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
Isolation, isolation, isolation
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
Isolation, isolation, isolation
But if you could just see the beauty
These things I could never describe
These pleasures, a wayward distraction
This is my one lucky prize
Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation
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
Isolation, isolation, isolation
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
Isolation, isolation, isolation
But if you could just see the beauty
These things I could never describe
These pleasures, a wayward distraction
This is my one lucky prize
Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation
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I think musically and structurally, this is Joy Division's most upbeat song, the one that most resembles what one might think of as a "normal" song, and the only one that sounds like what other bands were producing at the time(post-punk, electronic), albeit still sounding utterly like JD. I don't say that is a good or bad thing, just that to my ears, it's Joy Division at their most mainstream and tuneful... which makes it all the more ironic that it's called and is about Isolation