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Life, A Legacy 2017

by The Joy Division Syndicate

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Tangible Shape All things that used to seem all right Blown in a flash of blinding light Couldn't believe we've been so far Inside a frame of antique stars Abandoning the things we know Seeking anywhere else to go Can't see limits of raging floods No use to hide inside the crowd Numberless minds calling for grace Can hear the vibe under this place Interlacing another mesh Cutting the new flowers so fresh Here comes a sun we all adore Late night hearing a great encore Just can't see why we're feeling so Maybe they know what's left to do Another home another day Maybe too late - hey, comes what may Something inside says we're all wrong Another day another song Crossing iron for the great cause Fighting devils who need their dose Could you hear them speak all at once? You can be sure i'll make it twice
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Heart Sublimation A velvety message suggesting you to wait... But you'd better wake up, as tomorrow's too late! The spirit and the fact look so hard to connect, Most people halt upset, just blocked at the gate! Biting faces again, all showing the wrong line, While the veracious goal seems a mountain to climb! The cup they propose, pierced and always dry, Empty pockets for you, whatever you try! The beasts keep devoring, you hope for a sign, While they're at their feast, you solve nods of time Identification of the source denial, Grasping each object once characterized. Gone in a heartbeat, all that could have been... Within the current veil, nothing's what it seems! A door creaking behind to catch your focusing, Deepest calculation to escape the ruin! Arghhhhhh! Approximative sight leading to rude setback, Deleting indexes that used to guide us all! A law riddled with lies, a predictable end, But will you stand still when their league will implode? Maybe someone warned you, but too long ago! The end and the means, all you have to know... Must evaluate all the conditions, Be ready to get out of this false comfort zone! Mishaps everywhere forcing to soldier on, Developping risky tricks to handle with caution! Pursuing useless freaks earning billions, Precisely when you had far too much stuff on go!
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VS 1 Keep me! From being left alone From drowning like a stone Keep me! From odd machineries From the grave that i digged Keep me! From the ghosts and demons From their plans/glance and their words Keep me! From places where I've been From strangers I've buried, keep me! RF 1 Keep me from jealous evil eyes Keep me from the loss of my mind Keep me from being killed again Keep me from the wind and the rain Keep me from a fake abundance Keep me from an excess of trance Keep me from belated contracts Keep me from the will and the act, keep me! VS 2 Keep me! From emerging issues From all forms of abuse Keep me! From the gap between us From the less and the plus Keep me! From the night and the day From their deeds and their ways Keep me! From unfair martyrdom From all lacks of wisdom, keep me! RF 2 Keep me from tenebrous dead ends Keep me from harmful influence Keep me from altered promises Keep me from dishonest profits Keep me from pompous ideals Keep me from their cult of idols Keep me from unknown distasters Keep me from usurping masters VS 3 Keep me! From wayward cannibals And mistaken pastors Keep me! From the wounds of my soul And the need to control Keep me! From the crooks in disguise, [Immedicably doomed...] From the dogs and their ties, [And the bones they exhume] Keep me! From warrens always blocked, [Collapsing and unsure...] From the impossible, [And the scourge of failure] Keep me!
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RETROVIZOR - My celestial friends Along the non smiling boulevard There are my friends Leaving without goodbye Along the never come back boulevard There are my friends Leaving suddenly Carried by the hands of our friends In oak coffins Leaving alone and barren In the line of voiceless sighs There are my friends Leaving somewhere My celestial friends Fantasy tears or only rain Unfinished dream Lost target and a discussion With no conclusion In long sleepless nights Along mystery paths Neon-lit tunnels They are coming back Along halls and ways Alone or in groups They are coming Hordes rushing Leaving no trace My celestial friends, my celestial friends… My celestial friends Strange creations from an unfinished drawing It’s difficult to endure Tears and songs, laughter and cry Of my celestial friends
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Verse 1 In the heart of the night, some heat you can't describe, forever consuming, forever caring, When you close your eyes, the sight of paradise, living vibration on some infinite string... Refrain 1 A light so blinding, even afraid to get asleep - was the world born in its intended form ? Figure out how long to such destination - endless parallels make the unknown just feel like home... Cheater godlings keep on mocking but quicly pulled back where they came from! Again and again, can you feel the strain ? Cosmic intention, boiling like a storm. Verse 2 Protected from harm, curled up in the hands of some superior mind... The things that I said, the price you had to pay, stones without value lying all along the way Refrain 2 Can still remember each and everything, I never changed, but so many things happened Thousands of memories come back all at once, and I suddenly feel like... ...Wheels turning... and... times going, and... again and again, again and again Will a friendly presence help, to find the glide path ? Verse 3 Hours passing in slow motion, want to forget - how can it be ? An unpredicted force grows at each movement, feeds each aspect, colors each moment. Refrain 3 Expected things that never came, tensions increased, yet unsolved, Thousands of thoughts raising all at once, remembering all that was done, Wheels turning and mornings to come, again and again, again and again Will a friendly presence help to find the right tone ? Verse 4 Angels dance above your head, filling in your secret sky. Whatever the good inside of you, lonely workers preclude each other. Refrain 4 Deep within your dreams, echoes in the realm keep fledging arrows, Can hear voices in the distance - guess people busy challenging chance Soldiers howling "Yes sir!" - I won't join in the choir, I know where to go and I know what is worth All things of yesterday will come back their own way, far-stretched undertaking and award so splendid.
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We were walking side by side for final change of horizon. Never mind a shady night - all things happen for some reason. No one answers reality: simply say who's wearing the crown? While twits become willingly blind, holy jealousy means wisdom. Then the wind carried rumours, as obtsacles started merging. Proximity healing your mind, always new form of energy. Here comes the time to do your part, to reach a full understanding, To name things right and step forward, cyclically seeking mercy. Can you remember who you are? You were pulled so far from the dance! Searching for higher forms of art, just to repair the alliance. Honoring your elders now gone, models and guides to act with strength. A crime duly prevented now, under providential balance. Wars and troubles surrounded you, endless lies you never believed. There is a grail even for fools, spent all night watching their deal. Staying yourself in the storm's eye, always pure for victory, Things you preserved now back for you, each one turned to immense glory History flying like a bird, all of us busy on hatching. As your ground is tremoring, clouds in anger - all to be seen! A true witness on future facts, pact of blood for stability. Restored souls will never covet, a grace from divine royalty. What was unlikely to happen, defining today's true story. Perpetual change at every scale, building from the abolished.
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Inviting to a trip to the safest place Green and sunny country where there is no end Just like years before, the key's yours again Gold shines forever, the book is opened A man's life on the road, a rest you deserve Flowers in the valleys, fragrance in the air Echoes of the birds celebrate the day They'll sing forever, the door is opened Way back, in the old years Way back, before your days What they all answered when you called for help What they've done after, face and tears so fake Way back, on the heyday Way back, no game to play Way back, as if you were, Way back, past forever Way back, in the old days Way back, before yourself Way back, starting again, Way back, morph into better Way back, no more mistakes, Way back, feel so impressed Way back, land so quiet, Way back, no man invents Way back, always ahead, Way back, the chance you take Way back, living the spell, Way back, beauty itself
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Making the most with so few, Forgetting those who once fooled you. Minds bend as lies enter the place, Zombies in need of anything new. Not seen real humans for ages, Might be searching for better ground. Connivance in every room, A convex frame evicting you! Now you feel in a hurry, But all your stuff is taken too! Turned you to forced accessory, How could you find any way out? Disguise for their abysmal doom, Hopes and joy nowhere to be found! Robbers as kings and crowds agree, Sheltered in dormitory towns. Official tale flattering sins, Besotted pawns asking for more!
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Getting back to essential truth, to turn the page for different views. Daydreaming sheeps so contagious, why wisemen always stay aloof. Flickering hopes amid your gloom, nightmare set up to shut your soul. Shiny moments just turned to blue, all wasted by a sorry crew. A social rule based on murder, great reverence for mass butchers, They deep such horrors in reserve, figuring out gives you shivers. Will you go on in your quest, or just stumble - puzzled and daze? Can still feel heartbeats in your chest, the fear they bring lets you no rest. Caught in a cage so confusing, feeding a fawn always hungry. Someone robbed all your legacy, no one gets back the blood they steal. Hypocrisy you've never seen, smiling at you with all their teeth. Jelling ideas that look so keen, to solve a situation so mean. Knocks on the door late in the night, quick decisions to save your life... Flux reception that has no price, as this whole world rapidly dies. Interference of rays so bright, saying it could all turn so nice. Just let's go for a stroll at last, to change the sway and have it right. Liars define your daily ways, the trick never entered your head! Extravagance fills in the blanks, d'you need their help ? Sorry they can't! Another prey will fall again, legions falling like tears of rain. So many times tried to escape, but they'll never let you away. Bandits planning further assaults, but you've paid for all their faults! Some warning not to play with guns, while others keep killing for fun... Tyrants mention whom they'll devore, your spine trembling at each new word! Days of hope and days to run, all depends how heaven turns.
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From visceral perception... to false instruction! Relay's lost somewhere - needs fine inspection! Ethical giants... vanished centuries ago, Soon replaced by those... who try hard to enslave you! Their decrees and their laws? A cruelty never seen! None of them could even stand... in front of wisemen! All the ones you used to know : changed into perverts! Even your bro' turned his back : gone with your money! You're hoping for a change - you're the bird to tame, Almost all those who tried to reach... dispersion the same! A vortex of vain things... decorate your days: T.V. always on... helping you to wait and wait... Stuff on none of your business - useless idiocy! Luxury spread fore your eyes - already sleeping! You dream of buying some bread... Now bakery's closed! A legend says the guy's left... But you know who chopped! Special attention given... to your typology, Exceptional science... to rob without seeming! There's a hand in your pocket - unidentified! Two others cover your eyes - except for the ads! Puke and blood and bones and heads... are everywhere to be seen, Crimes and wars and crimes again... in exponential increase! Someone got bored with your life... they now play with you! Don't imagine you'll have fun : there's a ball, guess who? No surprise that sincere men finally... hang themselves! Hungry masses driven crazy : nothing's on the shelves! Government say it's okay - what's the use to fight? Agents work on solving your ways - why holding your right?
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So close to forgive, transcend any grief... Rivers in your mind bring flowers and rhymes... A future newborn, then strange reflections... Shivering water - have to decipher... You captured a spark, I delivered mine... A look at your face, everything is said... A brand new version, slay contradictions... You'll never forget, they'll never regain... § So close to get out, wind and foreign routes... Nameless fogs hide on, surely not for long... Shivering shoulders, what's in the packet?.. Only way to know, switch on the right glow... Illusions of Earth, summers and winters... Pure intuition, saving each function... Illusions you built, then feeding new guilt... You found out glimmers, figured out the fair... § So close to passion, but the clock is on... Fruits eaten straight now, others to be dropped... The trees on the side, you just wonder why... The ends of the scale, the traps in the maze... An escape unsure, wander in the moor, Shivering fondness, cosmic blessedness... All the joy you found, never to be bound... The wounds and the breaks, the road and the pace...
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Such A Pearl In Your Hands - A bygone question, firmly unanswered A first intention, pending forever Metamorphic stress for so many hearts Esthetic distress hits the notes so hard - The tale's unfolded, (be)fore incredulous eyes A pack of mutants seeking paradise There once was a goal without compromise They've gone out of mind, to divine despise Some play the lions, just as small as mice One day will perish, soul cut into dice Your attempts all failed, the task has a price But should carry on, won't solve in a trice ... Buried in the past, a phenix awaits Explorers digging, don't wanna be late! Golden reflection, you couldn't believe! This precise moment when losers all leave! - Telling the truth, is this all worth? People confuse between south and north... A cascade of force, will I need some more? As tension gets worse, closer to the core! I've seen them running, following their lords Docile as required, never to endorse Alternative ways, leading to the source Such a seizing fork, transcending the course ... Fleeting emotion, an angel watching, All still possible, flower in the spring, Cyclic as nature, tricky to align, At times it could seem so labyrinthine - Vibrations confirm, the presence untold, Supreme wisdom knows, the brave hearts so bold We carried a hope, surprises to come Some evolution, building a new home I heard nails scratching, no one's at the door! I can see footprints, on an empty floor! We thought they were lost, caught by a bad storm, There's no farewell, as the sound rings on, ... Alleys paved so clean, borough so tidy Your judges were sold, won't show no mercy One two three four five, but where have you been? Already decades, that no one has seen... - Sudden lightnings blaze, until the last flash, Is there any fate? Will we turn to ash? Astronomic length, the race just began And one single path, for myriads of fans Shores never stay dry, been held in the brine, After all goodbyes, a new friend of mine Eons can linger mysteriously calm Narrow aperture, maybe final palm ... § ... I remember, when I was young Nothing to do, just play the fool Movie shut off without more ado So close to the end, you will never know - Endless debates on potential things Dusty stuff and old rusty strings They clamp the voltage, in case you dismiss Now you're on your own, chasing the next bliss Erosion of life, as you laid asleep, All your crazy dreams, gone out in the wind Breathtaking landscape, relief so splendid Solid rememberance, face almost vivid ... How could I forget ? Browsed so many lands! No way to give up, the key's in your hands Ghostlike wanderers, soon tamed and locked up, They stopped half the way, sorry not my cup! - A priceless image wraped in years gone by, Echo of a choir refusing to die, Inserted again, have another try Louder and louder, a distorted cry Waving arm in time, an old mate complies, Checking back what's done, can see far and wide, A heat on our skins, with the morning light At regular pace, sharing same delight ... A rotation, neverending While we stay safe under His wing Hidden treasures, melting snow delivers Dormant rewards, can wake in a shiver - How many more points to accomplish? Hold your ideals close : they could vanish What kind of progress, shutting up like this? What will spread someday? The case will dehisce... Out of human sight, all things you could wish Snakes ain't on same page, I can hear them swish The beauty of yore, thrown to the abyss Bitten to the bone, betrayed in a hiss ... A trail of glitter leads us to this place You're a part of it, spark in the right space Wondering what's next - watching the new dawn Soon the names will change, beware it won't warn ! - Grabbing the ladder to greater heaven Squishing quick footsteps - should hide your leaven There's a thing that knows the smallest details, Transposing the whole to gigantic scales Subtle signs show you, slipping universe, Fixing lame orbits that would lead nowhere The chart squarely tells all you have to mend All clues to be found will come in the end
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Album dedicated to Ian Curtis to celebrate his 61th birthday. Artwork by Roni Fux.

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released July 15, 2017

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