Song: A Pain That I'm Used To
Artist: Depeche Mode
Album: Playing the Angel (2005)
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbghLoaOvA8
Tempo: 3|4
Style: Eclectic UK Synthpop mixed with an Industrial Rock Waltz
Strum: Standard with a unique strum pattern for the Intro, Instrumental and Coda.
Tuning: Full Step Down
Chords:
DGCFAd (Standard Tuning)
0220XX (or 022000) =
X110XX =
3200XX (or 3554XX) =
3320XX (or 332010) =
A X0222X (or X02220) =
(Droning fuzzed and wahed lead over)
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I'm not sure,
What I'm looking for anymore.
I just know,
That I'm harder to console.
I don't see who I'm trying to be,
Instead of me.
But the key,
Is a question of control.
REFRAIN 1: (Riff over)
Can you say,
What you're trying to play anyway,
I just pay,
While you're breaking all the rules,
All the signs that I find.
Have been underlined,
Devils thrive on the drive.
That is fuelled.
All this running around,
Well it's getting me down.
Just give me a pain that I'm used to.
I don't need to believe,
All the dreams you conceive.
You just need to achieve,
Something that rings true.
INSTRUMENTAL: (Droning fuzzed and wahed lead over)
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There's a hole in your soul,
Like an animal.
With no conscience,
Repentance unknown.
Close your eyes,
Pay the price for your paradise.
Devils feed on the seeds,
That are sown.
REFRAIN 2: (Riff over)
Can't conceal what I feel,
What I know is real.
No mistaking the faking,
I care.
With a prayer in the air,
I will leave it there.
On a note full of hope,
Not despair.
All this running around,
Well it's getting me down.
Just give me a pain that I'm used to.
I don't need to believe,
All the dreams you conceive.
You just need to achieve,
Something that rings true.
All this running around,
Well it's getting me down.
Just give me a pain that I'm used to.
I don't need to believe,
All the dreams you conceive.
You just need to achieve,
Something that rings true.
CODA: (Droning fuzzed and wahed lead over)
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[End]
NOTES:
1. "A Pain That I'm Used To" is the second single and opening track of the album 'Playing the Angel'
by Depeche Mode, and the forty-second DM single overall. The single was released on 12 December 2005
by Mute Records. ..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pain_That_I'm_Used_To
2. The music video is directed by Uwe Flade, who also directed the "Precious" single. It features
much more live action sequences (in a race track), than the "Precious" video and even David Gahan's
"Bottle Living" video. Depeche Mode's live drummer Christian Eigner also appears in the video.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pain_That_I'm_Used_To
3. This version, I believe is closest to capturing that original 'drone-like' quality of this song,
that is played live by DM, in opening tuning.