(listen-want to just start it?...ready, flood?
Yeah...one, two, three, four)
Stay with me, I'll set you free
'Cause I can tell you once were pretty
Rose so sad you've lost your petals
And lost the luster of your tattle tales
I need a love to help me find my way
I need a strength that I cannot betray
I need a word to say what I can't say
I need a lover, lover
I need a lover, lover
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
Time has lost its hold on me
Hatred sleeps inside my bones
In the stillness of cool air
All the boys have been left for dead
'Cause we know where they fear to tread
The beautiful ones, the ones we'll remember
The precious ones, our greatest pretenders
I need a love to help me find my way
I need a strength that I cannot betray
I need a word to say what I can't say
I need a lover, lover
I need a lover, lover
And if you lose yourself
Could you take me, too?
Could you rest inside the sleep?
Stay with me, I'll set you free from you


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Cherry Lyrics as written by William Patrick Corgan

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    To me this song is just perfect. I see in it feelings that the love he has for somebody he knows are wrong for some reason, but he just doesn't give a fuck anymore if it's wrong or right, he's getting sick of moral obligations he feels and just wants to experience the raw lust for once especially in the lines "What are we waiting for?" but the lines "And if you lose yourself Could you take me, too? Could you rest inside the sleep?" show he would still wait for her... The line "Coudl you take me, too" signify to me that no matter how strongly he wants this love, he still respects her.

    polyethylenes1&2on June 08, 2005   Link

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