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Dressing Up Lyrics
Going under slowly
It never seems too late
Going under so slow...
Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to touch all this
I'm dressing up to dance all week
I'm dressing up to sleep
Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to be all this
I could eat your face
I could eat all of you
Oh this night will never let me go...
Going under slowly
Never seems too late
Going under slowly...
You'll pick me up again
It never seems too late
Going under so slow...
Dressing up to touch all this
I'm dressing up to dance all week
I'm dressing up to sleep
Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to be all this
I could eat all of you
Oh this night will never let me go...
Never seems too late
Going under slowly...
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I'm fourteen Years old and just started listening to the Cure this morning and this is by far the most beautiful vocal performance entranced with haunting image creating lyrics i have ever heard if i ever have the chance to sing on a teen idol show i will definitly try to do something like this. Absolutely Beautiful, It literally brought tears to my eyes
@GreenDrag92 as a fellow fourteen year old here, I just wanted to say kudos to you for listening to The Cure. I've been a fan for a few years now, and they're absolutely my favorite band.
@GreenDrag92 as a fellow fourteen year old here, I just wanted to say kudos to you for listening to The Cure. I've been a fan for a few years now, and they're absolutely my favorite band.
@GreenDrag92 lmao just realized this was from 2006. well, kudos to your 14 year old self, hope you are still listening :)
@GreenDrag92 lmao just realized this was from 2006. well, kudos to your 14 year old self, hope you are still listening :)
@GreenDrag92 and @clamm I've been listening to The Cure since I was about eleven: I heard "How Beautiful You Are" on a local college radio station, and the next day I asked my mother to take me to the record store so I could get a copy of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. (When I got home I listened to my new album over and over and over and over and...well, you get the idea. Fortunately, I had very tolerant parents.) Overall it had been a pretty lousy year for me, and discovering The Cure stood...
@GreenDrag92 and @clamm I've been listening to The Cure since I was about eleven: I heard "How Beautiful You Are" on a local college radio station, and the next day I asked my mother to take me to the record store so I could get a copy of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me. (When I got home I listened to my new album over and over and over and over and...well, you get the idea. Fortunately, I had very tolerant parents.) Overall it had been a pretty lousy year for me, and discovering The Cure stood out as one of its few positives.
I always get a warm fuzzy when I meet millennials who're into the wonderful '80s and '90s alternative music that I still love. (I'm not even sure whether the term "alternative" had caught on yet, or if it had, whether The Cure was considered "alternative" when I first started listening to them: I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall them being described as "New Wave" at the time.)
I always adored this song. I first heard it on PARIS which led me to seek out THE TOP, which I could only find at a used music store on casette tape. Beautiful music adornes this meditation on seeking pleasure, whether via performing "i'M DRESSING UP TO DANCE ALL WEEK", food or sex "I could eat all of you" or drugs "Going under slowly...You'll pick me up again." I love it when the Cure are being all decadent and gloomy. It's fabulous for us sinners who feel guilt but like to be naughty anyway.
I'm fifteen years old and I love this band.
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.
i HEAR ALL THOSE ASSHOLES SINGING ON THE TEEN IDOL TYPE SHOWS. SOMEONE SHOULD TRY TO CONVINCE THEM TO TRY TO SING THIS IF THEY CAN. IF THEY COULD PULL IT OFF (WHICH THEY COULDNT) THAN THEY WOULD SURELY WIN. iTS THE GRAETEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE FROM ROBERT. PROBABLY WASNT IN HIS RIGHT MIND AT THE TIME THOUGH.
@jancsibohoc Being in one's "right mind" is overrated anyway.
@jancsibohoc Being in one's "right mind" is overrated anyway.
Another beautiful Cure song. Robert sings this wonderfully.
This song is a perfect one-two punch with "Give Me It." The two sides of heroine addiction....
I think it's about him and Mary.
Smith said once it was about performing.
I always though that I was about Mary and him, I read an interview and he said that he and Mary used to dress up in different kinds of crazy disguises because they liked to play and dance this way when they were alone... and he also said something about naughty disguises, so maybe they were having sex too. I just love this song, I think it is very intimate.