Torn Curtain by Television

*NEW* Lyrics!

Torn Curtain reveals another play.
Torn Curtain, Such an expose!
I'm uncertain when beauty meets abuse.
Torn Curtain loves all ridicule.

Tears... tears rolling back the years
Years... Flowing by like tears.
Tears holding back the years.
Years. The tears I never shed.
The years I've seen before

Torn Curtain giving me the glance.
Torn Curtain bringing on the trance.
I'm not hurting: Holding to the thread.
Torn Curtain lifts me on the tread.

Torn Curtain feels more like a rake.
Torn Curtain - how much does it Take?
Burn it down
Tears, tears. Years, years.

This is a video of Torn Curtain by Television off of Marquee Moon


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Television - "Torn Curtain"
Copyright holder is Elektra Records

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Music

Tags:

• Torn
• Curtain
• Television
• Elektra
• Records
• Marquee
• Moon
• 1977

[the215renaissanceman]

A masterpiece.

[Zerms4]

Word...

[24liam24]

One of the best albums of all time.

[weechi1987]

wow...never heard Television before

this is purely genius

[AlNaafiysh]

The world's best "closing" song (and I don't give a toss about Beatles). And the guitars are completely INSANE. The end of a perfect album. I'm so amazed.

[KeganLovel]

and chryslerpoet is completely correct. New York rock music was about energy and not holding back - it was never intended to be some sport where everyone acts as tough or daring as they possibly can. The word punk, at the time, was a sort of demeaning term. It was like a word attached to someone who was arrogant and stupid. So embracing that is almost halfway a joke anyways, and I don't think there were any CBGB icons who sat around arguing semantics or staging history.

Just relax and listen.

[KeganLovel]

@gobeco

I'd definite agree about the Stooges. They're often overlooked in punk history because they were so far ahead of the game. Television WAS punk though. Listen to Foxhole or Double Exposure for evidence.

Later on their sound cleaned up.

It was never a Tom Verlaine dictatorship. He can be a controlling or dictatorial guy at times, sure. But Richard made it quite clear that he decided to leave because he thinks he has the best guitar record in the world up his sleeve. (see his website)

[gobeco]

@KeganLovel Yeah, thats right but it´s common to every young musical movement. Stooges or N.Y Dolls were too much punk and they were before. Verlaine alway deny about punk. He is too much lyric for punk. Richard Hell was few time in TV and yes he always has felt punk. I alway thought that TV was a personal project of Tom Verlaine. Now that R.Lloyd has leaved TV he declare TV always has been a tom Verlaine dictatorship.

[t85heavy]

@gobeco You lack undertanding young padewan.

[TheEnchantingWizard1]

Tears... tears rolling back the years

Years... Flowing by like tears.

[chryslerpoet]

Television, Blondie, the Ramones, Patti Smith, Suicide, Talking Heads, et al, were the bands that opened up the space for punk to exist. A good reminder to the younger generation that at one time, "punk" was about the attitude and energy you brought to the stage as opposed to the style you played. At one time the label embraced a lot of different stuff. It was the greatest time in my life, I can tell you. Thanks for posting this.

[MichaelLoveGun]

What a great band!

Thanks for posting.

[AlNaafiysh]

The guitar solo in this song makes me go berserk. In a good way

[KeganLovel]

@gobeco

Television helped invent the punk aesthetic and attitude. By attitude, I don't mean that they were aggressive for the sake of aggression; rather, they broke some major musical barriers (blending genres like jazz and surf rock) and put sexual innuendo in their early songs (See a song called "Love Comes in Spurts"). They also were perhaps the first band to wear torn clothing, and Richard Lloyd famously wore a shirt captioned, "Please Kill Me," which is kind of interesting. Hope that helps