day of the lords

• unknown pleasures'da yer alan kapkaranlık bir joy division şarkısı. sonlara doğru ian curtis "where will it end?" 'i öyle bir söyler ki bütün sıkıntısı sesine yansır.
  
  this is the room, the start of it all
  no portrait so fine - only sheets on the wall
  i've seen the nights, filled with bloodsport and pain
  and the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained
  where will it end?
  
  these are your friends, from childhood through youth
  who goaded you on, demanded full proof
  withdrawal pain's hard - it can do you right in
  so distorted and thin, distorted and thin
  where will it end?
  
  this is the car at the edge of the road
  there's nothing disturbed - all the windows are closed
  i guess you were right, when we talked in the heat
  there's no room for the weak, no room for the weak
  where will it end?
  
  this is the room, the start of it all
  through childhood, through youth, i remember it all
  i've seen the nights, filled with bloodsport and pain
  and the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained
  where will it end?
• ian curtis şarkının sözleri üzerinde epey uğraşmıştır. albümde yer alandan farklı -ve daha az güzel olmayan- kendi başına okunduğunda bile çok güçlü sözler şöyledir:
  
  we won't forget you on the day of lords
  when our hearts stopped
  when we put up the boards
  to relax from all this sickness of words
  to escape from the collapse of our worlds
  
  we won't forget you, though in violence you go
  and the wheels turned in the theatres below
  an escape from the ends never met
  in apartments where the lives not formed yet
  
  you never really understood
  you never tried to change our minds
  as long as you were in control
  as long as we could spare the time
  and because you needed to win on the day of the lords
  
  we won't forget you on the day of the lords
  in a new town, just clutching at straws
  with the door shut, now the running has ended
  and the last thought of the chances surrendered.
• bu tüyler ürperten şarkıyı 16 horsepower da layığıyla yorumlamıştır.
• where have they been vakasının ilk ayağı bu şarkıda başlar where will it end ile..
  
  (bkz: decades)
• 22 yaşında bir insan nasıl böyle bir şarkı yapabilir diye düşündürür. şarkı uzun bir ömrün karanlığını ve hüznünü içinde taşır, oysa ian curtis bu şarkıyı gencecik bir adamken yapmıştır. belki genç öleceğinin ilk işaretlerinden biridir bu parça..
• neurosis coveri the word as law albümünün bonus trackleri arasındadır.