The Lovecats

This song contains some of Robert Smith's greatest ever meows. Most Cure covers fail because no-one meows quite like Smith.

According to some very realiabe souces (one of them being Robert himself)- He wrote the words when he was on LSD. They filmed the video after having some drinks. The song is about a suicide pact between two lovers. "into the sea, you and me" means they are going to drown themselves together and "all the years and no one heard" means, obviously, no one will hear from them again since they are dead. "How could we miss someone as dumb as this?" is thier friends talking, wondering why they should even bother missing the two lovers since they were stupid enough to kill themselves. Alright, that last one was a guess, but it seems to fit right?? And yeh, i totally get what you guys mean, its the most danceable song ever

panapapapapa Its about being in love... not sure of this part: a...hm..prohibited love...

Well, the suicide pact things makes a lot more sense, but i read somewhere that this song was written about Robert being annoyed that everyone was saying that the Cure were really dark and gothy, so he wrote this as a kind of ironic joke. Which explains the 'lets go and throw all the songs we know... into the sea'. But i think that's a bit silly really. This song is lovely and makes me wanna dance dance dance!

I think the song is about the band's disintegration after the Pornography album and its subsequent revival when Let's Go to Bed was an unexpected hit. Suddenly everyone wanted Robert back "we missed you" hissed the lovecats, who are the cynical record industry people always smelling a quick profit. Bite & scratch & scream all night refers to Smith & Gallup going at each other which ended up in the Pornography tour being cancelled. And then he went and threw all his songs into the sea because nobody was hearing them anyway: ie he quit the band. Oh you know I'd do anything for you... let's have each other with cream, curl up in the fire (consuming each other, not lying in front of the fire but right in it) references cynically his relationship with the record industry. It's all about The Cure's commercial comeback after its very unpleasant demise in 1982 and whatever else Robert says about it is probably just him leading us astray with fibs as usual lol.

ahhh....this song is so cool. it makes me want to do something retarded.

"Let's go and throw All the songs we know...

Into the sea You and me All these years and no one heard I'll show you in spring It's a treacherous thing 'We missed you,' hissed the lovecats"

This set of lyrics would, at first glance at least, lead me to believe that it's reference to The Cure's deviation from their normal song style, and that the "Lovecats" might be those that write all the trendy love songs that become hits.

"'We missed you,' hissed the lovecats" might be a reference to other musicians giving praise or a welcoming back to a more mainstream type of song.

"All these years and no one heard" might be a reference to how long it had been since this band created a song of this nature.

There's really nothing here to indicate anything about actual cats. In fact, the lyrics specifically mention the love cats aging, returning to something, being greeted by other cats, and a few other items that directly contradict that idea.

It's also clearly not about a suicide pact - for those very same reasons.

isnt it "so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty!". Anyway, apparently this song was written because Rob got sick of them being called a goth band, it was a big hit for them and when they got that sucess, well you probably know the lovecats has always stuck with them and i think they sort of resent this. Maybe this is why end from the album wish brings in words like "please stop loving me, i am none of these things"

yup, its "wonderfully............." You have to say that compared to a lot of the Cures stuff this song is far more accesable and catchy, so fleaaaaaa.s comment is most definatly right

its kinda like saying .. well we can do this and we do do this but yet we can do that .. oh what? you like that? hmm well we prefer to do this .. "lets go and throw all the songs we know"

what i like though is that even in a fun jingle he can still write good lyrics