Hot Hot Hot!!!

I think it's one of those Cure songs that are really open to interpretation, although here's something Robert said;

"This was about three strange sexual experiences: in the basement of a club, on a ferry and at home in my bedroom. Lightning striking was an analogy. I was thinking of a children's book - Earthfast (by William Mayne) about a boy hit by lightning and going back in time - and of that bloke in the Guinness Book Of Records who's been hit numerous times. I told Tim Pope I wanted us to look like a lowdown funky soul band. He translated "lowdown" as "dwarf" and "soul band" as "black-and-white". Polydor said it wouldn't get shown. It didn't."

Hehe, I love this song.

its funkaaaaaaaaaaay

Thanks for posting that hothothot!... That's pretty strange, as I also thought of the bloke in the Guinness Book of Records, I believe he was a forest ranger who was struck by lightning about seven times on separate occasions and survived each time. He was also the inspiration behind the song "Sometimes" by James, another favorite band of mine, which is about a boy wanting to be struck by lightning for spiritual ecstasy. That could be another interpretation for this song, if we take it more literally, we could assume the narrator has actually been struck by lightning on different occasions and survived them all, but he gets a kind of spiritual ecstasy from the experience each time, as is evident in the chorus.

Going by what I've read it seems as though it's about three sexual experiences Robert had while on a particular drug, but it's definitely open to some fantastic interpretations.

[To thedownpour] Look at the liner notes for the deluxe edition of the CD "Pornography". Smith openly admits they were all WAAAAY high on LSD at the time. They had a room full of junk from garbage bins at their studio according to that interview.

OK people, Pay attention! It's NOT about sex, it's about HEROIN. The first time I saw lightning strike is the first time on the drug, and you can never go back, because the second time is never like the first. The same goes for the second, you can never go back. Dancing, screaming, itching, squealing, fevered, feeling hot hot hot, refers to how the drug makes you feel. Like your skin is crawling, your sweating, fevered, hot. You need to know about the band and their recreational activities to understand they were users.

I thought it was about falling madly in love. The lightning being a metaphor for falling in love (Some cultures do refer to falling in love as being hit by The Thunderbolt)

its actually a pretty literal song. its about three strange sexual encounters robert had. in which drugs were involved, obviously

Robert says it's about "drugs". Quite simply, "drugs".

yes edge of the world is correct, it is about drugs...