| New Order – True Faith Lyrics | 22 hours ago |
| Commenting on this song in 2025 feels a little cringy, but Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s cover just popped out in my YouTube feed and I was struck by the feelings and images that the first lines of the chorus recall, and which I never thought of when listening to this song as a kid. The lines are of course “I used to think that the day will never come, I’d see the light in the shade of the morning sun”. Unlike most of the interpretations I read, I believe this is not a metaphor. While - like Bernard - I was never a smackhead, I did live my early twenties as a night creature in the early 90s. The night was a kind of parallel world where real life commitments could be ignored. The biggest fear then was being caught by the first light of the day, which would break the spell and reveal how my life was actually being wasted in pursuing meaningless excitement. We used to live as if the night would never end (“used to think that the day would never come”) and like vampires never allowed the sun to fully rise before retiring in our coffins, at the most I would only see the twilight of down (“the shade of the morning sun”). Glimpsing the world awakening with the morning light was a mixed feeling of anguish and hope, the fear of real life knocking at my door, and the awareness that it was actually the way out of a self-destruction spiral, where the actual morning sun had been replaced by artificial ones (“my morning sun is the drug…”). That hope and awareness is the “true faith” which helped me survive till the end of the tunnel. | |
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