Twenty Four Hours - Joy Division

Same songs share the same title but the sentiments are polar opposites....

Take Twenty Four Hours for example. One's by Athlete the other's by Joy Division. Both British. The former is from Deptford, South London while the latter is from Salford in Manchester. The former is hopeful while the latter is kinda hopeless.

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He allowed the silence to hang in the space between the two of them. Her head turned away. The anguish he felt was apparent enough to wrench his heart. The silence had hung on too long and too often. He felt at a loss. Desperation took a hold of him yet the reticence in him had always stopped him from doing more. Or saying more.

They were stopped at a traffic light and the vehicles whizzing across them became a blur. The familiarity of the moment provided the only distraction for him. Was it in a movie? The pedestrians crossing the road formed a kaleidoscopic strip no his windscreen. Occasionally he could catch one or two faces turning to look into the car. Nobody he knew. But from the cursory glance, he felt that they had a knowing look. At that moment, he remembered again how the world had always continued to go on about its business even in the greatest of his personal tragedies.

He fought to hold back the tears and anticipated the warm stream flowing down his cheeks. He secretly wished that was the reason why she was turned way. To hide the tears. But he knew better. That only made him want to tear more.

The lights changed and he moved off. The amber streetlights casted shadows in his car, forming a regular pattern increased in its frequency.

He let her turn away so that he can escape into the wicked night. Alone with his demons.

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Twenty Four Hours

So this is permanence, love's shattered pride.
What once was innocence, turned on its side.
A cloud hangs over me, marks every move,
Deep in the memory, of what once was love.

Oh how I realised how I wanted time,
Put into perspective, tried so hard to find,
Just for one moment, thought I'd found my way.
Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away.

Excessive flashpoints, beyond all reach,
Solitary demands for all I'd like to keep.
Let's take a ride out, see what we can find,
A valueless collection of hopes and past desires.

I never realised the lengths I'd have to go,
All the darkest corners of a sense I didn't know.
Just for one moment, I heard somebody call,
Looked beyond the day in hand, there's nothing there at all.

Now that I've realised how it's all gone wrong,
Gotta find some therapy, this treatment takes too long.
Deep in the heart of where sympathy held sway,
Gotta find my destiny, before it gets too late.



Joy Division