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New Order, "The Perfect Kiss"
(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


Oh my GOD you have no idea how long I've been looking for a gay New Order song. It doesn't seem like it should be that hard, but Bernard Sumner is resolutely straight (and "1963" is supposed to have a female narrator, sorry). I know, what!? Anyway, here I'm ignoring the potential Ian Curtis-related interpretations (insinuating things about a dead man is uncomfortable!) and operating under the rock 'n' roll assumption that whenever you hear the word "gun," you can substitute "penis."