New Order

New Order

A little something about New Order
In March of 1980, on the heels of a European tour, the dark, post-punk, Bowie-fan band Joy Division recorded their second album and made plans for a US tour. Before either the album was released or the tour commenced, led singer Ian Curtis - dealing with a failed marriage and suffering health problems - hung himself. The album, "Closer," was released later that year, and a single, "Love Will Tear Us Apart," became the bands biggest hit, albeit posthumously. The remaining trio of Steve Morris, Bernard Sumner (aka Bernard Dicken) and Peter Hook was left to pick up the pieces without their singer/songwriter, and with the new beginning came a new name, "New Order." They picked up keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, and within a few months the new line-up released their first single. The fears of Joy Division fans who were wary of the new band were put to rest with the release of their very Joy Division-esque debut album, "Movement," but from that point on New Order's music became less melancholy and more geared for the clubs. In 1983 the band released the electronic dance track "Blue Monday," a 12-inch single which became their first top ten hit. Today both "Blue Monday" and "Bizarre Love Triangle" from their 1986 "Brotherhood" album remain club favorites and are routinely mentioned to be among the best 'modern rock' tracks of the '80s. The band still tours and releases new work occasionally, and singer Sumner continues to work with Smiths guitarist Johny Marr on side project Electronic

Lyrics featured below: "Blue Monday", "Bizarre Love Triangle", "True Faith"

Blue Monday

How does it feel to treat me like you do?When you've your hands upon meAnd told me who you areI thought I was mistakenI thought I heard your wordsTell me, how do I feelTell me now, How do I feelThose who came before meLived through their vocationsFrom the past until completionThey'll turn away no moreAnd I still find it so hardTo say what I need to sayBut I'm quite sure that you'll tell meJust how I should feel todayI see a ship in the harborI can and shall obeyBut if it wasn't for your misfortuneI'd be a heavenly person todayAnd I thought I was mistakenAnd I thought I heard you speakTell me how do I feelTell me now, how should I feelNow I stand here waiting...I thought I told you to leave meWhile I walked down to the beachTell me how does it feelWhen your heart grows cold
Bizarre Love TriangleEvery time I think of youI feel shot right through with a bolt of blueIt's no problem of mine but it's a problem I findLiving a life that I can't leave behindBut there's no sense in telling meThe wisdom of the fool won't set you freeBut that's the way that it goes and it's what nobody knowsWell every day my confusion growsEvery time I see you fallingI get down on my knees and prayI'm waiting for that final momentYou say the words that I can't sayI feel fine and I feel goodI'm feeling like I never shouldWhenever I get this way I just don't know what to sayWhy can't we be ourselves like we were yesterdayI'm not sure what this could meanI don't think you're what you seemI do admit to myself that if I hurt someone elseThen I'll never see just what we're meant to beEvery time I see you fallingI get down on my knees and prayI'm waiting for that final momentYou say the words that I can't say




True Faith  (from the Michael J. Fox movie, "Bright Lights, Big City").

I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
I don't care 'cause I'm not there
And I don't care if I'm here tomorrow
Again and again I've taken too much
Of the things that cost you too much
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

When I was a very small boy,
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we've grown up together
They're afraid of what they see
That's the price that we all pay
Our valued destiny comes to nothing
I can't tell you where we're going
I guess there was just no way of knowing
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...

I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold on me
I get this feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty
The chances are we've gone too far
You took my time and you took my money
Now I fear you've left me standing
In a world that's so demanding
I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the drug that brings me near
To the childhood I lost, replaced by fear
I used to think that the day would never come
That my life would depend on the morning sun...