Joy Division (Simon Joyner cover)

Well I'm not sure if it's the proper version, I have a live version, and he screws up at "Still can't keep his brazen nose from turning" and forgets the next line, (try and find that version if you can, Conor is to DIE for when he messes up there) He starts saying "Sorry, theres a lot of words to this song" and tries again. Then when he still cant get it he says like " and-aw-ah fuck. sorry! sorry wait, wait. I wanna finish this one. I-I'm gonna finish this one." and then he gets the next line and continues. I DIED when I heard it I couldnt breathe. this song is great, and I love the songs they choose to cover, it always ends up sounding amazing.

here's a correctly spelt (and slightly lyrically corrected) version:

that crucial filament is all but spent and soon it will be dark in my basement my heart is waxing the slick floor again hoping i'll slip, and fall in love well, she gave me the choice to remain and rejoice or to recoil and rebel well, papa, this gravity attack yeah, it's a gravity attack and i can't seem to carry, much less bury the past

well, your ex-girlfriend said i was a terrible mess yeah, she's got a real good head on her shoulders when the singer spoke and confessed he didn't really smoke cigarettes, she said her teenage brother smouldered on a hotbed of coal in a sterile white room underneath that joy division poster he moaned papa, he moaned papa, sometimes i gotta vent my spleen! sometimes i gotta vent my spleen when i get shattered in the heart and scattered in the brain

well, all the medicine in these sermons still can't keep his brazen nose from turning and salvation, it may come free of charge but faith always costs him something they say there's nothing as sacred as the blood between brothers when it's pricked from their thumbs and exchanged beneath the covers well, papa, my brother is gone! yeah, my brother is gone!

so would you tell me now how it is i'm supposed to get along?

well, you asked for a chorus but you got a refrain yeah, it's another sad song that moves like a train you can't whistle to it but you can fast-forward through it flick it off your shoulder like dead skin

they say my head on a plate may curve the debate about the unbearable high cost of living but papa, everything falls apart! everything falls apart and the grass will grow as surely as they'll break your heart

There was a band Joy Division, but you already knew that.

I haven't heard this song but i love the band joy division does conor like them.there so good but the lead singer suffered from epilipsy and hung himself in the early 80's.

it's a cover of a simon joyner song, anyway.

Connor Oberst doesn't like music.

well, just what he steals I guess.

Okay, we'll go with that.

Simon Joyner is such an excellent writer, and Conor's voice suits this song so perfectly. Everytime he blurts out "papa..." it gives me chills. If you've heard this cover, you know exactly what I mean. If not, you should hear it; because it's so beautiful.

by the way, does anyone know where i can get hold of the simon joyner version of this song?

i have the live version too, its really good.