[ti:As It Is When It Was] [ar:New Order] [al:Brotherhood (Collector's Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]As It Is When It Was - New Order (新秩序) [00:18.50]Written by:Gilbert/Hook/Morris/Sumner [00:37.00]I've kept my head against the wall [00:41.18]I've been this way for so long now [00:46.01]You weren't exactly falling over yourself [00:52.05]When last I saw you [00:55.15]Well I always thought [00:59.06]We'd get along like a house on fire [01:03.40]Until you told me that I'd have to go [01:07.69]How can someone like you work that slow [01:12.67]Whatever you teach of me [01:16.41]You listen hard and I will make you see [01:21.26]Whatever you teach of me [01:24.94]You listen hard and I will make you see [01:46.56]I don't feel anything no more [01:50.84]This state of grace is consuming me [01:55.41]I'm not grown up and I am not a boy [01:59.96]I feel no pain and I feel no joy [02:05.64]Well I always thought [02:09.47]We'd get along like a house on fire [02:13.98]In those days when the sun was warm [02:18.34]I ran in the street where I was born [02:23.27]Whatever you teach of me [02:26.99]You listen hard and I will make you see [02:31.74]Whatever you teach of me [02:35.35]You listen hard and I will make you see [03:03.87]The streets so empty at this time of night [03:07.94]I'd rather walk on my own than fight [03:12.91]In a world where I'd forgotten you [03:16.62]I found myself forgotten too [03:21.34]That's the danger of believing books [03:24.91]And all the lies of those thieves and crooks [03:29.61]We sing intellectual songs of love [03:33.75]From a stolen pen to a velvet glove