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Whisper your name in an empty room
You brush past my skin
As soft as fur
Taking hold
I taste your scent
Distant noises
Other voices
Pounding in my broken head
Commit the sin
Commit yourself
And all the other voices said
Change your mind
You're always wrong
Come around at Christmas
I really have to see you
Smile at me slyly
Another festive compromise
But I live with desertion
And eight million people
Distant noises
Other voices
Pulsing in my swinging arms
Caress the sound
So many dead
And all the other voices said
Change your mind
You're always wrong
You brush past my skin
As soft as fur
Taking hold
I taste your scent
Distant noises
Other voices
Pounding in my broken head
Commit the sin
Commit yourself
And all the other voices said
Change your mind
You're always wrong
I really have to see you
Smile at me slyly
Another festive compromise
But I live with desertion
And eight million people
Distant noises
Other voices
Pulsing in my swinging arms
Caress the sound
So many dead
And all the other voices said
Change your mind
You're always wrong
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This is one of the most wonderful cure songs, in my opinion. Do you ever get the feeling that you are all alone in this world? Trying to find the perfect love, but you are always wrong and should stop trying to fool yourself?
@zephy76 absolutely. Desertion is prevalent, you're alone with billions of people on earth. He gets it right for me every time. I'm as depressed as he was back then which is why I love them so much. I've seen them 9x and would do it again!
@zephy76 absolutely. Desertion is prevalent, you're alone with billions of people on earth. He gets it right for me every time. I'm as depressed as he was back then which is why I love them so much. I've seen them 9x and would do it again!
I love this song, like so many Cure-songs. The screaming at the beginning is awesome!!
@placebist I LOVE those little noises he makes at the beginning or end of a song. They make him so unique!
@placebist I LOVE those little noises he makes at the beginning or end of a song. They make him so unique!
Definately one of the best the cure songs, and since the cure is the best band ever, that would make this one of the best songs ever.
I really like "But I live with desertion And eight million people"
It's so true! These days we live in city's /countries with millions of people, we got internet and everything, but STILL people are lonely and stuff.
I love this song to bits.
Mr. Smith explained it as "the sickness of lust," (along the lines of "The Kiss.")
I play bass, and am extremely grateful that they really tired on this one, as on most of their songs, e.g., In Between Days, Killin an Arab, the bass is extremely simple. Love the Cure to death, but they strike me as chronic underachievers.
Smith said the following about Other Voices:
"This one's a bit difficult...umm...blotting out the world through the eating of forbidden fruit? deafened by lust?"
The bass in this song is soooo...cool! One of the best Cure songs
I think it was inspired by the novel OTHER VOICES OTHER ROOMS by Truman Capote.
i cant believe only one person has written something about this song! its one of my favorites. cool bass, in the beggining especially.
For some reason the lyrics, "Commit the sin, Commit yourself." Really hit a chord with me. I don't know. I first heard this about two years ago when I was going through a reabby rocky period in my life and I felt that this song was just WRITTEN for me, you know what I mean?
I know exactly what you mean tokyo eye. Music has that power to make it seem like a particular song was written for you. Sometimes the sounds and words just go so well with what you're feeling. This is not my favorite Cure song. But this is my favorite Cure album. It is supposed to be a complete work, and Other Voices was never really meant to be a single (but those record companies, dont'cha know...). Still, It works so well within the confines of Faith that I still love the song.
I love this song, like so many Cure-songs. The screaming at the beginning is awesome!!