* Song recorded in Nov. 1979 as a Peel Session, in Jan. 1980 at Pennine Sound Studios, in March 1980 at 
Strawberry Studios (used in the Substance CD and the official video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No). I used that last version.
* Note that 12” mixes also exist with longer interludes and additional interlude and chorus at the end.
* See https://www.discogs.com/fr/Joy-Division-Love-Will-Tear-Us-Apart/master/5095 for more informations. 
* Intro: you can play A5 (577xxx => A E A) with sometimes 570xxx to introduce a D, inspired by the video 
https://youtu.be/yOsL16fcBXs?t=63 where Peter Hook plays x779 (E A E) with some x709 (E D E). Or play an 
A7sus2/E (002000) as Bernard Sumner in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z6DlCl6jvQ 
* The riff comes from the same B. Sumner's video (but with a capo 2 to fit his voice).
* Some ideas for variations: replacing the D A sequence by G6/D (xx0000) A sounds good and is easier. 
You can alternate A and Asus2 (x02200) and even add some Asus4 (x02230). Bsus2 (x24422) can add some 
interesting colors: I like to play Bm Bsus2 Bm G6/D A Asus2 A. You can also use some Em7 and A7.
* See also my chords for my preferred covers:
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/adrian-borland/love-will-tear-us-apart-chords-3350666
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/in-laudanum/love-will-tear-us-apart-chords-4652300

[Chords]
     577xxx
  xx0233
  xx0230

[Riff]
e|------------
B|------------
G|------------
D|--2---4-5-4-
A|------------
E|------------

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2-0-----0-----
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[Intro]
| A5 | (8x)
              
              

[Verse 1]
            
When routine b

             
ites hard
            
And ambitions 

    
are low
            
And resentment

               
 rides high
            
But emotions w

      
on't grow
            
And we're chan

                 
ging our ways,
           
Taking differe

     
nt roads

[Chorus]
           
Then love, lov

      
e will  tear u

      
s   apart agai

n
           
     love, lov

      
e will  tear u

      
s   apart agai

n

[Interlude]
              

[Verse 2]
            
Why is the bed

                
room so cold
            
Turned away on

      
 your side?
            
Is my timing t

              
hat flawed
            
Our respect ru

     
n so dry?
            
Yet there's st

              
ill this appea

     
l
            
That we've kep

             
t through our 

 
lives

[Chorus]
           
But love, love

     
 will  tear us

      
   apart again
           
    love, love

     
 will  tear us

      
   apart again

[Interlude]
| A5 | (8x)
              
              

[Verse 3]
            
Do you cry out

                  
 in your sleep
            
All my failing

    
s exposed?
              
And there's a 

            
taste in my mo

       
uth
            
As desperation

       
 takes hold
            
Yet that somet

                
hing so good
            
Just can't fun

         
ction no more?

[Chorus]
           
But love, love

     
 will  tear us

      
   apart again
           
    love, love

     
 will  tear us

      
   apart again
           
    love, love

     
 will  tear us

      
   apart again
           
    love, love

     
 will  tear us

      
   apart again

[Outro]
| A5 | (4x)
          
(arpegiatte an

d repeat fadin

g)