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Isolation (Live at Birmingham University)

Release date: 8th October 1981

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"Isolation (Live at Birmingham University)" is a track by Joy Division, from the album Still, released 8th October 1981. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Joy Division.

Lyrics

Isolation (Live at Birmingham University)

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]

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

[Chorus]

Isolation

Isolation

Isolation

[Verse 2]

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

[Chorus]

Isolation

Isolation

Isolation

[Verse 3]

But if you could just see the beauty

These things I could never describe

These pleasures a wayward distraction

This is my one consolation

This is my wonderful prize

[Chorus]

Isolation

Isolation

Isolation

Isolation

[Spoken]

Thank you

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Track details

From Still

1981

Album

Release year

1981

—Exercise One
—A Means to an End (Live At Birmingham University)
—The Sound of Music
—Ceremony (Live at Birmingham University)
—Disorder (Live at Birmingham University)
—Ice Age
—Decades (Live At Birmingham University)
—Isolation (Live at Birmingham University)
—New Dawn Fades (Live at Birmingham University)
—Digital (Live at Birmingham University)
—Passover (Live at Birmingham University)
—The Kill
—Something Must Break
—The Only Mistake
—Transmission (Live at Birmingham University)
—Shadowplay (Live at Birmingham University)
—Twenty Four Hours (Live at Birmingham University)
—Sister Ray (Live at the Moonlight Club)
—Walked in Line

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