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 tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives

But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

You cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
And there's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can't function no more

But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again


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Love Will Tear Us Apart Lyrics as written by Ian Kevin Curtis Bernard Sumner

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    We are fragile creatures. We glom on to whatever wish washy form of comfort embraces us. But how could anyone imagine Ian to write in a minor six stanzas a lesson that reveals the limitation and deprivation that lives within the embrace itself. The ultimate horror story. Because we're who we are but who are those around us. The ties that bind are so complicated they corrupt our Own fabric. Our love for one is complicated by any number of others. Again, a perpetual misery machine, we'll never be who you want. Again, we'll never be that idealized other. Again, the one before will damage the one now. Again, it's a cascade of regret and misery, desperate for recognition of who we want to be but can never actualize. Again, the person we present, the person we wish we weren't. Again, I could write ten thousand words on this song. Again, I've failed, sign out desperate sign off. Kevin out. Later guys. And less the saints because you don't exist.

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