
This song has at least two levels to it. The entire violator album is about their addiction to heroin, every single song. Give it another listen. They are all odes to heroin and how it is all-consuming of their lives. Your own personal jesus? Heroin. Policy of truth (never again is what you swore, the time before)? Heroin.
Enjoy the silence intrigues me the most because it is eerily beautiful beyond belief, technically perfect in the same sense as Beethoven's 9th. It is lyrically 2-fold, on one level being a love story - any words will trivialize the beauty of this moment of love we share. But on another, saying how words will ruin the high - which if you've ever done heroin, rings very true. Painful to me, pierce right through me is a direct reference to words being painful in his "little world" aka perfection he feels with his lover, indirectly to his perfect heroin high, and then on a third level, also a stark reference to the needle piercing him when he injects heroin.
And of course, the subtle refrain, all I ever wanted, all I ever needed, is here in my arms, is fucking perfect, because on one hand it refers to his perfect embrace with his lover, but on another, refers to the heroin he has just shot into his arms. Perhaps in a deeper sense, his lover is like heroin to him, and heroin is like a lover to him. He is equally in love with both, and managed to write a song that gives equal tribute to his deep undying feeling towards them both simultaneously. Fucking Depeche Mode, rocking my world. Also, in the video, though some say it is a solitary rose that keeps flashing, I'm pretty sure it's a poppy flower- an obvious metaphor for all opiates.
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