Lyric discussion by glOOmyART 

first, i think all ? should be ! ;) so,i think the song is a tribute (and kind of love song) to lydia lunch. her first album is named 'queen of siam'. for the reminder of their england leg of the picture tour they had her as support act. according to the book 'never enough' she seemed to have an exhausting act but it left most of the audience unimpressed. so did the cure's performances. so i think all those lines like "the sound that could wake the dead but nobody woke up at all" refers to that. but smith was impressed by her. so that 'somebody' is actually him...

@glOOmyART Yes I was just going to write about Lydia Lunch and her album Queen of Siam along with her and Robert's relationship. I think you hit the song meaning on the head.

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