Only You

Clarke wrote it while still in Depeche Mode, composing it first on guitar and then moving the riff to synthesizer; Depeche Mode passed on it and released "See You" instead. He told Mojo in 2013 it was influenced by Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence", and told Songfacts in 2010 that he asked Moyet because the ballad needed someone with a soulful voice, and that he is very proud of it. A demo was cut on four-track before Moyet arrived; the proper recording came in January 1982 at Blackwing, produced by Eric Radcliffe with Clarke and Miller. Clarke wrote it as a sentimental ballad and Moyet's lyrics became a story of someone looking through a scrapbook of memories.

The single came out March 15, 1982 on Mute with "Situation" on the B-side in the UK and "Winter Kills" in the US, where Sire released it in November 1982. It debuted at 72 in the UK and peaked at 2 on May 16, 1982, behind "A Little Peace"; it was 5 in Ireland, 6 in Australia and 67 on the Hot 100, and a 1999 remix reached 16 on the US club chart. It opens side two of the album at 3:14.