“Walking In My Shoes” by Depeche Mode

"Walking in My Shoes" was the second single from Songs of Faith and Devotion, Depeche Mode's eighth studio album, released in April 1993 on Mute and Sire. Martin Gore wrote it and Dave Gahan sings it with a ravaged, pleading gravity, and the band produced it with Flood, building a slow, heavy grind of dance-rock that sounds like a confession delivered in a cathedral. Anton Corbijn directed the video.

It reached number 14 in the UK and, like "I Feel You" before it, went all the way to number one on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. The B-side, "My Joy", had originally been meant for the album. Alan Wilder, still in the band at the time, named it and "In Your Room" as his favourite songs on the record.

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