I think the green/blue/gray eyes correspond to the various stages of a relationship, chronologically. When the relationship is new and fresh, we all have green eyes.
When the fighting or conflict starts, and someone is hurt, they turn blue.
Finally, the relationship burns itself out, and all that is left are the charcoal, or gray, eyes.
As far as "betrayed by words I've never heard, to hard to say": he can't say "I love you," nor does he stick around long enough to ever hear it said.
Ceremony is by far my favorite New Order song, but this is certainly a close second. When I was growing up in the 80s, these songs made the stuff played on radio seem amateur by comparison. And it was.
This is a singularly catholic song in the sense that it deals with the tension brought about by the desire for "the other" (in this case probably the desire for another lover). The lyric clearly deals with this tension by passing responsability to God ("bolts form above") as a way of resolving the conflicting feelings between familiarity and desire - ie, our feelings are beyond our control. Clearly the protoagonist in the song feels that he will regain control of his feelings on his way home and therefore return to the familiar ("find my soul")...
This is a singularly catholic song in the sense that it deals with the tension brought about by the desire for "the other" (in this case probably the desire for another lover). The lyric clearly deals with this tension by passing responsability to God ("bolts form above") as a way of resolving the conflicting feelings between familiarity and desire - ie, our feelings are beyond our control. Clearly the protoagonist in the song feels that he will regain control of his feelings on his way home and therefore return to the familiar ("find my soul")
Barney's lyrics have a lot of this stuff in them: the apex between desire ("sin" is a term he often uses) and familiarity and normalcy - says to me that there is some serious religious conditioning he is carrying from his childhood............or not!!!
I think the green/blue/gray eyes correspond to the various stages of a relationship, chronologically. When the relationship is new and fresh, we all have green eyes.
When the fighting or conflict starts, and someone is hurt, they turn blue.
Finally, the relationship burns itself out, and all that is left are the charcoal, or gray, eyes.
As far as "betrayed by words I've never heard, to hard to say": he can't say "I love you," nor does he stick around long enough to ever hear it said.
Ceremony is by far my favorite New Order song, but this is certainly a close second. When I was growing up in the 80s, these songs made the stuff played on radio seem amateur by comparison. And it was.
This is a singularly catholic song in the sense that it deals with the tension brought about by the desire for "the other" (in this case probably the desire for another lover). The lyric clearly deals with this tension by passing responsability to God ("bolts form above") as a way of resolving the conflicting feelings between familiarity and desire - ie, our feelings are beyond our control. Clearly the protoagonist in the song feels that he will regain control of his feelings on his way home and therefore return to the familiar ("find my soul")...
This is a singularly catholic song in the sense that it deals with the tension brought about by the desire for "the other" (in this case probably the desire for another lover). The lyric clearly deals with this tension by passing responsability to God ("bolts form above") as a way of resolving the conflicting feelings between familiarity and desire - ie, our feelings are beyond our control. Clearly the protoagonist in the song feels that he will regain control of his feelings on his way home and therefore return to the familiar ("find my soul")
Barney's lyrics have a lot of this stuff in them: the apex between desire ("sin" is a term he often uses) and familiarity and normalcy - says to me that there is some serious religious conditioning he is carrying from his childhood............or not!!!