Lyric discussion by scaredasyou 

it's about the book, its based on that. robert himself said that most of the songs released in 1979 he wrote were written when he was fifteen or sixteen and 'had nothing better to write about than the books i was reading at the time'. its in robert smith: the cure and wishful thinking which i recommend to anyone reading this who is interested in the cure

It's definitely about the Camus novel. Robert signed my copy of the book when he toured Australia in 1980.

Robert said he was a racist. He hates foreign people. He hates religious people. He hates normal people.

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