| The Cure – The Big Hand Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[Sellersburg:27240] This is the problem people have with their idea of “The Cure” - they want The Cure to be this dark, gloomy band when in reality they just aren’t most of the time. Aside from Faith and Pornography, their entire output from the 80’s was littered with pop songs. If anything, Disintegration was the biggest departure from The Cure’s sound along with the move from Pornography to the stuff released on Japanese Whispers and The Top. This is what makes The Cure such a great band. Every album has a distinct sound. Robert never sold the band out. They just got older. Hell, even Disintegration had it’s poppy moments albeit fewer than MOST Cure albums. I will say I do agree with it being a mistake having a song like The Big Hand not put on the album. Same as Scared as You and Play. The only song I think from that era they should have scrapped was Wendy Time, and that’s not even really a bad song. It’s just not as good as any other song they put out at the time. I see what happened with The Cure is hat the times changed and they changed with them while still trying to be The Cure and to me they succeeded. |
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| The Flaming Lips – Turning Violent Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This song is genuinely haunting. Becoming what you hate? Something new you don't understand? | |
| Christian Death – Romeo's Distress Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I feel like this has something to do with people in religious power taking advantage of that power to get away with their sinful lives. This really gives it away for me - "Conversation about the holes in your hands Walk through the garden Of men's desires Conversation about The kingdom of fire" Also the parts that are obviously referring to the KKK goes to show how religion and in this case specifically Christianity can be used to defend horribly evil ideologies. The last lines may be alluding to the sort of sexual exploitation that the Catholic church is so famous for. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Girl in Amber Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| The ending of this song always makes me cry. When he starts singing "don't touch me" and the way it distorts and fades out. It's perfect. | |
| The Cure – Fake Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[genitalben007:18834] Absolutely. Even the b-sides from this album went unnoticed by most. Why Can't I Be Me and Your God is Fear. Both are incredible songs that rival a lot of the songs on the actual album. I see this as a growing trend with The Cure since "Wish". Not that Wish isn't a terrific album, but that's when I noticed a huge upswing in b-sides. | |
| The Cure – Going Nowhere Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I love this song. It reminds me of the Wild Mood Swings b-sides. Somewhere between "Ocean" and "It Used to Be Me". It sounds almost happy, but it really isn't. To the listener, the narrator "going nowhere" is a relief. It's a good thing. But to the narrator here, it seems as if the only reason he's going nowhere or not leaving is because for some reason he can't. It's too difficult emotionally maybe? Something is preventing him from leaving. I think my interpretation is really sealed in the last lines - "could be I'm already there". I'm already nowhere. He's stuck. Trapped in what could be some sort of hell with the person he's addressing. It's a very tiresome, melancholy and trapped sort of song. Accepting the sort of hell you're in. And from the lines "so tell me that you love me again" and "tell me that you care" it seems that this is someone who is trapped with someone else. Someone that hurt them and the narrator here is wanting desperately to believe that even though this person hurt them greatly, they still love them and still care about them. This sounds an awful lot like some sort of codependent relationship, which is why I feel it resonates with me so intensely. |
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| The Cure – Bare Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Reading each line of this song is like reading the current state my relationship is in, line by line. Robert hit the nail on the head. You don't necessarily want it to end, but it's ending. And there's nothing you can do about it. You can choose to cling but it's not real. You can get held back by being attached to pleasant memories but memory isn't love. Some love fades. Some love lasts. Trying to grip it isn't going to save what's already gone. | |
| The Cure – The Scream Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Gave the album another listen after a long while today. The Scream instantly stood out. I was taken aback. Incredible song. | |
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