Songfacts®:

• "Soul With Me" finds Depeche Mode vocalist David Gahan leaving behind his problems and the world's disasters to head for the "ever after." He's going where the angels fly and taking his soul with him.
• Guitarist and keyboardist Martin Gore wrote the song. "While the words are obviously about death," he told Uncut magazine, "they're also very tongue in cheek."
• The song incorporates a convergence of influences. "When I was writing it I felt lit I felt like it almost had a Pet Sounds-era Beach Boys sound mixed with some Kurt Weill chords, but then also an homage to gospel music with its soul-influenced chorus," Gore told Uncut magazine. "It's musically a very interesting outlier in our catalogue."
• Depeche Mode recorded "Soul With Me" for Memento Mori, which is a Latin phrase meaning "remember that you must die." Death looms large in the album, a motif born of Gore's contemplation of his own mortality. The shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming countless lives as he penned the songs, further fueled this theme.
• Depeche Mode debuted "Soul With Me" live on March 23, 2023, during their concert at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California.