| The Cure – Dressing Up Lyrics | 2 months ago |
| Clearly, a song about sexual role playing: 'dressing up to kiss, dressing up to touch all this.... Going under slowly.....I could eat all of you'. Not much ambiguity there, I think. | |
| The Lovin' Spoonful – Alley Oop Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[SkaSong:52559] Thanks Wotanhero. My comment was written two years ago so it was funny re-reading it now, I don't think there is anything to add except that The Cure recently released a limited edition vinyl live single containing the songs 'I Can Never Say Goodbye' and 'And Nothing is Forever'. They chose live recordings of those from symbolically important dates- the live recording of I Can Never Say Goodbye was from the Toulouse show on 13 November 2022 which was the 5th anniversary of the death of his brother. The recording of 'And Nothing is Forever' was from 7 November 2022 which was the 3rd anniversary of the death of Simon Gallup's wife. Just to also add that the long promised Songs of a Lost World album, mentioned above, was eventually released on 1 November 2024. | |
| The Cure – This Morning Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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'This Morning' is possibly the most depressing song The Cure have ever written. As I understand the lyrics, an interpretation would go like this: At the start of the song, there is an elderly man whose life is without purpose because he has nothing left to feel and nothing left to give. His family have largely lost contact with him. His life is just a series of calendar days passing and the realisation that it is 'time to go'. Then he gets taken to hospital to die (a room too clean and too bright). Whilst he is there, he is visited by a couple who come to spend his last hours with him but there is an awkward silence as no one knows what to say. I assume that the woman is his daughter and the man his son-in-law. I make that assumption on the fact that the woman stares at the old man whilst the man stares at the woman. After an hour, the couple leave but as they turn away they see the sadness in his eyes, as he contemplates his future, where there is 'no eternity of life'. There is no beautiful goodbye. In the early hours of the next morning, the couple receive a phone call to say that he has passed away- it was quick and peaceful. But then the whole cycle of ageing continues, The days fly by for the couple and they lose their purpose, It is now the younger man in hospital awaiting his death, whilst his partner stares at him. The cycle of decline and death, |
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| The Cure – This Morning Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[SkaSong:51063] I have changed my mind about the song having no meaning, As I explain in a later comment, I think it's a song about an elderly person dying. |
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| The Cure – This Morning Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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A song about an elderly person dying. At the start of the song we are given a portrayal of an ageing man's life: they feel they have nothing more to give, no purpose and have lost touch with loved ones. There is a dull inevitability to the passing of time. Then the man get taken to hospital to die ('a room too clean and too bright'). Whilst they are there, they are visited by a couple (presumably an adult child and their spouse). There follows an awkward hour of staring as no one knows what to say. In the dying man's eyes, they see no hope of an afterlife but nothing but tears. Early the next morning they receive a call to say that their relative has died. |
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| The Cure – Step Into the Light Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This song was part of the 4.13 Dream recording sessions. When that album was cut down from a double album to a single album this was one of the songs kept back for a companion album to be entitled 4.14 Scream, which was to contain some of the darker songs of the period such as A Boy I Never Knew, It Can Never Be the Same and Please Come Home. The Cure didn't manage to complete the album in 2008 and then in 2009 there was tension within the band because guitarist Porl Thompson was in the process of divorcing the sister of Cure frontman, Robert Smith. Thompson's last performance with the band came on 19 April 2009. Smith put the band on hold and turned his attention to supporting his sister. The Cure became active again in 2011 with the Reflections Tour which celebrated the first 3 Cure albums. In 2012 Reeves Gabrels was recruited as Thompson's replacement. Smith did toy with the idea of releasing 4.14 Scream in 2014 but expressed discomfort at the idea of promoting an album created with a previous line-up. In 2018, Simon Gallup revealed that the album was being worked on once again with Gabrels adding some additional guitar parts. Nothing more has been heard of the project and it remains unreleased. Two songs, Step Into the Light and It Can Never Be the Same began to be played in live shows from 2016 onwards. There's no great mystery about the meaning of Step Into the Light. Smith is well-known as an atheist and in the song he imagines or narrates a conversation with a religious person, with his interlocutor trying to assert God as an absolute truth and Smith responding that it is just a question of belief rather than fact. |
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| The Cure – The Promise Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Such a powerful song. In 2004, Robert described this as his greatest ever guitar work. My take on the lyric is that the person who is making the promises isn’t the person he was in the relationship with. Rather it’s the person trying to console him after the end of that relationship. They tell him time will heal his pain, he’ll find love again. He believes their promises because he needs to (‘I needed your words’). But as time passes there is no resolution some wounds never heal. He finds no salvation. |
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| The Cure – Dressing Up Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I have always thought the lyric of this wonderful song was quite straightforward. My interpretation is that it’s about sexual role playing- ‘dressing up to kiss’. Of course, that’s probably all too straightforward!!!! | |
| Stiff Little Fingers – Dead Man Walking Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| The lead singer of The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, died on 30 November 2023. In the hours following his death, Jake Burns revealed that this song was written ‘for Shane’. MacGowan who was known for his heavy drinking was sometimes seen as someone living in borrowed time because a lot of people thought his drinking would drive him into an early grave. | |
| The Cure – This Morning Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I actually prefer the instrumental version because I’ve never really got on a handle on the lyrics and I think the sung version needs a bit more breathing space. Perhaps, to understand the lyric we need to remember which album it is on. The answer of course is some versions of the 2004 album The Cure. Why is that important? One of the ideas they tried on that album was including songs which explicitly referenced back to previous albums. Thus ‘Alt.end’ clearly references back to Seventeen Seconds- the guitar riff at the beginning links back to In Your House and the lines about ‘It’s not a case’ make us think of Play for Today. The song Us or Them links back to the Kiss Me album as it shares some lyrical content with The Kiss.(the bit where he swears). This Morning is clearly the reference back to Pornography. Stylistically, it is reminiscent of that album. The lyrical references about the clean white room suggest a reference back to One Hundred Yesrs. Perhaps, the idea lyrically is that the song doesn’t actually have a meaning. One Hundred Years was written through Stream of Consciousness and doesn’t really have a meaning. The same might be said of this. |
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| The Cure – Three Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[Songmeaningsuser:45938] Enough of that "Stand up straight" What nonsense... And I scream Actually listening more closely there's more... Enough of that "stand up straight" What nonsense "No," I said, my face close to the ground, "I'll stay as I am." "You really can annoy a person, I must say. Such a waste of time! Come on, put an end to it." "The way you shout! In the quiet of the night!" I said "Oh well, just as you like," he added But wheeling suddenly around, he looked at me - I hadn't quite finished yet - and said: "What's this? You're all crooked! What on earth are you up to?" "Quite right. You're very observant," said I, my head on the seam of his trousers, which is why I couldn't look up properly. I won't scream, I'll just stare at him as long as my eyes can stand it "Well?" he said "Well?" he said "Well?" he said |
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| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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@[mrpinkeye:45340] I think Japanese Whispers is indeed a reference to the band Japan. The Cure shared a history with that band as they both got signed to their first label, Hansa, after taking part in a competition. Steve Nye, the producer of those songs on The Walk ep had previously been Japan's producer. When The Cure was accused of having plagiarised New Order's Blue Monday on the song The Walk, Robert Smith denied it and said they were actually trying to rip off Japan. |
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| The Cure – Going Home Time Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[charlieSometimes:44810] This song was an outtake from Faith so slightly before One Hundred Years: https://youtu.be/cMNcSdlii3Y | |
| The Cure – A Boy I Never Knew Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[SkaSong:44689] The Guardian article in question can be found at the following address: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/10/robert-smith-the-cure-bestival |
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| The Cure – It Can Never Be the Same Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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It Can Never Be the Same was written for the 4.13 Dream album (released in October 2008) but did not feature on that album. It was first recorded at Parkgate studios in April 2006, although the only versions which are publicly available are live recordings from 2016. Cure leader Robert Smith's original intention was that 4.13 Dream would be a double album. He usually attributes the fact that it wasn't to the record company, although it should be noted that in 2014 it emerged that, in 2008, he hadn't actually written lyrics to some of the songs which would have been on this double album. When it became clear that 4.13 Dream would be released as a single album, Robert Smith put some songs aside to be released on a subsequent album to be entitled 4.14 Scream. Some of the songs which we know were to be included in this 4.14 Scream album were A Boy I Never Knew, Please Come Home and It Can Never Be the Same. The first of those songs was actually left over from the 2004 album The Cure and had been re-recorded and played live in 2008. In 2014, Robert Smith announced that 4.14 Scream would be coming out. It's not clear precisely why this never happened but one possibility he suggested at the time was that he didn't want to release an album made with one line-up (Smith, Gallup, Thompson, Cooper) when The Cure had a different line-up by 2014 (Smith, Gallup, Gabrels, O'Donnell, Cooper). It is not apparent at what point lyrics were written and added to the song 'It Can Never Be the Same'. The recording in 2006 was very probably just the instrumental backing. Some of the 4.14 Scream songs already had lyrics in 2008 (eg Please Come Home and A Boy I Never Knew). In 2014, Smith began preparing the vocal parts for the remainder of what would have been 4.14 Scream. Did he finish the process and was It Can Never be the Same one of the songs with completed lyrics? 'It Can Never Be the Same' is often seen as a song about the death of Smith's mother in 2016. That would only be possible if the lyrics were added in 2016 around the time of the live performances. It is clear that Smith delivered the vocal with great emotion at the 2016 shows so it seems credible that even if the song wasn't originally about the death of Rita Smith it made him think of that subject. Essentially, the song is about someone dying and the protagonist goes back and forth betweeen acceptance of the death and a complete denial. |
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| The Cure – I Can Never Say Goodbye Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[SkaSong:44669] Sorry, it should be Will tries to revive JIm who is near death. | |
| The Cure – I Can Never Say Goodbye Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This song was first made public at a concert in Krakow, Poland on 20 October 2022. It was the 4th new song, after Alone, Endsong and And Nothing is Forever, to be introduced by the band on their Lost World Tour of 2022. It is expected to feature on their long-awaited new studio album, provisionally entitled 'Songs of a Lost World', which will most likely be released in early 2023. On its first airing, lead singer Robert Smith explained that the song is about his brother, Richard, and implied that it was being debuted in Poland because Richard had lived for many years in that country. Richard Alexander Smith was born in July 1946 and died in November 2017. He was 13 years older than Robert Smith. The bond between the two brothers is hinted at by the fact that Richard named his oldest son Robert Euan Smith. Richard was known as The Guru within The Cure. Former Cure drummer and keyboardist Lol Tolhurst explained in his memoir Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys that Richard Smith had been hugely influential in shaping the band's musical taste: he had a vast knowledge of music and an extensive record collection and he is known to have acquainted the young Robert with music such as Captain Beefheart and Jimi Hendrix. In the middle of 'I Can Never Say Goodbye' there is a very un-Cure like guitar solo which sounds more like something Hendrix might have performed- pehaps a veiled reference to Richard's musical influence on Robert. The song contains the line 'Something Wicked This Way Comes'. Originally this is a quote from Shakespeare's MacBeth where one of the witches says: 'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'. However, in this context it is more likely a reference to Ray Bradbury's novel 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' which was published in 1962 and made into a movie in 1983. In Bradbury's novel, two 13 year-old boys, Will and Jim, try to escape from the evil Mr Dark. In the end, Jim tries to revive Will who is near death. Eventually, in the book, singing and dancing manages to bring Will back from the brink of death. In The Cure's song there is no salvation for Robert's brother. |
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| The Cure – All I Want Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| It's clearly a song about wanting sex, rough sex at that. He opens it by describing how he is feeling like an animal and going wild. His primal instincts are aroused. The reference to holding her like a dog is clearly a description of a sexual position. | |
| The Cure – All I Want Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[lipssocoldtheyburn:44551] Not sure romantic is the right word. It seems a bit more primal than that. | |
| The Cure – All I Want Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| You are absolutely right, Juice, that he means doggie style. The song starts with the idea of him feeling like an animal and going wild: it's clearly about sex. I love SugarinmyBowl's naivety and hope she/he never loses that innocence. Anyone who knows anything about Robert Smith will know he doesn't mean to pick her up and carry her round like a poodle. | |
| The Cure – And Nothing Is Forever Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This is a very moving song which was first made public in a live performance in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 October 2022 on The Cure's Lost World tour. It's clearly a song about death. It's slightly unusual in that it is not told from the perspective of the person mourning the deceased but rather from the perspective of the dying person. The person is aware that they have grown old and that the end is coming but they just want their loved one to share their final moments with them, to come down on to their death bed for a final hug. It could be a generic song about death or a deeply personal one. If the latter, it could have been written about a number of people since there were a number of deaths in Cureworld in the period in which this album was written. Between 2016 and 2022, Robert Smith lost both his parents, his brother and then some of his Aunts and Uncles succombed to the Covid pandemic. In 2019, bassist Simon Gallup lost his second wife, Sarah. My guess would be that it is about the death of Robert's father. I'm basing that merely on the reference to 'murmured lullaby'. When The Cure released the song Lullaby in 1989, one of the claims that Robert made about the song was that when he was a child his father used to read rather gruesome lullabies to him. But I'm basing that idea merely on the reference to lullabies, so it is rather speculative. In any event, this is a very moving song. The first time The Cure played it live Simon Gallup could be seen giving Robert Smith a very sympathetic pat on the back as the song began. |
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| The Cure – Alone Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This is a song which was first played live in Riga, Latvia on 6 October 2022. It is scheduled to be part of their 'Songs of a Lost World' album which is due out in 2023. Robert Smith has stated that the album will be very dark and gloomy and the lyrics to the songs played so far from the album- Alone, Endsong and And Nothing is Forever- certainly seem to bear this out. The lyrics seem to reflect a lot of dark moments in the life of bandmembers. Since 2016, Robert's Mother, Father and Brother have all died. In addition, he has stated in interviews that he lost a generation of Aunts and Uncles to the Covid pandemic of 2020-2022. Bassist Simon Gallup's second wife also died in 2019. This reminds us of the context of an earlier album: Faith. In the run-up to that album at least one of Robert's Grandparents died and Lol Tolhurst's mother Daphne was dying of lung cancer. The Faith album made many references to death. This song, Alone, links lyrically to one of the other new songs 'Endsong'. Endsong ends with the line: 'Left alone with nothing, at the end of every song. Left alone with nothing'. Alone ends with 'This is the end of every song we sing. Alone'. But which song precisely are they referencing? The answer seems to be the 1981 song Faith which ends with the lines: 'We went away ALONE, with NOTHING LEFT but Faith'. If we compare the lyrics of Alone to Faith we notice that both mention hope, voice, empty. |
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| The Cure – Endsong Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Robert Smith lost his mother, father and brother in the years 2016-2019 when the album, Songs of a Lost World (2023), was first being put together. He then lost Uncles and Aunts in the Covid Pandemic in 2020 and 2021. His bandmate, Simon Gallup, lost his wife in 2019. As with the 1981 album Faith, whose tone was dictated by the death of Robert's Grandmother and bandmate Lol Tolhurst's mother suffering terminal cancer, death became the backdrop to the album. The lyrics 'Left alone with nothing, at the end of every song' link back to the song 'Alone' on the same album. That song starts with the lyric: 'This is the end of every song we sing' and ends with the word 'Alone'. This song conveys Smith intense sadness at the loss of loved ones. Here we see Robert looking back on his life and the boy he once was and mourning the loss of his parents. The reference to the moon reminds us that Robert is heavily into astronomy as a hobby but here the moon, usually so white and pure, is stained with blood. The song was first played in public at a Cure concert in Riga, Latvia on 6 October 2022. |
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| The Cure – Ching Chang Chong Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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This song never got past the demo stage. It would eventually morph into 'Spilt Milk'. 'Spilt Milk' is a song about being stuck in a life with a mortgage, a boring job and a relationship you don't really want to be in. It's about wondering how different life could have been if you had made different choices. 'Ching Chang Chong' is about being in a relationship with a controlling person who gives you very limited options. The expression 'Ching Chang Chong' is often seen as a culturally insensitive one. An example of that use of the expression is when the journalist Piers Morgan used it to mock how Chinese people speak. The use of the expression is different here. 'Ching Chang Chong' was the original name of the children's game 'Paper, Scissors, Rock' which is referenced in the song. To note, The Cure had previously referenced the game 'Chinese Whispers' in the album title 'Japanese Whispers'. Like 'Ching Chang Chong' that name is no longer used as it is considered culturally insensitive. 'Chinese Whispers' has become 'the broken telephone'. |
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| The Cure – Siamese Twins Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I used to think this song was about Robert Smith being unfaithful with a prostitute and this causing strain on his relationship. The references to 'red-light' and 'girl at the window' seemed to hint at prostitution. And then I read a tweet from former Cure drummer/keyboardist Lol Tolhurst saying that they had included Sylvia Plath inspired lines into the song. And then it dawned on me: the song is actually describing the tempestuous relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and that there are in fact no references to prostitution in the song. I comfirmed in an online conversation with Tolhurst that, at least in part, the song is about this relationship between Hughes and Plath. Hughes and Plath married in 1956. By 1962 Hughes was having an affair with Assia Wevill and left Plath. The following year, Plath killed herself by putting her head in a gas oven ('laughing into the fire'). Hughes's relationship with Wevill ended when she gassed herself and her daughter to death in a very similar way ('is it always like this?'). The Plath/Hughes relationship was always incredibly intense. He would later describe it as follows: 'Siamese-twinned, each of us festering. A unique soul-sepsis for the other. Each of us was the stake. Impaling the other.' She had this to say: 'We're not even two people. Even before we met, we were just these two halves, walking around with big gaping holes in the shape like the other person. And when we found each other we were finally whole, And then it was as if we couldn't stand being happy so we ripped ourselves in half again'. The line 'Flesh and Blood and the first kiss, first colours the first kiss' seems to refer to the first meeting of Hughes and Plath as recorded in her journal. At that meeting in Cambridge, the two poets kissed for the first time but she bit him on the cheek causing him to bleed. And what of the two supposed references to prostitution? Sylvia Plath was obsessed by the colour red in her poetry: she saw it as symbolising death and blood, Plath's obsession with the colour is described in Hughes's poem 'Red'. The girl at the window seems to be a reference to the writing of Plath's poem ' The Moon and the Yew Tree', Plath was suffering from writer's block and so Hughes suggested that she look out of the window and describe the view in a poem. What she saw was the moon, symbolising femininity, and the yew tree which appeared to represent her hated father. My favourite phrase in the song is 'voodoo smile':- a smile which inflicts pain. |
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| The Cure – Homesick Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Wismerhill:38717] I think you’re right but I think it’s a dig at Lol Tolhurst. Tolhurst actually provided the demo tape for this one but the lyrics are Robert’s. Their relationship had pretty much fallen apart. | |
| The Cure – Homesick Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| This song came from a demo tape from Lol Tolhurst, the Cure’s original drummer who by this stage had been relegated to second keyboardist. Lol was suffering from serious alcoholism at this time. Once Lol’s demo tape had been reworked by Roger O’Donnell and Simon Gallup it went to Robert Smith to add lyrics and vocals. The lyrics appear to be describing someone’s struggle with alcoholism. It looks very much like Robert is describing Lol in the song. Shortly after the recording of the album Tolhurst was fired from the band. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The lyrics are fairly self-explanatory. The music is inspired by an obscure 25 minute instrumental by The Cure called Carnage Visors. | |
| The Cure – Freakshow Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Cure:38158]. Wow, that’s profound and insightful | |
| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[SkaSong:38152] Correction: the TV show with Paul McCartney was October 1963. It was called Ready, Steady, Go. Melanie was one of four contestants in a lip-synching competition which was judged by Paul. | |
| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Piffstilchard:38148] I think the parents are exaggerating: they want to highlight their sacrifices. If it had been about an adult then there’s no real story. The song was actually inspired by the disappearance of 17 year old Melanie Coe. By a bizarre coincidence Melanie had been a contestant on a TV show that Paul McCartney was guest hosting in 1964. |
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| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Piffstilchard:38149] I think the parents are exaggerating: they want to highlight their sacrifices. If it had been about an adult then there’s no real story. The dong was actually inspired by the disappearance of 17 year old Melanie Coe. By a bizarre coincidence Melanie had been a contestant on a TV show that Paul McCartney was guest hosting in 1964. |
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| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Piffstilchard:38150] I think the parents are exaggerating: they want to highlight their sacrifices. If it had been about an adult then there’s no real story. The song was actually inspired by the disappearance of 17 year old Melanie Coe. By a bizarre coincidence Melanie had been a contestant on a TV show that Paul McCartney was guest hosting in 1964. |
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| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[Piffstilchard:38151] I think the parents are exaggerating: they want to highlight their sacrifices. If it had been about an adult then there’s no real story. The song was actually inspired by the disappearance of 17 year old Melanie Coe. By a bizarre coincidence Melanie had been a contestant on a TV show that Paul McCartney was guest hosting in 1964. |
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| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The song was inspired by a 17 year old girl called Melanie Coe running away from home. In a bizarre coincidence, and presumably unknown to the band, Melanie had actually been on television with Paul McCartney in 1964 when she was a contestant in a show that he was guest hosting. | |
| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| The song was inspired by a 17 year old girl called Melanie Coe running away from home. In a bizarre coincidence, and presumably unknown to the band, Melanie had actually been on television with Paul McCartney in 1964 when she was a contestant in a show that he was guest hosting. | |
| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[windchil:38074] I don’t see any suggestion of suicide. She’s meeting a man from the motor trade | |
| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Piffstilchard:38073] What makes you think she’s an adult? If she were there would be no surprise in her leaving home. I see her as about 15- she’s running away | |
| The Cure – Bananafishbones Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Surfpico:37891] it is related | |
| The Cure – Shiver and Shake Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[david_lpfan:37874] Robert Smith never held back on his criticism of other band members- especially Tolhurst. These attacks predated the Court Case. In 1987 for instance he said Tolhurst was the living proof that you could be in a band without any talent whatsoever. Roger O’Donnell said that when he joined the band the bullying of Tolhurst was on a Lord of the Flies level. He also said that if anyone mentioned that the song ‘Homesick’ had originated with Tolhurst Smith would threaten to pull it from the album. That said, I don’t know if this song is about Tolhurst. | |
| The Cure – A Boy I Never Knew Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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This is a song about the loss of a child and the gap it leaves in its parents’ lives. Robert Smith and Mary Poole never had children themselves. Robert has variously explained this by saying the two of them are too mentally unstable for parenthood and that life is so futile that he doesn’t want to bring another being into the futility. As an active environmentalist one also suspects that he would want to avoid over-populating the planet. He claims that he has never regretted the decision not to have children. In an interview with The Guardian he stated that this song draws on 2 inspirations: (1) friends who have lost children; (2) Turkana Boy- this relates to the fossilised remains of a child found in Kenya in 1984. Smith is imagining the grief of the parents in these two situations. |
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| The Cure – A Boy I Never Knew Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[deathbycookies:37635] It was originally recorded for the 2004 self-titled album. Robert wasn’t happy with the recording and so pulled it from the album. The 2004 version became unofficially available through YouTube. In 2008 the band started playing the song live as they wanted to include it on the 4:13 Dream album. Why it wasn’t included on that album is unclear. | |
| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mrpinkeye:37630] There is a game called Chinese Whispers where one person whispers something to their neighbour and then that gets whispered to the next person until it has gone round the whole table and ends up distorted. The last person then tells the group what they heard. So, Japanese Whispers would be a distortion of that. When asked about the title on Japanese TV Robert Smith suggested it came about because older Japanese people were so rude. | |
| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mrpinkeye:37631] There is a game called Chinese Whispers where one person whispers something to their neighbour and then that gets whispered to the next person until it has gone round the whole table and ends up distorted. The last person then tells the group what they heard. So, Japanese Whispers would be a distortion of that. When asked about the title on Japanese TV Robert Smith suggested it came about because older Japanese people were so rude. | |
| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mrpinkeye:37627] There is a game called Chinese Whispers where one person whispers something to their neighbour and then that gets whispered to the next person until it has gone round the whole table and ends up distorted. The last person then tells the group what they heard. So, Japanese Whispers would be a distortion of that. When asked about the title on Japanese TV Robert Smith suggested it came about because older Japanese people were so rude. | |
| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mrpinkeye:37629] There is a game called Chinese Whispers where one person whispers something to their neighbour and then that gets whispered to the next person until it has gone round the whole table and ends up distorted. The last person then tells the group what they heard. So, Japanese Whispers would be a distortion of that. When asked about the title on Japanese TV Robert Smith suggested it came about because older Japanese people were so rude. | |
| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mrpinkeye:37628] There is a game called Chinese Whispers where one person whispers something to their neighbour and then that gets whispered to the next person until it has gone round the whole table and ends up distorted. The last person then tells the group what they heard. So, Japanese Whispers would be a distortion of that. When asked about the title on Japanese TV Robert Smith suggested it came about because older Japanese people were so rude. | |
| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mrpinkeye:37626] There is a game called Chinese Whispers where one person whispers something to their neighbour and then that gets whispered to the next person until it has gone round the whole table and ends up distorted. The last person then tells the group what they heard. So, Japanese Whispers would be a distortion of that. When asked about the title on Japanese TV Robert Smith suggested it came about because older Japanese people were so rude. | |
| The Cure – Lament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[mrpinkeye:37625] There is a game called Chinese Whispers where one person whispers something to their neighbour and then that gets whispered to the next person until it has gone round the whole table and ends up distorted. The last person then tells the group what they heard. So, Japanese Whispers would be a distortion of that. When asked about the title on Japanese TV Robert Smith suggested it came about because older Japanese people were so rude. | |
| The Cure – Doing the Unstuck Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[saturnine:37510] It does have sex in it though. In the context Kiss and Swell is clearly about getting an erection. | |
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