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
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold?
Turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed?
Our respect run 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
Do you cry out in your sleep?
All my failings exposed
Gets a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
And it's something so good
Just can't function no more?
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 up apart again Writer/s: Bernard Sumner, Ian Kevin Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Paul David Morris
Publisher: Universal
Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
Love Will Tear Us Apart came out on June 27th, 1980. The song was a result of Joy Division’s dark sense of humor (Excess of sorrow, laughs, excess of joy…) that was a response to the Neil Sedaka
song “Love Will Keep Us Together” made famous by Captain and Tennille as a hit single just five years prior. In fact, the song was recorded at Strawberry Studios, the same place Sedaka had recorded the song “Love Will Keep Us Together” back in 1973. 8 Jan 1980. 40 years ago today Joy Division recorded ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ at Pennine Studios, Oldham. Bernard Sumner & producer Martin Hannett, and Stephen Morris photos by Daniel Meadows. Ian Curtis pic by Alan Hempsall. They later re-recorded the song at Strawberry Studios pic.twitter.com/OJVDd1PwLD — Dave Haslam (@Mr_Dave_Haslam)
January 8, 2020
The song’s lyrics, in retrospect, were an obvious reference to singer Ian Curtis’ failing marriage to his wife Deborah—and would later become the ill-fated singer’s epitaph upon his gravestone.
Wikipedia claims that live—”Love Will Tear Us Apart” debuted on tour with The Buzzcocks, but curious enough, the song does not show up on live sets In the UK in September 1979, but it was performed at the infamous Plan K show in Brussels on October 16th, 1979—with the show being promoted by Annik Honoré, Cabaret Voltaire performing, and William Burroughs in attendance.
Love Will Tear Us Apart Peel Session
After the Peel Session version performed on November 26th, 1979, the song was officially recorded at Pennine Studios, Oldham, on January 8th, 1980, along with the B side, “These Days”. This version had a very dance-like feel, with Peter Hook’s Bass stronger, and bringing more to the forefront, and with Ian Curtis’ vocals softer yet harmonizing more during the chorus. This version was similar to the version the band played live:
Love Will Tear Us Apart Pennine Studios Version
Ian Curtis and Martin Hannett, however, disliked the Pennine version of the song, so the band reconvened at Strawberry Studios, Stockport in March to re-record it with a more “Frank Sinatra” style vocal (according to Deborah Curtis in her book “Touching From a Distance”.) This new version is the one we all know, and was later recut with a promotional video that was initially recorded on April 28th, 1980, just 3 weeks prior to the tragic suicide of frontman Ian Curtis.
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