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TITLE. LYRICS

Studio version

Failures

Don't speak of false Messiahs
A failure of the modern man
To the centre of all life's desires
As a whole not an also ran
Love in a hollow field
Break the image of your father's son
Drawn to an inner feel
He was thought of as the only one

He no longer denies
All the failures of the modern man
He no longer picks sides
Sees the failures of the modern man
Wise words and sympathy
Tell the story of our history
New strength gives a real touch
Sense and reason make it all too much
With a strange fatality
Broke the spirits of a lesser man
Some other race can see
In his way he was the only one

He no longer denies
All the failures of the modern man
No, no, no, he can't pick sides
Sees the failures of the modern man
Now that it's time to decide
In his time he was a total man
Taken from Caesar's side
Kept in silence just to prove who's wrong
He no longer denies
All the failures of the modern man
No, no, no, he can't pick sides
Sees the failures of the modern man
All the failures of the modern man

ALTERNATE LYRICS

Translations: Español | Français | Italiano | Português

DETAILS

Line-up: Ian Curtis | Peter Hook | Stephen Morris | Bernard Sumner

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

On An Ideal For Living, this song was called Failures (of the modern man)

STUDIO RECORDINGS. NOTES

Date: Wednesday 14 December 1977
Studio: Pennine Sound Studios – Oldham (UK)
Duration: 3.40 - fade out
Availability on record: An Ideal For Living (7") | An Ideal For Living (12") | Heart And Soul | Substance

Date: Monday 1–Thursday 4 May 1978
Studio: Arrow Studios – Manchester (UK)
Duration: 2.28
Availability on record: –