Digital Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Schr4nz 

Cover art for Digital lyrics by Joy Division

wow minor disturbance, i never knew that, but now that you mention it, i think it may have been done purposely (being the final song they ever played). I think it's a 3rd person perspective of himself, first verse, hes describing the point before his seizure. in the second hes describing the depression, and in the third he is detached, he doesnt care so much what happens anymore, and is just fed up with the repetitive cycle that is his life (day in, day out, day in, day out), which is also ingrained into the music, it's a whirlwind of mixed emotions.

At the point he wrote this song, he already made the decision of dying, because of this, he then asks himself not to fade away. Considering his epileptic condition (most likely temporal-lobe epilepsy) he most probably also suffered symptoms of depersonalization: the surreal feeling of being outside of ones own mind/body. This song is ian, telling himself not to fade away from the rest of the world, like he wanted himself to live on after death, i personally think he has. What do you think?

he wrote it in 78 he wasn't thinking about killing himself then i think it could be a bit about drugs As patterns seem to form I feel it cold and warm The shadows start to fall I feel it closing in I feel it closing in Day in, day out Day in, day out Day in, day out Day in, day out Day in, day out

when i said he wrote it i meant the lyrics

He wasn't a drug addict. And if you mean medicine I'm pretty sure it's not about it. His epilepsy started in 1979 and the song was written long before. I think it's just about the heavy atmosphere of Manchester these days, all the days were identical and they merged into a grey mass of gloom. and to emphasize there is a constant kind of refren "day in/day out"