Isolation

by Joy Division

From the album: Still

Track 19 of 21 on Still (1981).

Still cover art

Lyrics for Isolation

In fear every day, every evening He calls her aloud from above Carefully watched for a reason Painstaking devotion and love Surrendered to self preservation From others who care for themselves A blindness that touches perfection But hurts just like anything else Isolation, isolation, isolation Mother, I tried please believe me I'm doing the best that I can I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through I'm ashamed of the person I am Isolation, isolation, isolation But if you could just see the beauty These things I could never describe These pleasures a wayward distraction This is my one lucky prize Isolation, isolation, isolation Isolation, isolation

More from Still

  1. Exercise One
  2. Ice Age
  3. The Sound of Music
  4. Glass
  5. The Only Mistake
  6. Walked in Line
  7. The Kill
  8. Something Must Break
  9. Dead Souls
  10. Sister Ray (live)
  11. Ceremony
  12. Shadowplay
  13. Means to an End
  14. Passover
  15. New Dawn Fades
  16. Twenty Four Hours
  17. Transmission
  18. Disorder
  19. Isolation
  20. Decades
  21. Digital