joy division
failures
Don't speak of safe messiahs Failure of the modern man To the center of all life's desires As a whole not an also ran Love in a hollow field Break the image of your father's son Drawn to an inner feel He was thought of as the only one  He no longer denies All the failures of the modern man He no longer picks sides Sees the failures of the modern man Wise words and sympathy Tell the story of our history New strength gives a real touch Sense and reason make it all too much With a strange fatality Break the spirits of a lesser man Some other race can see In his way he was the only one  He no longer denies All the failures of the modern man No, no he can't pick sides Sees the failures of the modern man Now that it's time to decide In his time he was a total man Taken from Caesar's side Kept in silence just to prove who's wrong No, no he can't despise All the failures of the modern man No, no longer denies All the failures of the modern man