Chords for Tragedy of Ian Curtis
Tempo:
75.425 bpm
Chords used:
Am
A
G
D
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
There [G] is a part [A] again
[D] Love, love will [G] tell you the part [A] again
Joy [D]
[B] [A]
Division had recorded their second album, Closer, and was set for their first tour of America.
[Am] But Curtis was debilitated by his epilepsy, his medication, and arguments with his young wife Debbie
over an affair he was now having with a Belgian fan, Anique Honor.
[A]
[Am] After a failed suicide attempt, Curtis finally took his own life on 18th May 1980,
the night before Joy Division was set to leave for the States.
[E] Iggy Pops, the idiot, [Em] was on [A] his record turntable.
[Am]
[A] Who knows what really went on that night, who knows what [F] really happened.
[E] He was on his own that night, he'd seen Debbie, and they'd had an argument,
and then he spent most of the night on his own, and who knows what went through his head.
Whatever happened between Debbie and Ian on that last night was,
I'd say, was quite obviously what finished him off.
He felt he couldn't cope with it anymore, and that was it.
None of us were there, he didn't phone anybody up.
We had been warned twice, we'd been warned by the fact he took an overdose of fucking tablets,
and our response was, like the line [G] from Closer,
it's a cry for help, a plea for anaesthesia.
Secondly, I'd been warned on a train to London two weeks earlier by Anique.
I said, what do you think of the new album?
She goes, I'm terrified.
I said, what are you terrified of?
I thought you'd understand, he means [Am] it.
And I go, no he doesn't mean it, it's art.
[Am] And guess what?
He fucking meant it.
Like a child, though these years make [A] me older
[Am] With children my time is so wastefully [A] spent
[Am] I think we're a bunch of silly cunts, the fact that we didn't see it coming.
And we [E] didn't, we really didn't.
[Ab] We never [E] really listened to Ian's words, you know.
We did after he died, obviously.
But we never really listened to his words, because that was kind of his private business.
It seemed very personal, just let him get [B] on with that, you know, [Am] look at the music.
The sleeve for Closer was already in [A] production.
[Am] Working with Peter Saville, [D] the band had chosen an image by [Am] French photographer,
Bernard Pierre-Wolfe, for the cover.
[D] I hadn't heard anything, I didn't know what they were doing, I didn't know what they were writing,
[Ab] but I mean, the rest of the band didn't know really what Ian [Am] was singing.
And they chose an image together.
And then, you know, some time later, [Am] Ian's died,
and the record is in production and the cover is at the printers.
And I had to draw it to Tony's attention.
We have a tomb on the cover.
[D]
Factory and the band [G] stood by the original design.
When Ian Curtis dies, and I said it immediately, you know, and Wilson certainly did,
you know, [E] he's like a Hendrix, he's like [G] a Jim Morrison, you know, [Ab] a Johnny Chocolate,
everyone goes, don't be daft, you know, he's like just a kid, you know.
We kind of go, no, you know, this [Eb] will develop, this will grow.
It's not the usual kind of, you know, rock and roll suicide or death due to alcohol or to drugs.
He meant what he said when he wrote the songs.
I think that people recognize that.
You can sort of see the Joy Division story and [Db] the Factory story that goes on from [Gbm] that
as the last true story in pop.
[Db]
[D] Love, love will [G] tell you the part [A] again
Joy [D]
[B] [A]
Division had recorded their second album, Closer, and was set for their first tour of America.
[Am] But Curtis was debilitated by his epilepsy, his medication, and arguments with his young wife Debbie
over an affair he was now having with a Belgian fan, Anique Honor.
[A]
[Am] After a failed suicide attempt, Curtis finally took his own life on 18th May 1980,
the night before Joy Division was set to leave for the States.
[E] Iggy Pops, the idiot, [Em] was on [A] his record turntable.
[Am]
[A] Who knows what really went on that night, who knows what [F] really happened.
[E] He was on his own that night, he'd seen Debbie, and they'd had an argument,
and then he spent most of the night on his own, and who knows what went through his head.
Whatever happened between Debbie and Ian on that last night was,
I'd say, was quite obviously what finished him off.
He felt he couldn't cope with it anymore, and that was it.
None of us were there, he didn't phone anybody up.
We had been warned twice, we'd been warned by the fact he took an overdose of fucking tablets,
and our response was, like the line [G] from Closer,
it's a cry for help, a plea for anaesthesia.
Secondly, I'd been warned on a train to London two weeks earlier by Anique.
I said, what do you think of the new album?
She goes, I'm terrified.
I said, what are you terrified of?
I thought you'd understand, he means [Am] it.
And I go, no he doesn't mean it, it's art.
[Am] And guess what?
He fucking meant it.
Like a child, though these years make [A] me older
[Am] With children my time is so wastefully [A] spent
[Am] I think we're a bunch of silly cunts, the fact that we didn't see it coming.
And we [E] didn't, we really didn't.
[Ab] We never [E] really listened to Ian's words, you know.
We did after he died, obviously.
But we never really listened to his words, because that was kind of his private business.
It seemed very personal, just let him get [B] on with that, you know, [Am] look at the music.
The sleeve for Closer was already in [A] production.
[Am] Working with Peter Saville, [D] the band had chosen an image by [Am] French photographer,
Bernard Pierre-Wolfe, for the cover.
[D] I hadn't heard anything, I didn't know what they were doing, I didn't know what they were writing,
[Ab] but I mean, the rest of the band didn't know really what Ian [Am] was singing.
And they chose an image together.
And then, you know, some time later, [Am] Ian's died,
and the record is in production and the cover is at the printers.
And I had to draw it to Tony's attention.
We have a tomb on the cover.
[D]
Factory and the band [G] stood by the original design.
When Ian Curtis dies, and I said it immediately, you know, and Wilson certainly did,
you know, [E] he's like a Hendrix, he's like [G] a Jim Morrison, you know, [Ab] a Johnny Chocolate,
everyone goes, don't be daft, you know, he's like just a kid, you know.
We kind of go, no, you know, this [Eb] will develop, this will grow.
It's not the usual kind of, you know, rock and roll suicide or death due to alcohol or to drugs.
He meant what he said when he wrote the songs.
I think that people recognize that.
You can sort of see the Joy Division story and [Db] the Factory story that goes on from [Gbm] that
as the last true story in pop.
[Db]
Key:
Am
A
G
D
E
Am
A
G
There [G] is a part [A] again
_ [D] Love, love will [G] tell you the part [A] again
Joy [D] _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ Division had recorded their second album, Closer, and was set for their first tour of America.
[Am] But Curtis was debilitated by his epilepsy, his medication, and arguments with his young wife Debbie
over an affair he was now having with a Belgian fan, Anique Honor. _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] After a failed suicide attempt, Curtis finally took his own life on 18th May 1980,
the night before Joy Division was set to leave for the States. _
[E] Iggy Pops, the idiot, [Em] was on [A] his record turntable.
[Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Who knows what really went on that night, who knows what [F] really happened.
[E] He was on his own that night, he'd seen Debbie, and they'd had an argument,
and then he spent most of the night on his own, and who knows what went through his head.
Whatever happened between Debbie and Ian on that last night was,
I'd say, was quite obviously what finished him off.
He felt he couldn't cope with it anymore, and that was it.
None of us were there, he didn't phone anybody up.
We had been warned twice, we'd been warned by the fact he took an overdose of fucking tablets,
_ and our response was, _ like the line [G] from Closer,
it's a cry for help, a plea for anaesthesia. _
Secondly, I'd been warned on a train to London two weeks earlier by Anique.
I said, what do you think of the new album?
She goes, I'm terrified.
I said, what are you terrified of?
I thought you'd understand, he means [Am] it.
And I go, no he doesn't mean it, it's art.
[Am] And guess what?
He fucking meant it.
Like a child, though these years make [A] me older _ _ _
[Am] _ With children my time is so wastefully [A] spent
_ _ [Am] I think we're a bunch of silly cunts, the fact that we didn't see it coming.
And we [E] didn't, we really didn't.
_ [Ab] We never [E] really listened to Ian's words, you know.
We did after he died, obviously.
But we never really listened to his words, because that was kind of his private business.
It seemed very personal, just let him get [B] on with that, you know, [Am] look at the music. _ _ _
_ _ The sleeve for Closer was already in [A] production. _
[Am] Working with Peter Saville, [D] the band had chosen an image by [Am] French photographer,
Bernard Pierre-Wolfe, for the cover.
[D] _ _ I hadn't heard anything, I didn't know what they were doing, I didn't know what they were writing,
[Ab] but I mean, the rest of the band didn't know really what Ian [Am] was singing.
And they chose an image together.
And then, you know, some time later, [Am] Ian's died,
and the record is in production and the cover is at the printers.
And I had to draw it to Tony's attention.
We have a tomb on the cover.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
Factory and the band [G] stood by the original design. _ _
When Ian Curtis dies, and I said it immediately, you know, and Wilson certainly did,
you know, [E] he's like a Hendrix, he's like [G] a Jim Morrison, you know, [Ab] a Johnny Chocolate,
everyone goes, don't be daft, you know, he's like just a kid, you know.
We kind of go, no, you know, this [Eb] will develop, this will grow.
It's not the usual kind of, you know, rock and roll suicide or death due to alcohol or to drugs.
He meant what he said when he wrote the songs.
I think that people recognize that. _
You can sort of see the Joy Division story and [Db] the Factory story that goes on from [Gbm] that
as the last true story in pop.
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Love, love will [G] tell you the part [A] again
Joy [D] _ _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ Division had recorded their second album, Closer, and was set for their first tour of America.
[Am] But Curtis was debilitated by his epilepsy, his medication, and arguments with his young wife Debbie
over an affair he was now having with a Belgian fan, Anique Honor. _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] After a failed suicide attempt, Curtis finally took his own life on 18th May 1980,
the night before Joy Division was set to leave for the States. _
[E] Iggy Pops, the idiot, [Em] was on [A] his record turntable.
[Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Who knows what really went on that night, who knows what [F] really happened.
[E] He was on his own that night, he'd seen Debbie, and they'd had an argument,
and then he spent most of the night on his own, and who knows what went through his head.
Whatever happened between Debbie and Ian on that last night was,
I'd say, was quite obviously what finished him off.
He felt he couldn't cope with it anymore, and that was it.
None of us were there, he didn't phone anybody up.
We had been warned twice, we'd been warned by the fact he took an overdose of fucking tablets,
_ and our response was, _ like the line [G] from Closer,
it's a cry for help, a plea for anaesthesia. _
Secondly, I'd been warned on a train to London two weeks earlier by Anique.
I said, what do you think of the new album?
She goes, I'm terrified.
I said, what are you terrified of?
I thought you'd understand, he means [Am] it.
And I go, no he doesn't mean it, it's art.
[Am] And guess what?
He fucking meant it.
Like a child, though these years make [A] me older _ _ _
[Am] _ With children my time is so wastefully [A] spent
_ _ [Am] I think we're a bunch of silly cunts, the fact that we didn't see it coming.
And we [E] didn't, we really didn't.
_ [Ab] We never [E] really listened to Ian's words, you know.
We did after he died, obviously.
But we never really listened to his words, because that was kind of his private business.
It seemed very personal, just let him get [B] on with that, you know, [Am] look at the music. _ _ _
_ _ The sleeve for Closer was already in [A] production. _
[Am] Working with Peter Saville, [D] the band had chosen an image by [Am] French photographer,
Bernard Pierre-Wolfe, for the cover.
[D] _ _ I hadn't heard anything, I didn't know what they were doing, I didn't know what they were writing,
[Ab] but I mean, the rest of the band didn't know really what Ian [Am] was singing.
And they chose an image together.
And then, you know, some time later, [Am] Ian's died,
and the record is in production and the cover is at the printers.
And I had to draw it to Tony's attention.
We have a tomb on the cover.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
Factory and the band [G] stood by the original design. _ _
When Ian Curtis dies, and I said it immediately, you know, and Wilson certainly did,
you know, [E] he's like a Hendrix, he's like [G] a Jim Morrison, you know, [Ab] a Johnny Chocolate,
everyone goes, don't be daft, you know, he's like just a kid, you know.
We kind of go, no, you know, this [Eb] will develop, this will grow.
It's not the usual kind of, you know, rock and roll suicide or death due to alcohol or to drugs.
He meant what he said when he wrote the songs.
I think that people recognize that. _
You can sort of see the Joy Division story and [Db] the Factory story that goes on from [Gbm] that
as the last true story in pop.
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _