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| Interzone | |
This page contains the following information about this Joy Division song:
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| Track history |
| Recorded on May 3rd/4th 1978 at Arrow Studios, Manchester
This version released on Warsaw and on Heart and Soul |
| Recorded in April 1979 at Strawberry Studios, Stockport
Released on Unknown Pleasures and on Heart and Soul Reconstructed in this later version for two voices with additional lyrics |
| Live performance on July 13th 1979 at The Factory released on Heart and Soul
In this and other live performances Peter Hook takes the second vocal part |
| Live performance released from February 28th 1980 at The Warehouse, Preston |
| Lyrics | The second voice in the later versions |
| I walked through the city limits
Attracted by some force within it Around a corner where some profit lay A wire fence where the children play And I was looking for a friend of mine Yeah, looking for some friends of mine | Someone talked me in to trying to do it
Had to close my eyes to get close to it Saw the place where she'd a room to stay Saw the bed where the body lay And I had no time to waste |
| Car screeched - hear the sound on dust
Metallic blue turned red with rust In a group all forgotten youth [or in the Warsaw version: Stood apart all forgotten youth] Turned on to a knife-edged view And I was looking for a friend of mine Yeah, looking for some friends of mine | Heard a noise - just a car outside
Pulled in close by the building's side Had to think - collect my senses now Find the places where my friends don't go And I had no time to waste |
| Down the dark streets
The houses looked the same I walked round and round They nailed me to a train Trying to find a clue [or in the Warsaw version: Had to get away] Trying to find a way to get out | Getting darker now
Faces look the same No stomach - torn apart Had to think again Trying to move away Had to move away and keep out |
| Saw twelve windows - ten in a row
The lights shine like a neon show [or in the Warsaw version: The lights shine - an unearthly glow] No place to stop - no place to go I guess they died some time ago And I was looking for a friend of mine Yeah, looking for some friends of mine | Behind a wall I looked down low
Inserted deep - felt a warmer glow No time to lose - had to keep on going I guess they died some time ago And I had no time to waste |
| Other information | |
| The title Interzone was taken from the story by William S Burroughs | |
| Cover versions by: | Released on: |
| Bassholes | Interzone (Seldom Scene SEEN04 1997)
When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again (In The Red 59 1998) |
| Betty Kracker | Bent Outta Shape (own release 2008) |
| Bruce Banner | I've Had It With Humanity (Busted Heads BHR27 2004) |
| Digital Sex | Digital Sex at Sharkey's (live concert video 1994) |
| Face To Face | A Means To An End (Virgin 40660-2 1995) |
| Speed Blue | Something About Joy Division (Vox Pop VP3 1989) |
| Temple Beat | Black Suburbia (Machinery Records) |
| Warrior Soul | Drugs, God and the New Republic (Geffen 24389 1991)
Drugs, God and the New Republic (Escapi 51 2006) (the re-release also has a live version as a bonus track) |
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