The opening track on their debut album Movement. New Order set new heights after the demise of their former band Joy Division and the suicide of Ian Curtis. The song title is a play on a line off “Insight” from Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures which is “Guess your dreams always end”. While Bern...
[Verse 1]
My promise could be your fiend
A given end to your dreams
A simple movement or rhyme
Could be the smallest of signs
We'll never know what they are or care
In its escapable view
There's no escape, so few in fear
Give in a changing value
[Verse 2]
To be given your sight
Hid in a long peaceful night
A nervous bride for your eyes
A fractured smile that soon dies
A love that's wrong from your life and soul
A savage mine had begun
A long farewell to your love and soul
A long farewell to your soul
[Chorus]
Now I know what those hands would do
No looking back now, we're pushing through
We'll change these feelings, we'll taste and see
But never guess how the 'Him' would scream
But never guess how the 'Him' would scream
But never guess how the 'Him' would scream
Dreams Never End was written by New Order & Stephen Morris & Gillian Gilbert & Bernard Sumner & Peter Hook.
Dreams Never End was produced by Martin Hannett.
New Order released Dreams Never End on Fri Nov 13 1981.
Live at the Ukrainian National Home in New York City, 18 November 1981
Peter Hook:
This was the first bass riff I wrote around a song. The whole song was written on a six-string bass, and I sang as well, which was quite unusual. So it was unusual for me to play – I was a singing bass player, which I always think are the kiss of death. Until I became one, and then I re...