| Joy Division – Candidate Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It is about politics and the reality of power. It is about the corruption of ideals. It is about the loss of innocence. |
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| Joy Division – Heart and Soul Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song has deep nitszchean overtones. It reminds us that "God" (ie our sense of the transcendental) has died inside our occidental soul, leaving a moral void and great confusion, and making us "soulless and bent on destruction", that is the prey of the savagery inherent to the dark parts of our minds. Then "the foundations that lasted the ages are ripped apart a the roots". This is a reference to the barbary of the 20th century, that actually combined incredible technological advancement and moral decay, leading to the excesses of WWII and dictatures. I think that this song is a reflexion on the nature of human psyche, in the light of the 20th century, and on the very real possibility that we could blow ourselves from the face of the earth. |
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| Joy Division – Decades Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Decades reflects the parallel between all the "young men" who were (and are still) the pawns of totalitarian regimes : youg men who were marched to atrocious battlefields or gulags, and who saw their individuality denied, as victims or as butchers. They "knocked on the door of hell's darkest chamber". This sentence evokes both the battle of Stalingrad and the charnel houses of Auschwitz. It is interesting to see how important these themes are to Joy Division (This name was taken from a concentration camp district where jewish women would be forced into prostitution). A great part of their songs are devoted to retracing the effects of savagery and moral void on the helpless human being. |
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