 Genius Meanings
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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 – Failures (Of the Modern Man)
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Don't speak of false Messiahs / A failure of the Modern Man / To the centre of all life's desires / As a whole not an also ran / Love in a hollow field / Break the image of your
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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 – 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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Failure – Long Division
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You tried but no one cared / The poisoned apple empty alone again / Nobody turns, nobody stands / There's nowhere to run / When nobody cares / I was wrong to ever doubt you / When
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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 – 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 – 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 – At a Later Date
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[Verse] / Why must we be put down when we try to get away? / Why must we all grow up when we could just play and play? / Good things in life are free, can't buy everything, that's
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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 – The Drawback (All of This for You)
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[Verse 1] / Seen the troubles and the evils of this world / I've seen the stretches between godliness and sin / I've had the promise and confessions of true faith / And the
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Joy Division – The Kill (Warsaw version)
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[Verse 1] / Life can be skewed - good things are nice / Counting on you - really no threats / The waiting is through - deciphering the scars / Just who fooled who - sit still in
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Joy Division – Gutz
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[Intro] / Warsaw! / [Verse 1] / Don't talk to me girl - you know it's not nice / Don't laugh at murder - I won't pay the price / The facts are too high-powered - it's such a big
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Joy Division – Interzone (Warsaw version)
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[Verse 1] / I walked through the city limits / Attracted by some force within it / Around a corner where a prophet lay / A wire fence where the children played / [Chorus] / And I
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Joy Division – No Love Lost (Warsaw Version)
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A reference to Joy Division’s name change from Warsaw, “No Love Lost” depicts the experiences and nature of living in one of the Nazis' “Joy Divisions”. This was a place women
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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 – 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 – Inside the Line
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[Intro] / Hey you! You too! / I could make the choice for you / Dirt sticks close to you - it's all around me / Everything I try to do / I can't even seem to find the room to move
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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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Failure – A Lifetime of Joy
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Here come the wild type droids / Sun burning deep in my eye / Forgot all the reasons why / You wear me out / You wear me out / You wear me out / Here comes a lifetime of joy / Feel
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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 – As You Said
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[Instrumental]
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Joy Division – You're No Good for Me
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[Verse 1] / Don't know what I'm doing - don't know where I'm going / Leading me to ruin - I should have traded you in / Yeah, you think you're something but you're no good for me
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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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Nico – These Days
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Surprisingly, the world-weary “These Days” was written by Jackson Browne when he was a 16 year old kid. By 1967, the track originally known as “I’ve Been Out Walking” was lent to
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Failure – Headstand
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[Verse 1] / Sunlight through the dust / Someone to make you understand / You can ask the rust / I've always been your headstand / [Chorus] / And I know it's been too long / And I
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Joy Division – Novelty (Warsaw version)
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[Verse 1] / When the people listen to you, don't you know it means a lot? / Because you've got to work so hard for everything you've got / Can't rest on your laurels now - not when
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Failure – Half Moon
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Another vein through Ohio / The plain spilled out like oceans to the trees / Not a conscience for miles / We thought the locust cloud was honeybees / You said we'd give up tonight
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Lukas Graham – 7 Years
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In “7 Years”, the Danish group Lukas Graham reflect on their life and wonder about growing older. Nostalgia from ages 7, 11, and 20 are explored before the band goes on to wonder
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Failure – Undecided
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[Verse 1] / Still undecided / On the flight back from Seoul / Your story's diverging / No exchange for your soul / [Chorus] / I wanna get out, gotta get out of this place / I wanna
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Failure – Bring Back the Sound
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Can they bring back the sound? / The sound kept you breathing / Can something be found / To make this all go away? / All go away / Malcontent, boundless and raw / Loss of self
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Failure – Water with Hands
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[Verse 1] / I'm overwhelmed by how little I feel / Limbs underground, head under the wheel / If everything's true then nothing is real / If nothing is true then everything is real
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Failure – Submarines
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[Verse 1] / Last year the seeds had been sown / The stitches all dissolved / Everything was going your way / But left you flattened in the road / [Pre-Chorus 1] / The shape it took
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