LUMPENPROLETARIAT—When routine bites hard and ambitions are low, and resentment rides high, but emotions won’t grow, and we’re changing our ways, taking different roads, then love will tear us apart, again…

—Messina

“Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division

When routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And resentment rides high
But emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads

Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold?
You’ve turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect runs so dry
Yet there’s still this appeal
That we’ve kept through our lives

But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

You cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
And there’s a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can’t function no more

But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again

Songwriters:  SUMNER, BERNARD / McFADDEN, GENE / HOOK, PETER / WHITEHEAD, JOHN / CURTIS, IAN KEVIN / MORRIS, STEPHEN PAUL DAVID / COHEN, JERRY ALLEN

“Love Will Tear Us Apart” lyrics © Mijac Music, Universal Music Publishing Ltd., Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

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[This back-dated article was published, en sanctuarium, Monday, June 8, 2015.]