 Genius Meanings
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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 – Love Will Tear Us Apart [Pennine Version]
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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 – Love Will Tear Us Apart (12" Version)
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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 – Love Will Tear Us Apart [Permanent Mix]
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[Verse 1: Ian Curtis] / 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 / [
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Evelyn Evelyn – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard / And ambitions are low / When resentment rides high / And emotions won't grow / And we're changing our ways / Taking different roads / [Chorus
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Squarepusher – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard, ambitions are low / Resentment rides high, emotions won't grow / We're changing our ways, taking different roads / [Chorus] / Love will tear us
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José González – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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This is a cover of the song by Joy Division. José strips the song to its barest chord progression and melody, then builds from it, to create his version.
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Swans – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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This is a cover of the 1980 Joy Division single of the same name. It was released in two different versions, one being the “Red Version” with Michael Gira on vocals. The other
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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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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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June Tabor & Oysterband – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard / And ambitions are low / And resentment rides high / And emotions won't grow / And we're changing our ways / Taking different roads / [Chorus
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Moonspell – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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When the routine bites hard / And ambitions are low / And the resentment rides high / But emotions won't grow / And were changing our ways / Taking different roads / Then love
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Fall Out Boy – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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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Bush – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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 / Then love, love will
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Paul Young – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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 / And love, love will tear us
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City of Souls – LOVE WILL TEAR US APART
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard / And ambitions are low / When resentment rides high / And emotions won't grow / Yet we're changing our ways / Running different roads / And
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Nouvelle Vague – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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 / Then love, love will
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Susanna and the Magical Orchestra & Susanna – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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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Stanton Miranda – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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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Broken Social Scene – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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 / Love, love will tear us
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Alabama 3 – Love will tear us apart
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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 / Then love, love will
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Nerina Pallot – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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 / Love, love will tear
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Demo)
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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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New Order – Age of Consent
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“Age of Consent” is the opening track of the band’s second album Power, Corruption & Lies. The narrator of “Age of Consent” wants to leave a relationship but he nor his partner
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Vocal Few – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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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 / Love, love will tear us
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AJJ – Love Will Fuck Us Apart
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The tenth track off of Can’t Maintain, the title is a play on the 1979 song “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by new-wave band Joy Division. The title of their song, though, is an ironic
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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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Chuzpe – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard and ambitions are low / And resentment ride high, but emotions won't grow / And we're changing our ways, taking different roads / [Chorus] / And
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R Plus (Rapper) (Ft. Amelia Fox) – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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When routine bites hard / And ambitions are low / When resentment rides high / And emotions won't grow / And we're changing our ways / Taking different roads / Love, love will tear
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Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart Samples
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See all of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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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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Tom Odell – Loving You Will Be The Death Of Me
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[Verse 1] / Jesus Christ, look at us in the toilet making love / We should slow down / I don't know how / Jesus Christ, look at us using each other like a drug / We should slow
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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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