When routine bites hard and ambitions are low
And resentment rides high but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways, taking different roads

Then love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart

Why is the bedroom so cold turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed has respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal that we've kept through our lives
But love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart

Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, Will tear us apart
You cry out in your sleep all my failings exposed
And there's a taste in my mouth as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good, just don't function no more

When love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love, love will tear us apart again
Love, love, love will tear us apart

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Comments from YouTube:

Sara McCauley

6y↑28

I love the original by Joy Division, so I had my reservations when this version was recommended to me by someone very special. Wow. I'm blown away! Utterly sublime. I love, love, love it! :-)

kinseymilkbone

6y↑17

This song gains such pathos when sung by people in late middle age.

BTW, just from this video, June Tabor needs to be cast somewhere in Game of Thrones,.

whsonic's channel

3y↑1

She would be killed anyway. :-)

Ysobelle

1y↑6

The original was for me in my 20s. This...this is for me in my 50s. It’s so, so very different.

stuart austin

31w↑2

Even though I'd heard the original a million times I never really felt the lyrics until I heard this version. Some songs just sound better slower in my opinion. The original is still amazing though.

vootie99

6y↑18

This is a song that no one should cover, because the original was perfect... and almost ever cover is boring... but this... this is the real deal

Pagan Cidergod

Thank goodness they didn't take notice of you - this is a wonderful cover.

JackieMorrisArtist

The difference is that most people sing the words, but June Tabour understands them, and adds more.

Alison Hayward

8y↑7

one of the best cover versions ever

Jill Eckersley

2y↑5

This is the saddest song I have ever heard.

Nick Evans

Yes, and lyrics straight from the heart too - Ian Curtis was a tortured soul.. sad story.

stuart austin

45w↑2

Everytime I hear this I think "I'm not going to cry to it this time" and everytime I do. Only certain songs do that to you and this one will always do it to me .

bluesman172

2y↑2

Nobody could fail to be moved by this! Sublime.

nightowldisco

9y↑3

Just saw them do this on Jules Holland - stunning. Made me shudder like the original did all those years ago.

daniel f Bradley

3y↑4

this has actual made me love the song again, some fresh air on the tune

Alan Ollier

2y↑3

Some songs are so good even a change in arrangement can give them a new life, for Curtis ( and I'm of a similar vintage, and not to far away either ) a young and failing marriage, here two people Who have been together for decades realising They have little in common anymore...frankly beautiful.

randomglen

3y↑3

i was not sure at first.. but I love how this is sung in full emotion as it is a very emotional song.. however the original is understated and static... but this is full blood emotion done very very good...