Welcome to the Friday song off my iPod of the week.

Lacuna Coil is a gothic rock band from Milan, Italy. Lacuna Coil means empty spiral. Beth introduced Lacuna Coil to me and they are very good. The lead singer is Cristina Scabbia. Scabbia became a singer almost by accident as she says, “it just kind of happened”. Her voice has made her one of the most popular female musicians in gothic rock.

This song, Enjoy the Silence, is a Depeche Mode song originally released in 1990. The Depeche Mode version of the song reached #8 on the Billboard Top 100, the only Depeche Mode song to get into the top 10. The Lacuna Coil version was named as one of the Top 100 Cover Songs by the NY Times.

Enjoy the Silence
Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can’t you understand
Oh my little girl

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Written by Martin L. Gore