The Figurehead Lyrics

Lyric discussion by hothothot! 

Cover art for The Figurehead lyrics by Cure, The

the figurehead was a grotesque skull sculpture i discovered in the disused asylum we used in the "charlotte sometimes" video. i took it home to talk to - to confess to? and this song is about guilt.

R. Smith, from cure news Number 9, 1990

@hothothot! Yes. He shot the "Charlotte Sometimes" in video clip and, terrified by the awful abandoned mansion, he escaped with this grotesque sculpture. Arriving home, he wrote the Figurehead's lyrics, in front of this horrible sculpture, what he he felt at that moment. The song is about no way out. From "touching her face".