One of the greatest cure songs. They truly portray a sense of pure hopelessness in the intruments. I think its all really about depair and loneliness. A girl kills herself because she feels so alone and she fails to see all the good things in her life (One by one the bright birds leave). She sinks into the water but regrets her decision, but the water, like her unescapable loneliness "drowns her at its ease". the final verse is the most haunting as it tells of a man who loved the girl and would have died to save her. He is left as helpless and lonely as she was, "Breathing like the drowning man". All the dreams flee from him. Absolutly wonderful stuff.
Fuchsia, (misspelled in the last line above) is one of the principal characters in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, of which apparently members of the band were reading at the time they were recording Faith. This song describes her death, which actually was an accident, not a suicide. Great books! I highly recommend any Cure fan pick them up.
Fuchsia, (misspelled in the last line above) is one of the principal characters in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, of which apparently members of the band were reading at the time they were recording Faith. This song describes her death, which actually was an accident, not a suicide. Great books! I highly recommend any Cure fan pick them up.
One of the greatest cure songs. They truly portray a sense of pure hopelessness in the intruments. I think its all really about depair and loneliness. A girl kills herself because she feels so alone and she fails to see all the good things in her life (One by one the bright birds leave). She sinks into the water but regrets her decision, but the water, like her unescapable loneliness "drowns her at its ease". the final verse is the most haunting as it tells of a man who loved the girl and would have died to save her. He is left as helpless and lonely as she was, "Breathing like the drowning man". All the dreams flee from him. Absolutly wonderful stuff.
Fuchsia, (misspelled in the last line above) is one of the principal characters in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, of which apparently members of the band were reading at the time they were recording Faith. This song describes her death, which actually was an accident, not a suicide. Great books! I highly recommend any Cure fan pick them up.
Fuchsia, (misspelled in the last line above) is one of the principal characters in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy, of which apparently members of the band were reading at the time they were recording Faith. This song describes her death, which actually was an accident, not a suicide. Great books! I highly recommend any Cure fan pick them up.