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You're just a waste of time
You're just a babbling face
You're just three sick holes that run like sores
You're a fucking waste
You're like a slug on the girl
Oh you're useless and ugly
And useless and ugly
And I shiver and shake
When I think of how you make me hate
I want to smash you to pieces
I want to smash you up and screaming
I want to smash you helpless
Down on the floor
Smash you until you're not here anymore
And I shiver and shake
Shiver and shake
You're just a babbling face
You're just three sick holes that run like sores
You're like a slug on the girl
Oh you're useless and ugly
And useless and ugly
And I shiver and shake
I want to smash you to pieces
I want to smash you up and screaming
I want to smash you helpless
Down on the floor
Smash you until you're not here anymore
Shiver and shake
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That's what Robert Smith has said in a few interviews, but somehow I doubt it.
For one thing, Lol was still a member of the band at this stage. Would he have really played on a song that was basically attacking him?
Also, Robert Smith seems to have been really negative towards Tolhurst in interviews since the court case (understandably). I wonder if that is an example of this?
Perhaps there's a few different interpretations of the song... whenever I listen to it, I can't help but feel it's about self-loathing... but, really that's just a possible interpretation of the song.
It depends on the date of those interviews. The song could be about Lol Tolhurst but its meaning being unbeknown to him at the time. Maybe only after he left (or was kicked out of) the band, Robert Smith disclosed the subject of these lyrics.
It depends on the date of those interviews. The song could be about Lol Tolhurst but its meaning being unbeknown to him at the time. Maybe only after he left (or was kicked out of) the band, Robert Smith disclosed the subject of these lyrics.
I am just listening to If Only Tonight We Could Sleep from this album...
I am just listening to If Only Tonight We Could Sleep from this album...
Lol played the sitar sound / percussion samples on a keyboard according to an article in Keyboard Magazine...
Lol played the sitar sound / percussion samples on a keyboard according to an article in Keyboard Magazine...
Must have been an Emulator because there's that "Engima - Sadness Part1" Shakuhachi sample on this track too...muffled and played low in the mix.
Must have been an Emulator because there's that "Engima - Sadness Part1" Shakuhachi sample on this track too...muffled and played low in the mix.
@david_lpfan Robert Smith never held back on his criticism of other band members- especially Tolhurst. These attacks predated the Court Case. In 1987 for instance he said Tolhurst was the living proof that you could be in a band without any talent whatsoever. Roger O’Donnell said that when he joined the band the bullying of Tolhurst was on a Lord of the Flies level. He also said that if anyone mentioned that the song ‘Homesick’ had originated with Tolhurst Smith would threaten to pull it from the album. That said, I don’t know if this song is about Tolhurst....
@david_lpfan Robert Smith never held back on his criticism of other band members- especially Tolhurst. These attacks predated the Court Case. In 1987 for instance he said Tolhurst was the living proof that you could be in a band without any talent whatsoever. Roger O’Donnell said that when he joined the band the bullying of Tolhurst was on a Lord of the Flies level. He also said that if anyone mentioned that the song ‘Homesick’ had originated with Tolhurst Smith would threaten to pull it from the album. That said, I don’t know if this song is about Tolhurst.
According to Wikipedia, kid pirate is right. Lol was abusing alcohol and drugs, and by the time Disintegration came out he wasn't contributing anything anymore.
According to a documentary, this song was about Lol Tolhurst who by this stage had become a drunken, useless part of the band contributing next to nothing. He was attributed to playing the broken flute sound in the background of the Homesick track and that was about it. He may have inspired the song with it however. Aparently he was nothing but a flogging horse in the band who everybody despised, including and possibly especially Smith who kept him on only because he was the only original member and was part of the bands social life. According to the documentary, he was made to stand in front of Smith in the studio while the lyrics were being recorded. Tolhurst was fired when the he listened to the final cut and criticized it wasn't a Cure album and that most of the songs were shit.
Make of all this what you will, but it was clear that Tolhurst was no longer appreciated by the band at this stage.
According to a documentary, this song was about Lol Tolhurst who by this stage had become a drunken, useless part of the band contributing next to nothing. He was attributed to playing the broken flute sound in the background of the Homesick track and that was about it. He may have inspired the song with it however. Aparently he was nothing but a flogging horse in the band who everybody despised, including and possibly especially Smith who kept him on only because he was the only original member and was part of the bands social life. According to the documentary, he was made to stand in front of Smith in the studio while the lyrics were being recorded. Tolhurst was fired when the he listened to the final cut and criticized it wasn't a Cure album and that most of the songs were shit.
Make of all this what you will, but it was clear that Tolhurst was no longer appreciated by the band at this stage.
i love this song. i always listen to it when i'm mad.
it relates completely to my mood and life right now.
this song is about Lol
LOVE this song...Robert Smith is a genius!
I’m Cure news issue 13, Robert was asked what this song is about and said “an appreciation of lol, and others like him”
It's my 'go to' song when someone really pisses me off. I picture myself hacking at their headstone with an axe while this song screams wildly in the background. (Decency forbids me from mentioing her name.)