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4:39 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Come closer and see
See into the trees Find the girl While you can Come closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice And start to run Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees Suddenly I stop But I know it's too late I'm lost in a forest All alone The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Come closer and see
See into the trees Find the girl While you can Come closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice And start to run Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees Suddenly I stop But I know it's too late I'm lost in a forest All alone The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Sunk deep in the night
I sink in the night Standing alone Underneath the sky I feel the chill of ice On my face I watch the hours go by The hours go by You sleep Sleep in a safe bed Curled and protected Protected from sight Under a safe roof Deep in your house Unaware of the changes at night At night I hear the darkness breathe I sense the quiet despair Listen to the silence at night Someone has to be there Someone has to be there Someone must be there |
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5:36 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Sunk deep in the night
I sink in the night Standing alone Underneath the sky I feel the chill of ice On my face I watch the hours go by The hours go by You sleep Sleep in a safe bed Curled and protected Protected from sight Under a safe roof Deep in your house Unaware of the changes at night At night I hear the darkness breathe I sense the quiet despair Listen to the silence at night Someone has to be there Someone has to be there Someone must be there |
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4:06 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
I play at night in your house
I live another life Pretending to swim In your house I change the time in your house The hours I take Go so slow I hear no sound in your house Silence In the empty rooms I drown at night in your house Pretending to swim Pretending to swim |
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3:31 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
I play at night in your house
I live another life Pretending to swim In your house I change the time in your house The hours I take Go so slow I hear no sound in your house Silence In the empty rooms I drown at night in your house Pretending to swim Pretending to swim |
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3:03 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Hello image
Sing me a line from your favourite song Twist and turn but you're trapped in the light All the directions were wrong You'll fall in love with somebody else tonight Help yourself But tell me the words before you fade away You reveal all the secrets to remember the end And escape someday You'll fall in love with somebody else again tonight Take a step You move in time but it's always back The reasons are clear Your face is drawn and ready for the next attack |
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2:55 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Hello image
Sing me a line from your favourite song Twist and turn but you're trapped in the light All the directions were wrong You'll fall in love with somebody else tonight Help yourself But tell me the words before you fade away You reveal all the secrets to remember the end And escape someday You'll fall in love with somebody else again tonight Take a step You move in time but it's always back The reasons are clear Your face is drawn and ready for the next attack |
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3:39 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
It's not a case of doing what's right
It's just the way I feel that matters Tell me I'm wrong I don't really care It's not a case of share and share alike I take what I require I don't understand You say it's not fair You expect me to act like a lover Consider my moves and deserve the reward To hold you in my arms And wait And wait And wait for something to happen It's not a case of telling the truth Some lines just fit the situation You call me a liar You would anyway It's not a case of aiming to please You know you're always crying It's just your part In the play for today |
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3:45 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
It's not a case of doing what's right
It's just the way I feel that matters Tell me I'm wrong I don't really care It's not a case of share and share alike I take what I require I don't understand You say it's not fair You expect me to act like a lover Consider my moves and deserve the reward To hold you in my arms And wait And wait And wait for something to happen It's not a case of telling the truth Some lines just fit the situation You call me a liar You would anyway It's not a case of aiming to please You know you're always crying It's just your part In the play for today |
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3:20 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Secrets
Share with another girl Talking all night in a room All night Everything slowing down I wish I was yours Strangers Nobody knows we love I catch your eyes in the dark One look relives the memory Remember me The way I used to be |
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3:39 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Secrets
Share with another girl Talking all night in a room All night Everything slowing down I wish I was yours Strangers Nobody knows we love I catch your eyes in the dark One look relives the memory Remember me The way I used to be |
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4:00 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Time slips away
And the light begins to fade Everything is quiet now Feeling is gone And the picture disappears Everything is cold now The dream had to end The wish never came true And the girl starts to sing Seventeen seconds A measure of life Seventeen seconds |
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3:58 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Time slips away
And the light begins to fade Everything is quiet now Feeling is gone And the picture disappears Everything is cold now The dream had to end The wish never came true And the girl starts to sing Seventeen seconds A measure of life Seventeen seconds |
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2:35 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980) | |||||
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0:27 | ||||
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2:36 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Enough of that
"Stand up straight!" What nonsense And I scream |
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2:44 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Enough of that
"Stand up straight!" What nonsense And I scream |
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3:03 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981) | |||||
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5:28 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
I never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones The columns are all men Begging to crush me No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes And no flags wave me home In the caves All cats are grey In the caves The textures coat my skin In the death cell A single note Rings on and on and on |
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5:36 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
I never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones The columns are all men Begging to crush me No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes And no flags wave me home In the caves All cats are grey In the caves The textures coat my skin In the death cell A single note rings on and on and on |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
The soundtrack to Ric Gallup's (Simon's brother) film Carnage Visors, which was used as the opening piece for the Faith tour, also known as The Picture Tour.
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4:13 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
All the faces
All the voices blur Change to one face Change to one voice Prepare yourself for bed The light seems bright And glares on white walls All the sounds of Charlotte sometimes Into the night with Charlotte sometimes Night after night she lay alone in bed Her eyes so open to the dark The streets all looked so strange They seemed so far away But Charlotte did not cry The people seemed so close Playing expressionless games The people seemed So close So many Other names... Sometimes I'm dreaming Where all the other people dance Sometimes I'm dreaming Charlotte sometimes Sometimes I'm dreaming Expressionless the trance Sometimes I'm dreaming So many different names Sometimes I'm dreaming The sounds all stay the same Sometimes I'm dreaming She hopes to open shadowed eyes On a different world Come to me Scared princess Charlotte sometimes On that bleak track (See the sun is gone again) The tears were pouring down her face She was crying and crying for a girl Who died so many years before... Sometimes I dream Where all the other people dance Sometimes I dream Charlotte sometimes Sometimes I dream The sounds all stay the same Sometimes I'm dreaming There are so many different names Sometimes I dream Sometimes I dream... Charlotte sometimes crying for herself Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself But it's always with love With so much love it looks like Everything else Of Charlotte sometimes So far away Glass sealed and pretty Charlotte sometimes |
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3:11 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Stop my flight to fight
And die And take a stand to change my life So savage with red desperation I clench my hands You draw your claws A hidden rage consumes my heart Fuelled by years of wasted time I close my eyes And tense myself And screaming Throw myself in fury over the edge And into your blood Tear at flesh And rip at skin And smash at doubt I have to break you Fury drives my vicious blows I see you fall but still I strike you Again and again Your body falls The movement is sharp and clear and pure And gone I stop and kneel beside you Drained of everything but pain Screaming throw myself in fury Over the edge and into your blood Kiss you once and see you writhe Hold you close and hear you cry Kiss your eyes and finish your life Kiss your eyes Finish your life Again and again Your body falls The movement is sharp and clear and pure And gone I stop and kneel beside you Knowing I'll murder you again tonight Knowing I'll murder you again Knowing I'll murder you again Knowing I'll murder you again Knowing I'll murder you again Tonight |
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1:08 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Stop my flight to fight and die
And take a stand to change my life So savage with red desperation I clench my hands You draw your claws A hidden rage consumes my heart Fuelled by years of wasted time I close my eyes and tense myself And screaming throw myself in fury Over the edge and into your blood Tear at flesh and rip at skin And smash at doubt I have to break you Fury drives my vicious blows I see you fall but still I strike you Again and again your body falls The movement is sharp and clear and pure and gone I stop and kneel beside you Drained of everything but pain Screaming throw myself in fury Over the edge and into your blood Into your blood Kiss you once and see you writhe Hold you close and hear you cry Kiss your eyes and finish your life Kiss your eyes Finish your life Again and again your body falls The movement is sharp and clear and pure and gone I stop and kneel beside you Knowing I'll murder you again tonight Knowing I'll murder you again Knowing I'll murder you again Knowing I'll murder you again Knowing I'll murder you again tonight |
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1:51 | ||||
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6:43 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me Suddenly I see you change Everything at once The same But the mountain never moves Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There's nothing left but hope Your voice is dead And old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait If only we could stay Please Say the right words Or cry like the stone white clown And stand forever Lost forever in a happy crowd No one lifts their hands No one lifts their eyes Justified with empty words The party just gets better and better I went away alone With nothing left But faith |
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2:55 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me Suddenly I see you change Everything at once the same But the mountain never moves Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There's nothing left but hope Your voice is dead And old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait If only we could stay Please say the right words Or cry like the stone white clown And stand lost forever in a happy crowd No one lifts their hands No one lifts their eyes Justified with empty words The party just gets better and better I went away alone With nothing left But faith |
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10:23 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me Suddenly I see you change Everything at once the same But the mountain never moves Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There's nothing left but hope Your voice is dead And old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait If only we could stay Please say the right words Or cry like the stone white clown And stand lost forever in a happy crowd No one lifts their hands No one lifts their eyes Justified with empty words The party just gets better and better I went away alone With nothing left But faith |
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9:19 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Pulling this watch as faces go
Pulling in a word and done it slow this other time I see your face is silent Oh, we go away and play What have you done Takes a feeling inside us all Continue out with just one push in my mouth But you're so close now And you're so close now All I have to do is three short blows All that still is best inside The full when the wall And you don't even know All I Have to Do is Kill Her All I Have to Do is Kill Her All I Have to Do is Kill Her And the other faces here with me The others dressed in summers thing If only one way is to be wonderful If only one way is to the other song And every time it's you, it's like the blood on the stairs is sent away And every time we see it's all said before you If only one way is to kill you You used to say this fear of drowning Fear no death by water Father walks in at the foot of the bed Six of you want to see you safe Just one time you'll meet this man All you've got to do is kill her And all you've got to do is kill her Trickle the sands against and pull the animals Just out of the womb Seeing the cow dead before he was born It's the man he, he loved The solid pieces fell on the ground He couldn't kill another life He couldn't kill another life He couldn't kill another life It's all been painted with love It could have been some friends Pulling strings to meet you All I want to do is reach it She says 'Let go my shoulder!' See the sky! And the sky goes black And the sky goes black I just want to feel her I just want to feel her I just want you to feel it I just want you to feel it Everytime I looked up the stairs I used to see her die She would move so slow Anyone could've been but she was a cat Anyone could've been she was a cat Pulling away as I used to fight That's just playing so low That ugly or pretty The face stays the same Her face stays the same Her face stays the same The ugly or pretty Her face stays the same, stays the same, stays the same And looking on the final walls And looking on the final walls Did you now find this malice out The angels fall Let's make some noise Let's make some noise Let's make some noise Make some noise Let's make some noise Let's make some noise Make some noise... Help me be your mother for just one day Let's fall in churches far outside They used to love They used to love They used to They used to love... |
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4:24 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Whisper your name in an empty room
You brush past my skin As soft as fur Taking hold I taste your scent Distant noises Other voices Pounding in my broken head Commit the sin Commit yourself And all the other voices said Change your mind You're always wrong Always wrong Come around at christmas I really have to see you Smile at me slyly Another festive compromise But I live with desertion And eight million people Distant noises Of other voices Pulsing in my swinging arms Caress the sound So many dead And all the other voices sing Change your mind You're always wrong |
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4:44 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Whisper your name
In an empty room You brush past my skin As soft as fur Taking hold I taste your scent Distant noises Other voices Pounding in my broken head Commit the sin Commit yourself And all the other voices said Change your mind You're always wrong Come around at Christmas I really have to see you Smile at me slyly Another festive compromise But I live with desertion And eight million people Distant noises Other voices Pulsing in my swinging arms Caress the sound So many dead And all the other voices said Change your mind You're always wrong |
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3:40 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
The innocence of sleeping children
Dressed in white And slowly dreaming Stops all time Slow my steps and start to blur So many years have filled my heart I never thought I'd say those words The further we go And older we grow The more we know ... The less we show ... The very first time I saw your face I thought of a song And quickly changed the tune The very first time I touched your skin I thought of a story And rushed to reach the end Too soon Oh remember Please Don't change So the fall came Thirteen years A shiny ring And how I could forget your name The air no longer in my throat Another perfect lie is choked But it always feels the same So they close together Dressed in red and yellow Innocent forever Sleeping children in their blue soft rooms Still dream The further we go And older we grow The more we know ... |
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4:21 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
The innocence of sleeping children
Dressed in white and slowly dreaming Stops all time I slow my steps and start to blur So many years have filled my heart I never thought I'd say those words The further we go And older we grow The more we know The less we show The further we go And older we grow The more we know The less we show The very first time I saw your face I thought of a song And quickly changed the tune The very first time I touched your skin I thought of a story And rushed to reach the end too soon Oh, remember Oh, please don't change So the fall came Thirteen years A shiny ring and how I could forget your name The air no longer in my throat Another perfect lie is choked But it always feels the same So they close together Dressed in red and yellow Innocent forever Sleeping children in their blue soft rooms still dream The further we go And older we grow The more we know The less we show The further we go And older we grow The more we know The less we show |
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4:50 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
She stands twelve feet above the flood
She stares Alone Across the water The loneliness grows and slowly Fills her frozen body Sliding downwards One by one her senses die The memories fade And leave her eyes Still seeing worlds that never were And one by one the bright birds leave her ... Starting at the violent sound She tries to turn But final Noiseless Slips and strikes her soft dark head The water bows Receives her And drowns her at its ease Drowns her at its ease I would have left the world all bleeding Could I only help you love The fleeting shapes So many years ago So young and beautiful and brave Everything was true It couldn't be a story I wish it was all true I wish it couldn't be a story The words all left me Lifeless Hoping Breathing like the drowning man Oh Fushia You leave me Breathing like the drowning man Breathing like the drowning man |
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5:47 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
She stands twelve feet above the flood
She stares alone across the water Loneliness grows And slowly fills her frozen body sliding downwards One by one her senses die The memories fade and leave her eyes Still seeing worlds that never were And one by one the bright birds leave her Starting at the violent sound She tries to turn but final noiseless Slips and strikes her soft dark head The water bows, receives her Drowns her at its ease Drowns her at its ease I would have left the world all bleeding Could I only help you love The fleeting shapes so many years ago So young and beautiful and brave Everything was true It couldn't be a story I wish it was all true I wish it couldn't be a story The words all left me Lifeless Hoping Breathing like the drowning man Oh Fuchsia You leave me breathing like the drowning man Dreaming like the drowning man Breathing like the drowning man |
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4:14 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Two pale figures
Ache in silence Timeless In the quiet ground Side by side In age and sadness I watched And acted wordlessly As piece by piece You performed your story Moving through an unknown past Dancing at the funeral party Memories of childrens dreams Lie lifeless Fading Lifeless Hand in hand with fear and shadows Crying at the funeral party I heard a song And turned away As piece by piece You performed your story Noiselessly across the floor Dancing at the funeral party |
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4:37 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
Two pale figures ache in silence
Timeless in the quiet ground Side by side in age and sadness I watched and acted wordlessly As piece by piece you performed your story Moving through an unknown past Dancing at the funeral party Memories of children's dreams Lie lifeless Fading lifeless Hand in hand with fear and shadows Crying at the funeral party I heard a song and turned away As piece by piece you performed your story Noiselessly across the floor Dancing at the funeral party |
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4:27 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
I kneel and wait in silence
As one by one the people slip away Into the night The quiet and empty bodies Kiss the ground before they pray Kiss the ground And slip away I sit and listen dreamlessly A promise of salvation makes me stay Then look at your face And feel my heart pushed in As all around the children play The games they tired of yesterday They play They play I stand and hear my voice Cry out A wordless scream at ancient power It breaks against stone I softly leave you crying I cannot hold what you devour The sacrifice of penance In the holy hour |
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4:47 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981)
I kneel and wait in silence
As one by one the people slip away Into the night The quiet and empty bodies Kiss the ground before they pray Kiss the ground and slip away I sit and listen dreamlessly A promise of salvation makes me stay Then look at your face And feel my heart pushed in As all around the children play The games they tired of yesterday They play I stand and hear my voice cry out A wordless scream at ancient power It breaks against stone I softly leave you crying I cannot hold what you devour The sacrifice of penance In the holy hour |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Faith (1981) | |||||
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Movement
No movement Just a falling bird Cold as it hits the bleeding ground He lived and died Catch sight Cover me with earth Draped in black Static White sound A day without substance A changeof thought An atmosphere that rots with time Colours that flicker in water A short term effect Scream As she tries to push him over Helpless and sick With teeth of madness Jump jump dance and sing Sideways across the desert A charcoal face Bites my hand Time is sweet Derange and disengage everything A day without substance A change of thought The atmosphere rots with time Colours that flicker in water A short term effect A short term effect A short term effect An echo And a stranger's hand A short term effect An echo And a stranger's hand A short term effect |
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4:04 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Movement
No movement Just a falling bird Cold as it hits the bleeding ground He lived and died Catch sight Cover me with earth Draped in black Static White sound A day without substance A change of thought An atmosphere that rots with time Colours that flicker in water A short term effect Scream as she tries to push him over Helpless and sick With teeth of madness Jump, jump, dance and sing Sideways across the desert A charcoal face bites my hand Time is sweet Derange and disengage everything A day without substance A change of thought The atmosphere rots with time Colours that flicker in water A short term effect An echo and a stranger's hand And a short term effect |
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4:04 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Give me your eyes that I might see
The blind man kissing my hands The sun is humming, my head turns to dust As he plays on his knees And the sand and the sea grows I close my eyes Move slowly through drowning waves Going away on a strange day And I laugh as I drift in the wind Blind dancing on a beach of stone Cherish the faces as they wait for the end A sudden hush across the water And we're here again The sand and the sea grows I close my eyes Move slowly through drowning waves Going away on a strange day My head falls back and the walls crash down And the sky and the impossible explode Held for one moment I remember a song An impression of sound And then everything is gone forever A strange day |
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5:04 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Give me your eyes
That I might see the blind man kissing my hands The sun is humming My head turns to dust as he plays on his knees As he plays on his knees And the sand And the sea grows I close my eyes Move slowly through drowning waves Going away on a strange day And I laugh as I drift in the wind Blind Dancing on a beach of stone Cherish the faces as they wait for the end Sudden hush across the water And we're here again And the sand And the sea grows I close my eyes Move slowly through drowning waves Going away On a strange day My head falls back And the walls crash down And the sky And the impossible Explode Held for one moment I remember a song An impression of sound Then everything is gone Forever A strange day |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982) | |||||
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2:53 | ||||
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4:26 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Scarred
Your back was turned Curled like an embryo Take another face You will be kissed again I was cold as I mouthed the words And crawled across the mirror I wait Await the next breath Your name Like ice into my heart A shallow grave A monument to the ruined age Ice in my eyes And eyes like ice don't move Screaming at the moon Another past time Your name Like ice into my heart Everything as cold as life Can no one save you? Everything As cold as silence And you never say a word Your name Like ice into my heart Your name Like ice into my heart |
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3:53 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Scarred
Your back was turned Curled like an embryo Take another face You will be kissed again I was cold as I mouthed the words And crawled across the mirror I wait Await the next breath Your name like ice into my heart A shallow grave A monument to the ruined age Ice in my eyes and eyes like ice don't move Screaming at the moon Another past time Your name like ice into my heart Everything as cold as life Can no one save you Everything as cold as silence And you will never say a word Your name like ice into my heart |
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2:08 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982) | |||||
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6:41 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car In a high building there is so much to do Going home time A story on the radio Something small falls out of your mouth And we laugh A prayer for something better A prayer For something better Please love me Meet my mother But the fear takes hold Creeping up the stairs in the dark Waiting for the death blow Waiting for the death blow Waiting for the death blow Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot Fighting for freedom on the television Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs Have we got everything? She struggles to get away . . . The pain And the creeping feeling A little black haired girl Waiting for Saturday The death of her father pushing her Pushing her white face into the mirror Aching inside me And turn me round Just like the old days Just like the old days Just like the old days Just like the old days Caressing an old man And painting a lifeless face Just a piece of new meat in a clean room The soldiers close in under a yellow moon All shadows and deliverance Under a black flag A hundred years of blood Crimson The ribbon tightens round my throat I open my mouth And my head bursts open A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water Thrashing in the water Over and over We die one after the other Over and over We die one after the other One after the other One after the other One after the other One after the other It feels like a hundred years A hundred years A hundred years A hundred years A hundred years One hundred years |
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6:59 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car In a high building there is so much to do Going home time A story on the radio Something small falls out of your mouth and we laugh A prayer for something better A prayer for something better Please love me Meet my mother But the fear takes hold Creeping up the stairs in the dark Waiting for the death blow Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot Fighting for freedom on the television Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs Have we got everything She struggles to get away The pain and the creeping feeling A little black haired girl Waiting for Saturday The death of her father pushing her Pushing her white face into the mirror Aching inside me And turn me round Just like the old days Caressing an old man and painting a lifeless face Just a piece of new meat in a clean room The soldiers close in under a yellow moon All shadows and deliverance under a black flag A hundred years of blood Crimson the ribbon tightens round my throat I open my mouth and my head bursts open A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water Thrashing in the water Over and over we die one after the other Over and over we die one after the other One after the other It feels like a hundred years A hundred years |
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6:28 | ||||
from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
A hand in my mouth
A life spills into the flowers We all look so perfect As we all fall down In an electric glare The old man cracks with age She found his last picture In the ashes of the fire An image of the queen Echoes round the sweating bed Sour yellow sounds inside my head In books And films And in life And in heaven The sound of slaughter As your body turns But it's too late But it's too late One more day like today and I'll kill you A desire for flesh And real blood I'll watch you drown in the shower Pushing my life through your open eyes I must fight this sickness Find a cure I must fight this sickness |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
A hand in my mouth
A life spills into the flowers We all look so perfect As we all fall down In an electric glare The old man cracks with age She found his last picture In the ashes of the fire An image of the queen Echoes round the sweating bed Sour yellow sounds inside my head In books and in films And in life and in heaven The sound of slaughter As your body turns But it's too late One more day like today and I'll kill you A desire for flesh and real blood And I'll watch you drown in the shower Push my life through your open eyes I must fight this sickness Find a cure I must fight this sickness |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
I chose an eternity of this
Like falling angels The world disappeared Laughing into the fire Is it always like this? Flesh and blood and the first kiss The first colours The first kiss We writhed under a red light Voodoo smile Siamese twins A girl at the window looks at me for an hour Then everything falls apart Broken inside me It falls apart The walls and the ceiling move in time Push a blade into my hands Slowly up the stairs And into the room Is it always like this? Dancing in my pocket Worms eat my skin She glows and grows With arms outstretched Her legs around me In the morning I cried Leave me to die you won't remember my voice I walked away and grew old You never talk We never smile I scream You're nothing I don't need you any more You're nothing It fades and spins Fades and spins Sing out loud We all die Laughing into the fire Is it always like this? Is it always like this? Is it always like this? |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
I chose an eternity of this
Like falling angels The world disappeared Laughing into the fire Is it always like this Flesh and blood and the first kiss The first colours The first kiss We writhed under a red light Voodoo smile Siamese twins A girl at the window looks at me for an hour Then everything falls apart Broken inside me it falls apart The walls and the ceiling move in time Push a blade into my hands Slowly up the stairs And into the room Is it always like this Dancing in my pocket Worms eat my skin She glows and grows With arms outstretched Her legs around me In the morning I cried Leave me to die You won't remember my voice I walked away and grew old You never talk We never smile I scream You're nothing I don't need you any more You're nothing It fades and spins Sing out loud We all die Laughing into the fire Is it always like this |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Sharp and open
Leave me alone And sleeping less every night As the days become heavier and weighted Waiting in the cold light A noise a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten With spiders inside them and dust on the lips of a vision of hell I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year A hundred other words blind me with your purity Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance I think about tomorrow Please let me sleep as I slip down the window Freshly squashed fly You mean nothing I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls All the time lose me in the dark Please do it right Run into the night I will lose myself tomorrow Crimson pain My heart explodes My memory in a fire And someone will listen At least for a short while I can never say no to anyone but you Too many secrets Too many lies Writhing with hatred Too many secrets Please make it good tonight But the same image haunts me In sequence Despair of time I will never be clean again Touched her eyes Pressed my stained face I will never be clean again |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
sharp and open
leave me alone and sleeping less every night as the days become heavier and weighted waiting in the cold light a noise a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten with spiders inside them and dust on the lips of a vision of hell i laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year a hundred other words blind me with your purity like an old painted doll in the throes of dance i think about tomorrow please let me sleep as i slip down the window freshly squashed fly you mean nothing you mean nothing i can lose myself in chinese art and american girls all the time lose me in the dark please do it right run into the night i will lose myself tomorrow crimson pain my heart explodes my memory in a fire and someone will listen at least for a short while... i can never say no to anyone but you too many secrets too many lies writhing with hatred too many secrets please make it good tonight... but the same image haunts me in sequence in despair of time i will never be clean again i touched her eyes pressed my stained face i will never be clean again touch her eyes press my stained face i will never be clean again i will never be clean again |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
creatures kissing in the rain
shapeless in the dark again in the hanging garden please don't speak in the hanging garden no one sleeps catching haloes on the moon gives my hands the shapes of angels in the heat of the night the animals scream in the heat of the night walking into a dream... fall fall fall fall into the walls jump jump out of time fall fall fall fall out of the sky cover my face as the animals cry in the hanging garden creatures kissing in the rain shapeless in the dark again in a hanging garden change the past in a hanging garden wearing furs and masks... fall fall fall fall into the walls jump jump out of time fall fall fall fall out of the sky cover my face as the animals die in the hanging garden in the hanging garden |
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from The Cure, The Cure - Pornography (1982)
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again In the hanging garden please don't speak In the hanging garden no one sleeps In the hanging garden Catching haloes on the moon Gives my hands the shapes of angels In the heat of the night the animals scream In the heat of the night walking into a dream Fall fall fall fall into the walls Jump jump out of time Fall fall fall fall out of the sky Cover my face as the animals cry In the hanging garden Creatures kissing in the rain Shapeless in the dark again In a hanging garden change the past In a hanging garden wearing furs and masks Fall fall fall fall into the walls Jump jump out of time Fall fall fall fall out of the sky Cover my face as the animals die In the hanging garden As the animals die Cover my face as the animals die In the hanging garden |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
I woke up at seven and my body was vibrating
I was wrapped up in a blanket I was grey Damp and sore The bedroom was an engine and my heartbeat was erratic (Like I think I'm at the racing Like the night before) I remember one girl standing One was sitting on the ground One was holding me up The other pulling me down And I couldn't decide which one was real Because there wasn't a sound (Like I was pregnant again... ) "Don't move don't blink don't think don't even breathe" she said "Or the photograph will spoil And cut you off at the head" So I was sucking I was sucking like a fat lady would But I couldn't hold it down another second (Bleagh!) "Don't twitch don't shout don't think don't even breathe" she said "Or the photograph will spoil and cut you off at the head" So I was sweating I was sweating like a fat lady would... And I woke up With a man inside my mouth (This won't hurt at all... ) |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Say goodbye on a night like this
If it's the last thing we ever do You never looked as lost as this Sometimes it doesn't even look like you It goes dark it goes darker still please stay But I watch you like I'm made of stone As you walk away I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night A witch hunt for another girl For always and ever is always for you Your trust the most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world Say hello on a day like today Say it everytime you move The way that you look at me now Makes me wish I was you It goes deep It goes deeper still this touch And the smile And the shake of your head And the smile And the shake of your head I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night Can't stand here like this anymore For always and ever is always for you I want it to be perfect like before Oh I want to change it all Oh I want to change I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night Can't stand here like this anymore For always and ever is always for you I want it to be perfect like before Oh I want to change it all Oh I want to change |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Say goodbye on a night like this
If it's the last thing we ever do You never looked as lost as this Sometimes it doesn't even look like you It goes dark it goes darker still please stay But I watch you like I'm made of stone As you walk away I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night A witch hunt for another girl For always and ever is always for you Your trust the most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world Say hello on a day like today Say it everytime you move The way that you look at me now Makes me wish I was you It goes deep It goes deeper still this touch And the smile And the shake of your head And the smile And the shake of your head I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night Can't stand here like this anymore For always and ever is always for you I want it to be perfect like before Oh I want to change it all Oh I want to change I'm coming to find you if it takes me all night Can't stand here like this anymore For always and ever is always for you I want it to be perfect like before Oh I want to change it all Oh I want to change |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
I've waited hours for this, I've made myself so sick, I wish I'd stayed Asleep today, Thought this day would never end Never thought tonight could ever be So close to me Just try to see in the dark, Just try to make it work, I feel the fear Before you're here, Make the shapes come much too close, Pull my eyes out, Hold my breath and wait, 'Til I shake But if I had your faith, I could make it safe and clean If only I was sure, That your hand on the door was a dream I've waited hours for this, I made myself so sick I wished I'd stayed Asleep today Never thought this day would end, Never thought tonight could ever be So close to me, But if I had your faith, I could make it safe and clean If only I was sure, That your hand on the door was a dream |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
I've waited hours for this, I've made myself so sick, I wish I'd stayed Asleep today, Thought this day would never end Never thought tonight could ever be So close to me Just try to see in the dark, Just try to make it work, I feel the fear Before you're here, Make the shapes come much too close, Pull my eyes out, Hold my breath and wait, 'Til I shake But if I had your faith, I could make it safe and clean If only I was sure, That your hand on the door was a dream I've waited hours for this, I made myself so sick I wished I'd stayed Asleep today Never thought this day would end, Never thought tonight could ever be So close to me, But if I had your faith, I could make it safe and clean If only I was sure, That your hand on the door was a dream |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Yesterday I got so old
I felt like I could die Yesterday I got so old It made me want to cry Go on go on Just walk away Go on go on Your choice is made Go on go on And disappear Go on go on Away from here And I know I was wrong When I said it was true That it couldn't be me And be her inbetween without you Without you Yesterday I got so scared I shivered like a child Yesterday away from you It froze me deep inside Come back come back Don't walk away Come back come back Come back today Come back come back Why can't you see Come back come back Come back to me And I know I was wrong When I said it was true That it couldn't be me And be her inbetween without you Without you Without you |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Yesterday I got so old
I felt like I could die Yesterday I got so old It made me want to cry Go on go on Just walk away Go on go on Your choice is made Go on go on And disappear Go on go on Away from here And I know I was wrong When I said it was true That it couldn't be me And be her inbetween without you Without you Yesterday I got so scared I shivered like a child Yesterday away from you It froze me deep inside Come back come back Don't walk away Come back come back Come back today Come back come back Why can't you see Come back come back Come back to me And I know I was wrong When I said it was true That it couldn't be me And be her inbetween without you Without you Without you |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985) | |||||
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
A nightmare of you
Of death in the pool Wakes me up at quarter to three I'm lying on the floor of the night before With a stranger lying next to me A nightmare of you Of death in the pool I see no further now than this dream The trembling hands of the trembling man Hold my mouth to hold in a scream I try to think to make it slow If only here is where I go If this is real I have to see I turn on fire And next to me It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It's so smooth it even feels like skin It tells me how it feels to be new Tells me how it feels to be new A thousand voices whisper it true Tells me how it feels to be new And every voice belongs Every voice belongs to you A nightmare of you Of death in the pool Wakes me up at quarter to three I'm lying on the floor of the night before With a stranger lying next to me It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It's so smooth it even feels like skin It tells me how it feels to be new Tells me how it feels to be new A thousand voices whisper it true Tells me how it feels to be new And every voice belongs Every voice belongs to you |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
A nightmare of you
Of death in the pool Wakes me up at quarter to three I'm lying on the floor of the night before With a stranger lying next to me A nightmare of you Of death in the pool I see no further now than this dream The trembling hands of the trembling man Hold my mouth to hold in a scream I try to think to make it slow If only here is where I go If this is real I have to see I turn on fire And next to me It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It's so smooth it even feels like skin It tells me how it feels to be new Tells me how it feels to be new A thousand voices whisper it true Tells me how it feels to be new And every voice belongs Every voice belongs to you A nightmare of you Of death in the pool Wakes me up at quarter to three I'm lying on the floor of the night before With a stranger lying next to me It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It looks good It tastes like nothing on earth It's so smooth it even feels like skin It tells me how it feels to be new Tells me how it feels to be new A thousand voices whisper it true Tells me how it feels to be new And every voice belongs Every voice belongs to you |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Go go go
Go go go Push him away No no no No no no Don't let me stay He gets inside to stare at her The sleeping mouth The mouth that knows The secret you Always you A smile to hide the fear away Oh smear this man across the walls Like strawberries and cream It's the only way to be Exactly the same clean room Exactly the same clean bed But I've stayed away too long this time And I've got too big to fit this time |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Go go go
Go go go Push him away No no no No no no Don't let me stay He gets inside to stare at her The sleeping mouth The mouth that knows The secret you Always you A smile to hide the fear away Oh smear this man across the walls Like strawberries and cream It's the only way to be Exactly the same clean room Exactly the same clean bed But I've stayed away too long this time And I've got too big to fit this time |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
When you screw up your eyes
When you screw up your face When you throw out your arms And keep changing your shape Taste the taste in your mouth Taste the taste on your tongue On the film on your eyes Of the way I've become What do I do when you screw up your eyes? What do I do when you screw up your face? What do I do when you throw out your arms Fall on the floor and keep changing your shape? Jump right into your mouth Jump around on your tongue And the film on your eyes Of the way I've become Makes me sick at the way that I try Anything in the world To impress that I'm doing this Only for you |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
When you screw up your eyes
When you screw up your face When you throw out your arms And keep changing your shape Taste the taste in your mouth Taste the taste on your tongue On the film on your eyes Of the way I've become What do I do when you screw up your eyes? What do I do when you screw up your face? What do I do when you throw out your arms Fall on the floor and keep changing your shape? Jump right into your mouth Jump around on your tongue And the film on your eyes Of the way I've become Makes me sick at the way that I try Anything in the world To impress that I'm doing this Only for you |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
I am slowing down
As the years go by I am sinking So I trick myself Like everybody else The secrets I hide They twist me inside They make me weaker So I trick myself Like everybody else I crouch in fear and wait I'll never feel again If only I could If only I could If only I could remember Anything at all |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
I am slowing down
As the years go by I am sinking So I trick myself Like everybody else The secrets I hide They twist me inside They make me weaker So I trick myself Like everybody else I crouch in fear and wait I'll never feel again If only I could If only I could If only I could remember Anything at all |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart And every one I'll keep tonight Six different ways go deep inside I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give them more and more I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give the world and more They think I'm on my hands and head This time they're much too slow Six sides to every lie I say It's that American voice again "It was never quite like this before Not one of you is the same" This this is stranger than I ever thought Six different ways inside my heart And everyone I'll keep tonight Six different ways go deep inside I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give the world and more They think I'm on my hands and head This time they're much too slow Six sides to every lie I say It's that American voice again "It was never quite like this before Not one of you is the same" |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
This is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart And every one I'll keep tonight Six different ways go deep inside I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give them more and more I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give the world and more They think I'm on my hands and head This time they're much too slow Six sides to every lie I say It's that American voice again "It was never quite like this before Not one of you is the same" This this is stranger than I ever thought Six different ways inside my heart And everyone I'll keep tonight Six different ways go deep inside I'll tell them anything at all I know I'll give the world and more They think I'm on my hands and head This time they're much too slow Six sides to every lie I say It's that American voice again "It was never quite like this before Not one of you is the same" |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Let me forget
Let me forget Or let me go Let me go I'll keep it quiet as a whisper I'll keep it low low low... Never! The biggest word I ever heard Stop dead Stop dead You're getting too close... Before you even opened your eyes I moved about a million ways I killed about a million people And filled about half a day Before you even opened your eyes You had to have to ask me who I love it... I mean you... My face was in your hands You looked into my eyes You said I tasted right And swallowed me alive |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Heaven give me a sign
Waiting for the sun to shine Pleasure fills up my dreams And I love it like a baby screams It's so useless how can you be proud When you're sinking into the ground Into the ground fills up my dreams And I love it like a baby screams Couldn't ask for more you said Take it all and strike me dead Waiting again Waiting like I waited before Waiting again Waiting here for nothing at all Heaven fills up my dreams And I love it like a baby screams Couldn't ask for more you said Couldn't ever let it end Take it all Take it all and strike me dead Heaven |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Heaven give me a sign
Waiting for the sun to shine Pleasure fills up my dreams And I love it like a baby screams It's so useless how can you be proud When you're sinking into the ground Into the ground fills up my dreams And I love it like a baby screams Couldn't ask for more you said Take it all and strike me dead Waiting again Waiting like I waited before Waiting again Waiting here for nothing at all Heaven fills up my dreams And I love it like a baby screams Couldn't ask for more you said Couldn't ever let it end Take it all Take it all and strike me dead Heaven |
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from The Cure, The Cure - The Head On The Door (1985)
Tell me who doesn't love
What can never come back You can never forget how it used to feel The illusion is deep It's as deep as the night I can tell by your tears you remember it all I am paralysed By the blood of Christ Though it clouds my eyes I can never stop Never stop How it feels to be dry Walking bare in the sun Every mirage I see is a mirage of you As I cool in the twilight Taste the salt on my skin I recall all the tears all the broken words I am paralysed By the blood of Christ Though it clouds my eyes I can never stop Never stop When the sunset's glow drifts away from you You'll no longer know if any of this was really true at all I am paralysed By the blood of Christ Though it clouds my eyes I can never stop Never stop Tell me who doesn't love What can never come back You can never forget how it used to feel I am paralysed By the blood of Christ Though it clouds my eyes I can never stop Never stop |