Cold

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.

But then again, sorrywrongnumbah, isn't that just what defines a goth band - publicly stating that they are not goth? Sisters of Mercy claim the same ;)

"Your name like ice into my heart"

Doesn't get more emotional than that.

A shallow grave A monument to the ruined age Ice in my eyes And eyes like ice don't move Screaming at the moon Another past time

I love that stanza

the first time i heard this son i thought that it was about his lover dying. "scarred your back was turned" the doctor was talking to her about the bad news "I was cold as i mouthed the words" he could be saying "are you okay" knowing the response would be bad "await the next breath" listing to her last breaths. " a shallow grave" Dreaming about her dying,and no-one caring about her. "can no-one save you" pretty much says it "as cold as silence you never say a word" that moment where her breathing stops and he's looking at her dead body.

Agony of life, love lost and drug induced inertia. Great stuff!

To me probably the most underrated of all cure songs. Everytime you listen th this song there is something new to behold. This song is in the same class as the figurehead, a forest and same deep water as you. Ubeleivable song - great version on the triiogy. Pornography the best cure album by a mile.

It seems to me that this song is a major indicator of why the Cure is known (rather stereotypically) as the gloomy, "goth-rock" band that mainstream music media portrays them to be. Gloomy? At times, deliciously so...and self-indulgently perfect at it; though by no means is that the only feeling their music conveys. "Goth"? Not at all, Robert Smith says, and I agree (although I am certainly no expert at what is and is not goth...I am only a die-hard Cure fan, and that's basically as far as it goes). In short, "Cold" is a fanastic song, and it's every bit as frigid as the January air here in Wisconsin. I would suggest that immediately after listening to this song, switch right on over to "Do the Hansa," or "The Caterpillar," for a delightfully amusing contrast.

This Cure song is the ultimate dark and depressing Cure song. As the title of the is Cold, you actually feel a cold chill running down you spine listening to this song. Pornography which is the title of the album the song is on, is one of the Cure best..ever.

Definately Chirs_Valentine. It's an excellent song that is by no doubt gloomy, and yes I can see the Cure being tagged as goth if only their work up until pornography is taken into account. It is suck a stark contrast to The Top and KMKMKM.