I read an interview with Robert Smith many years ago. When asked about this particular song he said that people can interpret as they see fit. Yet for him personally, this song was really about the bouts he had with his alcoholism and that struggle. The song tells a tale of a binge he had whilst sitting on the edge of a cliffside in Beachy Head in southern England (a cliff and notorious suicide hotspot). Smith states in short: "The song is about hyperventilating–kissing and fainting to the floor." The "she" within the song is symbolic of his then addiction to alcohol. "Kissing" the face, then the "neck" (of the bottles) as he consumes them then throws them over the cliffside. "Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick" refers to his childhood memories of mastering magic tricks, but then Smith added "on another level, it's about a seduction trick, from much later in my life".
After waking up from the drinking binge upon the cliffside, the bottles having been discarded in the "raging sea", while "she" (the alcohol) had been drown inside of him. Smith explains this metaphorically here: "Daylight licked me into shape. I must have been asleep for days. And moving lips to breathe her name. I opened up my eyes. And found myself alone alone. Alone above a raging sea. That stole the only girl I loved. And drowned her deep inside of me."
I read an interview with Robert Smith many years ago. When asked about this particular song he said that people can interpret as they see fit. Yet for him personally, this song was really about the bouts he had with his alcoholism and that struggle. The song tells a tale of a binge he had whilst sitting on the edge of a cliffside in Beachy Head in southern England (a cliff and notorious suicide hotspot). Smith states in short: "The song is about hyperventilating–kissing and fainting to the floor." The "she" within the song is symbolic of his then addiction to alcohol. "Kissing" the face, then the "neck" (of the bottles) as he consumes them then throws them over the cliffside. "Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick" refers to his childhood memories of mastering magic tricks, but then Smith added "on another level, it's about a seduction trick, from much later in my life". After waking up from the drinking binge upon the cliffside, the bottles having been discarded in the "raging sea", while "she" (the alcohol) had been drown inside of him. Smith explains this metaphorically here: "Daylight licked me into shape. I must have been asleep for days. And moving lips to breathe her name. I opened up my eyes. And found myself alone alone. Alone above a raging sea. That stole the only girl I loved. And drowned her deep inside of me."
Love your name! "A chuisle mo chroÃ"?? :)
Love your name! "A chuisle mo chroÃ"?? :)