maybe this "third point of view" they brought up might be a human's perspective about Jesus dying. But that way the end doesn't make sense (make room in your heart for two).

I don’t really think it’s a song about anything specific; it probably refers to those subtle, implausible things, such as feelings or ideas that rarely come to us and are definitely very hard to keep and ‘cultivate’.. Human beings are familiar with those feelings only as children, and then, as they grow up they lose the ability to feel that way, it fades away together with the childlike innocence. This song is so moving only because it reminds us of something we’ve lost, and we aren’t really sure we actually had it.

Sorry, it's me again, I wanted to correct myself and change 'implausible' into 'intangible'. I am not a native English speaker, so I couldn't find the right word to express myself. Only when I added my comment did it dawn on me...'INTANGIBLE'

As a literature teacher I alwaus needed music with a artistic lyrics. "Precious" is sparkling, as a song and as poem.And living in Serbia I realised how much things get damaged and broken, and how hard it is to preserve our private beauty and things we like. Family, friends, ourselves. How much things are broken unwillingly, we try to preserve them but they just crash into pieces.And how much we are vulnerable...But, the best people around me are just like that. The finest ones.

I think the song is about raising a child its hard to do you know. He says We always try to share,
The tenderest of care, Now look what we have put You through... i think he says somone has protected his child to much kept it away from fear and danger, so the child is very fragile and breakable and not realy aware about how things go in the world.

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...

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. :)

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 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

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.

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.