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| The Cure – Pornography Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song goes with the themes of "Siamese Twins" and "The Figurehead". I believe those songs are about someone losing his virginity to a prostitute, and hating himself for it, and feeling that there is no point in pursuing love ever again. In this song, he is reflecting on the event, but now his sadness has been replaced with anger. He is equating all love with porn, saying that is is dirty and that no one should be in love, because it doesn't really exist. The lines "The old man cracks with age / She found his last picture / In the ashes of the fire" is him referring to his own death. The previous two songs are about his suicide, so he is reaffirming that love caused him to do this. He refers to himself as old not because he's old literally, but to show that the pursuit of love has made him old cause of how trying it was. He talks about killing this woman because he is so angry that she caused him to die. "The lines "a desire for flesh and real blood" show that for him his desire to have sex with her and his desire to kill her are one in the same. The last lines are actually kind of hopeful, in my opinion. He is saying that his desire to kill her is wrong, which seems to portray the entire album in a precautionary light to people who might feel the same way. It is saying that all the feelings on this album are symptoms of a sickness, and that he wants to fix his life, which may explain why the cure started making happier song after this album. |
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| The Cure – Cold Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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i feel that the songs on pornography seem to fit together chronologically, like its telling a story. The previous song "A Strange Day" is about someone committing suicide because he thinks it's the answer. But i believe that this song is this person's soul looking at his dead body, and realizing that it is better to be alive, but it is too late. It does seem at first like the song is about someone else dying, but that is inconsistent with the rest of the album. So the narrator is this person's soul, which is shapeless, nameless, and is neither in heaven or hell; it is nowhere. I think that the name he's referring to is his own, and it is Cold because it has no meaning anymore. |
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| The Cure – The Figurehead Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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someone said that robert said that this song is about guilt. so, it seems like this song is a sequel to Siamese Twins, which i believe is about someone losing his virginity to a prostitute. This would explain the line "I will never be clean again". The song is about someone who wished so badly to have sex, but now that he has with a prostitute, he realizes that sex will never be enjoyable, and that he will only be alone. The image haunting him is probably the prostitute's face, which is the now the only thing he can associate with sex. Since the idea of sex and love have forever been ruined, he feels that there is no reason to live anymore. |
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