New Order - As It Is When It Was

I've kept my head against the wall

I've been this way for so long now

You weren't exactly falling over yourself

When last I saw you

Well I always thought

We'd get along like a house on fire

Until you told me that I'd have to go

How can someone like you work that slow

Whatever you think of me

You listen hard and I will make you see

Whatever you think of me

You listen hard and I will make you see

I don't feel anything no more

This state of grace is consuming me

I'm not grown up and I am not a boy

I feel no pain and I feel no joy

Well I always thought

We'd get along like a house on fire

In those days when the sun was warm

I ran in the street where I was born

Whatever you think of me

You listen hard and I will make you see

Whatever you think of me

You listen hard and I will make you see

The streets are so empty at this time of night

I'd rather walk on my own than fight

In a world where I'd forgotten you

I found myself forgotten, too

That's the danger of believing books

And all the lies of those thieves and crooks

We sing intellectual songs of love

From a stolen pen to a velvet glove.

New Order - State Of The Nation

You can walk, or you can run

You don't have to be someone

I went on a summer cruise

Upon an ocean born to lose

My brother said that he was dead

I saw his face and shook my head

Can you see where we can be

We're losing our blood in the sea

'Cause it's the state of the nation, state of the nation

That's holding our salvation

Yes, it's the state of the nation, state of the nation

That's holding our salvation

Oh, the state of the nation, state of the nation

Is causing deprivation

Oh, the state of the nation, state of the nation

It's causing death inflation

From my home I travel far

I drove in my stolen car

When it broke down, I kissed the ground

'Cause I don't kiss when you're around

I don't find that I have been

The portrait of an only son

If that's the case, then who could tell

Where my story had begun?

'Cause it's the state of the nation, state of the nation

That's holding our salvation

Yes, it's the state of the nation, state of the nation

That's holding our salvation

Oh, the state of the nation, state of the nation

Is causing deprivation

Oh, the state of the nation, state of the nation

It's causing death inflation

State of the nation

State of the nation

State of the nation

State of the nation

State of the nation

State of the nation

State of the nation

State of the nation

New Order - Weirdo

The other day I came across
Someone I knew and he was lost
I don't care what we have done
You never will believe it
It's a life that's made for me
Where I can be completely free
So long as I obey this sound
That echoes all around

Just like the ocean or the sea
Just like the blood that burns in me
Someone like you cannot be free
Just like a lock without a key
Just like the ocean or the sea
Just like the blood that burns in me
Someone like you cannot be free
Just like a lock without a key

Just like the ocean or the sea
Just like the blood that burns in me
Someone like you cannot be free
Just like a lock without a key
Just like the ocean or the sea
Just like the blood that burns in me
Someone like you cannot be free
Just like a lock without a key

So, I thought this cannot be
There's someone else in here with me
I don't care where we have been
You never will believe it
I know you and you know me
And we're as happy as we can be
I know where this world belongs
It don't mean much to me

Just like the ocean or the sea
Just like the blood that burns in me
Someone like you cannot be free
Just like a lock without a key

New Order - All Day Long

This is a song about an innocent
Who died at the hands of a desperate man
He trusted those who he thought he knew
He trusted those who he looked up to
I'll never forget the joy in his face
He'd laugh and he'd cry and he'd ruin my place
He'd drive me crazy, and he'd drive me wild
I used to scream and shout all day long

Now I hope you know this song
Is about a child who now has gone
And other children like him, too
Abused and used by what adults do
So don't tell me about politics
Or all the problems of our economics
When you can't look after what you can't own
You scream and shout all day long

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

Every time I think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine but it's a problem I find
Living a life that I can't leave behind

There's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of a fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
While every day my confusion grows

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good
I'm feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way I just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday

I'm not sure what this could mean
I don't think you're what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You'll say the words that I can't say