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Atmosphere Lyrics

Artist: Joy Division
Album: Permanent

Walk in silence,
Don't walk away, in silence.
See the danger,
Always danger,
Endless talking,
Life rebuilding,
Don't walk away.

Walk in silence,
Don't turn away, in silence.
Your confusion,
My illusion,
Worn like a mask of self-hate,
Confronts and then dies.
Don't walk away.

People like you find it easy,
Naked to see,
Walking on air.
Hunting by the rivers,
Through the streets,
Every corner abandoned too soon,
Set down with due care.
Don't walk away in silence,
Don't walk away.

Comments/Interpretations

by mike on 5/18/2008 1:49pm
favourite joy division song, utterly timeless and perpetually beautiful.

by ... on 5/22/2008 12:57am
I agree! I love this song so much!

by Jonas on 5/30/2008 6:30pm
Yeah me too to bad he killed hem self

by Rodrigo on 6/24/2008 7:31pm
I've just seen "Control". It shows us what passed by Ian's mind and makes us think about what we really want for (and from) our lives!

by Carsten on 6/25/2008 11:50am
this song is going under my skin every time

by Ton on 6/25/2008 2:45pm
perfect song, so dramatic and sad...

by kost on 8/14/2008 5:36am
kop

by david on 9/15/2008 10:24am
i saw control and in the end when this song started playing it was amazing it was the best ending for any movie

by Richard on 9/30/2008 11:43am
I believe it to be to his wife Debbie and their diminishing relationship at the time. I wonder if "Walking on air" was perhaps a sign of his hanging suicide?

by Emma on 11/25/2008 1:39pm
Control is amazing..this song seems to mean so much more when you see the crematoriam at the end and this is playing..his voice is beautifully harrowing as well.

by scrof on 11/29/2008 6:17am
music of joy division touch the hearth.. i was crying at the end of the control..

by dustin on 12/3/2008 1:37am
this song is so good, its depressing. i wanna go kill myself now :(

by Leo on 12/5/2008 11:23am
Amo a JOy Division, de las mejores bandas de la historia del mundo mundial!

by Nic on 12/17/2008 11:35am
I heard this on "The Signal", Great movie it was covered by Some Ola Podria. Great song!

by nevermind on 1/25/2009 7:14pm
it`s fantastic

by KC on 5/27/2009 11:15pm
Wonderful band - timeless song. Music to end a life too. Not a bad thing.

by Brad on 7/12/2009 10:54pm
My loveliest song always crying. The song os so beautiful. I sing it to the one I love.

by Greet on 8/21/2009 6:24pm
An unbelievable great song. Just unbelievable

by B FLow on 8/23/2009 11:03am
By farr the best Joy Division songg i loveee loveeee it, Toooo goooo:):) The words are so beautiful, and the music att the beginningg i LOVE it:)

by JK on 9/22/2009 1:58pm
First heard this at the end of Control. I'd never heard of Joy Division before, but this song stuck with me and I love it!

by zhio on 11/24/2009 8:53pm
i love...

by antijack on 12/5/2009 10:29am
This song to me is about fear, despair and inevitable self worthiness of young people being abandoned and left to the state welfare system - particulary around the '80's

by pete on 4/12/2010 7:34pm
Since watching 'Control' for the first time last week I have watched it every day since and bought 'Joy division Greatest Hits' today. Never has a musician spoke to me in such a way as I feel Ian Curtis has with his music. Watching 'Control' was like seeing myself in another time- although Ian Curtis was a lot more talented. An introvert forced into a world full of extroverts where they take you as one of them not understanding how hard each day is in itself just to live. I think anyone who holds prejudice against suicide victims should watch this as I believe homophobics should all watch 'Philledelphia'. It unmasks the sad reality that some people go through. God rest his beautiful soul.

by zoZO on 2/1/2011 9:30pm
this song means so much to me as an introverted person, thanks Espresso Forte for your interpretation its exactly how i feel about it.

by Alexander on 8/24/2012 5:30am
Ian, I love you!