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Something Must Break

Joy Division
Track 8 on Still 

Producer

Martin Hannett
Oct. 8, 19811 viewer5.3K views

Something Must Break Lyrics

[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 out now
The time just won't come

[Verse 2]
Two ways to choose
Which way to go?
Decide for me
Please let me know
Looked in the mirror
Saw I was wrong
I could get back to
Where I belong, where I belong

[Verse 3]
Two ways to choose
Which way to go?
Had thoughts for one
Designs for both
But we were immortal
We were not there
Washed up on the beaches
Struggling for air
[Bridge]
I see your face still in my window
Torments yet calms, won't set me free

[Outro]
Something must break now
This life isn't mine
Something must break now
Wait for the time when something must break

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Still (1981)
Joy Division
  1. 1.
    Exercise One
  2. 2.
    Ice Age
  3. 3.
    The Sound of Music
  4. 4.
    Glass
  5. 5.
    The Only Mistake
  6. 6.
    Walked in Line
  7. 7.
    The Kill
  8. 8.
    Something Must Break
  9. 9.
    Dead Souls
  10. 10.
    Sister Ray [Live At the Moonlight Club, London April 1980]
  11. 11.
    Ceremony (Live at Birmingham University, Birmingham, 2nd May 1980)
  12. 12.
    Shadowplay [Live at Birmingham University]
  13. 13.
    A Means to an End [Live At Birmingham University]
  14. 14.
    Passover
  15. 15.
    New Dawn Fades
  16. 16.
    Twenty Four Hours
  17. 17.
    Transmission
  18. 18.
    Disorder
  19. 19.
    Isolation
  20. 20.
    Decades
  21. 21.
    Digital
  22. A Means to an End (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Missing Lyrics)
  23. Colony (High Wycombe Town Hall Live (Missing Lyrics)
  24. Twenty Four Hours (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Missing Lyrics)
  25. Digital (Live at Birmingham University)
  26. New Dawn Fades (Live at Birmingham University)
  27. Ceremony (rehearsal)
  28. Decades [Live At Birmingham University]
  29. Passover (Live at Birmingham University)
  30. Disorder (Live at Birmingham University)
  31. A Means to an End
  32. Atrocity Exhibition (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Missing Lyrics)
  33. Isolation (Live at Birmingham University)
  34. Sister Ray (Live at Moonlight Club)
  35. A Means to an End (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Sound Check) (Missing Lyrics)
  36. The Sound of Music (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Sound Check) (Missing Lyrics)
  37. Disorder (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Sound Check) (Missing Lyrics)
  38. Ice Age (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Sound Check) (Missing Lyrics)
  39. The Eternal (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Sound Check) (Missing Lyrics)
  40. Isolation (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Sound Check) (Missing Lyrics)
  41. Disorder (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Missing Lyrics)
  42. The Sound of Music (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Missing Lyrics)
  43. Isolation (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Missing Lyrics)
  44. Love Will Tear Us Apart (High Wycombe Town Hall Live) (Missing Lyrics)
  45. Transmission (Live at Birmingham University)
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Strawberry Studios, Stockport, England, United Kingdom
Release Date
October 8, 1981
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