| The Cure – Grinding Halt Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think maybe this song is about death and or dying. I appreciate "Grinding Halt" because it's minimal...it grabs my attention, but it's what's not in the song, and how intricate and wrought it isn't, that makes it enjoyable. | |
| The Cure – Siamese Twins Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"I scream 'You're nothing...I don't need you anymore, you're nothing..." That part really gets to me; it sounds like the ultimate expression of shame, pain and disgust. |
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| The Cure – Plainsong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't know what inspired Robert to write this song, or how he happened to write it, but the way that I imagine the song coming to be is what makes it one of my favorites. I'm not sure I actually really want to know. I imagine Robert perched alone on the edge of a very high cliff above the sea tides (naturally), staring without intent out into the horizon. The expanse above him is mostly grey, except for a few breaks in the sullen shroud of the sky where wisps of sunlight form symbolic tangents between the sea and sky, causing a few random pieces of water to do a shimmering, defiant dance against the gloom. The chilling breeze of a lingering English winter whips his tousled, inky, tumbleweed locks against his pallid face and he shudders. Still, those little glimpses of sunlight hold memories of warmth, and even though the wind is wicked and cold, there's a hint of spring carried in from behind the horizon with every gust, and he knows that eventually it will come. That's all probably just complete nonsense, and it really has very little to do with the lyrics, but I enjoy it all the same. |
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| The Cure – To Wish Impossible Things Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| "To Wish Impossible Things" paints an exquisitely cold pictorial of mourning. Listening to it, I can so perfectly feel the dark, immense vastness of whatever sorrowful chasm Robert Smith was lost in when he wrote this song. It's probably one of the most poignant and underrated Cure songs of all time. | |
| The Cure – Gone! Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I completely agree with ming ming. Whenever I want to wallow in self-pity and think that nothing will ever get better, I put on "Gone!" and it's instant motivation. Robert's saying that things will never improve unless you do it yourself, and that's damn right. | |
| The Cure – One Hundred Years Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The way the guitars and lyrics revolve and twist dismally around each other in this song...it pulls me into that hopeless hellbound spiral that Robert Smith was caught up in as a younger man. For the duration of this song, I feel like I'll never be free. "One Hundred Years" is the most brilliant and deliciously agonized, unabashed display of self-loathing I've ever heard...I love how it opens Pornography with it's utter hopelessness, but as the album progresses, there develops just a tiny glimmer of hope entwined in all of the blackness. There's nothing like it. |
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| Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| What I really love about "Personal Jesus" is that it's about devotion, like tjkerouac said, but it's not a love song...it's darker and more desparate. | |
| The Cure – New Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The first time I heard this song, 1. it frightened me; 2. made my brain feel like it was being twisted around like a wad of Silly Putty; and 3. I knew I had to listen to it again to make sure it was real. Definitely odd, original and dark (drug induced, as well), "New Day" is something I personally think every Cure fan should hear. After a few initial listens, I really actually enjoy this song. On the walk back to his hotel room after recording this song in 1984, Robert Smith collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital. Not too surprising, if you've ever heard the song.... |
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| The Cure – Cold Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It seems to me that this song is a major indicator of why the Cure is known (rather stereotypically) as the gloomy, "goth-rock" band that mainstream music media portrays them to be. Gloomy? At times, deliciously so...and self-indulgently perfect at it; though by no means is that the only feeling their music conveys. "Goth"? Not at all, Robert Smith says, and I agree (although I am certainly no expert at what is and is not goth...I am only a die-hard Cure fan, and that's basically as far as it goes). In short, "Cold" is a fanastic song, and it's every bit as frigid as the January air here in Wisconsin. I would suggest that immediately after listening to this song, switch right on over to "Do the Hansa," or "The Caterpillar," for a delightfully amusing contrast. |
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| The Cure – Ocean Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The sweeping instrumental tides and the lament-laden tones of Robert's on-the-verge-of-tears voice make this song one of the Cure's most powerfully atmospheric (alongside "A Forest") to date. I can just see a seascape, colored in hues of the most melancholy blue, as Robert sits sullenly on the sand, singing a softly desperate, confused ode to the great contradiction known as getting older. "Ocean" fits together in every way so perfectly...I think everyone in the world should at least hear this song once. |
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| The Cure – Doing the Unstuck Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's a great theme song for anyone who has dreams of escaping from a dreary situation because it has that power to motivate...I know it's definitely one of my theme songs... | |
| The Cure – Do the Hansa Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is mostly crazy make 'em ups in pretend German, and the background vocals are simply hilarious...it's a side of the Cure mostly unseen, and I love it. | |
| The Cure – Throw Your Foot Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Robert wrote this song in 1983, with the help of some magic mushroom tea, and it's about a dance which he "perfected." It's the most enjoyable bout of drug induced silliness I've heard in a very long time. | |
| The Cure – Wrong Number Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Every time I listen to the song (and I listen to it quite a bit), I come up with different possibilites as to what it could possibly mean. The only 'help' I've come across in looking for information on it's meaning is Robert Smith's own comment that he was "never quite sure about" the song...and I am not even sure if he meant lyrically, what the meaning is, or musically. Personally, although I can see how this song could be about a relationship being distant or growing apart--and since that is a recurring theme in a lot of Smith's songs, it is quite plausible--I have always garnered a different feeling from "Wrong Number," one of the reasons perhaps being because the song itself is quite different in several ways than other Cure songs. I keep getting the feeling that "Wrong Number" has something to do with the feeling of a foreigner being Americanized...that is where the "red and blue soul with a snow-white smile" factors in. The voice that answers Robert on the phone at the end of the song is American as well...and I think the garishness of the colors has tie-ins with the loud rudeness of American pop culture. The music video also gives me this impression. He's underground, part of this world of dark beauty, where he looks like he wants to be, then he's dragged into this world of brashness and bright colors, where he seems to want to get away. That's all I've been able to get my head around thus far.... |
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