 Genius Lyrics
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Joy Division – Glass
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[Verse 1] / Hearts fail / Young hearts fail / Anytime, pressurised / Overheat, overtired / Take it quick, take it neat / Clasp your hands, touch your feet / Take it quick, take it
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Joy Division – Glass (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Hearts fail / Young hearts fail / Anytime, pressurized / Overheat, overtired / Take it quick, take it neat / Take it quick, take it neat / Take it quick, take it neat
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Joy Division – Glass - 2007 remastered version
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Hearts fail / Young hearts fail / Anytime, pressurised / Overheat, overtired / Take it quick, take it neat / Clasp your hands, touch your feet / Take it quick, take it neat / Take
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The Wombats – Let's Dance to Joy Division
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The second single from the 2007 album The Wombats Proudly Present: A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation. The song is based on an evening when lead singer Matthew Murphy danced on
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Joy Division – Shadowplay
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On “Shadowplay”, the guitars launch into a dimension reminiscent of the sonic dimensions that David Bowie and Brian Eno dwelt in during the late 1970s. The band’s sound is echoey
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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The lyrics ostensibly reflect the problems in Ian Curtis’s marriage to Deborah Curtis, as well as his general frame of mind in the time leading up to his suicide in May 1980.
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Joy Division – The Only Mistake
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Ian Curtis speaks on how a certain new relationship is similar to a previous one where he has a “tendency just to take” from a woman until the breaking point. This couple had an
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Joy Division – Transmission
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[Intro] / Radio, live transmission / Radio, live transmission / [Verse 1] / Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun / We would have a
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Joy Division – Dead Souls
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An examination of the internal and external crises facing Ian Curtis, ‘Dead Souls’ opens with one of the singer’s most despairing lines: a plea for the certainty that he has
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Joy Division – Leaders of Men
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Being released closer to the birth of the band, “Leaders of Men” comes up with a more punk, political vibe than the rest of their later work and appeared on their debut EP An Ideal
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Joy Division – A Means to an End [Live At Birmingham University]
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[Verse 1] / A legacy so far removed / One day will be improved / Eternal rights we left behind / We were the better kind / Two the same, set free too / [Chorus] / I always looked
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Joy Division – Digital (Live) [Encore]
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[Verse 1] / Feel it closing in, feel it closing in / The fear of whom I call, every time I call / Feel it closing in, feel it closing in / [Chorus] / Feel, feel, feel, feel, feel
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Joy Division – Autosuggestion
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Joy Division’s “Autosuggestion” seems to be related to actual autosuggestion, which is a psychological technique related to the Placebo effect.
Autosuggestion is the act of
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Joy Division – Atmosphere
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The song that John Peel played after announcing Ian Curtis’s death is unbearably close and brooding, but allows the occasional shaft of light. Stephen Morris’s pattering drums
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Joy Division – From Safety to Where...?
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This was originally supposed to be on Unknown Pleasures and were recorded during the same sessions of all of the other songs of the album. Why in the end it wasn’t included in the
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Joy Division – As You Said
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[Instrumental]
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Joy Division – Digital
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This song first appeared on “A Factory Sample,” the first vinyl record released by Factory Records. It was also the last song played live by Joy Division at their Birmingham
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Joy Division – The Sound of Music
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[Verse 1] / See my true reflection cut off my own connections / I can see life getting harder / So sad is this sensation, reverse the situation / I can't see it getting better / [
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Joy Division – Komakino
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This song is likely named, in part, for the Kant Kino–a Berlin-based cinema/live venue which the band played a gig at on 21st January 1980.
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Joy Division – Ceremony (Live at Birmingham University, Birmingham, 2nd May 1980)
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One of the primary and captivating differences between the initial Joy Division version of ‘Ceremony’ and New Order’s take are the lyrics. Curtis’s original lyrics were never
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Joy Division – Colony (Live)
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[Verse 1] / A cry for help, a hint of anesthesia / The sound from broken homes, we used to always meet here / I want for hell break loose, couldn't find another reminder / It's
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Joy Division – These Days
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[Verse 1] / Morning seems strange, almost out of place / Searched hard for you and your special ways / [Chorus] / These days, these days / [Verse 2] / Spent all my time, learnt a
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Joy Division – Warsaw
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The song appears to be a lyrical biography of Rudolf Hess, a Nazi and Hitler’s confidante, who later became disillusioned with Hitler’s rule and fled to Scotland in an attempt to
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Joy Division – Ice Age
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One of the first and most punk-oriented songs in the Joy Division catalogue, it was written and first recorded when the band was still called Warsaw. The nuclear war theme would
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Joy Division – Exercise One
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[Verse 1] / When you're looking at life in a strange new room / Maybe drowning soon, is this the start of it all? / Turn on your TV, turn down your pulse / Turn away from it all
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Joy Division – Novelty
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Joy Division has stated that this song is about the 1970’s punk scene coming to an end.
All the young generation of that era lived for an ideal, the punk ideal. And now that the
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Joy Division – Something Must Break
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Two ways to choose / A razor's edge / Remain behind / Go straight ahead / Room full of people / Room for just one / If I can't break
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Joy Division – Walked in Line
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Ian Curtis, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner settled stated that all their fathers had fought in World War II. That’s why
Joy Division talks a lot about Nazism in
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Joy Division – Failures
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‘Failures’ marks Ground Zero for the band who would become post-punk pioneers. All unhindered thrash and nerve-exposed energy, “Failures” is Joy Division’s most obvious hat-tip to
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Joy Division – No Love Lost
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This song first appeared on Joy Division’s debut EP An Ideal for Living, afterwards it appeared on the Substance compilation.
Originally the song had a much longer instrumental
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Joy Division – New dawn fades (Live at Birmingham University)
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A change of speed, a change of style / A change of scene with no regrets / A chance to watch, admire the distance / Still occupied though you forget / Different colors, different
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Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (12" Mix)
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[Verse 1] / Confusion in her eyes that says it all / She's lost control / And she's clinging to the nearest passer by / She's lost control / And she gave away the secrets of her
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live)
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard and ambitions are low / And resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow / And we're changing our ways, taking different roads / [Chorus
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Joy Division – These Days (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Morning seems strange, almost out of place / Searched hard for you and your special ways / [Chorus] / These days, these days / [Verse 2] / Spent all my time, learnt a
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4lung – LET'S DANCE TO JOY DIVISION (THE WOMBATS COVER)
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Joy Division – Isolation (Live)
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[Verse 1] / In fear every day, every evening / He comes from a cloud from above / Occasions secluded for reason / Painstaking devotion and love / Surrendered to self preservation
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Joy Division – The Kill
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[Verse 1] / Moved in a hired car and I find no way to run / Adds every moment longer, had no time for fun / [Chorus] / Just something that I knew I had to do / But through it all I
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