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Shadowplay Lyrics

Artist: Joy Division
Album: Permanent

To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you,
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you,
I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you,
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth.

In the shadowplay, acting out your own death, knowing no more,
As the assassins all grouped in four lines, dancing on the floor,
And with cold streel, odour on their bodies mad a move to connect,
But I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left.

I did everything, everything I wanted to,
I let them use you for their own ends,
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you.
To the centre of the city in the night, waiting for you.

Comments/Interpretations

by Gaby Gaia on 7/9/2008 6:42pm
Love this song!

by santiago on 7/25/2008 9:43pm
esta cancion es la cosa mas hermosa del maldito rock and roll

by zreval on 8/16/2008 11:03pm
great song true lyrics

by anna on 9/14/2008 1:08am
i love joy division, they were and are so fucking amazing !

by Folli on 10/30/2008 4:18pm
Joy Division cool!The Killers The best,This song too^^

by Ian on 10/30/2008 10:51pm
Thankyou

by edds on 11/2/2008 6:44pm
this song nd the killers version are the best...whoo hooo

by Ness on 11/12/2008 10:24pm
La mejor cancion de todos los tiempos. Espero que otras generaciones, como en Altamira, encuentren no dibujos, sino esta cancion. Ruego a Dios.

by NESS on 11/12/2008 10:31pm
Ich m�chte mit diesem Lied sterben. JOY DIVISION ist wunderbar.

by Oracle on 12/13/2008 11:41am
Uma das melhores do Joy!

by michael on 2/23/2009 12:26pm
The Killers? Ugh

by ian curtis on 3/1/2009 7:25pm
probably the worst joy division song!!!

by hungrzhomeless on 4/3/2009 6:13am
"probably the worst joy division song!!!"
Probably you are the worst loser

by i'm g on 7/21/2009 3:03am
woah pls dont speak here about the killers. they sucks so hard. im so bored to hear ppl sayshit like this..

by johnny on 8/9/2009 11:22am
killers are c0cksuckers... they're not worthy to sing joy division covers

by rockerxx69 on 8/15/2009 12:46pm
absolutely awesome song---the killers doing a super decent cover-----the words are absolutely majestic evocative poetic great!!!!!

by duke on 8/18/2009 12:43pm
awesome...awesome!!i miss u ian!!

by il tronxxx on 8/18/2009 5:21pm
agree with johnny, killers are fuckin cocksuckers

by donuteyes on 8/20/2009 8:33pm
why won't brandon flowers hang himself?

by sayre on 9/21/2009 11:32pm
the killers are not so bad but they are total dbags for pretending to feel what ian curtis was

by gustavo on 10/7/2009 5:52pm
powerful sound!!
great rock song...

by cvele on 10/11/2009 11:10am
oh joy oh joy oh joy

by martin on 12/2/2009 11:27am
seguidores de joy division podria detallar que significa SHDOWPLAY, gracias

by Timuka on 2/14/2010 8:51pm
Martin shadowplay es cuando haces como una obra de teatro para ni�os con sombras, como el conejito, te ubicas?

by ne6to si tam on 4/24/2010 7:20am
great song!!!!!!!!!!

by jordo on 5/14/2010 9:07am
Pure class.... Killers just about ruined it tho

by ariel pl on 6/13/2010 5:01am
booskie

by mepo on 7/1/2010 9:37am
THE BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PIEKNA SPRAWA!!

by Zippy Kid on 10/28/2010 1:51pm
I will make the cover

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by Nikola Ilic on 12/8/2010 11:39am
Greatest band!

by girlladisko on 5/2/2011 1:52pm
the lyrics are beautiful. joy division rocks every generation.

by 46and2 on 5/7/2011 2:22am
actuallly it should be: in a room with no window

by gregg-o on 8/3/2011 8:34pm
NO he found truth in the corner in a room with a window that is the point.

by SpiderFromMars on 9/22/2011 12:38pm
stop talking about the Killers... you can think whatever u want, but don't mess with Joy Division...

by Scorpion on 11/15/2011 10:22am
Joy Division is best!

by Lady Unlucky on 3/12/2012 10:08am
My Suicide song

by Acidburn666 on 11/28/2012 11:54am
Killers who? You just can't compare ANY other band with Joy Divison. They were UNIQUE!

by Em J Oakland on 1/17/2013 11:51am
Shadowplay is a wonderful song, one of my favourite Joy Division songs, in fact, and Joy Division were a great band and the fact that their music gets played a lot today shows what a fantastic band they were.

by Debbie on 1/22/2014 5:58am
Truth is even the band members didn't "hear" the lyrics until after Ian passed, that's when they realised what he was singing about. He was plagued by entities, poor guy. His music lives on because it is so real.