Joy Division - Warsaw Album Lyrics
Joy Division Lyrics
Warsaw Lyrics
- The Drawback (or All of this for You)
- Leaders of Men
- They Walked in Line
- Failures
- Novelty
- No Love Lost
- Transmission
- Living in the Ice Age
- Interzone
- Warsaw
- Shadowplay
- As You Said
The Drawback (or All of this for You) Lyrics
Seen the troubles and the evils of this world
Born from some mother's womb --
All dressed in uniforms so fine
Don't speak with shameless face
When the people listen to you don't you
So long sitting here --
Radio live -- transmission -- Radio --
Seen the real atrocities, buried in the sand
Brrroooh! (2) Brrr-oo-oo-ooh! (2) Broooh!
I was there in the backstage
To the centre of the city where all roads
(instrumental)
I've seen the stretches between
godliness and sin
I've had the promise and confessions
of true faith
And the hypocrisy that always lies within
And they left it for you --
all of this for you (2)
I've seen the products
and the other world of waste
I've seen the colour of corruption
deep within
I've seen them lose themselves
in dignity and taste
To see in black and white and through
to black again
And they left it all for you --
all of this for you (2)
And they left it for you --
all of this for you
And they left it for you -- everything for you
I've seen the troubles and the evils
of this world
I've seen the ones who can succeed
but always lose
I've seen what's left
of poor technology and work
And watched them dying as they
leave their ship of fools
And they left it for you --
all of this for you
Leaders of Men Lyrics
Just like any other room
Made a promise for a new life --
Made a victim out of your life
When your time's on the door --
And you trip on the floor
And you feel you can touch --
All the noise is too much
And the seeds that are sown --
Are no longer your own
Just a minor operation --
To force the final ultimatum
A thousand words are spoken loud
Reach that gun to fool the crowds
When you walk down the street and the
sound that's so sweet
And you wish you could hide --
Maybe go for a ride
To some picture arcade --
Where the future's not made
A nightmare situation --
Infiltrate imagination
Smacks of past holy wars --
Fight a war with broken laws
The leaders of men --
Born out of your frustration
The leaders of men --
Just a strange infatuation
The leaders of men -- Made
a promise for a new life
No saviour for our sakes
To crush the atrocities of hate
Self-induced manipulation
To crush all thoughts
of mass-salvation
They Walked in Line Lyrics
They drank and killed to pass the time
Wearing the shame
of all their crimes
With measured steps they walked in line
They walked in line (8)
They carried pictures
of their wives
And number tags
to prove their lies
And made it through the whole machine
With dirty hearts and hands washed clean
They walked in line (8)
Full of a glory never seen
They made it through the whole machine
Turn never questioned anymore
Hypnotic trance
they never saw
Failures Lyrics
A failure of modern man
To the centre of luck he dived
Has a hold on a nose
so red
Throw up in a hollow field
Break the image of your father's son
Drawn to an inner field
He was thought of as the only one (2)
He no longer denies
All the failures of the modern man
No, no, no we can't make sides
Sees the failures of the modern man
Wise words and sympathy
Tell the story of our history
New strength gives a real touch
Sense of reason make it all too much
With a strange fatality
Broke the spirits of a lesser man
Some other race could see
In his way he was the only one (2)
He no longer denies
All the failures of the modern man
No, no, no we can't make sides
See the failures of the modern man
Now that it's right to decide
In his time he was the total man
Taken from Caesar's side
Kept in silence just to prove
us wrong
He no longer denies
All the failures of the modern man
No, no, no we can't make sides
Sees the failures of the modern man
All the failures of the modern man
Novelty Lyrics
know it means a lot 'cos you've got to
work so hard for everything you've got
Can't rest on your laurels now
Not when you've got none
You'll find yourself in a gutter
Right back where you came from
Someone told me being in the know
is the main thing
We all need the security
that belonging brings
Can't stand on your own in these times
against all the odds
I don't want to act uncool
at all the other sods
You slap your back
and pretend you knew about all the things
that we were gonna do
What ya gonna do,
what ya gonna do when it's over?
You're all on your own now,
Don't you think that's a shame
But you're the only one
responsible that's to blame
When ya gonna grow up and act,
and be yourself 'cos pretty soon
you'll find yourself nailed to the shelf
Grab it while you can, but don't
ever relax, 'cos there's always
someone gonna stab your back
What ya gonna do, what ya gonna do
No Love Lost Lyrics
Didn't here the warning
Waiting for the tape to run
We've been moving round
in different situations
Knowing that the time would come,
Just to see you torn apart --
I need it (3)
Two-way mirror in the hall
They like to watch everything you do
Transmitters hidden in the wall
So they know everything you say is true
Turn it on -- don't turn it on -- Turn it on
You've been seeing things in darkness --
running, learning
Hoping that the truth will pass
No life underground wasting,
never changing
Wishing that this thing won't last
To never see you show your age
To watch the feeling fades
I need it (3)
Transmission Lyrics
live transmission
Listen to the silence, let it ring on
Eyes dark, relentless, frightened of the sun
We would have a fine time living in the night
Left a blind instruction,
take away our sight
We would go on as though nothing
was wrong
And hide from these days to remain all alone
Staying in the same place,
staring all the time
Touching from a distance, further all the time
Dance, dance, dance, dance,
dance to the radio (4)
And I could call out when the going
gets tough
And we could make contact if we just
don't look
No language, just sound
is all that I know
We'll synchronize love to the beat
of the show
And we could dance, dance, dance, dance,
dance to the radio (4)
Living in the Ice Age Lyrics
Stockpiled safety for a few --
we stand holding hands I --
living in the iceage (2)
Nothing will hold, nothing will fit
Into the cold, no smile on your lips
Living in the iceage (3)
Searching for another way,
see them hide behind the door
Live in holes and disused shafts
hoped a little more
I -- living in the iceage (2)
Nothing will hold, nothing will fit
Into the cold, no smile on your lips
Living in the iceage (3 4)
Interzone Lyrics
I walked through the city limits
Attracted by some force within it
Around the corner where a puppet lay
A wire fence
where the children play
And I was looking for a friend of mine
Yeah, looking for a friend of mine
The car screeched
in the sand and dust
Metallic blue turned red with rust
Still defied all by guiding you
Turned on to a night with you
And I was looking for a friend of mine
Yeah, looking for a friend of mine
Down the dark street,
the houses looked the same
I was walking round and round
you nailed me to a train
Had to get away, trying to find a way
To get out -- Brrrooh! (2) Brrooh! (3)
Lots of windows stand in a row
The light shined -- a deadly glow
No place to stop,
no place to go
I guess they died some time ago
And I was looking for some friends of mine
Yeah, I was looking for some friends of mine
Warsaw Lyrics
when first light came around
I grew up like a changeling
to wait the first time around
I could see all the weakness
I could pick all the faults
But I concede all the faith-tests,
just a stick in your throat 3 - 1 - G (3)
I'm around in your soundtrack,
to mirror all that you've done
To find the right side of reason
to kill the three lies for one
I could see all the cold facts,
I could see through your eyes
All this don't make no contact
no matter how hard I try
3 - 1 - G (3)
I could still hear the footsteps,
I could see only walls
All this don't make no contact,
here, hearing no at all
I could see contradiction,
I could give up the right
Just to live in the past tense,
To make believe you were right!
3 - 1 - G (3)
3 - 5 - 0 - 1 - 2 - 5
Shadowplay Lyrics
meet looking for you
To the depths of the ocean
where all hopes sank searching for you
Moving through the silence without motion
waiting for you
In a room with no window in the corner,
I found truth
In the shadowplay, acting out your
own death, knowing more
As the assassins all grouped
in four lines,
Dancing on the floor,
And with cold steel, odour on their bodies,
made a move to connect
I could only stare in disbelief
as the crowds all left
I did everything, everything you wanted to
I let them use you --
for their own ends
To the centre of the city in the night
waiting for you (2)
As You Said Lyrics