This song is not about Dave's heroin addiction.
The lyrics were written by Martin...

When I listen this song I feel in a darkest room. I think "In your room" is a poem about how somebody is suffering for another person "Or will you leave me lying here" "Or leave me lying here" but I don´t understand why the video has another version of this enigmatic and excellent song

ALEX joy_division76@hotmail.com

beautiful song. madterful. his voice is one of a kind. very moody illistrative song. amphobious assaults verzion of this song is incredable omg fallon bowans voice is so sexy. she did this song great justice in my opion. depeche modes writting is incredable a 10 out of 10 sonh. just a absolutely incredable song.

Come on, this is a Depeche Mode song. Therefore, unless there is clear evidence to believe otherwise, it's about getting your end away.

With Depeche Mode the music often tells as much of the story as the lyrics. Here the music starts softly, tentatively and ... celestially. The narrator, completely lost in a heady combination of obsession and lust begs his worldly lover for attention.

Success! The drums kick in, describing a broad, pounding rhythm. The narrator's almost psychotic devotion to his lover reaches a level where nothing exists to him but her. She has such power over him that she can control his movements and his thoughts. She is like a drug and he is completely surrendered to her effect.

His powerless state is a source of intense pleasure to him - as is the lovemaking which is explicitly described by the increasing volume and force of the music. We leave them to it for a minute as the music sighs, wails and pounds away. Eventually the rhythm asserts itself in a new way, and our narrator's thoughts turn to the ultimate release of his pleasure. However, so powerful is his lover in his mind that she could hold him tortured in this near-ecstatic state forever.

She is merciful. After he has been held in this state for a while, the music explodes in a climax unmatched by anything Depeche Mode has produced before or since. No more lyrics are supplied: a long instrumental sees this song through to its conclusion.

It's a cynical song about asking God whether he (Gore) will be 'around' forever. "I'm hanging on your words, living on your breath, feeling with your skin, will I always be here". The last part about skin is the giveaway.

The entire album plays with this God theme. Heck, it's called Songs of Faith & Devotion. Gore has often written in terms of God existing but that God is not necessarily good & benevolent (Blasphemous rumours as an example). In ths song he explores the idea of a cruel God which allows us existence only to take it away. "In your room, where souls disappear, only you exist here". It's all quite obvious. He sees God as creating us to simply play with our souls.