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Isolation Lyrics

Artist: Joy Division
Album: Closer

In fear every day,m 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.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

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.

Isolation, isolation, isolation.

But if you could just see the beauty,
These things I could never describe,
These pleasures a wayward distraction,
This is my one lucky prize.

Isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation, isolation.

Comments/Interpretations

by Dwight on 6/11/2008 7:48pm
BAD ASS!!!! HAIL CANADA

by Gwen... Viva Los Angeles!!! on 9/19/2008 12:28am
BRILLIANT!!! Such a travesty he's not here to see how he changed music history like no other artist has ever done....

by sunkittys on 9/26/2008 10:23pm
dame amazing what a great song and what a great singer tobad he was a mest up person with a mest of life but who dosent have one of thoughs

by bad transmossion on 9/29/2008 12:41am
fucking exellent

by Dave 1968 on 10/7/2008 12:11am
Ian Curtis - The Mancunian Poet

by B.X. on 10/23/2008 7:17am
One of his greatest. Isolation says everything.

by Hester on 12/1/2008 3:22am
Curtis RIP

by dj saiz on 1/10/2009 5:24am
one of my favorites of Joy Division !!! That's just a perfect song. Here are all the ingredients for a fuckin' good pop/rock/newwave song ! Thanks to Martin Hannet's magical feeling to record a song with new technologies and thanks to Curtis'fuckin trippin voice and soul, we've got 4 minutes of a nostalgic masterpiece from Manchester, UK.
Even my cat likes it !!!!!!!!!!
;-)

by Callum on 3/17/2009 5:13pm
Wow, great lyrics

by Hoyos on 5/27/2009 2:24am
great fuckin song

by Judith on 6/14/2009 4:10pm
Curtis wrote the best lyrics, better than Lou Reed, better than anyone.

by Johnny Gonzo on 7/27/2009 2:56pm
@Judith - damn fucking straight. Joy D. rule the fucking roost in my opinion! Closer is closer to a masterpiece than any Smiths, Bob Dylan or any other record ever produced in history. I believe it should be sealed in a vacuum container and shot into space along with beethoven, van gogh amongst others for posterity, should this world be destroyed and nothing remains...

by Phil E on 8/22/2009 3:46am
Just great!

by Danielle on 10/12/2009 10:42am
@Johnny Gonzo

No need to knock The Smiths...it's a different arena, man.

by Me on 10/19/2009 11:29am
Are you threatening me?

by joao gilberto on 1/8/2010 6:31pm
"how he changed music history like no other artist has ever done"

??????

beethoven or something?

by yatesy on 7/26/2010 12:28am
Joy Divisions best song by far.

R.I.P Ian

by joviboy on 10/4/2010 11:34am
i can relate.. curtis here i come

by MrCultured on 1/19/2011 11:21am
Is it not "this is my one consolation. this is my one lucky prize"? Amazing song anyway, depth of the lyrics is endless

by cultureshock on 1/30/2011 8:34pm
this song makes me sad but i love it.

by Charra on 3/17/2011 8:20pm
Love love LOVE this
:'(
R.I.P. Ian!

by J.D. on 3/27/2011 8:33am
Joy Division simply ROCKS!! One of my favourite bands for sure! It's a pity their career was so short. :(
Ian Curtis we will always live in our hearts...

by LAURENT on 1/12/2012 11:39am
I JUST LOVE JOY DIVISION!!!!!!!!!SOOO GOOOD!!!!!!!! ROCK ON !!!! AND KURT COBAIN!!! IM SO STUPID!!!!!!!!!!

by Faust on 5/9/2012 5:18pm
I'm not really an isolationist person, but this song rally hit me hard. It was like if I knew exactly what he ment when singing it. Joy Division rocks!!

by malicen on 8/30/2012 4:48pm
This song often brings me to tears because I am emotionally...disabled. It' a beautiful song.

by LattneyB. on 9/8/2012 4:22pm
I'm not sad or anything, and I'm not here to put down other great artists in comparison to Joy Division. I just like the song.

by Hellwyck on 1/30/2013 3:33pm
Ian curtis wasn't Mancunian, he was from Stretford (Lancashire/Trafford).
As a Mancunian myself, I should know.