| Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| If you had lived during the economic depression of the 70's and 80's under margaret thatcher, you would understand these lyrics in a different light. People who listened to it at that time generally thought it was about how the youth had been sacrificed like the youth in a previous era (world war 1) had been sacrificed. Generally that was how the song was taken at the time by many people who were listening to it at the time, myself included. I dont want to sound like I know everything and my interpretation is the only correct one because i would be delighted to stand corrected. However I am trying to put across how people generally talked about the song after listening to it back then. | |
| Joy Division – Isolation Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I believe this is the reason Ian killed himself. This song shows he believed that he loved his wife and if he killed himself he would be watching her in isolation from her life. I think the words say that he believed he would be watching her in the afterlife but turning a blind eye to what she did In fear every day, every evening He calls her aloud from above Carefully watched for a reason Painstaking devotion and love Surrendered to self preservation From others who care for themselves A blindness that touches perfection But hurts just like anything else the next verse is to say sorry to his mother Mother I tried please believe me I'm doing the best that I can I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through I'm ashamed of the person I am then he goes on to say that he feels death would be a beautiful thing if he reaches the afterlife But if you could just see the beauty These things I could never describe These pleasures a wayward distraction This is my wonderful prize I believe isolation is his suicide note |
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| Joy Division – She's Lost Control Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| OMG I feel exactly the same way, its unexplainable. I feel a deep sense of loss whenever I listen to them. Its stupid really I cant explain it to myself because I never even knew Ian Curtis but I was about the same age as him in the 70's and 80's when he was writing those songs. I lived in Birmingham at the time (I was born there) and was at the last gig. I never realised at the time they were so important to music. I also saw New order some time later in birmingham and spoke to bernard after the gig. I never mentioned ian curtis. I didnt think it was right to. I never felt like this before but lately I feel so sorry he died and so sorry to him, i feel a deep sense of loss whenever i listen to their music. Like a family member had died. Its silly I cant explain it but it happens. I think its because I wish he could have lived a full life and not died so young. Life is great and I wish he could have found a way to live | |
| Joy Division – She's Lost Control Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Ian curtis used to work in the social security offices as a clerk and was interviewing a girl who suddenly had an epileptic fit. She appologised to him after and was deeply worried and concerned for the girl and her mother who had acompanied the girl to the offices | |
| The Wedding Present – Dalliance Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The meaning of the word Dalliance is "A brief love affair" in the first two verses the scene is set where a man is having a love affair with a married woman. the lines "And throwing presents straight away Because you could never take them home Always scared what he might say But always leaving me alone " reinforce this and show that the person narrating the story is saddened that all this love they supposedly feel for each other is making him sad because she throws his presents away and goes home to her husband. By the fifth verse he realises that what she calls a "dalliance" has been going on 7 years. we are also aware that she ended the whole thing with her lover and has gone back to her husband and she isnt interested in her lover any more |
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| The Smiths – That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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People think songs have to be linear with one subject and a linear time frame, but they dont. If you look at the first two verses he is thinking about a girl who left him and the hurt he felt. Then the line "why must you kick them when they fall down" is simply what he thinks the person did to him. The last verse is now in the present, and he is driving a girl home, perhaps on his first date with her and he laments that infact regardless of how bad and lonely he felt in the past he just might die with a smile on his face after all, perhaps because they liked each other its that simple. Dont believe me, why not ask morrissey himself |
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