| The Cure – Sleep When I'm Dead Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| (As he sings "sleep when I'm dead" there are 3 quick bass mutes, the first two are light, and then the third is held just long enough for you to notice.) | |
| The Cure – Switch Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The vocal rhythm dances between 3 beats a measure and 4. Try sorting it out. Snap your fingers/clap along and listen closely to how his words fit in with the beat. What's he following? Is he following? hehe, so the song's called switch. I like it. | |
| The Cure – Sirensong Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Give me your life Or I must fly away And you will never hear this song again" ..again... That's the most delicious 4 bars of music I ever heard. Particularly the way it so gracefully resolves as he sings "...again." Diving right back in without so much as a ripple.... it's gone as soon as it appears... And then after it, you want to hear it again... and you wait for it... and it's coming... and it's coming... and then !!! AAAHHHHHWWWW!!!!!! It's not there this time!!! He ends it literally high and dry!!! That dirty siren.... And so you're left in suspense until the next time you decide to play the song. |
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| The Cure – Your God Is Fear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Bloodflowers had some extremely daoist/deist themes to it, i.e. observing the infinite truth goodness and beauty infinitely expressed in the natural order of the world found even within the tiniest confines of human experience. ...to see the world without as you see world within, and vice-versa. He later on continued to explore these themes in the song entitled "Truth, goodness, and beauty," which took it on from a more "Heisenberg" or "Heraclitean" perspective. Truth will always slip through even the narrowest definitions... the best we can do is feel them slipping through... just enough to remind us that it's there for us to find after all. |
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| The Cure – The Hungry Ghost Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Read into the father of Consumer Culture, Propaganda, and Public Relations: Edward Bernays. He convinced the Corporate Institutions, past and present, that you are idiot cattle that need to be scientifically manipulated without your knowing it for the good of Corporate Democracy. The deliberate senselessness will begin to make sense to you. |
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| The Cure – Sleep When I'm Dead Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Try riding the bass line... feel the carefully placed mutes. Notice where they're placed... for instance under the word "Dead..." Very cool. | |
| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| says the lowest common denominator. | |
| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The cure's music has always been a form of post romantic jazz... for those who aren't into music theory, it still works on the subconscious level... but there's a lot of really overt things going on as well... do you have okay rhythm? try counting along with "Lost" to give you an idea of the clever tricks they routinely pull. | |
| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The cure's music has always been a form of post romantic jazz... for those who aren't into music theory, it still works on the subconscious level... but there's a lot of really overt things going on as well... do you have okay rhythm? try counting along with "Lost" to give you an idea of the clever tricks they routinely pull. | |
| The Cure – Never Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| anyone know anything about music theory here? analyse the syncopations and you'll understand what this song is about. "Trying to be in touch" Fuckin brilliant. | |
| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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What do you think of the 1st verse and the shift from a minor key to a major key in the last syllable? And how about the spaced out drum arrangement? and what do you think he means by: "So look, but you wont see it Listen, and you wont hear it Reach out, and you wont hold it You cant know it, but you can free it You cant name it, but could be it"? |
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| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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btw, the lyrics go: So look, but you wont see it Listen, and you wont hear it Reach out, and you wont hold it You cant know it, but you can free it You cant name it, but could BE it. |
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| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| and also, I think it might help if you try closing your eyes and listening to the song... not just the lyrics. | |
| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| so I guess you feel things are just as simple as they sound or appear. and that would be the nature of robert smith's music then? | |
| The Cure – You're So Happy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| oh, so I guess that's basically explained in the article linked above, thanks for dredging that up Sepherenia | |
| The Cure – You're So Happy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's a bad vocal impersonation if you listen carefully... the microtonal work is a complete mess accross the board and there are no real signature cure rifts anywhere to be found. | |
| The Cure – There Is No If... Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it's hard to tell the meaning of most good music if you ignore the actual music and pay attention only to the vocals. The meaning is hidden in the musical development. pay particular attention to how young and confined the "garden" of music sounds as one thing blooms into the next in bursts of strumming and brushes of synth over the hollow crackling drums. The vocals are a conversation between a flower and the sun. It begins on a wet rainy day, when she was a seed just beginning to sprout. He tells her that he loves her, but nestled in dirt beneath the pouring rain, she doesn't hear him. She sneezes, as she begins to sprout. She feels his warmth and reaches towards him, towards his shining eyes, up past the surface of the soil into the sky... The seasons change, winter comes, he leaves, and she sleeps.... Time passes, she reawakens as he returns and their relationship continues to develop into a lush and beautiful multilayered garden, full of textures, colors and life. And now I shut up. And you should listen to the rest and appreciate it yourself. P.S. IF YOUR ARE of THE CURE and you don't appreciate what I'm doing, please drop me a message. |
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| The Cure – You're So Happy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| umm no... this song is an effective marketing gimmick by a band named PINK PIG. It was purposely misnamed and sung in a sloppy robert smithesque style to ride on the cure's coat tails. | |
| The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| well all art is basically charicature. but thanks for appreciating | |
| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Sink-it = sink in... please excuse the rest of the grammatical errors too, i'm feeling rushed. | |
| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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k, have the time for an extended explanation: Truth, goodness and beauty: the three cursed pursuits of humanity. The song begins with the protagonist in the depths of existential despair.. . he cries about his imperfect and feeble existence being lost and alone in empty space. Then at the 43 second mark, it hits him--he awakens to reach a state of zen-like enlightenment and realises the true nature of reality: that all of existence is the manifestation of beauty as it blooms and echoes and fills all spaces in between. This is a take-off of the bloodflowers album concept, about how life is transient like flowers, but life in motion, fully experienced whether in sadness or elation is what makes for all things beautiful, like life sprouting from the dirt erupting and then flowering then withering and then (but not finally) collapsing and dissolving back into the dirt. there is no intermediary stage in the transitions in life that aren't beautiful unless you've stopped paying attention, or have only eyes to the dirt while the garden before you lives breathes and explodes in a sort of slow-motion dance of variety and vibrance. At the 43 second mark, the empty spaces burst as they fill with music blooming. Everything builds and bursts outward and spreads like ripples in a pond, or echoes through space to your infinitely sensitive ears. listen to the brilliantly innovative use of the drums to achieve the effect of chi-like energy flowing imperceptible until it condenses for a moment into rippling vibration and then dissolves back into the canvas of ever-flowing imperceptible energy again. In the second verse tries to explain what he sees to the sad girl with the words "so look! And you wont see it... Listen and you wont hear it... reach out, and you wont hold it, you can't know it... but you can free it, you can't name it, but you can be it.... " Try to understand the world simply through the five senses and you'll see an incomplete and imperfect vision. Like the zen adage that I'll paraphrase with: I point at the moon, and you stare at my finger." To stare at the dirt and see death not life. He further emphasises it in the closing lines: "hoping for a girl LIKE you... no not "LIKE" you... YOU! Because with YOU he is not describing the lifeless noun as approximated by the 5 senses but the ever evolving and experiencing YOU the verb, the BE-ing like god, infinitely indescribable and impossible to capture. It's pretty heavy stuff... But give it time to sink it. think of how the classical flight of the bumble actually sounds like the flight of a bumble bee and you'll get what the cure are all about. |
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| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's also neat how if you have expensive headphones you hear a robtic voice behind robert as he sings "we want! this! like! everyone else!!!" | |
| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Maybe the machine grinding to a halt as together they die? | |
| The Cure – Bloodflowers Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| ... like a bloodflower blooming. | |
| The Cure – A Forest Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Your idea's definitely possible, bradley. I'm looking at the song in direct note form as if on sheet music. It's called a forest, and all the "da-dums"start on the same note and shoot up to different heights. And basically all the other instruments including the thump-chk! drums are sprouting in the same way, so the song really does appear to be "A FOREST" of notes. It's really pretty ingeniously done. |
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| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| yea, it's pretty obvious being as the original title to "end of the world" was "the Machine". But perhaps that would be too obvious? | |
| The Cure – The Promise Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| notice how none of the sentences resolve, how none of the notes he sing resolve, how the melodies, especially the bassline, never resolve, how the drums suspend touch the ground for less than a moment, and suspend again.... Everything is suspended awaiting resolution for ten minutes and fifteen seconds. Everything builds, but the climax never comes. his words come closer and closer to their full meaning, but the meaning never really comes, until you put it all together and realise that the joke is on you. | |
| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| btw: if you want me to interpret any other song for you, I can. Artistic understanding is basically all I have going for me =\. | |
| The Cure – You're So Happy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| There is an unreleased track called "you're so happy", but this is not it. | |
| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Glad to be appreciated =) | |
| The Cure – Boys Don't Cry Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| has anyone figured out my lil puzzle above and how it relates to the song? | |
| The Cure – Boys Don't Cry Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| da didi-dida da da , da didi-dida da da, da didi-dida da da da! ....pout pout pout! | |
| The Cure – Lovesong Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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some trivia: It was a wedding present to his wife mary. Fly me to the moon is from the eponymous frank sinatra song. |
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| The Cure – Friday I'm in Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's a very creative interpretation of the mother goose rhyme "monday's child" which goes: Mondays child is fair of face, Tuesdays child is full of grace, Wednesdays child is full of woe, Thursdays child has far to go, Fridays child is loving and giving, Saturdays child works hard for his living, And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay. It was once commonly used to teach children the days of the week, but the religious undertones were always annoying with sunday's child given preferential treatment. In robert's rendition it is friday's child who's prized, because love, and the dreams it inspires are all that makes life beautiful, not stodgy religiosity. Cure song's are never as simple as they seem. |
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| The Cure – Us or Them Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| You're wrong freethinker. | |
| The Cure – You're So Happy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This isn't a cure song, it was misnamed on file sharing programs. It's actually by a band called pink pig or something or other. | |
| The Cure – Bloodflowers Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Nothing about the cure is ever this obvious... Listen harder I say | |
| The Cure – Truth, Goodness and Beauty Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This is the most profound song on the nature of reality ever. | |
| The Cure – A Forest Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The song is about trees being analogous to lifeless, pointless, pablum people. And trying to find beauty and love, and life in a "forest". But only losing yourself instead. Again, pay close attention to the music, and how every melody in the song is another tree sprouting from the ground into the sky before your face. The da dum! da dum, da dum, da dum! are four more trees between you and what you dream of. |
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| The Cure – 10:15 Saturday Night Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The beauty of the cure has always been in the profundity of their art. Listen deeply to how every aspect of the song is another dripping sound all leading into the moment of frenzied frustration with the guitar grinding. The bass line, the drums, the drooling guitar chords. Listen carefully... | |
| The Cure – The End of the World Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The song is about about two people who have grown so close and are so in love that they have become one machine. A robot with two processors. It's an analogy for every romantic relationship. In the verses, the lyrics interupt themselves as one thought passes through from one mind to the other and then back again and so on. It's the same old program that every relationship runs where one side starts a stupid meaningless quibble, and it plays on back and forth between the two minds, (or processors) until the program runs it's course and they're all in love and in perfect agreement again with the "I couldn't love you more, I couldn't love you more." part In the next line he explains how she really just wants him to cry and play his part in the relationship, and he admits to loving when she sighs and fall apart. And that this is just basically like all relationships. So in the beginning, the machine isn't working smoothly as the two processors are conflicting. They're basically playing out the quibble through the lyrics and the musical interruption timing. Count along and you'll see that it goes: 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2! 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2-3-4 1-2! and the lyrics strung out without interuption go like this: Go, if you want to, I never tried to stop you you know there's a reason, for all of this you're feeling. You're feelings love Love, it's not my call you couldn't ever love me more. And the keyboard solo part in the center would be the part that makes it all worth it, it is what the machine was created for: lovely bliss and harmony where everything runs perfectly smoothly and spins and whistles and rings like what love is "supposed" to do to you. And then we reach the realisation in the climactic outro. After the moment of crisis, the oooooh OOOOHH ooooohhh..... each side of the machine violently crashes, you hear the alarm bells and the grinding of the gears. And then at this moment they finally realise that this is no longer just a relationship between two people. They are one machine, and if they broke up, it would not be just about a boy and a girl. It would be the end of the world!!! Listen carefully to the music, you'll hear the drums become puffs of smoke and steam venting. You'll hear the bass line singing along to robert's vocals. Or operating independently when they're apart. And you'll hear the electric guitar grinding like electric blood through the gears. You have to remember this is the cure, they are not an ordinary band with ordinary music. |
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