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Crystal by New Order

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New Order

Crystal

Release date: 17th June 2001

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About This Track

'Crystal' by New Order is an Alternative track from 'Get Ready' (2001). The lyrics cast the narrator as fragile and easily broken, switching between seasonal drift and a resignation that slips into anger. There is a theme of being left behind, praised and then forgotten, alongside a relationship confession that speaks of betrayal, then a turn towards love described in tactile terms, “like honey”. The overall mood is raw and self-reproachful, with frustration pressing through lines that keep asking for clarity from someone who seems not to care.

"Crystal" is a single by New Order, from the album Get Ready, released 17th June 2001. The track is 6:50 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about New Order.

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New Order

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Lyrics

Crystal

We're like crystal, we break easy
I'm a poor man, if you leave me
I'm applauded, then forgotten
It was summer, now it's autumn

I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage (just tell me what I've got to do)
With a girl I betrayed

Here comes love, it's like honey
You can't buy it with money
You're not alone any more (whenever you're here with me)
You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core

We're like crystal, it's not easy
With your love, you could feed me
Every man (every man) and every woman (and every woman)
Needs someone, so keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming

I don't know what to say, you don't care anyway
I'm a man in a rage (just tell me what I've got to do)
With a girl I betrayed

Here comes love, it's like honey
You can't buy it with money
You're not alone any more (whenever you're here with me)
You shock me to the core, you shock me to the core

Keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming, keep it coming
Keep it coming

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Get Ready
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New Order
18th June 2001
Track number
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Release year
2001
  1. 1Crystal
    6:50
  2. 260 Miles an Hour
    4:34
  3. 3Turn My Way
    5:05
  4. 4Vicious Streak
    5:40

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris
    Producer
    Steve Osborne
    Engineer
    Andrew Robinson (UK), Bruno Ellingham, Jan “Stan” Kybert, Matt Fields
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    Pete Davis
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