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Where can I find some definitive lyrics for Dreams Never End? The various versions I've seen online quite obviously get a few lines wrong.
Compare the DNE lyrics at WorldInMotion.net to those on this site's Resources section, for example. I realise that they're a bit hard to make out, but's not impossible!
Problem his, nobody knows for sure, and the band usually have the nerve to change the lyrics between versions.
I wouldn't be surprised if the lyrics on the Peel Session version were different than Movement, and then live...
I know for sure that Temptation is often completely different!
Best way is to get help from the Community, I'll cut and paste what we have here (which is mostly from the late Ceremony website) and we'll work on it.
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 it's escapable view There's no escape so few in fear Give in a changing value
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 Hello, farewell to your love and soul Hello, farewell to your soul
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
OK, let's work it out then. I'm working from the album version, but falling back on their performance at Tolworth, UK on 20 March 1983 when I'm really stuck.
My promise could be your fiend
Change to "My comments could be your theme(s)."
A given end to your dreams
This is pretty close, although it could also be "And give an end to your dream(s)".
A simple movement or rhyme Could be the smallest of signs We'll never know what they are or care
No question here.
In it's escapable view
This doesn't sound right. It could very well be "And that's the statement or view" but it sounds like "And then just take a poor view" to my ears. 
There's no escape so few in fear
Close enough.
Give in a changing value
Definitely wrong. This is either "Day made a change in value" or "Debate a change in value".
To be given your sight
OK
Hid in a long peaceful night
This should be "Hid(den) in a warm peaceful night".
A nervous bride for your eyes
Could also be "A nervous cry for your eyes".
A fractured smile that soon dies
Yep.
A love that's wrong from your life and soul
Definitely "A language drawn from your life and soul".
A savage mine had begun
"A sign which might have begun" sounds far closer.
Hello, farewell to your love and soul Hello, farewell to your soul
This could be correct, but I think it's more likely "A long farewell to your love and so / A long farewell to your soul".
Now I know what those hands would do
Very tough to make out, but the quoted line here is definitely not right. I can hear "Now I know what was meant to do".
No looking back now, we're pushing through
Small change to "No looking back now or pushing through".
We'll change these feelings, we'll taste and see
I'm really not sure. "The change it seems in taste or scene" has been suggested elsewhere.
But never guess how the him would scream But never guess how the him would scream But never guess how the him would scream
Again, the lines here are very close. "But never gets loud or he would scream" works a little better.
Known Pleasures will be singing the following, which is as good as it gets I think !
My promise could be your themeAnd gives an end to your dream(s)A simple movement or rhymeCould be the smallest of signsWe'll never know what they are or careAn empty statement or viewThere's no escaping so view in fearDelay the change in valueTo be given your sightHid in a warm peaceful nightA nervous cry for your eyesA fractured smile that soon diesA language drawn from your life and soulA sign which might have begunA long farewell to your love and so A long farewell to your soulNow I know what was meant to doNo looking back now or pushing throughThe change in feeling of taste or sceneBut never gets loud or it would screamBut never gets loud or it would screamBut never gets loud or it would scream
Last line is the hardest !
lifted off Olga, and not checked for accuracy
New Order: Dreams Never End
The intro for the guitar without distortion (Gillian's?) goes:
e------------------------------------------------------------------------------ b------------------------------------------------------------------------------ g------0---0---0--------0---0---0--------4--------4--------4---4---4----------- d--3-3---3---3---3--2-2---2---2---2--0-0---0--0-0---0--0-0---0---0---0--------- a------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Guitar with distortion (Barney's? -- get your own timings):
e----------------------------------------------------------------------------- b----------------------------------------------------------------------------- g----------------------------------------------------------------------------- d----------------------------------5--3--0--2-2/5-5\3--5--0--0---------------- a----5--3--0--2-2/5-5\3--5--0--0---------------------------------------------- e-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Then there's a couple of seconds of chords, perhaps A and B; listen to the song for the exact instance of this... If anyone knows what these chords are or cares [sorry :) ] they can verify this.
Gillian's Guitar rest of song:
e----------------------------------------------------------------------------- b----------------------------------------------------------------------------- g----4---4-4---4----4---4-4---4---4---4-4---4---4---4-4---4---4---4-4---4----- d--0---0-----0----0---0-----0---0---0-----0---0---0-----0---0---0-----0------- a----------------------------------------------------------------------------- c-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barney's Guitar during solos:
e----------------------------------------------------------------------------- b----------------------------------------------------------------------------- g----------------2-2-2-2-4---4---4------------------2-2-2-2-4---4---4--------- d--5-3-2-0-2---3-0-0-0-0-2---2---2---5-3-2-0-2----3-0-0-0-0-2---2---2--------- a----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Barney's guitar during last stanza:
e------------------------------------------------ b------------------------------------------------ g-2--2--2-2-4--4---4---4--2--2--2-2-4--4---4---4- etc. d-0--0--0-0-2--2---2---2--0--0--0-0-2--2---2---2- a------------------------------------------------ e------------------------------------------------
I'm sure I read in another source that the first line went:
"My COMMENTS could be your theme..."
or is this yet another one of those deliberately ambiguous lines?
