Ian Curtis supposedly had various flashbacks to a previous life, which could well be what the first two lines are refering too. Elsewhere, in general the severe epilepsy and general schitzophrenic personality Curtis had would have created many delusions and distorted his reality. In this song hes talking about these other realities intruding on his everyday life.
Oh and by the way for those of you insulting Nine inch nails, you realize the reason Morris' drums sound perfect is that Martin Hannet dubbed every drum sound indivisually to create the metronome effect. so thats basically synthetic as well - not that theres anything wrong with this technique, the production was one of the things that made Joy Division so unique and brilliant.
This song always struck me as being about schizophrenia. Essentially the voices are mocking him and telling him things he'd rather not have heard. The voices are the dead souls (and perhaps recognized to be the very cause of Ian's death) in this case.
This song always struck me as being about schizophrenia. Essentially the voices are mocking him and telling him things he'd rather not have heard. The voices are the dead souls (and perhaps recognized to be the very cause of Ian's death) in this case.
Ian Curtis supposedly had various flashbacks to a previous life, which could well be what the first two lines are refering too. Elsewhere, in general the severe epilepsy and general schitzophrenic personality Curtis had would have created many delusions and distorted his reality. In this song hes talking about these other realities intruding on his everyday life.
Oh and by the way for those of you insulting Nine inch nails, you realize the reason Morris' drums sound perfect is that Martin Hannet dubbed every drum sound indivisually to create the metronome effect. so thats basically synthetic as well - not that theres anything wrong with this technique, the production was one of the things that made Joy Division so unique and brilliant.
This song always struck me as being about schizophrenia. Essentially the voices are mocking him and telling him things he'd rather not have heard. The voices are the dead souls (and perhaps recognized to be the very cause of Ian's death) in this case.
This song always struck me as being about schizophrenia. Essentially the voices are mocking him and telling him things he'd rather not have heard. The voices are the dead souls (and perhaps recognized to be the very cause of Ian's death) in this case.