Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth lyrics

Depeche Mode – Policy Of Truth lyrics

You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldn't you
Now you're not satisfied
With what you're being put through

It's just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth

Things could be so different now
It used to be so civilized
You will always wonder how
It could have been if you'd only lied

It's too late to change events
It's time to face the consequence
For delivering the proof
In the policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before
Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

Now you're standing there tongue tied
You'd better learn your lesson well
Hide what you have to hide
And tell what you have to tell
You'll see your problems multiplied
If you continually decide
To faithfully pursue
The policy of truth

Never again
Is what you swore
The time before

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Songwriters: Martin Gore

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Unregistered 2022-03-24 10:11:19

I find the meaning. Of this song to definitely be spiritual.

We as humans transcend. As soon as you know this, you realize that nothing stays the same. "Never again it's what you swore the time before". Impermanence.

Speaking things into existence, tongue tied and now living out your own policy of truths and paying the price for providing the proof. No one will believe you, but you decided to faithfully pursue...

No two awakenings are the same. If you would have just listened to what you were told, ignoring the policy of truth.

Just believe.

Nine inch nails. The passion of the Christ. The crucifixion.

I hate using these comparisons, I would rather say you are "you are your own personal Jesus", but I believe Depeche Mode beat me to it.

Great song.

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chromiums 2014-11-21 20:28:03

This song was actually a critique of Erasure. Vincent Clarke was originally with Depeche Mode on the original album. But he wanted to come out of the closet. David Gahan said, no don't spoil a good thing. Vincent then left the group to form Yazoo/Yaz, and then later with Andy Bell to form Erasure. However, Erasure didnt' make it as big as Depeche Mode because of their "lifestyle". So Depeche Mode was just saying things would have been different if you would just lie about playing for the other team.

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Unregistered 2020-02-29 06:17:29

He’s talking about two lovers who are having an affair could be a gay one could be straight. Watch the video.

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“Never again is what you said before.” Should actually be the focal point here. In one line it reveals the truth. The two can’t separate without ‘stalking,’ presenting, or ‘accidentally’ running in to each other.

In the beginning of video it shows as if a couple is all over each other, but then the places and setting begins to repeat. And the man begins to identically enough mimic the traits of a stalker. Eventually following her, as if they had regularly met. At the end she’s seen walking away with him in a car staring

“Never again is what you said before.”
He seems to be taking to himself, and her... he seems to have regrets in the video stemmed in relation to the female character and with the presence of lust I assume, an affair

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Dongknacker 2021-07-07 01:51:22

I am a recovering alcoholic, and whether it was the original intent or not, Policy of Truth spot-on resonates with me to the hard but bitterly true realization the addict makes that they genuinely have a problem. Morning after morning, so many of us have said, "Never again" only to go out drinking one more time, in spite of everything we swear to ourselves. Repeating the line "Never again is what you swore the time before, never again is what you swore the time before" makes it feel like that pattern that we live as addicts. So we run away into the concealment of trying to hide our problem from those around us, which only makes it worse. "It used to be so civilized"; we yearn for the days when we were young and it didn't matter, wishing dumbly that we could have kept our problem on that level, but addictions invariably get worse if they aren't treated. The bitterest part of accepting your problem is realizing that you now need to face your demons; "You'll see your problems multiplied" as you honestly confront how you may have cheated or lied or stolen because of addiction and, harder still, as you try to make things right as a result. But this is what you need to do once you've made this decision to be true if you want the recovery to have any chance of sticking.

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DubHawkins 2009-04-12 20:55:59

I take a loosely spiritual meaning to this song. Mainly about innocence, (Ability to love like chidren) and people whom try to maintain it by being true to soul, (hence innocense) will usually be the ones left to "face consequence" after "delivering the proof" of their "Policy of truth". It's also a warning, about not hiding such deep truths from most people's eyes. "Problems multiply". And the spiritual part, to me, comes in with the "Never again, is what you swore, the time before", because I tend to think of that as something of a prayer to God or a higher being, about being in the same "life-situation again". (Questioning something above us, why)Maybe one explanation of loving people's re-current loss. Same as "why good guys finish last" kind of thing. Maybe? *Or until this song hits them home. Innocent hearts (pure) are not very popular currently, so careful what ya show, and most people see.
Summated~.
*The battle of the innner soul, and the outer flesh, that only very few people will "get".

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DubHawkins 2009-04-12 20:59:09

Grammatical oops, correction: (*)
I take a loosely spiritual meaning to this song. Mainly about innocence, (Ability to love like chidren) and people whom try to maintain it by being true to soul, (hence innocense) will usually be the ones left to "face consequence" after "delivering the proof" of their "Policy of truth". It's also a warning, about* hiding such deep truths from most people's eyes. "Problems multiply". And the spiritual part, to me, comes in with the "Never again, is what you swore, the time before", because I tend to think of that as something of a prayer to God or a higher being, about being in the same "life-situation again". (Questioning something above us, why)Maybe one explanation of loving people's re-current loss. Same as "why good guys finish last" kind of thing. Maybe? *Or until this song hits them home. Innocent hearts (pure) are not very popular currently, so careful what ya show, and most people see.
Summated~.
*The battle of the innner soul, and the outer flesh, that only very few people will "get".

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