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Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours (Live in Preston, Lancashire) (1999) | Track profile | Dork

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Preston 28 February 1980
Twenty Four Hours (Live in Preston, Lancashire)

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Twenty Four Hours (Live in Preston, Lancashire)

Release date: 24th May 1999

From Preston 28 February 1980

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"Twenty Four Hours (Live in Preston, Lancashire)" is a track by Joy Division, from the album Preston 28 February 1980, released 24th May 1999. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Joy Division.

Lyrics

Twenty Four Hours (Live in Preston, Lancashire)

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]

So this is permanence

Love's shattered pride

What once was innocence

Turned on its side

A cloud hangs over me

Marks every move

Deep in the memory

Of what once was love

[Chorus]

Oh, how I realised

How I wanted time

Put into perspective

Tried so hard to find

Just for one moment

Thought I heard a call

Looked into the day in hand

I saw it slip away

[Verse 2]

Excessive flash points

Beyond all reach

Solitary demands for

All I'd like to keep

Let's take a ridе out

See what we can find

A valueless collеction of

Hopes and past desires

[Chorus]

Oh, how I realised

How I wasted time

Look beyond the [?]

Tried so hard to find

Just for one moment

I thought I had my way

[?]

I saw it fade away

[Verse 3]

Now that I've realised

How it's all gone wrong

I gotta find some therapy

This treatment takes too long

Deep in the heart of

Where sympathy held sway

Gotta find my destiny

Before it gets too late

[Instrumental Outro]

[Spoken]

Some slight problems

*Audience hecklers*

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Track details

From Preston 28 February 1980

1999

Album

Preston 28 February 1980

Release year

1999

—Incubation (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—Disorder (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—Heart and Soul (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—Shadowplay (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—The Eternal (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—Twenty Four Hours (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—Warsaw (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—Wildness (Live in Preston, Lancashire)
—Transmission (Live in Preston, Lancashire)

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