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TITLE. LYRICS

Peel Session 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

ALTERNATE LYRICS

Studio version | Concert version

DETAILS

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

STUDIO RECORDING. NOTES

Studio recordings | Live recordings

Date: Monday 26 November 1979
Studio: BBC Studios – London (UK)
Duration: 3.20
Availability on record: Heart And Soul | Peel Sessions (#2) | Peel Sessions | The Complete BBC Recordings