Lyrics to
I Remember Nothing

This version of I Remember Nothing was released by Joy Division in 1979.

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We were strangers.
We were strangers, for way too long, for way too long,
We were strangers, for way too long.
Violent, violent,
Were strangers.

Get weak all the time, may just pass the time,
Me in my own world, and you there beside,
The gaps are enormous, we stare from each side,
We were strangers for way too long.

Violent, more violent, his hand cracks the chair,
Moves on reaction, then slumps in despair,
Trapped in a cage and surrendered to soon,
Me in my own world, the one that you knew,
For way too long.
We were strangers for way too long.
We were strangers,
We were strangers for way too long,
For way too long.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to I Remember Nothing, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Joy Division. Some of the lyrics to I Remember Nothing have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Joy Division and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to I Remember Nothing if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to I Remember Nothing" means the words set to the music of I Remember Nothing, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joy Division. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to I Remember Nothing and the lyrics to I Remember Nothing are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joy Division who came here looking just for the lyrics to I Remember Nothing, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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