JOY DIVISION - TWENTY FOUR HOURS

TWENTY FOUR HOURS

JOY DIVISION

SONGWRITER: EDDIE BOYD

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: CLOSER

LABEL: FACTORY RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1980

Closer is the second and final studio album by English rock band Joy Division. It was released on 18 July 1980 on Factory Records, following the May 1980 suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis. The album was produced by Martin Hannett. After the posthumous release of Joy Division's non-album hit single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in June 1980, the remaining members re-formed as New Order. Today, Closer is widely recognised as one of the major releases of the post-punk era.

Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band consisted of singer Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bass player Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.

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.

Oh how I realised how I wanted time,

Put into perspective, tried so hard to find,

Just for one moment, thought I'd found my way.

Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away.

Excessive flashpoints, beyond all reach,

Solitary demands for all I'd like to keep.

Let's take a ride out, see what we can find,

A valueless collection of hopes and past desires.

I never realised the lengths I'd have to go,

All the darkest corners of a sense I didn't know.

Just for one moment, I heard somebody call,

Looked beyond the day in hand, there's nothing there at all.

Now that I've realised how it's all gone wrong,

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.