Joy Division was a post-punkband formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. The band dissolved in May 1980 after the suicide of its lead singer, Ian Curtis. The remaining members reformed as New Orderand they have gone on to achieve much critical and commercial success. With their dark, cavernous sound and their use of synthesizers and electronics, Joy Division are considered the pioneering band of the post-punk movement of the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Though they found only modest success during their career, and released only two studio albums, Joy Division have since been acclaimed as one of the most inventive, evocative and influential groups of their era; Thom Jurek writes "They left just a small bit of music and an echo that still rings".
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Joy Division
I've seen the troubles and the evils,
Of this world.
I've seen the stretches between,
Godliness and sin.
I've had the promise and confessions,
Of true faith,
And the hypocrisy that always lies within,
And they left it for you -
All of this for you,
All of this for you.
I've seen the products,
And the other world of waste.
I've seen the colour of corruption,
Deep within,
I've seen them lose themselves,
In dignity and taste,
To see in black and white and through,
To black again.
And they left it all for you -
All of this for you,
All of this for you.
And they left it for you -
All of this for you.
And they left it for you -
Everything for you.
I've seen the troubles and the evils,
Of this world,
I've seen the ones who can succeed,
But always lose,
I've seen what's left,
Of poor technology and work,
And watched them dying as they,
Leave their ship of fools.
And they left it for you -
All of this for you.