The Love Thieves

I don't know for sure but I think this song is about hypocrisy within religion and its followers as well as in human beings in general. It's about the materialistic qualities and the excessive prideful thinking that people display. That is one thing I really feel sad about. I dislike the excessive pride that so many of us have. The constant need to be better than someone else. Is that the only way to make ourselves feel better? Is it truly human nature to always have one group of people feel more 'inferior' or not quite as human as the rest? Would God really like that? Aren't we supposed to 'love thy neighbor as thyself'? I don't mean to say that I expect people to be perfect because I am far from it. What I would really like is for people to love one another. There is far too much hate going around. We are all love thieves but it isn't too late to change that. Not by a long shot.

The Love Thieves
By: Depeche Mode

Oh the tears that you weep
for the poor tortured souls
who fall at your feet
with their love begging bowls
all the clerks and the tailors
the sharks and the sailors
all good at their trades
but they'll always be failures
Alms for the poor
for the wretched disciples
and the love that they swore
with their hearts on the Bible
beseeching the honor
to sit at your table
and feast on your holiness
as long as they're able
Love needs its martyrs
needs its sacrifices
they live for your beauty
and pay for their vices
love will be the death of
my lonely soul brothers
but their spirit shall live on in
the hearts of all lovers
You're holding court
with your lips and your smile
your body's a halo
their minds are on trial
sure as Adam is Eve
sure as Jonah turned whaler
they're crooked love thieves
and you are their jailer
Love needs its martyrs
needs its sacrifices
they live for your beauty
and pay for their vices
love will be the death of
my lonely soul brothers
but their spirit shall live on in
the hearts of all lovers.