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TITLE. LYRICS

Concert version

Love will tear us apart

When routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And resentment rides high
But emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways
Taking different roads
Then love will tear us apart again

Why is the bedroom so cold?
You've turned away on your side
Is my timing that flawed?
Have our feelings run dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives
But love will tear us apart again

You cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
There's a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Just that something so good
Just can't function no more
When love will tear us apart again

	LIVE RECORDINGS. NOTES	Studio recordings \| Peel Session recording
	Date: Friday 26 October 1979 Venue: Electric Ballroom – London (Camden) (UK) Duration: 3.52 Availability on record: –
	Date: Saturday 27 October 1979 Venue: Apollo Theatre – Manchester (UK) Duration: unknown Availability on record: – Availability on video: Here Are The Young Men
	Date: Friday 2 November 1979 Venue: Winter Gardens – Bournemouth (UK) Duration: 3.31 Availability on record: –
	Date: Monday 5 November 1979 (soundcheck) Venue: Pavilion – Hemel Hempstead (UK) Duration: 3.20 Availability on record: –
	Date: Saturday 9 November 1979 Venue: Rainbow Theatre – London (Finsbury Park) (UK) Duration: 3.41 Availability on record: –
	Date: Tuesday 18 December 1979 Venue: Bains-Douches – Paris (France) Duration: 3.17 Availability on record: Fractured Box \| Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979 \| Refractured Box One
	Date: Friday 11 January 1980 Venue: Paradiso – Amsterdam (Netherlands) Duration: 3.08 Availability on record: –
	Date: Tuesday 15 January 1980 Venue: Basement – Cologne (Germany) Duration: 3.08 Availability on record: –
	Date: Thursday 17 January 1980 Venue: Plan K – Brussels (Belgium) Duration: 3.12 Availability on record: –
	Date: Friday 18 January 1980 Venue: Effenaar – Eindhoven (Netherlands) Duration: 2.58 Availability on video: –
	Date: Friday 8 February 1980 Venue: University College Union – London (Bloomsbury) (UK) Duration: unknown Availability on record: –
	Date: Wednesday 20 February 1980 Venue: Town Hall – High Wycombe (UK) Duration: 2.56 Availability on record: –
	Date: Friday 29 February 1980 Venue: Lyceum Ballroom – London (Strand) (UK) Duration: unknown Availability on record: –
	Date: Wednesday 5 March 1980 Venue: Trinity Hall – Bristol (UK) Duration: unknown Availability on record: –
	Date: Wednesday 2 April 1980 Venue: Moonlight Club – London (West Hampstead) (UK) Duration: unknown Availability on record: –
	Date: Thursday 3 April 1980 Venue: Moonlight Club – London (West Hampstead) (UK) Duration: unknown Availability on record: –
	Date: Saturday 5 April 1980 Venue: Winter Gardens – Malvern (UK) Duration: 2.59 Availability on record: –
	Date: Tuesday 8 April 1980 Venue: Derby Hall – Bury (UK) Duration: unknown Availability on record: – Note: vocals by Alan Hempsall, of Crispy Ambulance

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	Line-up: Ian Curtis \| Peter Hook \| Stephen Morris \| Bernard Sumner Ian Curtis played the guitar, and Bernard Sumner the keyboard