Depeche Mode – Shouldn't Have Done That

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Plans made in the nursery
Can change the course of history
Remember that

Mummy's annoyed, says go and play
Don't show your face
Stay away all day
Shouldn't have done that

A small boy and his infantry
Marching around so naturally
Shouldn't have done that

Grows up and goes to school
Such a nice boy
Obeys all the rules
Mummy's proud of that

Leaves school to follow his ambition
Knows what he wants
To be a politician
Shouldn't have done that!

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Lyrics submitted by Fistan

Track duration: 03:12

"Shouldn't Have Done That" as written by Martin Lee Gore

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:Excuse me: SOME of the women were pregnant by selected S.S. soldiers to preserve the "arian" race.
    Flag Armandoon March 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"Plans made in the nursery..." I think it's about Lebensborn, some kind of Institute in the Nazi Germany where the pregnant women had "to donate" their children to the country. Those babies didn't grow with their mothers.
    Flag Armandoon March 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Very interesting is reversed second part of the song. It's a story about a bird told by Martin:

    The big bird is pecking
    The little bird is pecking as well
    The big bird has got more worms than the little bird
    So the little bird doesn’t like this
    He’s after the worms that are really owned by the big bird
    He flies over to the big birds worms
    Oh and what joy it was when he got those worms
    And he flew away
    He flew onto the top of the mountain
    The big bird was too fat
    He couldn't fly
    Flag Radekon January 29, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:It refers to a novel in Dino Buzzati's book, Il Colombre (1966)
    Flag denjabon June 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I think it is about Hitler.
    Flag SteamMachineon May 15, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Sounds like this boy's mother, by her indifferent, detatched style of parenting would turn any kid into a fine soldier--"I was just following orders." I could hear this man say during his testimony at the Nuremburg Trials!
    Flag pharmageekon September 15, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Pretty simple view on how someone can evolve into a dictator. Definitly not about Adolf Hitler then, though the sound of an army marching perfectly in steps appears in the song.
    Flag greyfoxon June 04, 2004   Link

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