His marriage was collapsing when he wrote the lyrics and he would take his life shortly thereafter. Yet the aching humanity of Ian Curtis’ words that gleamed darkly approached with new ears. “Why is the bedroom so cold on your side? / My timing is imperfect, is our respect so dry? ”īasking in its semi-official status as a student disco hymn, the Joy Division’s biggest hit probably suffered from excessive familiarity. Getty 3/40 Joy Division – “Love will tear us apart” But all that pain, torrid lyricism and terrible beauty are already present and correct in Reznor’s original. Trent Reznor’s rending diagnosis of his addiction to self-destruction – he never confirmed whether or not the song refers to heroin use – would have had an unlikely revival via Johnny Cash’s 2002 cover. “And you could have it all / My land empire / I will disappoint you / I will hurt you.” His circumstances are tragic yet his message – which he loves to linger after we are gone – is edifying. No other composition articulates in a more moving way the despair that was destined to devour it in its entirety and the breast that burst the love he felt for his family. Six months later, Cobain would have committed suicide. Did Kurt Cobain articulate his anguish and anger even more movingly than the best song on their swan song album, In Utero from 1993?Īll Apologies – a mea culpa howling from the precipice – was directed to his wife, Courtney Love, and their daughter, Frances Bean. Yet their slower songs have become unfairly darkened over the decades. “I wish I was like you / Easily amused / Find my nest of salt / Everything is my fault.”Īs headbangers with bleeding hearts of poets, Nirvana were singular.
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