Transmission Lyrics
Radio, live transmission
Radio, live transmission
[Verse 1]
Listen to the silence, let it ring on
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun
We would have a fine time living in the night
Left to blind destruction, waiting for our sight
[Verse 2]
And we would go on as though nothing was wrong
And hide from these days we remained all alone
Staying in the same place, just staying out the time
Touching from a distance, further all the time
[Chorus]
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio
[Verse 3]
Well I could call out when the going gets tough
The things that we've learnt are no longer enough
No language, just sound, that's all we need know
To synchronise love to the beat of the show
And we could dance
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Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Peter Hook:
“Transmission” started with the bass line, turned into our first hit record, and it’s a very very simple chord sequence, very effective. You can hear that youth, that you’re a punk and you mean it in the bass riff, which is obviously the most important thing in the world
—via LouderSound
The idea is “dance to the music on the radio”, to be more specific.
That music might be what’s being described by the line “no language, just sound, that’s all we need know”.
There are also clues that the music is the song itself. The first lines are “radio, live transmission"—calling out the name of the song as something on the radio (self-evidently true for literal transmissions, plausibly true for Transmission the song).
- 1.Exercise One
- 2.Ice Age
- 4.Glass
- 7.The Kill
- 9.Dead Souls
- 14.Passover
- 15.New Dawn Fades
- 17.Transmission
- 18.Disorder
- 19.Isolation
- 20.Decades
- 21.Digital
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