To the center of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you
In a room with a window in the corner, I found truth

In the shadowplay, acting out your own death, knowing no more
As the assassins all grouped in four lines, dancing on the floor
And with cold steel, odor on their bodies mad a move to connect
But I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left

I did everything, everything I wanted to
I let them use you for their own ends
To the center of the city in the night, waiting for you
To the center of the city in the night, waiting for you


Lyrics submitted by typo, edited by MrWillow

Shadowplay Lyrics as written by Ian Kevin Curtis Bernard Sumner

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    The intended meaning is very unclear, but some lines of this song remind me of myself(I'm aware that sounds a bit narcissistic..sorry.)

     "To the centre of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you. To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank,searching for you."-- This reminds me of a time in my life when I felt lonely and was searching for someone to rid me of that feeling.

    "In a room with a window in the corner I found truth."---In the room that I spent my adolescence there was a room with a window in the corner. I spent alot of time in that room, alone, reading and searching for truth..

    "Moving through the silence without motion."--Feeling unnoticed in a life that seems stagnant.

    Shock_Resistoron March 22, 2003   Link

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