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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 Katarina on 5/14/2008 10:01am cos there are empty playgrounds and cars driven by the shadows they have this taste in their mouth not as salty as you imagined not as bitter as they sung the cloud sat on their heads they couldnt walk away not in silence
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 ryan on 7/17/2008 4:19pm i thinks a conversation coversation with yourself
by eniko on 7/21/2008 5:50am when i heard this song at the first time it started something inside of my soul... there were a big mess inside of me...it helped me to clean...the song came in the best moment...
by kost on 8/14/2008 5:36am kop
by abraham on 8/15/2008 7:22pm a work of beauty
by ricardoooo@live.com on 9/11/2008 7:40pm great song..so sad great voice!
by dave on 9/15/2008 10:18am this song is probaly the best joy division song but i like other ones more its just a great song . a true masterpiece
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 Espresso Forte on 10/18/2009 11:12pm I think the "walking on air" part is him seeing other people (his wife, too, perhaps) as going through life with ease (eg: walking on air) and not having the troubles that people like him (introverts?) encounter on a near-constant basis. From his point of view, these extroverts go through life with ease, naked to the world (without self-conscious worry). They happily act out their life rituals (hunting/mating) without concern, and they sometimes discover someone interesting in the "corner" (people like him who need to be treated with due care). They play with them for a while but usually end up abandoning them emotionally once their temporary curiosity is satisfied. And since they don't feel things as severely as introverts do, they don't realize the damage they do by abandoning them too soon.
by L on 11/24/2009 4:34pm Espresso Forte- as an introvert, I couldn't agree more with your comment. It is entirely relevant to introverts' experiences with extroverts- at least to mine. I always listen to Joy Division when I feel low, because Ian Curtis knew. He felt the way I do... too often I feel that extroverts abandon people like us without much thought to the extent to which they damage us. Don't these people realize that they're all we have? When they leave, I have nobody at all... they can't just do that, it doesn't have the same significance for them as it does for us... could be the difference between life and death for someone.
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 Citizen Col on 12/16/2010 6:53am From Ian Curtis obituary: (Paul Morley & Adrian Thrills) NME June 1980 'Joy Division will not change The World. But there is value... there has to be. The value of Joy Division is the value of love.'
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.

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