Listen to Ian Curtis

Live performance from 2002

Lyrics:

We listened to the open sound your voice projected on the radio dial
Lie with me I said and lying's what she always did and always will.
All these thoughts keep leading back to him.

And no signs from Cinema.
No city skyline.
No paper scraps and no unfolding at five o' clock
Your voice skips as it always did and always will
All these thoughts keep leading back

It's the light from your sunless room
Scattered in pieces all around you.
Recession of these thoughtless forms
Reciting every line as a way of life and a way of death in time
We heard Ian Curtis kill himself again in your bed.

In these 24 hours we stretched into a room filled with "Heart and Soul."
This is the way.
Step inside and march in the procession of empty hearts.
Love has torn us apart.
It's a part of me a part of you in time we're falling apart together.

About the song:

• The song is about how Geoff Rickly and his ex-girlfriend would listen to Joy Division in bed together. (If anyone has a better source on this, it would be awesome)
• The lyrics have references to many Joy Division songs including Love Will Tear Us Apart, Heart and Soul, Twenty Four Hours, Atrocity Exhibition and Isolation. If you catch any more, comment.
• The song is about 13 seconds longer on 1999 Summer Tour EP than on Waiting with the lyric "a figure 8, with no hope" missing in the latter. ( Fact credits to @VinylPodcast5 on Twitter)
• This song isn't the only tribute to Ian Curtis/Joy Division Geoff Rickly has written. In 2019 he wrote an article on the 40th anniversary of Unknown Pleasures.
  

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