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Written by awneitsch on September 22, 2021

ISOLATION – JOY DIVISION

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IN FEAR EVERY DAY, EVERY EVENING

HE CALLS HER ALOUD FROM ABOVE

CAREFULLY WATCHED FOR A REASON

PAINSTAKING DEVOTION AND LOVE

SURRENDERED TO SELF PRESERVATION

FROM OTHERS WHO CARE FOR THEMSELVES

A BLINDNESS THAT TOUCHES PERFECTION

BUT HURTS JUST LIKE ANYTHING ELSE

ISOLATION, ISOLATION, ISOLATION

MOTHER I TRIED PLEASE BELIEVE ME

I’M DOING THE BEST THAT I CAN

I’M ASHAMED OF THE THINGS I’VE BEEN PUT THROUGH

I’M ASHAMED OF THE PERSON I AM

ISOLATION, ISOLATION, ISOLATION

BUT IF YOU COULD JUST SEE THE BEAUTY

THESE THINGS I COULD NEVER DESCRIBE

THESE PLEASURES A WAYWARD DISTRACTION

THIS IS MY ONE LUCKY PRIZE

ISOLATION, ISOLATION, ISOLATION

‘ISOLATION’ WAS PROBABLY THE MOST PROPHETIC SONG PUT OUT BY JOY DIVISION. IT HINTED AT THE STATE OF IAN CURTIS’ MIND FOR MUCH OF HIS YOUNG LIFE. THERE IS IRONY IN HIS WORDS THAT DESCRIBE ISOLATION AS BOTH TORTURE AND PLEASURE. THERE IS PAIN IN BOTH SHYNESS, SEPARATION AND SEGREGATION WHETHER SELF IMPOSED OR NOT.

THERE IS A CERTAIN PEACE OR PLEASURE THAT COMES WITH ISOLATION. ACCEPTANCE IS THE ‘WONDERFUL PRIZE’. MAKING PEACE WITH ONE’S PERCEIVED FAILINGS BEFORE ONE’S FATE CAN VERY WELL THE ‘THE RAPTURE’. IT’S THE GIVING IN OR THE GIVING UP THAT BRINGS EXQUISITE RELIEF, THAT SOMEONE MIGHT TAKE THAT LAST HIT OF ADDICTIVE DRUG OR GIVE IN TO SOME POLITICALLY COERCED, FATAL POISON.

EVENTUALLY, DESPERATELY LONELY OR PEOPLE LIVING IN CONSTANT FEAR WILL GIVE IN TO SEGREGATION, SEPARATION, OPPRESSION AND DEATH.

ISOLATION, ISOLATION, ISOLATION

PERHAPS NOT ALL OF US.

BEST NOT ALL OF US.

HOPE NOT ALL OF US.

NEW ORDER WAS WHAT REFORMED AFTER IAN CURTIS KILLED HIMSELF.

THEY WERE GOOD TOO!

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