The Same Deep Water as You

The Cure

Kiss me goodbye
Pushing out before I sleep
Can't you see I try
Swimming the same deep water as you is hard
The shallow drowned lose less than we
You breathe the strangest twist upon your lips
And we shall be together
And we shall be together

Kiss me goodbye
Bow your head and join with me
And face pushed deep reflections meet
The strangest twist upon your lips

And disappear the ripples clear
And laughing break against your feet
And laughing break the mirror sweet
So we shall be together
So we shall be together

Kiss me goodbye pushing out before I sleep
It's lower now and slower now
The strangest twist upon your lips
But I don't see and I don't feel

But tightly hold up silently
My hands before my fading eyes
And in my eyes your smile
The very last thing before I go
The very last thing before I go
The very last thing before I go

I will kiss you, I will kiss you
I will kiss you forever on nights like this
I will kiss you, I will kiss you
And we shall be together


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The Same Deep Water as You Lyrics as written by Laurence Andrew Tolhurst Boris Williams

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    This song reminds me of someone... whenever I hear it. It's about the realization that you're in way over your head... out of control... trying to hold on to something that's slipping away from you. Emotions so intense... indescribable. You kiss him goodbye and tell him you love him, but you don't recognize him anymore because he's changed or you've changed... but you'll hold that memory of him in your heart forever.

    Skye Phoenixon July 01, 2016   Link

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