Techno Ted may be a person who caused Chris incredible emotional pain & trepidation as well as moments of peace & happiness but now is removed and awaiting his fate. Darling may be a different person who is also free of him and can live her life free of Ted's tyranny. "In between all the laughing, and daydreams ... lies: a desert of truth" Lies are like a desert or the omission of Truth: Where there were Lies then Truth was absent. The song, "Techno Ted", may be a cathartic celebration of the downfall of this person.
So I'll wait for you
Where I always wait
Behind the signs that sell the news
I'll watch for you like yesterday
And hope for you
One day that once
Spent out on me
And up 'til late
I search for you
Your hat pushed straight
Away from me
Your measured step
Heads up you win
Always too late
If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away
If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away
Where I always wait
Behind the signs that sell the news
I'll watch for you like yesterday
And hope for you
One day that once
Spent out on me
And up 'til late
I search for you
Your hat pushed straight
Away from me
Your measured step
Heads up you win
Always too late
If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away
If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away
Lyrics submitted by oofus, edited by Declan5298
2 Late Lyrics as written by Laurence Andrew Tolhurst Boris Williams
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Great version of a great song,
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I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
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call me crazy but i think this is one of the cures best songs beautiful and melodic
@radioheadster I can't actually say you're not crazy (technically it's unethical to diagnose you without examining you first <g>), but I don't think there's any reason to think you might be — or that you might just have poor taste or something either. I love this song.<br /> <br /> It's a magnificent example of something the Cure has done quite a few times: combining cheerful, bouncy music with sorrowful lyrics. The really amazing thing is how well it works.
@radioheadster You're not crazy. I totally agree.
Maybe about a secret crush almost stalker like or it could be about someone who enjoys being and meeting the same person everyday,yet everyday brings new excitement to them.
Random question but i wonder what kind of hat she was wearing :-)
@stacie9d4 FWIW, you're not the only one who was curious about that.
@stacie9d4 I picture one of those big broad brim hats
@stacie9d4 I picture a cloche.
@stacie9d4 I picture a cloche.
[Oops, sorry, accidentally double-posted there.]
So glad this is on the new box set. Such a killer jam.
this song is SO PRETTY. it seems sad...like he wants nothing more to just see her...
"So I'll wait for you Where I always wait Behind the signs that sell the news"
this gives the impression of a secret romance
"And hope for you One day that once Spent out on me And up 'til late"
hoping one day they dont have to hide the secret.
"I search for you Your hat pushed straight Away from me Your measured step Heads up you win Always too late"
this is brilliant wordsmanship. He cant find her and he knows she could find him if she wanted to.
"If I could just once catch your eye Invisible against the words That hold you down in solitude And never let you go The way that every time My eyes just close Like lids of wooden men in file I put you under rainy day Your hat's all off And I'm gone away..."
please let me see you again and I wont disapoint you.
(this song may be the most brilliant love song ever recorded that noone heard, it's buried as a b side on the love song single)
@fuckoffanddieok I actually got the single because I saw that the B-side wasn't on any of their albums; just had to have every single Cure song that existed anywhere. I'd just discovered them in '87 or '88 (actually, I'd just discovered that there was popular music out there that was really good — I was just a kid and the '80s in America was largely a cultural wasteland), so (Kiss Me)^3 was the first album of theirs I got (drove my parents mad, I'm sure, listening to music nonstop!).
[I'm not sure why this double-posted. My account keeps doing that.]
i think this song is about a relationship or some sort. and how no matter what the girl does or says about him, he'll always be waiting 4 her. and how the girl is always avoiding him, and he feels that if she were to look at him once, and him catch her eye, that maybe... just maybe, things will change.
To me, I see this song as a stranger that sees this girl everyday and is in love at first sight, but is too shy to talk to her. About the title "2 late" I think it means he plans to get to know her but he is always too late and shes gone.
I don't know, I could be completely wrong.
oh the fun and crazy suspense of being into someone. lovesick, and happily beating along so the song goes.
"A dream?" - robert smith (Cure News 14 - 1993)
@nic-ck I think he's being ambiguous and mysterious...as usual! :)