Harold and Joe Lyrics

Lyric discussion by joshmac 

Cover art for Harold and Joe lyrics by Cure, The

I think this song is about someone who is tripped up by someone else, but they are having trouble admitting it. He doesn't want to admit that someone else has the power to – is – taking over his world. It's love and it's fantastic, but brings with it feelings and changes to the status quo of things and that, to the singer is scary/daunting, thus the need to insist everything is fine "nothing ever loses me sleep," etc. etc. I also thought I heard that "Harold and Joe" was an old TV show in the UK; if that's the case, maybe the singer in the song is going through the above,but zoning out to the "Harold & Joe" television show, thereby feeding his pretense everything is fine.