The Scream Lyrics

Lyric discussion by atomzer0 

Cover art for The Scream lyrics by Cure, The

This song captures perfectly the confusion and frustration of a bipolar low. The familiarity of your surrounding tainted by a heavy feeling that somehow they're all wrong.

Yeah I've been down here before But this time Something really isn't right Summer sun hangs smaller Paler in the sky

It's like everything I know Is twisted out and wrong The fall sun hanging flatter Lower in the sky

There's this confusion about what is real, the joy you felt before or the sorrow you feel now. You scream as you accept what feels overwhelmingly certain, the joy was just a dream... Temporary. Sorrow is the reality... lasting and inevitable.

You start to scream

Scream and you scream This is not a dream This is how it really is There isn't any other this Is not a dream

It doesn't feel like a change of mood, It doesn't feel like you've changed. It feels like everything and everyone else did. Where am I and how did I get here.

Scream and you scream How we ended here How we got from then to now Never really followed how We ended here

I think this song feels so much like Labyrinth from the The Cure's eponymous album (see my comments there).

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