Sunday August 21, 2022 “Bizarre Love Triangle” New Order

New Order was formed in 1980 by former Joy Division band members Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis. Gillian Gilbert was the only new member added after the demise of their former band when she was invited to join New Order during the early part of October 1980. Gilbert had already played with Joy Division a number of times, filling in for both Curtis and Sumner playing guitar. She was also the girlfriend, (now wife) of Morris.

 "Bizarre Love Triangle" was released as a single in 1986 from their fourth studio album, Brotherhood.  Although it failed to reach the Top 40 in the US In 2004, the song was ranked No. 204 in Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

 New Order took two lengthy sabbaticals. Between 1993 and 1998 the quartet worked on their own individual projects, before reconvening. In 2007, after Peter Hook left the band, Sumner and guitarist Phil Cunningham worked on their Bad Lieutenant group and the other members again pursued their own projects. The band reunited in 2011 without Hook, with Tom Chapman replacing the bassist.

 Stay safe and well…and oddly, the title ‘bizarre love triangle’ is never mentioned in the lyrics of the song leaving us to decipher just what that might mean...and then there's that 'rabbit' thing

Every time I think of you

I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue

It's no problem of mine

But it's a problem I find

Living a life that I can't leave behind

But there's no sense in telling me

The wisdom of the fool won't set you free

But that's the way that it goes

And it's what nobody knows

Well every day my confusion grows

 Every time I see you falling

I get down on my knees and pray

I'm waiting for that final moment

You say the words that I can't say

 I feel fine and I feel good

I'm feeling like I never should

Whenever I get this way

I just don't know what to say

Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday

I'm not sure what this could mean

I don't think you're what you seem

I do admit to myself

That if I hurt someone else

Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be

 Every time I see you falling

I get down on my knees and pray

I'm waiting for that final moment

You say the words that I can't say

 Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

(Every time I see you falling

I get down on my knees and pray

I'm waiting for that final moment

You say the words that I can't say

Every time I see you falling

I get down on my knees and pray

I'm waiting for that final moment

You say the words that I can't say)

Every time I see you falling

I get down on my knees and pray

I'm waiting for that final moment

You say the words that I can't say