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Joy Division – Shadowplay (Live in Paris) (2001) | Track profile | Dork

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Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979
Shadowplay (Live in Paris)

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Shadowplay (Live in Paris)

Release date: 1st April 2001

From Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979

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"Shadowplay (Live in Paris)" is a track by Joy Division, from the album Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979, released 1st April 2001. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Joy Division.

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Lyrics

Shadowplay (Live in Paris)

[Spoken]

Turn the vocals up please

[Verse 1]

To the centre of the city where all roads meet

Waiting for you

To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank

Searching for you

Oh, I was moving through the silence without motion

Waiting for you

In a room with a window in the corner

I found truth

[Verse 2]

In the shadowplay, acting out your own death

Knowing no more

As the assassins all grouped in four lines

Dancing on the floor

And with cold steel, odour on their bodies

Made a move to connect

But I could only stare in disbelief

As the crowds all left

[Bridge]

I did everything, evеrything I wanted to

I let them usе you for their own ends

To the centre of the city in the night

Waiting for you

To the centre of the city in the night

Waiting for you

[Instrumental Outro]

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From Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979

2001

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Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979

Release year

2001

—Insight (Live in Paris)
—These Days (Live in Paris)
—Twenty Four Hours (Live in Paris)
—Transmission (Live in Paris)
—Atmosphere (Live in Eindhoven)
—Dead Souls (Live in Eindhoven)
—Love Will Tear Us Apart (Live in Paris)
—Day of the Lords (Live in Paris)
—Atrocity Exhibition (Live in Amsterdam)
—New Dawn Fades (Live in Amsterdam)
—Disorder (Live in Paris)
—Passover (Live in Amsterdam)
—Shadowplay (Live in Paris)
—A Means to an End (Live in Paris)
—Digital (Live in Eindhoven)

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