 Genius Meanings
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Joy Division – Decades
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[Verse 1] / Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders / Here are the young men, well where have they been? / We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber / Pushed
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Joy Division – Disorder
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“Disorder” kicks things off with drummer Stephen Morris pushing the tempo forward, and Peter Hook entering next with octave jumping basslines. The song is fast, almost punky, and
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Joy Division – The Eternal
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Arguably the bleakest thing the band ever recorded, “The Eternal” is a slow and atmospheric track built around a repetitive bassline and reverb-laden drums and piano. According to
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Joy Division – Decades [Live At Birmingham University]
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[Verse 1] / Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders / Here are the young men, well where have they been? / We knocked on the doors of hell's darker chamber / Pushed
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Joy Division – Heart and Soul
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“Heart and Soul” is a spacious, reverb-laden track built around an electronic bass line from Peter Hook and a skittering drum rhythm from Stephen Morris. Ian Curtis sings in his
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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 – The Eternal (Live) [Encore]
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[Verse 1] / Procession moves on, the shouting is over / Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone / Sitting in sound as they sit 'round their table / Scattering flowers washed
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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 – Atrocity Exhibition
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The title of this track comes from J.G. Ballard’s disturbing, surrealistic short story collection The Atrocity Exhibition, which sees a name-changing protagonist creating bizarre
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Antic Clay – Decades
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Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders / Here are the young men, well where have they been? / We knocked on the doors of Hell's darker chamber / Pushed to the limit
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Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
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[Verse 1] / So this is permanence, love's shattered pride / What once was innocence, turned on its side / A cloud hangs over me, marks every move / Deep in the memory, of what once
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Joy Division – Isolation
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“Isolation” is probably the Joy Division track that is most prophetic of the group’s New Order future, with its relatively upbeat feel and bright-sounding synths. However, the
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Joy Division – Passover
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The title of “Passover” refers to the Jewish celebration of the same name, and more specifically to the Biblical story it commemorates, in which the enslaved Israelites painted
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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 – Colony
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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 / As he lays asleep, she takes him in her arms / Some things I have 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 – 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 – 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 – A Means to an End
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Shadowplay [Live at Birmingham University]
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[Verse 1] / To the center of the city where all roads meet waiting for you / To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank searching for you / I was moving through the silence
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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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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 – 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 – A Means to an End (Live)
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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 / [Chorus] / Two the same, set free too / I put my trust in
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Joy Division – Sound of Music [The Peel Sessions (1987)]
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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 – 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 – Exercise One [The Peel Sessions (1986)]
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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
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Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition (Live)
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[Intro] / Welcome to the atrocity exhibition / [Verse 1] / Asylums with doors open wide / Where people had paid to see inside / For entertainment they watch his body twist / Behind
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