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The Cure – Push Lyrics	17 years ago
Oh, and it's very cathartic to listen to. Especially the first verse.

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The Cure – Push Lyrics	17 years ago
I can't say what Robert's intentions were with these lyrics but I always think of it as a psychological abstraction of an abusive relationship, which the victim is still haunted by.

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Yazoo – Nobody's Diary Lyrics	17 years ago
I can't believe more people don't remember this song. Actually the first time I heard it was on the soundtrack of the indie film "The Edge of Seventeen," and it complimented the film in a very memorable way. It's a straightforward break-up song, from the viewpoint of the party who isn't ready to let go. A simple and universal song that creeps under one's skin.

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Yazoo – Nobody's Diary Lyrics	17 years ago
Whatever the case. I can't believe more people don't remember this song. Actually the first time I heard it was on the soundtrack of the indie film "The Edge of Seventeen," and it complimented the film in a very memorable way. It's a straightforward break-up song, from the viewpoint of the party who isn't ready to let go. A simple and universal song that creeps under one's skin.

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Radiohead – How to Disappear Completely Lyrics	17 years ago
Such a beautiful song to chill to when you feel sad and want to tune out humanity - applicable for so many situations. It's funny though, that I always hear "left lane" instead of Liffey, as in floating down the left lane into oncoming traffic (if you're in the states) and instead of "fireworks and hurricanes" I hear "flowers and orchids." Weird.

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'Til Tuesday – Voices Carry Lyrics	17 years ago
Personally I imagine it to be about sexual abuse where the singer is an underage girl. (Probably the guy she's with is her teacher or a friend of her parents or something.) She idealizes their relationship but on some level feels the damage being done, while he tries to keep her quiet and complacent. It all comes out in the end, though.

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The Cure – Just Like Heaven Lyrics	17 years ago
A perfect song. I agree there is an Edgar Allan Poe/Annabelle Lee vibe, though there aren't any solid references to it, other than iconic seaside imagery, and being separated from idealized, perfect love.

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The Cure – Lullaby Lyrics

17 years ago

Should read "cautionary poem" not tale, but you know what I mean. RS's line is - I think - "so come into my parlor, said the spider to fly, for I have a little something here." (I'm listening to a live version of the song, so it may be slightly different.) MH's line from the poem is actually "will you walk into my parlor, said the spider to the fly/tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you may spy." So, not an exact quote, but definitely a reference and I think it should be included as the last line of the lyric. Okay, I'll shut up now...

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The Cure – Lullaby Lyrics

17 years ago

Definitely about a victim of sexual abuse describing the predator. It's just too authentic and close to what such a victim goes through to NOT be about that, I'm convinced. Robert Smith may have said it was based on a reoccurring dream, but that was probably only the starting point of his inspiration, and maybe he didn't want to open the door to wild speculations. (Thought I'm not saying RS himself or anyone he knew was sexually abused necessarily, because he's certainly a brilliant enough writer to invoke this without needing to have had first-hand experience.) "Sneaking past the windows of the blissfully dead" - the predator has everyone else convinced that he is benign and they are in complete ignorance of what is really going on. "Searching out fear in the gathering gloom" - sexual predators prey on those they perceive as vulnerable, easy targets. "There is nothing I can do" - the predator presents himself so benignly to the victim/child that his evil intentions are only realized by the child when it's too late to get away. 2nd verse, pretty self-explanatory. I like how Smith goes from narrating the victim's pov in the first verse to a fleeting embodiment of the predator in the second verse when he quotes "be still be calm..." etc. This is actually kind of empowering from a victim's pov, to overcome his enemy by portraying him, revealing him to the audience for the criminal that he is, repeating words that the predator never meant for anyone else to hear. The last verse describes how the victim feels that, in addition to the physical pain, the psychic damage eats continually away at his soul, long after the incident. And if I had any doubt about the context of this song, the quote from Mary Howwit's The Spider and the Fly makes reference to a classic cautionary tale meant to warn children about the dangers of sexual predators, in which the spider also represents the predator.

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The Cure – Let's Go to Bed Lyrics

18 years ago

I love what Robert Smith said in a 2003 interview: "All pop songs are basically saying ‘please go to bed with me.’ So I’m going to make it as blatant as possible, set it to this cheesy synth riff – everything I hated about music at that time. It was junk. Lol and I recorded it, Fiction put it out, and suddenly we’re getting 15 plays a day on American radio. Sod’s law, isn’t it." I think it's supposed to be funny. They just want to have sex but spend the whole night being coy and shy about it, then finally get down to it - by that time they're too tired to have any pretense.

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The Cure – From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea Lyrics	18 years ago
I'm thinking it's about Robert Smith's relationship with his wife and the conflict between devotion and ambition - having to constantly be leaving her to go touring, recording, etc. Plus his home is by the sea so any reference to the sea may be autobiographical (in addition to metaphor). Of course he's so brilliant it ends up being an epic rather than mere autobio.

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The Cure – Charlotte Sometimes Lyrics	18 years ago
Cute story, but too bad PF has such residual bitterness about it, after she pretty much implied consent for them to continue the international promotion of her book. She should just sue instead of passive-aggressively blogging about it.

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