Halo You wear guilt Like shackles on your feet Like a halo in reverse I can feel The discomfort in your seat And in your head it's worse There's a pain A famine in your heart An aching to be free Can't you see All love's luxuries Are here for you and me And when our worlds they fall apart When the walls come tumbling in Though we may deserve it It will be worth it Bring your chains Your lips of tragedy And fall into my arms And when our worlds they fall apart When the walls come tumbling in Though we may deserve it It will be worth it -- Martin Gore       Halo ranks high on my list of favorite DM songs and even though the song might seem straight forward, I 'm going to analyze it anyway. The main theme of the song Gore is urging his love to do, is to let go of the pain and enjoy love. In the first stanza of the song, it's apparent that a guilt plagues the lover. It constricts (shackles) and is obvious in the lover's behavior. "Like a halo in reverse", states how the guilt shows , as a halo might be worn by a saint, the lover bears one of despair. The author (Gore) continues to elaborate on how apparent the guilt is, that it infects the body and especially the mind. The lover is starving for something fulfilling, something that will liberate him/her from the hell in which their currently in. Gore answers the pain with love, telling the lover that they both can enjoy love. This hints that the lover has not enjoyed the aspects of love and may have been tortured by it. This brings us to our chorus. The author states that when life is all wrong and you've hit rock bottom that good will come out of it. Using his metaphor of walls for life, once the walls have fallen, they can now be rebuilt. Sometimes in life we have to hit bottom to see the good that we once had. It is in this way, that the "worlds falling apart" is worth it, it puts things into perspective. Gore then tells his lover, that he accepts the pain and despair that is in their life, but that he wants him/her to let go of all that and fall in love. The song is then concluded with the chorus.