Fail

"Fail" is the twelfth and final track on Depeche Mode's fourteenth studio album, Spirit. The grand finale of Spirit. In this song, Martin L. Gore shares his unfiltered emotions about the world’s current issues and how we as people have lost our “spirit.”

Spirit is the first Depeche Mode album to end with a full-length song with Martin Gore as the main singer.

Lyrics
People Do we call this trying? We're hopeless Forget the denying Our souls are corrupt Our minds are messed up Our consciences bankrupt Oh, we're fucked

People What are we thinking? It's shameful Our standards are sinking We're barely hanging on Our spirit has gone And once where it shone I hear a lonesome song

People How are we coping? It's futile To even start hoping That justice will prevail That truth will tip the scales Our dignity has sailed Oh, we've failed