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Oh, I miss the kiss of treachery
The shameless kiss of vanity
The soft and the black and the velvety
Up tight against the side of me
And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed
And run in thickening streams of greed
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go my party piece
I miss the kiss of treachery
The aching kiss before I feed
The stench of a love for a younger meat
And the sound that it makes when it cuts in deep
The holding up on bended knees
The addiction of duplicities
As bit by bit, it starts the need
To just let go of my party piece
But I never said I would stay to the end
So I leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
Screaming me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When both of us knew how the ending would be
So it's all come back 'round to breaking apart again
Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again
Making it up behind my back again
Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
Holding it up behind my head again
Cut in the deep to the heart of the bone again
'Round and 'round and 'round and it's coming apart again
Over and over and over
And now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces
I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone
I'm crying for sympathy, crocodiles cry
For the love of the crowd
And the three cheers from everyone
Dropping through sky
Through the glass of the roof
Through the roof of your mouth
Through the mouth of your eye
Through the eye of the needle
It's easier for me to get closer to Heaven
Than ever feel whole again
But I never said I would stay to the end
I knew I would leave you with babies and everything
Screaming like this in the whole of sincerity
Screaming me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
And stains on the carpet and stains on the memory of
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
Always
Always
The shameless kiss of vanity
The soft and the black and the velvety
Up tight against the side of me
And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed
And run in thickening streams of greed
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go my party piece
I miss the kiss of treachery
The aching kiss before I feed
The stench of a love for a younger meat
And the sound that it makes when it cuts in deep
The holding up on bended knees
The addiction of duplicities
As bit by bit, it starts the need
To just let go of my party piece
But I never said I would stay to the end
So I leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
Screaming me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When both of us knew how the ending would be
So it's all come back 'round to breaking apart again
Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again
Making it up behind my back again
Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
Holding it up behind my head again
Cut in the deep to the heart of the bone again
'Round and 'round and 'round and it's coming apart again
Over and over and over
And now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces
I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone
I'm crying for sympathy, crocodiles cry
For the love of the crowd
And the three cheers from everyone
Dropping through sky
Through the glass of the roof
Through the roof of your mouth
Through the mouth of your eye
Through the eye of the needle
It's easier for me to get closer to Heaven
Than ever feel whole again
But I never said I would stay to the end
I knew I would leave you with babies and everything
Screaming like this in the whole of sincerity
Screaming me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
And stains on the carpet and stains on the memory of
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
Always
Always
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I love this song, too and always subscribed to the idea that it's about a breakup BUT tonight I listened and wondered if it's actually not about a romantic breakup but rather about the trappings of fame and his role as a pop idol (he was a BIG star in the UK at least, at this time) and how disgusting some of it is to him...
Read the lyrics again and try putting them in these terms, the backstabbing references and the references to crowds cheering...references to addiction and duplicity ...very possibly talking about the trappings of pop stardom and dealing with industry types.
This song works on the level of a troubled pop star who wants to get out, who is sick of the carousel of band members and the pressure ...he doesn't necessarily want to keep doing it over and over and never made that promise to begin with.
If anyone is remotely interested I can go through line by line and explain why I think this is about his career and not a breakup with a girlfriend.
Another example would be:
"through the eye Of the needle it's easier for me to get closer to Heaven than ever feel whole again"
A (biblical) reference to being rich and how empty he feels now that he's achieved that material goal.
Had to share...Let me know what you think.
I absolutely agree with diamondbollox's interpretation about this being about fame and not a romantic relationship. A line that sticks out for me would be about the younger meat and how the entertainment industry is always looking for the newest/latest greatest. <br /> <br /> I believe the party piece line is how he is seen as an entertainer for the enjoyment of others. I also don't believe that the reference to babies is literal. Babies could refer to the songs he writes. <br /> <br /> The lyrics that stand out to me the most are "Crocodiles cry for the love of the crowd and the three cheers from everyone" Crocodile tears are insincere.... leading me to believe this is referring to how he feigns caring about how fans/audience sees him.
I absolutely agree with the two of you, since the way I interpret it is that Robert's talking about his fame, corporate greed, and his fans. I feel like he may have developed this song with dual meanings in mind as well though.<br /> <br /> But really, I think it fits, with everything going on with the band at the time. Robert had a love/hate relationship with the fame and was conflicted in his feelings about whether or not he actually wanted one of his songs to be a number one hit. He was sick of the entertainment industry and their greedy tactics, and copycat bands and the bastardization of their act. He was probably sick of the media, and in fact some of his casual fans that didn't quite 'get' the band - misinterpreting him and taking the band too seriously, or not seriously enough, or in the wrong way. He had debated making several of their albums The Cure's 'final' album, and said the same thing after they released Disintegration. And of course, there was the 'revolving-door' of band members in the group, and Rob having to recently kick his buddy Lol out of the group for his alcoholism.<br /> <br /> Robert also wrote the album with the intent of creating something really refined and sincere, as he approached his 30th birthday. It seems that old age was something he always dreaded, and he was eager to make the most of his youth with this album. This was Robert leaving behind, essentially, a decade of dreary songs and a depressed persona that was really only a small part of who he was becoming now. He tied the knot and even wrote a love song for his wife for Disintegration. So in a way this was kind of the melancholy ending to the definitive 80's sound of The Cure - a fact further reiterated by the group's more upbeat and experimental albums in the 90's.