Playing With My Pleasure Zone

Low Life
New Order (1985)
The third studio album from New Order was released thirty years ago today.  My favorite song on this record is an instrumental track called Elegia, but that doesn't seem to be on YouTube at the moment.  Love Vigilantes is another excellent song on this record, but the one I'm sharing below is easier to dance to.

The Perfect Kiss
New Order (1985)

I stood there beside myself

Thinking hard about the weather

Then came by a friend of mine

Suggested we go out together

Then I knew it from the start

This friend of mine would fall apart

Pretending not to see his gun

I said "Let's go out and have some fun"

I know, you know, you believe in a land of love

I know, you know, we believe in a land of love

I have always thought about

Staying here and going out

Tonight I should have stayed at home

Playing with my pleasure zone

He has always been so strange

I'd often thought he was deranged

Pretending not to see his gun

I said "Let's go out and have some fun"

I know, you know, we believe in a land of love

I know, you know, we believe in a land of love

When you are alone at night

You search yourself for all the things

That you believe are right

If you give it all away

You throw away your only chance to be here today

Then a fight breaks out on your street

You lose another broken heart in a land of meat

My friend, he took his final breath

Now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death