Elegia è un brano dei New Order composto nel 1985 per ricordare Ian Curtis. Originariamente incluso nell'album Low-Life in una versione da 5 minuti, viene ora pubblicato in vinile dall'etichetta Slow To Speak in forma integrale, da quasi 18 minuti.
Whispers in the grass Under slow dancing trees Birds are telling me stories Saying you were meant for me
With their bittersweet melodies Like a sweet memory Bittersweet melodies Can't go back I can't go on without those Bittersweet melodies
Weakened kitchen floor Snow slips under the door Tiny speakers were singing Telephone always ringing
With those bittersweet melodies Like a sweet memory Bittersweet melodies Can't go back I can't go on
I remember us Before we turned to dusk Just when these feelings were all about When we still could trust in our hearts
Bittersweet melody Like a sweet memory Bittersweet melody Can't go back I can't go on Both of us singing that same old song With those bittersweet melody Like a sweet memory Bittersweet melody And it seemed oh so wrong Since those bittersweet melody played for me
The whip across my back in god’s reign Who’d have thought he’d die young And I feel like the one And I feel like the one its a call It's the mind will save us all
So long, so long, so long You could come down It’s a shame god is dead It’s a shame you could come down
The cross across my back in the darkness Who have thought we’d die young And i feel and i feel and i feel Like the one its a call It's the mind will save us all
So long, so long, so long You could come down It’s a shame god is dead It’s a shame you could come down
There's no world, and no god And no hate, and no fun And no faith, and no god It's just me, getting high Hey, somewhere outside And I wish I could be there Most of the time
As I give all the clues And go out of the room As I gaze down the hall It's just me, not at all Hey, somewhere outside And I wish I could be there Most of the time
And one of these days, I hope I come around And one of these days, I hope I come around And one of these days, I hope I come around And one of these days, I hope I come around And one of these days, I'll come around One of these days, I'll come around One of these days, I'll come around One of these days, I'll come around
Hope it will carry us away In the endless build into nothing Light will come to reign again In the clouds into nothing
On a life value foreign Greyer shades wait to take us all Into nothing
There'll be a change of view And all phases away into nothing
Spaces silence endless build into nothing Painless hopeless endless build into nothing All love all time endless build into nothing Future distance endless build into nothing Endless build into nothing Endless build into nothing Endless build into nothing Endless build into nothing
Illustrazione di Les Herman
