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| The Cure – Lost Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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being torn between a futile attempt at new love and the faded promise to an old one |
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| The Cure – Us or Them Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this is one of their more transparent songs, but "Bush and Blair" is oversimplifying a bit. The first part of the song is about governments that play on people's fears and their religious beliefs to justify invasion of our privacy and to control us. The second part of the song refers to Muslims and Christians who see themselves as the arbiters of justice. He mocks those who see his freedom of speech as a threat. We all die alone, without religion or country.
kind of a pissed off version of "Imagine" |
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| The Cure – A Letter to Elise Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Les Enfants Terribles (the book by Jean Cocteau). A brother and sister and their two friends/lovers play elaborate games in an insular make-believe world, which they draw closer around themselves until the tragic end. Paul writes a letter to his sister Elise that explains his true love for her, but it is too late. I know that this book made a powerful impression on Robert Smith, but I have never heard that he based the song on it. So it's just my take. |
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| The Cure – Strange Attraction Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think King of Some Island has a good take on the song, because lots of real girls are obsessed with Robert and it's believable that one of them said things that connected with him personally. But it makes sense on a general level too, because haven't we all been infatuated with someone and had to give it up as unrealistic?
I think "smoking poetry" meant she was reading and quoting it like an addiction. I love the line about sharing lipstick. What a cute way of asking for a kiss. |
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| The Cure – In Between Days Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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For me, this song is about Simon coming back to the band. Listen to the last song on the previous studio album. The Top is, for all purposes, a solo album, and the title track ends "Please come back, all of you". In Between Days, the first song on the album, sounds like a continuation "come back, come back, don't walk away". --- Of course it's probably about trying to decide between two girlfriends, as other people have said. There are a lot of OTHER Cure songs about that theme, so it would make sense. --- Just like Charlotte Sometimes, there is a kids book called "The In Between Days" but I doubt it has anything to do with the song. The characters in the book live on an island. During the summer there is a ferry, but during the winter, the "in between days", they cannot leave the island or see anyone from the mainland. It COULD have something to do with the song if you use your imagination. --- The other place where I have seen the title of this song is: a package of tampons said "for all your light days, for all your heavy days, and all your in-between days." A-ha. That's it right? :-) |
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| The Cure – Mint Car Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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When I was in my teens I had kind of a fetish for 60s things, I went around graffitti-ing a VW bug and "peace, love, and blue sunshine." (obviously the Glove was in my record collection) Falling in love with one person can cause a giddy love-for-everything feeling, that's what I was going through -(fast forward)- When this song came out, the happy-happy tone and the title made me instantly think of the "new" VW beetle. You know the mint green one with the little vase in the dash for a big daisy. Funny how things repeat themselves. |
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| The Cure – The 13th Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Another perfect line about sex "her face gets big her face gets small"... almost as good as "you wet through and me headfirst" ... |
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| The Cure – 39 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think that like many songs on this incredible album the meaning is very straightforward. It amuses me how Robert Smith is dismissed as an aging, wealthy, goth coasting on his laurels, with the suggestion that he peaked about twenty years ago. Listen to the progression from Sinking, to End, to this song. Sinking was mournful and still seemed to look ahead. In End still he says "I think I've reached that point...", here he is desperate and angry, and has no doubt that things are over. "Half my life I've been here..." |
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| The Cure – Bloodflowers Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I have two interpretations --- 1: Two people who try to preserve the romantic relationship as it was when it was new, forgoing children and responsibility, as fresh flowers that "never fade". She promises eternal youth and limerance. He sees the picture in a more pessimistic light, with the death of their love the inevitable end. As the years go by, things are still the same, and they wonder if they made the right choice --- 2: he's lamenting the fact that she gives of herself, flowers of love, and he only hurts her, flowers of blood. The "who to choose" part comes from loving more than one person, then having to choose one and hurt the other. |
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