This Morning

it is a gorgeous song... im not sure what its about... i was hoping other people would know abit more about it.... it makes me cry though. roberts voice is so moving.... its just beautiful

When a loved one is murdered and suddenly taken, I can't begin to describe how powerful this song is. It took me over a year to listen to it again and so much of it rings true.....a room too clean and too bright....where the autopsy is done. And the title "This Morning"...yeah I found out that morning and still I'm mourning. And quite often it feels as if there's nothing left to do but go.

I am honored 2 B the 1st to comment on this awesome, fantastic, and beautiful song. I guess it's very rare so not too many of you have heard it. If you want it, provide an email, I'll sure send it your way.

i think its about a relationship thats come to an end, a relationship that 2 people kinda got pushed into for some reason or another, and after all these years they realise that they dont know eachother at all. they dont love eachother anymore... i dunno.... i cant work out the 'white room' bit...

this song is about relationship that has lasted a long time and then only converted in habit they can only say "Nothing left to feel "

I think this could be about the last meeting with a dying person (a relative?) in a hospital room. Maybe a couple is visiting this person together and they realize that this is the end in all its bitter meaning: there is nothing you could ever do about it.

If I am right this could easily be one of the darkest songs of this great great group!

Obviously this song is about a dead relationship. There was nothing left but to look at the hands of the clock that went on and on. The main thing here is the death of the relationship, and in the end they do what they should have done - cut the relationship. This parting takes place in a sterile room (maybe a double therapist room) and with it they separate. They stare at each other, for the last time, without feeling. In the end, there's optimism here, is not it?

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.

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.

'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,