"This song has nothing to do about drugs! Nothing at all! Those who think that obviously don't know anything about Depeche Mode... " (view)

"There's a really good remix of this song on James Lavelle's Global Underground Barcelona CD; in fact I heard that before I heard the original and I like the remix a lot better. ANYWAY, so no one thought that maybe "the fear" referred to people's fear of dying? A lot..." (view)

"I think this song can be taken as a straightforward song about relationships, or as some have noted earlier, as a metaphor about economic systems. Someone earlier mentioned the idea of "standing firmly behind a capitalist structue that's destined to fall apart", i.e. the House of Cards. I..." (view)