The Cure

Lyrics
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Three Imaginary Boys

10.15 Saturday Night
Accuracy
Grinding Halt
Another Day
Object
Subway Song
Foxy Lady
Meathook
So What?
Fire In Cairo
It's Not You
Three Imaginary Boys


Boys Don't Cry

Jumping Someone Else's Train
Boys Don't Cry
Plastic Passion
10.15 Saturday Night
Accuracy
Object
Subway Song
Killing an Arab
Fire in Cairo
Another Day
Grinding Halt
World War
Three Imaginary Boys


Seventeen Seconds

A Reflection
Play For Today
Secrets
In Your House
Three
The Final Sound
A Forest
M
At Night
Seventeen Seconds


Faith

The Holy Hour
Primary
Other Voices
All Cats are Grey
The Funeral Party
Doubt
The Drowning Man
Faith


Pornography

One Hundred Years
A Short Term Effect
The Hanging Garden
Siamese Twins
The Figurehead
A Strange Day
Cold
Pornography


Japanese Whispers
(The Cure Singles Nov '82 - Nov '83)

Let's Go to Bed
The Dream
Just One Kiss
The Upstairs Room
The Walk
Speak My Language
Lament
The Lovecats


The Top

Shake Dog Shake
Birdmad Girl
The Wailing Wall
Give Me It
Dressing Up
The Caterpillar
Piggy in the Mirror
The Empty World
Bananafishbones
The Top


Head on the Door

Inbetween Days
Kyoto Song
The Blood
Six Different Ways
Push
The Baby Screams
Close to Me
A Night Like This
Screw
Sinking


Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

The Kiss
Catch
Torture
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Why Can't I Be You?
How Beautiful You Are
The Snakepit
Hey You!!!
Just Like Heaven
All I Want
Hot Hot Hot!!!
One More Time
Like Cockatoos
Icing Sugar
The Perfect Girl
A Thousand Hours
Shiver and Shake
Fight


Disintegration

Plainsong
Pictures of You
Closedown
Lovesong
Last Dance
Lullaby
Fascination Street
Prayers For Rain
The Same Deep Water as You
Disintegration
Homesick
Untitled


Wish

Open
High
Apart
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Wendy Time
Doing the Unstuck
Friday I'm in Love
Trust
A Letter to Elise
Cut
To Wish Impossible Things
End

B-Sides

2 Late
Babble
The Big Hand
Breathe
Burn
Chain Of Flowers
Charlotte Sometimes
Cult Hero
Do The Hansa
The Exploding Boy
Fear Of Ghosts
A Few Hours After This...
A Foolish Arrangement
Halo
Happy The Man
Harold And Joe
Heroin Face
I Dig You
I'm Cold
A Japanese Dream
A Man Inside My Mouth
Never Enough
New Day
Out Of Mind
Pillbox Tales
Mr. Pink Eyes
Play
Scared As You
See The Children
Snow In Summer
Splintered In Her Head
Stop Dead
Sugar Girl
Throw Your Foot
To The Sky
This Twilight Garden

Discography


...Come with me, Come into the trees...


10.15 Saturday Night

10.15
Saturday night
And the tap drips
Under the strip light
And I'm sitting
In the kitchen sink
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip

Waiting
For the telephone to ring
And I'm wondering
Where she's been
And I'm crying
For yesterday
And the tap drips
Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip

It's always the same


 Accuracy

We sit in the same room
Side by side
I give you the wrong lines
Feed you
Accuracy
Accuracy

Look into my eyes
We both smile
I could kill you
Without trying
That's accuracy
Accuracy
Accuracy
...
Accuracy
Accuracy
Practice all day for accuracy
Mirror mirror on the wall


 Another Day

The sun rises slowly
On another day
The eastern sky grows
Cold
Winter in water colours
Shades of grey

Something
Something holds me
Holds me hypnotized

I stare at the window
Stare at the window
Waiting for the day
To go
Winter in water colours
Shades of grey


 Boys Don't Cry

I would say I'm sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I've said too much
Been too unkind

I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try and
Laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that
It's too late
And now there's nothing I can do

So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to
laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry

I would tell you
That I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it's no use
That you've already
Gone away

Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more

Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just
Keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry
Boys don't cry


 Fire in Cairo

Slowly fading blue
The eastern hollows catch
The dying sun
Night-time follows
Silence and black
Mirror pool mirrors
The lonely place
Where I meet you

See your head
In the fading light
And through the dark
Your eyes shine bright

And burn
Like fire
Burn like fire in Cairo
Burn like fire
Burn like fire in Cairo

Shifting crimson veil
Silken hips slide
Under my hand
Swollen lips whisper
My name
And I yearn
You take me in your arms
And start to burn

FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
Then the heat disappears
And the mirage
Fades away

FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO
FIREINCAIRO

Burn like a fire in Cairo
Burn like a
Fire
Blaze like a fire in Cairo
Blaze like a
Fire
Flare
Burn like fire
Burn like
Fire in Cairo


 Foxy Lady




 Grinding Halt

No light
No people
No speak
No people
No cars
No people
No food
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything's coming to a griding halt

No sound
No people
No clocks
No people
No fine
No people
No me
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything's coming to a griding halt
Everything's coming to a griding halt

Slow down
Slow down
No people
Slow down
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a


 It's Not You

You wear your smile
Like it was going out of fashion
Dress to inflame
But douse any ideas of passion
You carry your love in a trinket
Hanging round your throat
Always inviting
Always exciting
But I must not take off my coat

Well I'm tired of hanging around
I want somebody new
I'm not sure who I've got in mind
But I know
That it's not you
That it's not you

You ask me questions
That I never wanted to hear
I am the only one
Just until you finish this year
I would murder you
If I had the alibi
Here in my hand
And you just laugh
'cause you don't understand

That I'm tired of hanging around
I want somebody new
I'm not sure
Who I've got in mind
But I know that it's not you
It's not you
It's not you
It's not you
It's not you
It's not you
No it's not you
That it's not you
It's not you
It's not you


 Jumping Someone Else's Train

Don't say what you mean
You might spoil your face
If you walk in the crowd
You won't leave any trace
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

It won't take you long
To learn the new smile
You'll have to adapt
Or you'll be out of style
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

If you pick up on it quick
You can say you were there
Again and again and again
You're jumping someone else's train

It's the latest wave
That you've been craving for
The old ideal
Was getting such a bore
Now you're back in line
Going not quite quite as far
But in half the time
Everyone's happy
They're finally all the same
'cause everyone's jumping
Everyone else's train

Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train


 Killing An Arab

Standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

I can turn
And walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I chose
It amounts to the same
Absolutely nothing

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab

I feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach
The dead man on the beach

I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an arab


 Meathook

I went into the butchers
I said wanted wanted wanted some
Meat
Pass
Me some of that steak over there
It looks so
Sweet

I lost my heart to a meathook

That butcher man was some
Lady
He really stole my heart
He hung me up on his meathook
A real piece of
Slaughterhouse art

I lost my heart to a meathook

There's a meathook in my heart
Tearing me all apart
Ripping out my insides
But I just can't get away
I can't leave my
Meathook
Lost my heart to a meathook
Lost my heart to a meathook
Meathook


 Object

You know you turn me on
Eyes so white and legs so long
But don't try to talk to me
I won't listen to your lies
You're just an object in my eyes
You're just an object in my eyes

Sophisticated smile
You seduce in such fine style
But don't try to fool me
'cause I can see through your disguise
You're just an object in my eyes
You're just an object in my eyes

But I don't mind
I just don't care
I've got no objection
To you touching me there

Object object
Object object
Object object
Object object

You know just what to do
Lick your lips
And I want you
But don't try to hold me
'cause I don't want any ties
You're just an object in my eyes
You're just an object in my eyes

But I don't mind
I just don't care
I've got no objections
To you touching me there
You're just an object object
Object object
You're just an object


 Plastic Passion

Plastic passion is a hard to handle
Plastic passion is a sold out scandal
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is the ladies lover
Plastic passion is the marble mother
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a diamond delight
Plastic passion is the nadir of night
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a hycoscine heart
Plastic passion is a transparent tart
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
Plastic passion is a gold guarantee
The plastic passion is murdering me
Oh it's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion
It's a plastic passion


 So What?

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I'm not meant to be here
But so what?
And nobody's
Nobody's taken your place
Nobody's taken your place

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A turntable
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And if you knew
Nothing could replace you
If you were sane
Your heart wouldn't ache
But so what?
So what?
So what?

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This offer closes
31st December 1979

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When I told you what I
And I

And I wouldn't ask you to pretend
That we were one
And still another time
Forget all the lies forgive me the wounds
And all the world was used to love
And yes we'd still be happy in another time
But so what?
So what?

So please send me icing and decorating sets
I enclose a cheque and postal order number

So what?
So what?


 Subway Song

Midnight in the subway
She's on her way home
She tries hard not to run
But she feels she's not alone
Echoes of footsteps
Follow close behind
But she dare not turn around

Turn around


 Three Imaginary Boys

Walk across the garden
In the footsteps of my shadow
See the lights out
No one's home
In amongst the statues
Stare at nothing in
The garden moves
Can you help me?

Close my eyes
And hold so tightly
Scared of what the morning brings
Waiting for tomorrow
Never comes
Deep inside
The empty feeling
All the night time leaves me
Three imaginary boys

Slipping through the door
Hear my heart beats in the hallway
Echoes
Round and round
Inside my head
Drifting up the stairs
I see the steps behind me
Disappearing
Can you help me?

Close my eyes
And hold so tightly
Scared of what the morning brings
Waiting for tomorrow
Never comes
Deep inside
The empty feeling
All the night time leaves me
Three imaginary boys sing in my
Sleep sweet child
The moon will change your mind

See the cracked reflection
Standing still
Before the bedroom mirror
Over my shoulder
But no one's there
Whispers in the silence
Pressing close behind me
Pressing close behind
Can you help me?
Can you help me?
Can you help me?


 World War

Dressed in Berlin black
I was only playing
Disguise my words to fool you
From what I was saying
Mud trench
Meat stench
The fatherland is looking on
Grip you in a luger lock
This will be the big one

World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend

Heaven heaven
Give me pride
Give me a golden hand
Smash them with an iron rule
Spit them out like sand
Sit and wait
Then run like hell
Run like hell one time again
Sow the seeds of hate
Underneath destruction

World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend
World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend


 Play For Today

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
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


 Secrets

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


 In Your House

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


 Three

Scream.


 A Forest

Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
If 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 and again


 M

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


 At Night

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


 Seventeen Seconds

Time slips away
And the light begins to fade
And everything is quiet now
Feeling is gone
And the picture disappears
And 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


 The Holy Hour

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


 Primary

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 ...
The less we show ...


 Other Voices

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


 All Cats Are Grey

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


 The Funeral Party

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


 Doubt

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


 The Drowning Man

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


 Faith

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


 One Hundred Years

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 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


 A Short Term Effect

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

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


 The Hanging Garden

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
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
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


 Siamese Twins

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?


 The Figurehead

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
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again


 A Strange Day

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 backs
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
A strange day


 Cold

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


 Pornography

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


 Let's Go to Bed

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo

Let me take your hand
I'm shaking like milk
Turning
Turning blue
All over the windows and the floors
Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us
Together again
But it's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You think you're tired now
But wait until three
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember from December
All of this then back again
Another girl
Another name
Stay alive but stay the same
It's just the same
A stupid game

But I don't care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you won't say it first

You can't even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain
Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone

Doo doo doo doo
Doo doo doo doo
Let's go to bed


 The Dream

You're too far away
Too far away to touch
And this mother's love inside me
Hurts too much
Prettily waving
Playing on the sand
Dreaming of everything
Dancing
Dancing in our hands
Dancing
Dancing

Dizzy dizzy dizzy
As I speak
Like a tumbling cat
I watch in fascination
Like a vampire bat
Don't do it don't do it
Don't do it don't do it
Don't give it away
We'll use it up tomorrow
If we don't use it today

Rest your head
Oh just put it outside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time love died

We pushed it in our mouths
Pushed it deep inside
All wrapped up in ribbons
The night
The dream
The time
Love died


 Just One Kiss

I remember the time that you rained all night
The queen of Siam in my arms
Remember the time that the islands sank
But nobody opened their eyes

Remember that time that the trees fell down
The wood crashing through the wall
Remember the sound that could wake the dead
But nobody woke up at all

Somebody died for this
Somebody died for just one kiss

Remember the time that the sky went black
We waited alone on the sands
Remember the taste of the raging sea
But nobody held out their hands

Somebody died for this
Somebody died
For just one kiss

Just one kiss
Just one kiss


 The Upstairs Room

I love it all
These games we play
I close my eyes
You run away
I'm sure I asked you to stay
But now you're gone
And so I feel the grey
Pulse in my head
I turn off the lights and crawl into bed
I try to think of sunshine
But my body goes wet
With the first crash of thunder

I don't think I can know
Anyone but you dear
That's for sure

When it gets to four
It's my turn to go
Oh the kiss
So alcoholic and slow
Arranging me for Saturday
I thought you would know
That I always sleep
Alone

I don't think I can know
Anyone but you
Dear
That's for sure

The upstairs room is cool and bright
We can go up there in summer
And dance all night

Your sister started talking at a minute after ten
So everyone jumped up
And then fell over again
In April you can join them
And stare at me
At the ghost from your past


 The Walk

I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

We walked around the lake
And woke up in the rain
And everyone turned over
Troubled in their dreams again

Visiting time is over
And so we walk away
And both play dead then cry out loud
Why we always cry this way?

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything

I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look
Like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything


 Speak My Language

It was only yesterday
Waving arms across the street
Your white face left me blue
How can I say all the things
I have to say to you
Oh all the people here
All look the same
The little time I spend with you
We drink each other dry

Mammnnarghaassstmmetc
Speak my language

It was only yesterday
My eyes touched yours across the street
We cut the words
And waved goodbye
And dropped off the edge of the world

Mammnnarghaassstmmetc
Speak my language


 Lament

Today there was a tragedy
Underneath the bridge
A man walked
Cold and blue
Into La Ment
The sky coloured perfect
As the man slipped away
Waving with a last vanilla smile

Somewhere at a table
Two drowned fools
Smoking
Drinking water as they talked
Of how they loved our lady
And oh the smell as candles die

One more ice cream river body
Flowed underneath the bridge
Underneath the bridge


 The Lovecats

We move like cagey tigers
We couldn't get closer than this
The way we walk
The way we talk
The way we stalk
The way we kiss
We slip through the streets
While everyone sleeps
Getting bigger and sleeker
And wider and brighter
We bite and scratch and scream all night
Let's go and
Throw all the songs we know

Into the sea
You and me
All these years and no one heard
I'll show you in spring
It's a treacherous thing
We missed you hissed the lovecats

We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty
Oh you know that I'd do anything for you
We should have each other to tea huh?
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up by the fire
And sleep for awhile
It's the grooviest thing
It's the perfect dream

Hand in hand
Is the only way to land
And always the right way round
Not broken in pieces
Like hated little meeces
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this

I love you ... let's go
Oh ... solid gone ...
How could we miss someone as dumb
As this?


 Shake Dog Shake

Ha ha ha
Wake up in the dark
The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the wall
And cough some more
And scrape my skin with razor blades

And make up in the new blood
And try to look so good
Follow me
Make up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is
Ha ha ha

As stale and selfish as a sick dog
Spurning sex like an animal of god
I'll tear your red hair by the roots
And hold you blazing
Hold you cherished in the dead electric light

Your face
I'll never see you this way again
I captured it so perfectly
As if I knew you'd disappear away

Shake shake shake shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake dog shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake shake shake shake
Shake dog shake

You hit me again
You howl and hit me again
The same sharp pain
Wakes me in the dark
And cuts me from my throat to my pounding heart
My heart
My shaking heart
My howl my shake dog

Oh shake dog shake
Shake shake
Shake dog shake

But we slept all night in the virgin's bed
And dreamed of death
And breathed like sick dogs
We slept all night in the virgin's bed
And breathed like death
And dreamed of sick dogs

Shake shake
Shake dog shake

Wake up wake up wake up
Shake dog shake
Wake up wake up wake up
Shake dog shake
Wake up in the new blood
Make up in the new blood
Shake up in the new blood
And follow me to where the real fun is
Shake dog shake


 Bird Mad Girl

This girl has got a smile
That can make me cry
This girl just burns with love
She's burning burning deep outside

Night time night time
Sets my house on fire
I'll turn into the melting man
I'll lose my life
To feel I feel desire

Oh I should feel
Like a polar bear
Like a polar bear
It's impossible

She flies outside this cage
Singing girl-mad words
I keep her dark thoughts deep inside
As black as stone
As mad as birds

Wild wild wild
And never turn away
Sends me all her love
She sends me everything
She sends me everywhere

Oh I could be
A polar bear
Oh I could be
A polar bear
But it's impossible

I try to talk
The sky goes red
I forget
So fill my head
With some of this
Some of that
Some of every word she said

Oh I should be
A polar bear
But it's imposible


 Wailing Wall

The holy city breathed
Like a dying man
It moved with hopeful tears
With the tears of the blind

And on and on as the night drew in
Through broken streets
That sucked me in
My feet were bare and cut with stones
With walking to the promised land

I pushed through crowds
Through seas of prayer
Through twisting hands and choking air
A vulture at the wailing wall
I circled
Waiting


 Give Me It

Get away from me
Get your fingers out of my face
This room's so hot
This room's so hot

I break the walls

Get away from me
Leave me alone
Like the pig on the stairs
Hanging
In a groovy purple shirt

Gasping for air
I'm gasping for air
I'm gasping for love
I'm gasping for air

Slit the cats like cheese
Then eat the sweet sticky things
Suck harder suck harder
Suck your insides insides out

Blood thick swimming round your feet
As you're choking
Choking
Choking on the fleshy words

Give me it give me it give me it
Deaden my glassy mind
Give me it give me it give me it
Make me blind
One step back and one step down
And slip the needles in my side

My head is cold
My hands are cold
My heart is cold
My heart is black
And stops every fucking night
Every night
I wait until it stops

Sing birds sing birds sing birds sing
Get away


 Dressing Up

Going under slowly
It never seems too late
Going under so slow

Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to touch all this

I'm dressing up to dance all week
I'm dressing up to sleep

Dressing up to kiss
Dressing up to be all this

I could eat your face
I could eat all of you
Oh this night will never let me go...

Going under slowly
Never seems too late
Going under slow
You'll pick me up again


 The Caterpillar

Flicka flicka flicka
Here you are
Cata cata cata
Caterpillar girl
Flowing in
And filling up my hopeless heart
Oh never never go
Dust my lemon lies
With powder pink and sweet
The day I stop
Is the day you change
And fly away from me

You flicker
And you're beautiful
You glow inside my head
You hold me hynotized
I'm mesmerized
Your flames
The flames that kiss me dead


 Piggy in the Mirror

Shapes in the drink like christ
Cracks in the pale blue wall
I'm walking slowly and quickly but
Always away
Twisting twisting to the floor

Flowers in your mouth and the same dry
Song the routine from laughter land
16 white legs and a row of teeth
I watch you in secrecy

Your dying for the hope is gone
From here we go nowhere again
I'm trapped in my face and I'm changing
Too much
I can't climb out the way I fell in

Jump with me
For that old forgotten dance
The midnight sun will burn you up
Your life is cold
Your life is hot
Your life's too much for words

These occasions are such a relief
Another point another view to send
We start to talk
And it's all so safe
I feed you in my dreams

Footsteps on a wire
High above my head
The stain reveals my real intention
I'm the waiting beast
I'm the twisted nerve
As I dance dance
Back to the body in my bed

Look at the piggy
Piggy in the mirror


 The Empty World

As stiff as toys
And tall as men
And swaying like the wind torn trees
She talked about the empty world
With eyes like poison birds

She talked about the armies
That marched inside her head
And how they made her dreams go bad
But oh how happy she was
How proud she was
To be fighting in the war
In the empty world


 Bananafishbones

Curl into a ball like you have more fun
That would make it faster
Why do you do it do you act like you?...

Don't fight
Go red and blue and black and white
Sell this sell this
Or leave it senseless like a suck on a gun?
Put a piece of metal in your head you said
Make you dead
Make you hippa hippa hippa hippa

A palace of stones
Of your bananafish bones
I'll buy you a hundred years old
To celebrate our difference
Theorise and talk yourself
Until you're tired and old

Disappear everywhere and watch me
Pull my lips apart
Exploit inspire encourage
Be responsible for this
Ha ha

I don't think
I don't think
I make use of all this time
Oh kill me kiss me once
And then we'll throw it away
And then we'll throw it away

Turn off the lights
And tell me about the games you play


 The Top

I don't care
If only I could say that
And not feel so sick and scared
I don't care
If only I could say that
If only my eyes would close

It's jesus brilliant
You used to laugh
Walking these gorgeous blocks
This top is the place
Where nobody goes
You just imagine
You just imagine it all

Every day I lie here
And know that it's true
All I really want is you
Please come back
Please come back
Like all the other ones do

Please come back
All of you


 Inbetween Days

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
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


 Kyoto Song

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 hand 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
Its so smooth it even feels like skin
It tells me how it feels to be new

It tells me how it feels to be new
A thousand voices whisper it true
It tells me how it feels to be new
And every voice belongs
Every voice belongs to you


 The Blood

Tell me who doesn't love
What can never come back
You can never forget how it used to feel
The illusion is deep
Its 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

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

When the sunsets glow drifts away from you
You'll no longer know
If any of this was really true at all


 Six Different Ways

This is stranger than I 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 them more and more

I'll tell them anything at all
I know I'll give the world and more
The 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 is stranger than I thought
Six different ways inside my heart
And everyone I'll keep tonight
Six different ways go deep inside


 Push

Go go go
Push him away
No no no
Don't let him stay

He gets inside to stare at her
The seeping 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
Its 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...


 The Baby Screams

Heaven
Give me a sign
Waiting for the sun to shine
Pleasure fills up my dreams
And I love it
Like a baby screams

Its 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
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
Heaven


 Close to Me

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
Hold my breath
And wait until I shake

But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

But if I had your face
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door
Was a dream


 A Night Like This

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

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
I want to change it all

I want to change


 Screw

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 what 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


 Sinking

I am slowing down
As the years go by
I am sinking
So I trick myself
Like everybody else

The secrets I hide
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 remember
Anything at all


 The Kiss

Kiss me kiss me kiss me
Your tongue is like poison
So swollen it fills up my mouth

Love me love me love me
You nail me to the floor
And push my guts all inside out

Get it out get it out get it out
Get your fucking voice
Out of my head

I never wanted this
I never wanted any of this
I wish you were dead
I wish you were dead

I never wanted any of this
I wish you were dead
Dead
Dead
Dead


 Catch

Yes I know who you remind me of
A girl I think I used to know
Yes I'd see her when the day got colder
On those days when it felt like snow

You know I even think that she stared like you
She used to just stand there and stare
And roll her eyes right up to heaven
And make like I just wasn't there

And she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But I never even caught her name

And sometimes we would spend the night
Just rolling about on a floor
And I remember
Even though it felt soft at the time
I always used to wake up sore

You know I even think that she smiled like you
She used to just stand there and smile
And her eyes would go all sort of far away
And stay like that for quite a while

And I remember she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But I never even caught her name

Yes I sometimes even tried to catch her
But I never even caught her name


 Torture

I'm in the room without a light
The room without a view
I'm here for one more treacherous night
Another night with you
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight it screams
And screams and screams
And pulls some more

Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this
Hanging on your back
I'm helpless again

My body is cut and broken
It's shattered and sore
My body is cut wide open
I can't stand anymore
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight screams
And screams and screams
And screams some more

Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this hanging on your back
Oh it's torture
And I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there

It's torture
But I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there


 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

If only tonight we could sleep
In a bed made of flowers
If only tonight we could fall
In a deathless spell

If only tonight we could slide
Into deep black water
And breathe
And breathe...

Then an angel would come
With burning eyes like stars
And bury us deep
In his velvet arms

And the rain would cry
As our faces slipped away
And the rain would cry

Don't let it end...


 Why Can't I Be You?

You're so gorgeous I'll do anything
I'll kiss you from your feet
To where your head begins
You're so perfect you're so right as rain
You make me
Make me hungry again

Everything you do is irresistable
Everything you do is simply kissable
Why can't I be you?

I'll run around in circles
Til I run out of breath
I'll eat you all up
Or I'll just hug you to death
You're so wonderful
Too good to be true
You make me
Make me hungry for you

Everything you do is simply delicate
Everything you do is quite angelicate
Why can't I be you?

You turn my head when you turn around
You turn the whole world upside down
I'm smitten I'm bitten I'm hooked I'm cooked
I'm stuck like glue
You make me
Make me hungry for you

Everything you do is simply dreamy
Everything you do is quite delicious
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?

You're simply elegant!!!


 How Beautiful You Are

You want to know why I hate you?
Well I'll try and explain...
You remember that day in Paris
When we wandered through the rain
And promised to each other
That we'd always think the same
And dreamed that dream
To be two souls as one
And stopped just as the sun set
And waited for the night
Outside a glittering building
Of glittering glass and burning light...

And in the road before us
Stood a weary greyish man
Who held a child upon his back
A small boy by the hand
The three of them were dressed in rags
And thinner than the air
And all six eyes stared fixedly on you

The father's eyes said "Beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boy's eyes said
"How beautiful!
She shimmers like a star!"
The childs eyes uttered nothing
But a mute and utter joy
And filled my heart with shame for us
At the way we are

I turned to look at you
To read my thoughts upon your face
And gazed so deep into your eyes
So beautiful and strange
Until you spoke
And showed me understanding is a dream
"I hate these people staring
Make them go away from me!"

The fathers eyes said "Beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boys eyes said
"How beautiful! She glitters like a star!"
The child's eyes uttered joy
And stilled my heart with sadness
For the way we are

And this is why I hate you
And how I understand
That no-one ever knows or loves another

Or loves another


 The Snakepit

Well we're a mile under the ground
And I'm thinking that it's Christmas
And I'm kissing you hard
Like I've got very important business
And no-one knows
And no-one sees us
Because they're drinking themselves senseless
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snakepit

Well I'm out in a car
And it's just full of stupid girls
And I've forgotten how to speak
And I just can't remember a word
And my eyes feel like they're bursting
And they're splitting like plums
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snakepit


 Hey You!!!

Hey you!!!
Yes you
Yes you the one that looks like Christmas
Come over here and kiss me
Kiss me

Hey you!!!
Yes you
Yes you the one that looks delirious
Come over here and kiss me
Kiss me


 Just Like Heaven

"Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"

Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

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

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven


 All I Want

Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight I'm howling inside
Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight I'm going wild

And all I want is to be with you again
And all I want is to hold you like a dog
And all I want is to be with you again
With you again
Just to hold you like a dog

Tonight I'm screaming like an animal
Tonight I'm losing control
Tonight I'm screaming like an animal
Tonight oh I'm getting so low

And all I want is to be with you again
And all I want is to hold you like a dog
And all I want is to be with you again
With you again
Just to hold you like a dog
That's all I want


 Hot Hot Hot!!!

The first time I saw lightening strike
I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space
Then everything went black
I left that basement burning
And I never went back

The second time I saw it strike
I saw it at sea
It lit up the fish like rain
And rained then down on me
For a second that boat was still afloat
Then everything went black
I left it underwater
And I never went back

Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when that lightening comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it alot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!

The third time I saw lightening strike
It hit me in bed
It threw me around
And left me for dead
For a second that room was on the moon
Then everything went black
I left that house on fire
And I never went back

Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when that lightening comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it alot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!


 One More Time

I'd love to touch the sky tonight
I'd love to touch the sky
So take me in your arms
And lift me like a child
And hold me up so high
And never let me go
Take me
Take me in your arms tonight

Hold me
Hold me up so high
And never let me down
Hold me
Hold me up so high
To touch the sky
Just one more time

Take me in your arms tonight
Take me in your arms
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time


 Like Cockatoos

She walked out of her house
And looked around
At all the gardens that looked
Back at her house
(Like all the faces
That quiz when you smile...)

And he was standing
At the corner
Where the road turned dark
A part of shiny wet
Like blood the rain fell
Black down on the street

And kissed his feet she fell
Her head an inch away from heaven
And her face pressed tight
And all around the night sang out
Like cockatoos

"There are a thousand things" he said
"I'll never say those things to you again"
And turning on his heel
He left a trace of bubbles
Bleeding in his stead

And in her head
A picture of a boy who left her
Lonely in the rain
(And all around the night sang out
like cockatoos)


 Icing Sugar

Your delicious
Dreaming
Slack jawed
Green eyed
Rub my nose in
Icing sugar
Smooth as
When this cold and deadly
Blade
Kissed the fruit
So soft
And gently breathing
Under your skin

Oh I'll empty you
I'll empty you
As empty as a boy can be
As empty
As a boy can be


 The Perfect Girl

You're such a strange girl
I think you come from another world
You're such a strange girl
I really don't understand a word
You're such a strange girl
I'd like to shake you around and around
You're such a strange girl
I'd like
To turn you
All upside down

You're such a
Strange girl
The way you look like you do
You're such a strange girl
I want
To be with you

I think I'm falling
I think I'm falling in
I think I'm falling in love with you
With you


 A Thousand Hours

For how much longer can I howl into this wind?
For how much longer
Can I cry like this?

A thousand wasted hours a day
Just to feel my heart for a second
A thousand hours just thrown away
Just to feel my heart for a second

For how much longer can I howl into this wind?


 Shiver and Shake

You're just a waste of time
You're just a babbling face
You're just three sick holes that run like sores
You're a fucking waste
You're like a slug on the girl
Oh you're useless and ugly
And useless and ugly
And I shiver and shake
When I think of how you make me hate

I want to smash you to pieces
I want to smash you up and screaming
I want to smash you helpless
Down on the floor
Smash you until you're not here anymore

And I shiver and shake
Shiver and shake


 Fight

Sometimes there's nothing to feel
Sometimes there's nothing to hold
Sometimes there's no time to run away
Sometimes you just feel so old
The times it hurts when you cry
The times it hurts just to breathe
And then it all seems like there's no-one left
And all you want is to sleep

Fight fight fight
Just push it away
Fight fight fight
Just push until it breaks
Fight fight fight
Don't cry at the pain
Fight fight fight
Or watch yourself burn again
Fight fight fight
Don't howl like a dog
Fight fight
Just fill up the sky
Fight fight fight
Fight til you drop
Fight fight fight
And never never
Never stop

Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight

So when the hurting starts
And when the nightmares begin
Remember you can fill up the sky
You don't have to give in
You don't have to give in

Never give in
Never give in
Never give in


 Plainsong

"i think it's dark and it looks like rain" you said
"and the wind is blowing like it's the end of the
world" you said "and it's so cold it's like the
cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for
a second.

"i think i'm old and i'm in pain" you said
"and it's all running out like it's the end of the
world" you said "and it's so cold it's like the
cold if you were dead" and then you smiled for
a second

sometimes you make me feel like i'm living at
the edge of the world like i'm living at the edge
of the world "it's just the way i smile" you said


 Pictures of You

i've been looking so long at these pictures of
you that i almost beleive that they're real i've
been living so long with my pictures of you that
i almost believe that the pictures are all i can
feel

remembering you standing quiet in the rain as
i ran to your heart to be near and we kissed as
the sky fell in holding you close how i always
held close in your fear remembering you
running soft through the night you were bigger
and brigther than the snow and
screamed at the make-believe screamed at the
sky and you finally found all your courage to
let it all go

remembering you fallen into my arms crying
for the death of your heart you were stone
white so delicate lost in the cold you were
always so lost in the dark remembering you
how you used to be slow drowned you were
angels so much more than everything oh hold
for the last time then slip away quietly open
my eyes but i never see anything

if only i had thought of the right words i could
have hold on to your heart if only i'd thought of
the right words i wouldn't be breaking apart all
my pictures of you

Looking So long at these pictures of you but i
never hold on to your heart looking so long for
the words to be true but always just breaking
apart my pictures of you

there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you


 Closedown

i'm running out of time i'm out of step and
closing down and never sleep for wanting hours
the empty hours of greed and uselessly always
the need to feel again the real belief of
something more than mockery if only i could
fill my heart with love


 Lovesong

whenever I'm alone with you you make me feel
like i am home again whenever i'm alone with
you you make me feel like i am whole again

whenever i'm alone with you you make me feel
like i am young again whenever i'm alone with
you you make me feel like i am fun again

however far away i will always love you however
long i stay i will always love you whatever
words i say i will always love you i will always
love you

whenever i'm alone with you you make me feel
like i am free again whenever i'm alone with
you you make me feel like i am clean again

however far away i will always love you however
long i stay i will always love you whatever
words i say i will always love you i will always
love you


 Last Dance

i'm so glad you came i'm so glad
you remembered to see how we're ending our last
dance together expectant too puctual but
prettier than ever i really believed that this time
it's forever

but older than me now more constant more real
and the fur and the mouth and the innocence
turned to hair and contentment that hangs in
abasement a woman now standing where once
there was only a girl

i'm so glad you came i'm so glad you
remembered the walking through walls in the
heart of december the blindness of happiness
of falling down laughing and i really believed
that this time was forever

but christmas falls late now flatter and colder
and never as bright as when we used to fall all
this in an instant before i can kiss you a woman
now standing were once there was only a girl

i'm so glad that you came i'm so glad you
remembered to see how we're ending our last
dance together reluctantly cautiously but
prettier than ever i really believed that this time
it's forever

but christmas falls late now flatter and colder
and never as bright as when we used to fall and
even if we drink i don't think we would kiss in
the way that we did when the woman was only a
girl


 Lullaby

on candystripe legs spiderman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for the victim shivering in bed
searching out fear in the gathering gloom and
suddenly! a movement in the corner of the
room! and there is nothing i can do when i
realise with fright that the spiderman is having
me for dinner tonight

quietly he laughs and shaking his head creeps
closer now closer to the foot of the bed and
softer than shadow and quicker than flies his
arms are all around me and his tongue in my
eyes "be still be calm be quiet now my precious
boy don't struggle like that or i will only love
you more for it's much too late to get away or
turn on the light the spiderman is having you
for dinner tonight"

and i feel like i'm being eaten by a thousand
million shivering furry holes and i know that in
the morning i will wake up in the shivering cold
and the spiderman is always hungry...


 Fascination Street

oh it's opening time down on fascination street
so let's cut the conversation and get out for a
bit because i feel it all fading and paling and i'm
begging to drag you down with me to kick the
last nail in yeah i like you in that like i like you
to scream but if you open your mouth then i
cant be responsible for quite what goes in or
to care what comes out so just pull on your hair
just pull on your pout and let's move to the beat
like we know that it's over if you slip going
under slip over my shoulder so just pull on your
face just pull on your feet and let's hit opening
time down on fascination street

so pull on your hair pull on your pout cut the
conversation just open your mouth pull on your
face pull on your feet and let's hit opening time
down on fascination street


 Prayers for Rain

you shatter me your grip on me a hold on me
so dull it kills you stifle me infectious sense of
hopelessness and prayers for rain i suffocate i
breathe in dirt and nowhere shines but desolate
and drab the hours all spent on killing time
again all waiting for the rain

you fracture me your hands on me a touch so
plain so stale it kills you strangle me entangle
me in hopelessness and prayers for rain i
deteriorate i live in dirt and nowhere glows but
drearily and tired the hours all spent on killing
time again all waiting for the rain


 The Same Deep Water as You

kiss me goodbye pushing out before i sleep
can't you see i try swimming the same deep
water as you is hard "the shallow drowned lose
less than we" you breathe the strangest twist
upon your lips "and we shall be together..."

"kiss me goodbye bow your head and join with
me" and face pushed deep rteflections meet
the strangest twist upon your lips and
dissapear the ripples clear and laughing break
against your feet and laughing break the mirror
sweet "so we shall be together..."

"kiss me goodbye" pushing out before i sleep
it's lower now and slower now the strangest
twist upon your lips but i don't see and i dont
feel but tightly hold up silently my hands
before my fading eyes and in my eyes your
smile the very last thing before i go...

i will kiss you i will kiss you i will kiss you
forever on nights like this i will kiss you i will
kiss you and we shall be together...


 Disintegration

oh i miss the kiss of treachery the shameless
kiss of vanity the soft and the black and the
velvety up tight against the side of me and
mouth and eyes and heart all bleed and run in
thickening streams of greed as bit by bit it
starts the need to just let go my party piece

oh i miss the kiss of treachery the aching kiss
before i feed the stench of a love for a younger
meat and the sound that it makes when it cuts
in deep the holding up on bended knees the
addiction of duplicities as bit by bit it starts
the need to just let go my party piece

but i never said i would stay to the end so i
leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
screaming me over and over and over i leave
you with photographs pictures of trickery
stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
songs about happiness murmured in dreams
when we both us knew how the ending would
be...

so it's all come back round to breaking apart
again breking apart like i'm made up of glass
again making it up behind my back again
holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
holding it up behind my head again cut in deep
to the heart of the bone again round and round
and round and it's coming apart again over and
over and over

now that i know that i'm breaking to pieces i'll
pull out my heart and i'll feed it to anyone
crying for sympathy crocodile cry for the love
of the crowd and the three cheers from
everyone dropping through sky through the
glass of the roof through the roof of your mouth
through the mouth of your eye through the eye
of the needle it's easier for me to get closer to
heaven than ever feel whole again

i never said i would stay to the end i knew i
would leave you with babies and everything
screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
screaming me over and over and over i leave
you with photographs pictues of trickery
stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
songs about
happiness murmured in dreams when we both
of us knew how the end always is...

how the end always is...


 Homesick

hey hey! just one more and i'll walk away all
the everything you win turns to nothing today
and i forget when to move when my mouth is this
dry and my eyes are bursting hearts in a blood-
stained sky oh it was sweet it was wild and oh
how we...i trembled stuck in honey honey
cling to me so just one more just one more go
inspire in me the desire in me to never go home

oh just one more and i'll walk away all the
everything you win turns to nothing today so
just one more just one more go inspire in me
the desire in me to never go home


 Untitled

hopelessly drift in the eyes of the ghost again
down on my knees and my hands in the air again
pushing my face in the memory of you again
but i never know if it's real never know how i
wanted to feel never quite said what i wanted
to say to you never quite managed the words to
explain to you never quite knew how to make
them beleivable and now the time has gone
another time undone hopelessly fighting the
devil futility feeling the moster climb deeper
inside of me feeling him gnawing my heart away
hungrily i'll never lose this pain never dream of
you again


 Open

I really don't know what i'm doing here
I really think i should've gone to bed tonight but...
Just one drink
And there're some people to meet you
I think that you'll like them
I have to say we do
And i promise in less than an hour we will honestly go
Now why don't i just get you another
While you just say hello...

Yeah just say hello...

So i'm clutching it tight
Another glass in my hand
And my mouth and the smiles
Moving up as i stand up
Too close and too wide
And the smiles are too bright
And i breathe in too deep
And my head's getting light
But the air is getting heavier and it's closer
And i'm starting to sway
And the hands on all my shoulders don't have names
And they won't go away
So here i go
Here i go again...

Falling into strangers
And it's only just eleven
Ans i'm staring like a child
Until someone slips me heaven
And i take it on my knees
Just like a thousand times before
And i get transfixed
That fixed
And i'm just looking at the floor
Just looking at the floor
Yeah i look at the floor

And i'm starting to laugh
Like an animal in pain
And i've got blood on my hands
And i've got hands in my brain
And the first short retch
Leaves me gasping for more
And i stagger over screaming
On my way to the floor
And i'm back on my back
With the lights and the lies in my eyes
And the colour and the music's too loud
And my head's all the wrong size
So here i go
Here i go again...

Yeah i laugh and i jump
And i sing and i laugh
And i dance and i laugh
And i laugh and i laugh
And i can't seem to think
Where this is
Who i am
Why i'm keeping this going
Keep pouring it out
Keep pouring it down
And the way the rain comes down hard
That's the way i feel inside...

I can't take it anymore
This it i've become
This is it like i get
When my life's going numb
I just keep moving my mouth
I just keep moving my feet
I say i'm loving you to death
Like i'm losing my breath
And all the smiles that i wear
And all the games that i play
And all the drinks that i mix
And i drink until i'm sick
And all the faces that i make
And all the shapes that i throw
And all the people i meet
And all the words that i know
Makes me sick to the heart
Oh i feel so tired...

And the way the rain comes down hard
That's how i fell inside...


 High

When i see you sky as i kite
As high as i might
I can't get that high
The how you move
The way you burst the clouds
It makes me want to try

When i see you sticky as lips
As licky as trips
I can't lick that far
But when you pout
The way you shout out loud
It makes me want to start
And when i see you happy as a girl
That swims in a works of magic show
It makes me bite my fingers through
To think i could've let you go

And when i see you
Take the same sweet steps
You used to take
I say i'll keep holding you
My arms so tight
I'll never let you slip away

And when i see you kitten as a cat
Yeah as smitten as that
I can't get that small
The way you fur
The how you purr
It makes me want to paw you all
And when i see you happy as a girl
That lives in a world of make-believe
It makes me pull my hair all out
To think i could've let you leave

And when i see you
Take the same sweet steps
You used to take
I know i'll keep on holding you
In arms so tight
They'll never let you go


 Apart

He waits for her to understand
But she won't understand at all
She waits all night for him to call
But he won't call anymore
He waits to hear her say
Forgive
But she just drops her pearl-black eyes
And prays to hear him say
I love you
But he tells no more lies

He waits for her to sympathize
But she won't sympathize at all
She waits all night to feel his kiss
But always wakes alone
He waits to hear her say
Forget
But she just hangs her head in pain
And prays to hear him say
No more
I'll never leave again

How did we get this far apart?
We used to be so close together
How did we get this far apart?
I thought this love would last forever

He waits for her to understand
But she won't understand at all
She waits all night for him to call
But we won't call
He waits to hear her say
Forgive
But she just drops her pearl-black eyes
And prays to hear him say
I love you
But he tells no more lies

How did we get this far apart?
We used to be so close together
How did we get this far apart?
I thought this love would last forever


 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

Every time we do this
I fall for her
Wave after wave after wave
It's all for her
I know this can't be wrong i say
(And i'll lie to keep her happy)
As long as i know that you know
That today i belong
Right here with you
Right here with you...

And so we watch the sun come up
From the edge of the deep green sea
And she listens like her head's on fire
Like she wants to believe in me
So i try
Put your hands in the sky
Surrender
Remember
We'll be here forever
And we'll never say goodbye...

I've never been so
Colourfully-see-through-head before
I've never been so
Wonderfully-me-you-want-some-more
And all i want is to keep it like this
You and me alone
A secret kiss
And don't go home
Don't go away
Don't let this end
Please stay
Not just for today

Never never never never never let me go she says
Hole me like this for a hundred thousand million days
But suddenly she slows
And looks down at my breaking face
Why do you cry? what did i say?
But it's just rain i smile
Brushing my tears away...

I wish i could just stop
I know another moment will break my heart
Too many tears
Too many times
Too many years i've cried over you

How much more can we use it up?
Drink it dry?
Take this drug?
Looking for something forever gone
But something
We will always want?

Why why why are you letting me go? she says
I feel you pulling back
I feel you changing shape...
And just as i'm breaking free
She hangs herself in front of me
Slips her dress like a flag to the floor
And hands in the sky
Surrenders it all...

I whish i could just stop
I know another moment will break my heart
Too many tears
Too many times
Too many years i've cried for you
It's always the same
Wake up in the rain
Head in pain
Hung in shame
A different name
Same old game
Love in vain
And miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
Away from home again...


 Wendy Time

You look like you could do with a friend she said
You look like you could use a hand
Someone to make you smile she said
Someone who can understand
Share your trouble
Comfort you
Hold you close
And i can do all of these
I think you need me here with you

You look like you do with a sister she said
You look like you need a girl to call your own...
Like fabulous! fabulous!
Call me fabulous!
And rubbing her hands so slow
You stare at me all strange she said
Are you hungry for more?
I've had enough i said
Please leave me alone
Please go

It doesn't touch me at all
It doesn't touch me at all

You know that you could do with a friend she said
You know that you could use a word
Like feel or follow or fuck she said
And laughing away as she turned
You've everything but no-one
Like the last man on earth
And when i die i said
I'll leave you it all
Door closes
Leaves me cold

It doesn't touch me at all
It doesn't touch me at all

You really do need a sister she said
You really do need a girl to call your own...
Like wonderful! wonderful!
Call me wonderful!
And running her hands so slow
You stare at me all strange she said
Are you hungry for more?
I've had enough i said
Please leave me alone
Please go
Please go


 Doing the Unstuck

It's a perfect day for letting go
For setting fire to bridges
Boats
And other dreary worlds you know
Let's get happy!
It's a perfect day for making out
To wake up with a smile without a doubt
To burst grin giggle bliss skip jump and sing and shout
Let's get happy!

But it's much to late you say
For doing this now
We should have done it then
Well it just goes to show
How wrong you can be
And how you really should know
That it's never too late
To get up and go

It's a perfect day for kiss and swell
For rip-zipping button-popping kiss and well...
There's loads of other stuff can make you yell
Let's get happy!
It's a perfect day for doing the unstuck
For dancing like you can't hear the beat
And you don't give a further thought
To things like feet
Let's get happy!

But it's much too late you say
For doing this now
We should have done it then
Well it just goes to show
How wrong you can be
And how you really should know
That it's never to late
To get up and go

Kick out the gloom
Kick out the blues
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
Tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
Oh just burn down the house!
Burn down the street!
Turn everything red and the beat is complete
With the sound of your world
Going up in fire
It's a perfect day to throw back your head
And kiss it all goodbye

It's a perfect day for getting old
Forgetting all your worries
Life
And everything that makes you cry
Let's get happy!
It's a perfect day for dreams come true
For thinking big
And doing anything you want to do
Let's get happy!

But it's much to late you say
For doing this now
We should have done it then
Well it just goes to show
How wrong you can be
And how you really should know
That it's never too late
To get up and go

Kick out the gloom
Kick out the blues
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
Tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
Oh just burn down the house!
Burn down the street!
Turn everything red and the dream is complete
With the sound of your world
Going up in fire
It's a perfect day to throw back your head
And kiss it all goodbye


 Friday I'm in Love

I don't care if monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and wednesday too
Thursday i don't care about you
It's friday i'm in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn't even start
It's friday i'm in love

Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
But friday never hesitate...

I don't care if monday's black
Tuesday wednesday heart attack
Thursday never looking back
It's friday i'm in love

Monday you can hold your head
Tuesday wednesday stay in bed
Or thursday watch the walls instead
It's friday i'm in love

Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
But friday never hesitate...

Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a shriek
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It's friday
I'm in love


 Trust

There's no-one left in the world
That i can hold onto
There is really no-one left at all
There is only you
And if you leave me now
You leave all that we were
Undone
There is really no-one left
You are the only one

And still the hardest part for you
To put your trust in me
I love you more than i can say
Why won't you just believe?


 A Letter to Elise

Oh elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

Oh elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know i'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would
If they only would
At least i'd lose this sense of sensing something else
That hides away
From me and you
There're worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the prayers your hands can make
Oh i just take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh i throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round
Yesterday
I stood and stared
Wide-eyed in front of you
And the face i saw looked back
The way i wanted to
But i just can't hold my tears away
The way you do

Elise believe i never wanted this
I thought this time i'd keep all of my promises
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about
But i let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out...

Oh elise
It doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

And every time i try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as i pick it up
It suns away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else i can really do
There's nothing else
I can really do
At all...


 Cut

If only you'd never speak to me
The way that you do
If only you'd never speak like that
It's like listening to
A breaking heart
A falling sky
Fire go out and friendship die
I wish you felt the way that i still do

If only you'd never look at me
The way that you do
If only you'd never look like that
When i look at you
I see face like stone
Eyes of ice
Mouth so sweetly telling lies
I wish you felt the way that i still do
The way that i still do
But you don't
You don't feel anymore
You don't care anymore
It's all gone

If only you'd never pull from me
The way that you do
If only you'd never pull like that
When i'm with you
I feel hopeless hands helplessly
Pulling you back close to me
I wish you felt the way that i still do
The way that i still do

If only you'd ever speak to me
The way you once did
Look at me the way you once did
Pull to me the way you once did
But you don't
You don't feel anymore
You don't care anymore
It's all gone
It's all gone


 To Wish Impossible Things

Remember how it used to be
When the sun would fill up the sky
Remember how we used to feel
Those days would never end
Those days would never end

Remember how it used to be
When the stars would fill the sky
Remember how we used to dream
Those nights would never end
Those nights would never end

It was the sweetness of your skin
It was the hope of all we might have been
That fills me with the hope to wish
Impossible things

But now the sun shines cold
And all the sky is grey
The stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
And all i wish
Is gone away
All i wish
Is gone away

All i wish
Is gone away


 End

I think i've reached that point
Where giving up and going on
Are both the same dead end to me
Are both the same old song

I think i've reached that point
Where every wish has come true
And tired disguised oblivion
Is everything i do

Please stop loving me
Please stop loving me
I am none of these things

I think i've reached that point
Where all the things you have to say
And hopes for something more from me
Are just games to pass the time away

Please stop loving me
Please stop loving me
I am none of these things

I think i've reached that point
Where every word that you write
Of every blood dark sea
And every soul black night
And every dream you dream me in
And every perfect free from sin
And burning eyes
And hearts on fire
Are just the same old song

Please stop loving me
Please stop loving me
I am none of these things
I am none of these things

I am none of these things


 2 Late

So I'll wait for you
Where I always wait
Behind the signs that sell the news
I'll watch for you like yesterday
And hope for you
One day that once
Spent out on me
And up 'til late
I search for you
Your hat pushed straight
Away from me
Your measured step
Heads up you win
Always too late

If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away


 Babble

Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever moves
I swim around in circles
In the same old lifeless room
And talk about the mirror man
The whispers in my ear again
The hot and sticky pillow man
Is smothering my face again

Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever moves
And I run around hysterical
In dead persistent gloom
And babble out in simile
Like dog-head-monkey-music me
Shut up shut up shut up shut up
Shut up!!!
And let me breathe...


 The Big Hand

the big hand makes all of your favourite things
like all your dreams go small
and all your friends run away
until your memories fail
and the words don't fit
but the way the big hand smiles
you just won't care about it

the big hand makes all of your favourite things
like all your days run out
and all your hopes disappear
and your smiles just stop
and your eyes go dead
and the shadows start to crawl
in the back of your head

but when the big hand speaks
it's like fireworks in heaven
so you listen don't think
and wish for nothing at all
but when the big hand sings
it's like fireworks and friends
leaving alone i'm not
leaving alone
leaving alone i'll never
leave alone again

so when the big hand holds up all your favourite things
and with a touch like glass
starts to squeeze
you don't ask
'why me?'
you just slip to the floor
just slip to your knees

but when the big hand speaks
it's like fireworks in heaven
so you listen don't think
and wish for nothing at all
but when the big hand sings
it's like fireworks and friends
leaving alone i'm not
leaving alone
leaving alone never leaving alone
leaving alone I'm not
leaving alone
leaving alone
I'm not leaving alone again


 Breathe

Breathe
Breathe on me
Be like you used to be
Breathe on me

Move in me
Be like you used to be
Move in me
Move in me

Be with me
Be like you used to be
With me
With me


 Burn

Don't look, don't look
The shadows breathe
Whispering me away from you
Don't wake at night to watch her sleep
You know that you will always see
This trembling (?) r....(?) towers a bird mad girl

Every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again

Don't talk of love 'cause shadows blur
Murmuring me away from you
Don't talk of worlds that never were
The end is always ever true
There's nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do

Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name
Every night I burn
Every night the dream's the same
Every night I burn
Waiting for my only friend
Every night I burn
Waiting for the world to end

Just paint your face and shadow smile
Slipping me away from you
Oh it doesn't matter how you hide
Find you if we're wanting to
So slide back down and close your eyes
Sleep awhile - you must be tired

When every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again

Every night I burn
Scream the animal screams
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream

(repeat)

Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream


 Chain Of Flowers

Please wake up
It's so dark and cold
Please wake up
I feel so alone
And I feel so scared
That you're going away
And I feel so scared...

All I want is summer
Stories from before
Just like the day you tried to hide
Behind the churchyard wall
And fell asleep before I came
I found you
In a chain of flowers
Sleeping like a marble girl
Sleeping in another world...

I'll never tell you
Of all the different ways
You make me so afraid...


 Charlotte Sometimes

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 sometimes did not cry
The people seemed so close
Playing expressionless games
The people seemed so close
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 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


 Cult Hero

I'm a cult hero
I'm a dream come true
You want to touch me
but you can't get through
I walk on water and I don't get wet
I've got something you won't forget
I'm a cult hero- payed my dues
I'm a cult hero- got nothing to lose
I'm a cult hero
I'm a cult hero
I'm ahead of my time
You'll never rule me
'coz I'm all mine
Bounce off of me
'coz I'm so strong
My time is coming and it won't be long

SAVE US!!


 Do the Hansa

Ein zwei drei vier
Steve oh yeah
Platinum all the way
Do the hansa
Do the hansa
Etc etc


 The Exploding Boy

I couldn't hear a word you said
I couldn't hear at all
You talked until your tongue fell out
And then you talked some more
I knew if I turned
I'd turn away from you
And I couldn't look back

Tell yourself we'll start again
Tell yourself it's not the end
Tell yourself it couldn't happen
Not this way
Not today


 Fear Of Ghosts

Like a feeling that I'm down
Down inside my heart
Like I'm looking out through
Splitting bloodred
Windows in my heart
From a higher up than heaven
And a harder down than stone
Shake the fear that always clawing
Pulls me clawing down alone
As I spitting splitting bloodred
Breaking windows in my heart
And the past is taunting
Fear of ghosts
Is forcing me apart
And the further I get
From the things that I care about
The less I care about
How much further away I get...

I am lost again
With everything gone
And more alone
Than I have ever been
I expect you to understand
To feel it too
But I know that even if you will
You cannot ever help me
Nor can I
Ever help you


 A Few Hours After This...

The look before I go
Is the look for you
You only have to look and it will all come true
And we can fall outside
Into the fizzy night
Or pull me down in here
You know it's all the same
I only want to see if you are happy again
Or we can roll around
And find out upside down

A few hours after this and we're apart again
Like two white checks
Like opposite poles
In a secret game
(like nothing like these I suppose...)
I really should have known by the cut of your smile
That the answer would be simple
It still took you awhile to get it out of me
I thought you'd do it easily

Just put your hands around my heart
And squeeze me until I'm dry
I never thought you'd ever start to ever ask me why

I never saw you again


 a foolish arrangement

christabel strips
and slips like a dream
breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain
disdain...
she throws her head
and glides against the stream
throwing me her bravest smile
defiant
glittering
shivering gulls

"catching a cold is quick this time
but fish?... fish may take a while..."

christabel dips and slips from me
and hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free
triumphant
reluctantly
struggling six legs held up for me to see

"don't be so scared
it's nothing new
it's the same old game; only fun with two..."
but fast and over and over
"i can't play this game with you"

everything she tries to tell me
leaves me open mouthed and still
foolishly arrange tomorrow
the way I always will

christabel trips
and grips my hand
but never to be saved
for a second i understand
and i fall in with her...

"i'll never leave you
love you
see you change into the man i want
but it's not for long this thing
it's not for long..."


 halo

i never felt like this with anyone before
you only have to smile and i'm dizzy
you make the world go round
a thousand times an hour
just touch my head
and send me spinning

i never felt like this with anyone before
you show me colours and i'm crying
you hold my eyes in yours
and open up the world
i can't believe all this

i want to keep this feeling
deep inside of me
i want you always in my heart
you are everything

i never felt like this with anyone before
you fill my head all full of rainbows
and all the rainbows end
is every step you take
just to be with you forever

i want to keep this feeling
deep inside of me
i want you always in my heart
you are everything


 Happy the Man

I'll never understand
(Come closer and I'll whisper)
Who was that standing in the rain?
If only I could remember
What he said
(And how it all began)

Happy the man
With the face that smiles

But it has to have a name
(Something strong, something faithful, something pure)
How does he look so safe?

He'll never
Never turn away
Happy the man


 Harold and Joe

Nothing ever gets in my way
Nothing ever get on my mind
Nothing ever makes me
stop to think about
nothing of the kind

Nothing ever loses me sleep
(and) Nothing ever wins my heart
Nothing ever makes want to sing along
(and) Nothing makes me want to start

If I'm falling down a mountain
and I pick myself up
If I crash into an aspen
I don't give a frightful
Look around If I am burning
(and) I put myself out
I'm so completely full
I scare the world all the world inside out
Just look around
Just look.....

Nothing ever puts me out
Nothing ever pulls me in
Nothing ever makes me want to jump
Nothing makes me want to begin

Nothing ever gets me down
Nothing ever gets me uptight
(and) Nothing ever makes me run around
(and) Nothing makes me feel alright

If I'm hanging from a big tree*
(and) I cut myself down
(and) if I look into the sun
I just don't make a sound
(and) If I swallow two galbanums*
I spit them right out
I'm so completely full
I scare the world, yeah all the world inside out
Just look around
Just look around
Just look around

Nothing ever gets in my way
Nothing ever gets on my mind
Nothing ever makes me
stop to think about
nothing of the kind


Harold and Joe
go go go
Harold and Joe
go go go

Sing but...


 Heroin Face

Spit out the shout of a warning
Death is an honour with doubts
So you live in the end
And you mistrust the start
Because you don't think it counts

But you'll pay for yourself
You'll pay for yourself
You're just a heroin face

You see a heroin face in the mirror
And someone is clutching your breath
And you believe in the needle of night
You're only doing your best

But you'll pay for yourself
You'll pay for yourself

You believe in the needle of night
And someone is cluthing your breath
So you mistrust the start
By always running away
But you'll never come back

You're just a heroin face
Heroin face


 I Dig You

I dig you
You dig me
We dig each other
That's groovy
(oh yeah)


 I'm Cold

You're begging me to stay
But I'm laughing in your face
You're so desperate
Not to let those years of care
All go to waste
But it was you who wanted love
Not romance
You have to pay the price
My body may be made of fire
But my soul is made of ice

I'm me
I'm cold
I'm cold
I'm told
I'd love to love you girl
But my body
Has just been sold


 A Japanese Dream

I'm going back to the land of the blind
Back to the land where the sun never shines
I'm going back there and I'm hoping to find
Everything just as it was before
I left it all behind

I slept at nights there hysterically
Twisted and turned
But I just couldn't get free
Opened my eyes
But I still couldn't see
But I could feel her
China white girl

So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey

Mmmmmm that was a Japanese dream alright
The sound of the storm
And the flickering light
And the way that her scent used to fill up the night like...
Like her scent used to fill up the night

So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey

Just look at me now
Just look at me this way
It looks like I am quite insane
It looks like I am trying to eat off my face
It looks like I'm going to the land of the blind anyway
Back where the sun never shines
Back to the land of the blind
Back in a Japanese dream


 A Man Inside My Mouth

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 even breathe" she said
"Or the photograph will spoil
And cut you off at the head"
So I was sucking
I was suncking 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)


 Never Enough

However much I push it down
It's never enough
However much I push it around
It's never enough
However much I make it out
It's never enough
never enough
However much I do.......



However big I ever feel
It's never enough
Whatever I do to make it real
It's never enough
In any way I try to speak
never enough
never enough
However much I try to speak
It's never enough
However much I'm falling down
It's never enough
However much I'm falling out
It's...never...enough
Whatever smile I smile the most
never enough
never enough
However I smile I smile the most

So let me hold it up just one more go
Holding it over just once more
One more time to fill it up
One more time to kill
Whatever I do it's never enough
It's never enough!

However much I push it down
It's never enough
However much I push it around
It's never enough
However much I make it out
It's never enough
However much I do
never enough
never enough
However much I'm falling down
never enough
However much I'm falling out
never, never enough!
Whatever smile I smile the most
never enough
However I smile I smile the most

So let me hold it up just one more go
Holding it over just once more
One more time to fill it up
One more time to kill
Whatever I do it's never enough
never enough!
So let me hold it up just one more go
Holding it over just once more
One more time to fill it up
One more time to kill
Whatever I do it's never enough
it's never enough
it's never enough
it's never enough
it's never enough
it's never, it's never enough


 New Day

New day
In heaven the ground is waiting
For the dust
The seed
My love once more
I shout
New day

Hold the air and gasp in life
This solid dance
This cold cold night
Is gone
The dark heat throbs
The fools sweat swims
The hazy light
The deadly sins
Are gone

Crack the stone
Invade my head
Dropping honey dropping dead again
The silence shouts
Across the gap
Another dreaming
Love me again
Shout.


 Out of Mind

I've been up for days
And I feel like a menagerie
I'm scratching 'til I bleed
And I keep on seeing
Imaginary lemurs
In the street
In the middle of the day
But as long as I can breathe
Then I know I'll be OK
I'll be alright
I'm out of mind
I'm out of sight
I'm out of sight

I've been up for days
And I feel like a laboratory rat
Inside a maze
And I reel in the monotony of
Screaming
At the moon
In the middle of the day
But as long as I can see it
Then I know I'll be ok
I'll be fine
I'm out of sight
I'm completely out of mind
Completely out of mind

OK
Alright
Come and watch me shake tonight
Mouth wide
Soft and bright
Bite my hand and scream
OK
Alright
Come and watch me break tonight
Push deep
Out of sight
Bite my hand and hold on tight...


 Pillbox Tales

Electric line
Racing time
Fire down the wall
Spinning around
The killing ground
It makes you look so small
Henna years
The stinging tears
Flesh on the railway track
The screaming queen
On the TV screen
Is never coming back

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales

Your special days
Your winning ways
You're living out the past
You're lying lies
And tying ties
And running much too fast
But you feel so sick
If you run too quick
And wishing every day
Wishing you were years away

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales


 Mr. Pink Eyes

You look so cool
Oh I don't think
Just fall over be like me
Mr. Pink Eyes

Your mind is blank
And mine's away
Oh you can't see
You can't smell
Mr. Pink Eyes

It's got to be jazz
That's what she wants
You are so vile
Mr. Pink Eyes

Oh give me a look
Give me a look
Or sit on my head
Or jump on my foot
Do something


 play

day after day
i let you down
promise you to change
then change my mind
and every time i promise you
it will all be fine
it won't be like this next time

the days you wait
turn into years
always wait
helpless tears
hopeless nights
and all the fears
it will always be like this

you give me everything you have
hoping it will someday be enough
to melt my heart
to make me fall in love

day after day
i let you down
promise you to change it all
then change my mind
and every time i promis you
soon be fine
it won't be like this next time

but tonight we play i think
the final act
i push too hard
and you crack
walk away
don't look back
this time you've really gone

you give me everything you have
knowing it can never be enough
my heart's too old
too hard
too cold
for your love


 scared as you

you know those things i said
all those things that made you cry
i didn't really mean that stuff
i didn't really mean that stuff
all i ever really mean
when i scream and shout the way i do
is i don't know
i really don't
i'm just the same as you

you know those things i said
all those things that made you
run away from me
i didn't mean a word
i diddn't really mean i don't believe
all i ever really mean
when i rant and rave the way i do
is i'm scared
i'm scared
i'm just as scared as you

and sometimes it's so hard
not to just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
not to just throw it all away
like all those things i said
all those things that made you cry
i didn't really mean that stuff
i didn't really mean to say goodbye

you know those things i said
all those things that made you
run away from me
i didn't mean a word
i didn't really mean i don't believe
all i ever really mean
when i scream and shout
the way i do
is i'm scared
i'm scared
i'm just as scared as you


 See the children

I stopped the car the other day
I had to ask a little girl the way
I thought she could show better if she got inside
And once inside I thought I'd take her for a little ride

chorus:
So I feel the children
See the children
All the time

At the supermarket centre I ?? christmas tree
The little one's I liked ?? sit upon my knee
I had to hold them tightly because they fell to the floor
A little concern, it's against the law

chorus

I drive past the infants school every single day
I pusdh sweeties through the fence but the kids just run away
I only want to talk with them and join them in their fun
But all the little children do is run run run run run run run run

nah nah nah nah naah nah

chorus
-------------------


 Snow in Summer

High up on this mountain
The whole world looks so small
And all the rivers
Run away
Slipping in your deep green heart
I drink you as I swim
And I'm sliding
And I'm sliding with you
Slide beneath my skin

Sleek and deep
And salty sweet
You open up in me
Just like the snow in summer

High up on this mountain
The whole world looks so small
And all the rivers
Run away
Slipping in your soft white heart
I drink you as I swim
And I'm falling
And I'm falling with you
Fall beneath my skin

Sleek and deep
And salty sweet
You come
And close in me
Just like the snow in summer

Just like the snow in summer
As it melts
Into the sea


 Splintered in her Head

Shape is still
Asleep
With the toys
As tall as men
The pictures in the hallway
Turning inside
Whispers
Unseen
Jumping against the sky
Slipping away
He looks
For the last time...


 Stop Dead

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


 Sugar Girl

Oh I wish I could find it funny
You laughing like that
But instead I change into a rage
And run around
Without a face
I wish I could find it funny
When you never came back
But I don't suppose I'll ever know
The how to keep you
Goodbye sugar girl

Goodbye sugar girl


 Throw Your Foot

It's funny how your face gets bigger
Gets bigger in this atmosphere
And your mouth goes dry
With every move you try
It's so funny here

Jumping around -- click click click
When you're so slow
It's like the world is stopping

Fifteen times I try this
And every time I faint
You look at me and
Start to tell the joke
About the man who couldn't stop
Hiccupping

It would be so perfect
If you would just fall out the window

Throw your foot away
You're tired and your face is grey
Like the sad old fool
You groove

Hey hey hey


 To the Sky

One perfect morning I was all alone
Listening to the blaze of summer
Drifting, I was falling, I was floating in a golden haze
Breathing in the sky-blue sun of memories of other days

And in my dreams I was a child
Flowers in my mouth and in my eyes
And I was floating through the colors of the sky
Up to the stars and angels

Up, up, up to heaven
Up, up, up forever
(repeat)

Turning in my prime I looked down on a lake
Traced upon the water there I saw your face
Descending with redemption of the times we've shared
Pushed down ever then up into the sky

And in my dreams I was a child
Flowers in my mouth and in my eyes
And I was floating through the colors of the sky
Up to the stars and angels

Up, up, up to heaven
Up, up, up forever


 this twilight garden

i lift my lips from kissing you
to kiss the sky
cloud soft and blue
and slow the sun melts down
into your golden words for me

i lift my hands from touching you
to touch the wind that whispers through
this twilight garden
turns into a world
where dreams are real

no-one will ever take your place
i am lost in you
no-one will ever take your place
so in love with you

i lift my eyes from watching you
to watch the star rise shine onto
your draming face and dreaming smile
you're dreaming worlds
for me

i lift my lips from kissing you
and kiss the sky wide deepest blue
and slow the moon swims up
into your golden words
for me

no-one will ever take your place
i am lost in you
no-one will ever take you place
so in love with you


 A complete discography for Cure fans everywhere. Compiled by Stephan Deisz and Nancy Everson (everson@bbn.com). With some help from past and present members of the babble mailing list. Please send any additions/corrections to everson@bbn.com

Date modified: 15 Dec 1994


7": seven-inch single 10": ten-inch single or ep 12": twelve-inch single or ep CD: compact disc CDS: CD single CDV: CDVideo (contains one video and several audio tracks) CT: cassette CTS: cassette single LP: long-play vinyl record


Albums:

Three Imaginary Boys Released May 1979. Produced by Chris Parry.

LP UK FIX 1
LP UK Deluxe FIX 1
LP France 2383 539
LP Argentina
LP Spain 2383 539
CT UK FIXC 1
CT France 3170 539
CD Europe 827 686-2

Robert Smith: guitar, vocals
Lol Tolhurst: drums
Michael Dempsey: bass, vocals

All songs written by Tolhurst, Dempsey, and Smith.
Except "Foxy Lady", by Jimi Hendrix.

Recorded and mixed at Morgan (Studio 4) Willesden.
Engineered by Mike Hedges, assisted by Mike Dutton.

3:42 10.15 Saturday Night
2:18 Accuracy
2:50 Grinding Halt
3:42 Another Day
3:00 Object
1:59 Subway Song
2:29 Foxy Lady
2:18 Meat Hook
2:35 So What
3:21 Fire in Cairo
2:52 It's Not You
3:13 Three Imaginary Boys
(unlisted track known as "Weedy Burton")

Boys Don't Cry US compilation, released February 1980. Produced by Chris Parry.

LP US PVC 7916
LP Canada NA 024
LP UK Spelp 26
LP France 2442 178
LP Japan VAP 3512425
LP Argentina
LP New Zealand
LP Australia
CT France 3170 511
CT UK Spemc 26
CT US PVCC 7916
CD Europe 815 011-2 (1st release: Object, World War)
CD Europe 815 011-2 (re-release: So What?)
CD US Elektra 9 60786-2 (So What?)

Robert Smith: guitar, vocals
Michael Dempsey: bass, vocals
Lol Tolhurst: drums

Recorded at Morgan Studios, London England.
Engineered by Mike Hedges, assisted by Mike Dutton.

track listing for original US LP release:
2:56 Jumping Someone Else's Train
2:35 Boys Don't Cry
2:14 Plastic Passion
3:38 10.15 Saturday Night
2:16 Accuracy
3:01 Object
1:59 Subway Song
2:22 Killing an Arab
3:21 Fire in Cairo
3:43 Another Day
2:49 Grinding Halt
2:36 World War
3:14 Three Imaginary Boys


Seventeen Seconds Released April 1980. Produced by Robert Smith and Mike Hedges. Assisted by Chris Parry and M L S.

LP UK FIXD 4
LP France 2383 574
LP US
LP Argentina
LP Japan VAP 35101 25
LP Australia
CT UK FIXDC 4
CT France 3170 574
CT Argentina Pol. 69073
CD Europe 825 354-2
CD US Elektra 9 60784-2

Robert Smith: guitars, vocals
Matthieu Hartley: keyboards
Laurence Tolhurst: drums
Simon Gallup: bass

Recorded at Morgan Studio One.
Engineered by Mike Hedges and Mike Dutton,
assisted by Nigel Green and Andrew Warwick.

2:08 A Reflection
3:38 Play For Today
3:19 Secrets
4:06 In Your House
2:35 Three
0:52 The Final Sound
5:54 A Forest
3:03 M
5:54 At Night
4:01 Seventeen Seconds


Faith Released April 1981. Produced by Mike Hedges and The Cure.

LP UK FIX 6
LP Norway FIX 6 (gatefold sleeve)
LP Germany 0060 395
LP France 2383 605
LP Spain 2383 605
LP US Elektra 9 60783-1
LP Japan VAP 3510 925
LP Argentina
CD Europe 827 687-2
CD US Elektra 9 60783-2

Robert Smith: guitar, keyboards, voice
Simon Gallup: bass
Laurence Tolhurst: drums

Engineers: Mike Hedges, Graham Carmichael, David Kemp

4:25 The Holy Hour
3:35 Primary
4:28 Other Voices
5:28 All Cats are Grey
4:14 The Funeral Party
3:11 Doubt
4:50 The Drowning Man
6:43 Faith


Faith/Carnage Visors Released April 1981, the cassette version includes the album "Faith" plus the soundtrack to the film that accompanied the band on tour.

CT UK FIXC 6
CT France 3577 363 (other sleeve)
CT US Elektra 9 60783-4

27:03 Carnage Visors


Happily Ever After US release, double album containing both Seventeen Seconds and Faith.

LP US A&M SP 6020
CT US A&M CS 6020
CD US A&M CD 6020


Pornography Released May 1982. Produced by The Cure and Phil Thornally.

LP UK FIXD 7
LP France 2383 639
LP US A&M SP 4902
LP Argentina
LP Greece
LP Japan VAP 35 002 25
CT UK FIXDC 7
CT France 3170 639
CD Europe 827 688-2
CD Japan Pocp 1875
CD US A&M CD 4902
CD US Elektra 9 60785-2

Robert Smith: voice, guitar, keyboards
Simon Gallup: bass, keyboards
Laurence Tolhurst: drums, keyboards

Recorded and mixed at RAK Studio One, London.
Engineered by Phil Thornally, Mike Nocito, and Robert.

All songs written by Smith, Gallup, Tolhurst.

6:39 One Hundred Years
A Short Term Effect
The Hanging Garden
Siamese Twins
6:14 The Figurehead
A Strange Day
Cold
Pornography


Japanese Whispers (The Cure Singles Nov '82 - Nov '83) Released December 1983. Produced by Robert Smith, Phil Thornally, Chris Parry, Steve Nye.

LP UK FIXM 8
LP France 817 470 1
LP Germany 817 470 1
LP Uruguay 817 470 1
LP Argentina
LP US Sire 125076
LP Japan VAP 3511128
CT UK FIXMC 8
CT France 817 470 4
CT US Sire 9 25076-4
CD Europe 817 470-2
CD Japan VAP 85007-30

The Cure are Robert Smith and Laurence Tolhurst.

3:32 Let's Go to Bed
3:10 The Dream
4:05 Just One Kiss
3:32 The Upstairs Room
3:28 The Walk
2:40 Speak My Language
4:20 La Ment
3:38 The Lovecats


The Top Released in May 1984. Produced by Smith, Parry, Allen.

LP UK FIXS 9
LP France 821 136 1
LP Argentina Pol 29053
LP Japan VAP 35117 25
LP US Sire 1-25086
LP China ZC 215
CT UK Fixsc 9
CT France 821 136 4
CT Greece 821 136 4
CD Europe 821 136 2
CD US Elektra

Robert Smith: instruments, voices
Laurence Tolhurst: other instruments
Andy Anderson: drums, percussion
Porl Thompson: saxaphone

Engineered by Dave Allen, Howard Grey.

4:55 Shake Dog Shake
4:05 Birdmad Girl
5:17 The Wailing Wall
3:42 Give Me It
2:48 Dressing Up
3:39 The Caterpillar
3:38 Piggy in the Mirror
2:35 The Empty World
3:10 Bananafishbones
6:51 The Top


Concert - The Cure Live Released October 1984. Produced by Dave Allen and the Cure.

LP UK FIXH 10
LP France 823 682 1
LP Argentina Pol 27387
LP Brazil
LP New Zealand
LP Japan VAP 351 3025
CD Europe 823 682-2

Porl Thompson: guitar, keyboard, saxaphone
Robert Smith: voice, guitar
Andy Anderson: drums
Phil Thornalley: bass
Laurence Tolhurst: keyboard

Recorded by The Manor Mobile, live in London and Oxford, May 1984.
Engineered by Dave Allen.

4:15 Shake Dog Shake
3:30 Primary
4:05 Charlotte Sometimes
4:07 The Hanging Garden
2:45 Give Me It
3:30 The Walk
6:50 One Hundred Years
6:45 A Forest
3:45 10:15 Saturday Night
2:50 Killing an Arab


Concert - The Cure Live/Curiosity - Cure Anomalies

CT UK FIXHC 10
CT France 823 682 4

The cassette of Concert contains Curiosity - Cure Anomalies,
in addition to the songs noted above.

These songs were all taken from Robert's cassette collection
and made as listenable as possible by Phil.

2:31 Heroin Face (4 december 77 the rocket crawley)
2:39 Boys Don't Cry (27 may 78 demo made at chestnut studio frensham)
2:28 Subway Song (october 79 nottingham)
5:33 At Night (9 june 80 french radio concert)
3:15 In Your House (15 january 80 holland)
5:35 The Drowning Man (1981 august australia or new zealand)
4:38 Other Voices (1981 somewhere else)
4:33 The Funeral Party (november 81 somewhere)
2:46 All Mine (1 may 82 london)
4:46 Forever (15 may 84 paris)


Head on the Door Released August 1985. Produced by Robert Smith and Dave Allen. Except *Produced by Robert Smith and Dave Allen and Howard Gray.

LP UK FIXH 11
LP France 827 231 1
LP US Elektra 1 60435 (promo+poster)
LP US Elektra 9 60435-1
LP Argentina 27294 ("Cabeza contra la puerta")
LP Brazil
LP Japan VAP 3515127 (+booklet)
CT UK FIXHC 11
CT France 827 231 4
CT US Elektra 9 60435-4
CD US Elektra 9 60435-2
CD Europe 827 231-2

Robert Smith: voices and guitars and keyboards
Laurence Tolhurst: keyboards
Porl Thompson: guitars and keyboards
Simon Gallup: bass
Boris Williams: drums and percussions

All songs engineered by Dave Allen.
Assisted by Frank Barretta and Tom Leader (Angel)
Phil Tennant (Genetic) Martin White (Townhouse).
Special thanks to Ron Howe - saxaphone.

2:55 Inbetween Days
4:00 Kyoto Song *
3:32 The Blood
3:16 Six Different Ways
4:28 Push *
3:43 The Baby Screams
3:23 Close to Me
4:12 A Night Like This *
2:35 Screw
4:50 Sinking


Standing on a Beach - The Singles Released May 1986. Compilation album of the officially released singles.

LP UK FIXH 12
LP France 829 239 1
LP Argentina Pol. 27323 "En una playa"
LP US Elektra 9 60477-1
LP Israel
LP Japan VAP 3515925 (+insert)

2:22 Killing an Arab
2:35 Boys Don't Cry
2:54 Jumping Someone Else's Train
4:53 A Forest
3:33 Primary
4:13 Charlotte Sometimes
4:21 The Hanging Garden
3:33 Let's Go to Bed
3:28 The Walk
3:38 The Lovecats
3:38 The Catepillar
2:56 Inbetween Days
3:39 Close to Me


Standing on a Beach - All the Hits/Unavailable B-sides cassette version, as above, plus the following

CT UK FIXHC 12
CT France 829 239 4
CT Greece 829 239 4 (without "Happy the Man")
CT US Elektra 9 60477-4

2:39 I'm Cold
2:59 Another Journey By Train
3:02 Descent
5:07 Splintered in Her Head
2:37 Mr. Pink Eyes
2:41 Happy the Man
3:28 Throw Your Foot
2:45 The Exploding Boy
2:19 A Few Hours After This
3:00 A Man Inside My Mouth
3:57 Stop Dead
4:03 New Day


Staring at the Sea - The Singles Compact disc version of the LP Standing on a Beach, with additional tracks:

CD Europe 829 239-2
CD US Elektra 9 60477-2
CD Australian (actually titled "Standing on a Beach")

3:37 10.15 Saturday Night
3:41 Play For Today
4:27 Other Voices
4:11 A Night Like This


Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Released May 1987. Produced by Dave Allen and Robert Smith. Assisted by Jacques Hermet (Mirival), Sean Burrows (Compass Point), and Michel Diercks (ICP).

2LP UK FIXH 13
2LP Germany 832 130 1
2LP US Elektra 9 60737-1
2LP Japan
2LP Uruguay
2LP Argentina
2LP Venezuela Sonographica 30560
2LP Peru
2LP South Africa DARL 3004
Box US Elektra 1 60737 (+12" WCIBY (special edit))
CT UK FIXHC 13
CT France 832 130 4
CT US Elektra 9 60737-4
CT South Africa DARC 3004
2CT Poland MG 0427
CD Europe 832 130-2
CD US Elektra 9 60737-2

Robert Smith: voice and guitar and keyboards
Simon Gallup: bass
Porl Thompson: guitar and keyboards and saxaphone
Laurence Tolhurst: keyboards
Boris Williams: drums and percussion

Thanks to Andrew Brennen (Nassau) for the saxaphones on Icing Sugar.

The Compact Disc is missing the track "Hey You!!!"

6:17 The Kiss
2:42 Catch
4:13 Torture
4:50 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
3:11 Why Can't I Be You?
5:09 How Beautiful You Are
6:56 The Snakepit
Hey You!!!
3:30 Just Like Heaven
5:18 All I Want
3:32 Hot Hot Hot!!!
4:29 One More Time
3:38 Like Cockatoos
3:48 Icing Sugar
2:33 The Perfect Girl
3:21 A Thousand Hours
3:26 Shiver and Shake
4:26 Fight


KMKMKM with Limited Edition orange vinyl mini album Released December 1987. Produced by Dave Allen and Robert Smith.

12" UK FIXHA 13 orange vinyl
12" UK black test pressing

All songs credited to Smith/Gallup/Thompson/Williams/Tolhurst.

Full KMKMKM 2LP plus:
A Japanese Dream
Breathe
A Chain of Flowers
Sugar Girl
Snow in Summer
Icing Sugar


Disintegration Released May 1989. Produced by Robert Smith and David M. Allen.

LP UK FIXH 14
LP France 839 3531
LP Poland LX 122
LP Hungary SLPXL 37351
LP US 60855-1 (promo)
LP Argentina (promo+pictures)
LP UK FIXHP 14 (picture disc, released April 1990)
LP UK (test pressing)
LP South Africa STARL 5567
CT UK FIXHC 14
CT Europe 839 353 4
CT Turkey 839 353 4
CT South Africa STARC 5567
CD Europe 839 353-3
CD US Elektra 9 60855-2

Robert Smith: voice, guitar, and keyboards
Simon Gallup: bass and keyboards
Boris Williams: drums
Porl Thompson: guitars
Roger O'Donnell: keyboards
Laurence Tolhurst: other instruments

Recorded at Outside Studios, Berkshire.
Mixed at RAK Studio Three, London.
Engineered by David M. Allen and Robert Smith.
Assistant engineer at Outside - Richard Sullivan.
Assistant engineer at RAK - Roy Sprong.

words - Robert Smith
music - Smith, Gallup, Williams, Thompson, O'Donnell, Tolhurst

* indicates bonus track on CD and CT (not on South African CT)

5:12 Plainsong
7:24 Pictures of You
4:16 Closedown
3:28 Lovesong
4:42 Last Dance *
4:08 Lullaby
5:16 Fascination Street
6:04 Prayers For Rain
9:18 The Same Deep Water as You
8:18 Disintegration
7:06 Homesick *
6:30 Untitled


Mixed Up Released November 1990. Remixes of previously released tracks.

2LP UK FIXLP 18
2LP Europe 847 099 1
CT UK FIXHC 19
CT Poland MG 0402
CD UK FIXCD 18
CD France 847 099-2
CD US 9 60978-2


Thanks to: everyone at Fiction and everyone and anyone else who
helped with all this!!!
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"
- Jules Renard

7:43 Lullaby (extended mix)
(smith/gallup/thompson/williams/o'donnell/tolhurst)
Produced by Robert Smith and David M Allen (1989).
Remixed by Robert Smith, Chris Parry and Mark Saunders.
Originally released March 1989.
5:44 Close to Me (closer mix)
(smith)
Produced by Robert Smith and David M Allen (horns by tent
party) (1985).
Remixed by Paul Oakenfold and engineered by Steve Osbourne
June 1990.
8:47 Fascination Street (extended mix)
(smith/gallup/thompson/williams/o'donnell/tolhurst)

Produced by Robert Smith and David M Allen (1989).
Remixed by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders.
Released in the USA March 1989.
5:27 The Walk (everything mix)
(smith/tolhurst)
Re-recorded June 1990.
Produced by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders.
Mixed by Mark Saunders June 1990.
6:19 Lovesong (extended mix)
(smith/gallup/thompson/williams/o'donnell/tolhurst)
Produced by Robert Smith and David M Allen (1989).
Remixed by Robert Smith, Chris Parry and Mark Saunders.
6:55 A Forest (tree mix)
(smith/tolhurst/gallup/hartley)
Re-recorded June 1990.
Produced by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders.
Mixed by Mark Saunders June 1990.
Released August 1990.
6:41 Pictures of You (extended dub mix)
(smith/gallup/thompson/williams/o'donnell/tolhurst)
Produced by Robert Smith and David M Allen (1989).
Remixed by Brian "Chuck" New.
Released February 1990.
7:01 Hot Hot Hot!!! (extended mix)
(smith/gallup/thompson/williams/tolhurst)
Produced by Robert Smith and David M Allen (1987).
Remixed by Francois Kevorkian and Ron St. Germain.
Released February 1988.
5:40 The Caterpillar (flicker mix)
(smith/tolhurst)
Produced by Robert Smith, Chris Parry and David M Allen (1984).
Remixed by Brian "Chuck" New May 1990.
6:22 Inbetween Days (shiver mix)
(smith)
Produced by Robert Smith and David M Allen (1985).
Remixed by William Orbit and engineered by Richard Dight.
(Additional rhythm overdubs by sugar j) June 1990.
6:07 Never Enough (big mix)
(smith/gallup/thompson/williams)
Produced by Robert Smith and Mark Saunders (1990).
Mixed by Mark Saunders July 1990.


Entreat Released March 1991. Produced by The Cure. (Originally released as a free giveaway in England.)

CD France FIXF 14 (6 titles, pink promo)
CD UK FIXCD 17 (8 titles, yellow promo)
LP UK FIXLP 17 (8 titles, yellow promo)
LP Netherlands 843 359 1 (8 songs, blue)
CT France 843 359 4 (8 songs, blue)
CT UK FIXCS 17
CD UK FIXCD 17 (8 songs, blue)
CD France 843 359 2 (8 songs, blue)
CD Japan Pocp 9018 (+promo booklet)

Robert Smith: voice, guitar
Simon Gallup: bass
Boris Williams: drums
Porl Thompson: guitars
Roger O'Donnell: keyboards

Recorded live at Wembley Arena, London, July 1989.
Engineered by Smudger.
Mixed by Robert Smith, Bryan "Chuck" New.

All songs by Smith, Gallup, Williams, Thompson, O'Donnell, Tolhurst

7:08 Pictures of You
4:23 Closedown
4:41 Last Dance
5:19 Fascination Street
4:49 Prayers for Rain
7:41 Disintegration
6:49 Homesick
6:33 Untitled


Assemblage Released September 1991 (in France). Box set of first 12 cure albums on CD only.

12CD France 511 124-2

- Three Imaginary Boys
- Boys Don't Cry
- Seventeen Seconds
- Faith
- Pornography
- Concert
- The Top
- Japanese Whispers
- Head on the Door
- Staring at the Sea
- Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
- Disintegration


Mixed Up box set Released September 1991 (in France) Limited edition 5 picture compact disc set. Tracks the same as for the regular CD, plus "Why Can't I Be You?".

5CDS France 867 529-2

disc 1:
A Forest (tree mix)
Never Enough (big mix)
The Walk (everything mix)
disc 2:
Close to Me (closer mix)
Inbetween Days (shiver mix)
disc 3:
The Caterpillar (flicker mix)
Pictures of You (extended dub mix)
disc 4:
Why Can't I Be You?
Hot Hot Hot!!! (extended mix)
disc 5:
Lullaby (extended mix)
Fascination Street (extended mix)
Lovesong (extended mix)


Wish Released April 1992. Produced by the Cure and David M. Allen.

2LP UK FIXH 20
2LP France 513 261 1
CT UK FIXHC 20
CT France 513 261 4
CD US 9 61309-2
CD UK FIXHCD 20
CD France 513 261-2
CD Japan POCP-1190 (+sticker)
CD Australia
Box France (tape+video tape+CD)

Robert Smith: voice, guitar, 6 string bass, keyboards
Simon Gallup: bass, keyboards
Porl Thompson: guitar
Boris Williams: drums, percussion
Perry Bamonte: guitar, 6 string bass, keyboards

Engineered by David M. Allen and Steve Whitfield.
Assisted by Chris Bandy.
Recorded at The Manor, Oxfordshire.
Mixed by Mark Saunders at Olympic, London.
Assisted by mark Warner, Shawn Defeo, Danton Supple, Andy Baker and
Bill Parry.

Thanks to Bernard and John at "the farmyard"; to Bob, "sticky" Neville
and Terry at "the livehouse"; and to everyone at Fiction...
Special thanks to Suzie, Mark, Jess, Sarah, Sandra, Keith, Richard,
Louise, Mandie, Siggy and Willy at "The Manor"; and to Binky...
Extra special thanks to Kate Wilkinson for the viola on "To Wish
Impossible Things"; to Bruno (for his strange machine);
to Mary, Caroline, Doc, Carol and Eden, and to absent friends;
and to Dirk, Shaun "the bottle", and Ted for the control room...
We'd also like to thank all the staff at "The Boat Inn", Shipton,
and "The Ovisher", Kidlington

Art by

All songs by Smith, Gallup, Thompson, Williams, Bamonte.

"We look before and after,
and pine for what is not;
our sincerest laughter
with some pain is fraught;
our sweetest songs are those that tell
of saddest thought..."
- Shelley

6:50 Open
3:32 High
6:33 Apart
7:40 From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
5:10 Wendy Time
4:21 Doing the Unstuck
3:35 Friday I'm in Love
5:30 Trust
5:12 A Letter to Elise
5:46 Cut
4:39 To Wish Impossible Things
6:44 End


The Cure Limited Edition Box Set Released sometime in 1992. [??? if anyone knows more about this, let me know -- everson]

15 CD set comprising all CD albums.
Black wooden box with "cure" logo embossed in silver on the top.

Show Released September 1993.

2CD UK FIXCD 25
2CD France 519 951-2
CD US (1CD missing tracks with * - on "Sideshow")
CT US 9 61551-4
2CT Poland MG 182

Robert Smith: voices and guitars
Perry Bamonte: guitars and keyboards
Simon Gallup: basses
Boris Williams: drums
Porl Thompson: guitars and keyboards

Recorded at the Palace, Auburn Hills, Michigan USA.
Recorded by Effanel Music Inc. NY.
Mixed by Robert Smith & Bryan "Chuck" New at the Wool Hail & The Manor.
Assistant Engineers: Greig Sangster & Chris Bandy.
Except 'tape' produced by the Cure and David M Allen.
Engineered by David M Allen and Steve Whitfield

thank you to all the wish tour crew

Tape *
Open
High
Pictures of You
Lullaby
Just Like Heaven
Fascination Street *
A Night Like This
Trust
Doing the Unstuck
The Walk *
Let's Go to Bed *
Friday I'm in Love
Inbetween Days
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Never Enough
Cut
End


Paris Released October 1993. Recorded live at Le Zenith, Paris October 1992.

CD UK FIXCD 26
CD France 519 994 2
CD US 9 61552-2

Robert Smith: voice and guitars
Simon Gallup: basses
Porl Thompson: guitars
Boris Williams: drums
Perry Bamonte: guitars and keyboards

[But really it was Roberto _____ was playing bass, as Simon was ill.]

Recorded at Le Zenith, Paris, France by the Fleetwood Mobile.
Mixed by Robert Smith & Bryan "Chuck" New at Comforts Place Studios.
Assistant engineers: Ray Mascarenas & Mark Robinson.

The Red Cross and Red Cresent Movement is gratefully receiving 50%
of the recording royalties payable to the Cure and Fiction Records
in support of international relief work.

If you would like to make further contributions to the work of the
Red Cross and Red Cresent Movement, please do so by sending your
donation to your national society.

The Figurehead
One Hundred Years
At Night
Play For Today
Apart
In Your House
Lovesong
Catch
A Letter to Elise
Dressing Up
Charlotte Sometimes
Close to Me


EPs and Singles:

Killing an Arab 7" US (metal acetate)

Killing an Arab/10:15 Saturday Night
7" UK Small Wonder Small 11 (first release: 12/78)
7" UK Fiction FICS 001 (re-pressing: 2/79)

Grinding Halt/Meathook released 4/79
12" UK CUR 1 (Fiction white label promo)

Boys Don't Cry/Plastic Passion released 6/79
7" UK FICS 002
7" UK FICS 2 Po.2059 143 (promo)
7" Spain 2814 215 (issued in 1980)

Boys Don't Cry/10:15 Saturday Night 7" Australia Stunn MS399

Boys Don't Cry/Killing an Arab/Jumping Someone Else's Train
7" New Zealand BFA 001

Jumping Someone Else's Train/I'm Cold released 11/79
7" UK FICS 005
7" Italy 2059 189

CULT HERO: I'm a Cult Hero/I Dig You released 12/79
7" UK FICS 006
7" Canada MN 45000
7" Italy Sconc 004 (not an official release)

10:15 Saturday Night/Accuracy 7" France 2059 230

10:15 Saturday Night/Foxy Lady 7" France 2814 150 (promo)

Peel Session with Killing an Arab/10:15/Fire in Cairo/Boys Don't Cry
7" UK SF 677001 (colored vinyl)
12" UK SFPS 050
12" France TDOTT 3023
12" UK SF 670001 (picture disc I)
12" UK SF 670001 (picture disc II)
12" UK SF 671002 (shaped picture disc)
CTS France TDOTT 3023
CDS UK SFPSCD 050
CDS UK SF 672015 (picture CD)
CDS France

Play for today 7" US (metal acetate)

M 7" US (metal acetate)

M 7" Poland (postcard)

A Forest/Another Journey By Train released 4/80
7" UK FICS 10 (picture sleeve)
7" UK FICS 10 (radio cover)
7" UK (acetate, Strawberry)
7" Germany 2059 229
7" France 2059 229
7" Italy 2059 229
7" Netherlands 2059 229
7" Australia MS 416
7" Canada PDS 2098
7" New Zealand BFA 004
12" UK FICSX 10
12" Germany 0930 022 (Supersound)
12" Australia ESP 103 (green vinyl)

A Forest/Other Artist 7" Italy (juke box promo)

The Final Sound/A Forest/Another Journey 12" Australia ESP 103 (2nd Issue)

Primary/Descent released 5/81
7" UK FICS 12
7" France 2814 262 (promo without sleeve)
7" Belgium 2059 293
7" Spain
7" Netherlands
7" Australia
12" UK FICSX 12 (extended version of Primary)
12" Netherlands (extended version of Primary)

Primary (one sided promo) 7" UK Pol 2059293

Charlotte Sometimes/Splintered in Her Head released 10/81
7" UK FICS 14
7" UK (acetate Master Room)
7" Germany 2059 410
7" Netherlands 2059 410
7" France 2059 410
7" Italy 2059 410
7" Spain 2059 410 "Charlotte a veces"
7" Australia Stunn 70001
7" New Zealand BFA 020
7" France 885 356 7 (re-released in '86)
7" Germany 885 356 7 (re-released in '86)

Charlotte Sometimes/Splintered in Her Head/Faith (live) released 10/81
12" UK FICSX 14
12" Germany 0930 041
12" Germany 885 356-1 (re-released in '86)
12" France 885 356-1 (re-released in '86)
12" Australia STUNN 12001
12" New Zealand 020


The Hanging Garden 7" US (metal acetate)

The Hanging Garden/Killing an Arab (live) released 7/82
7" UK FICS 15
7" Ireland FICS 15/Pol2059494 (without sleeve)

The Hanging Garden/A Strange Day
7" Japan VAP 1500207
7" Japan (promo white label)

The Hanging Garden/100 Years/A Forest/Killing an Arab release 7/82
2.7" UK FICG 15 (gatefold)
10" Germany GEMA 0930.083

One Hundred Years/The Hanging Garden
12" UK Fiction CURE1 (promo)
12" France (promo+poster)

A Forest/Primary/Charlotte/The Hanging Garden 12" Australia Stunn CURE 202

Lament (version in Flexipop magazine 9/82)
7" UK Flexipop 022 (green flexi)
7" UK Flexipop 022 (red flexi)
7" UK LYN 12011 1S (green flexi miss pressed)
7" UK (test pressing)

Let's Go To Bed/Just One Kiss released 11/82
7" UK FICS 17
7" France 2059 582
7" Spain 20 59 582 "Vamos a la cama"
7" New Zealand

Let's Go To Bed (ext)/Just One Kiss (ext) released 11/82
12" UK FICSX 17
12" France 812 122 1
12" US Sire 026 689
12" Germany 812 122 1

Let's Go To Bed(ext)/Just One Kiss(ext)/LGTB(edit) 12" Canada Sire 92 96890

Let's Go To Bed(ext)/Let's Go To Bed 12" UK CUREX 1 (test pressing)

The Walk/The Dream released 7/83
7" UK FICS 18
7" UK FICS 18 (poster bag)
7" UK FICSP 18 (picture disc)
7" Spain 813 715 7 "El paseo"

The Walk/The Upstairs Room 7" France 815 144 7 (promo)

The Upstairs Room/The Dream/The Walk/Lament released 7/83
12" UK FICSX 18
12" France 813 715 1

Upstairs Room/The Dream/The Walk/Lament/LGTB (ext)/Just One Kiss (ext)
12" Germany 810 752 1
12" Netherlands 810 752 1
12" France 810 752 1
12" Canada Sire 123928 (LGTB (edit) instead)
12" US Sire 9 23928-1 ("The Walk" mini-lp JOK after UR)
CT US Sire 9 23928-4 ("The Walk" mini-lp JOK after UR)

The Lovecats/Speak My Language released 10/83
7" UK FICS 19
7" UK FICSP 19 (picture disc)
7" France 815 570 7
7" Spain 815 570 7 "Amor de gatos"
7" South Africa
7" US Sire

The Lovecats/The Walk 7" Japan VAP 150047

The Lovecats (ext)/Speak My Language/Mr Pink Eyes released 10/83
12" UK FICSX 19
12" France 815 570 1
12" Netherlands
12" Germany
12" Philippines EPPRO 8420
12" Canada 9 20161 0
12" US Sire 9 20161 0A

Birdmad Girl/Shake Dog Shake/Bananafishbones 12" UK Karen1A (promo)

Shake Dog Shake/The Top
7" France 881 058 7 (promo+scrapbook)
7" UK (promo no sleeve)
7" Germany (promo no sleeve)

The Caterpillar/Happy The Man released 5/84
7" UK FICS 20
7" UK FICSP 20 (picture disc)
7" Netherlands
7" Spain 821 458 7
7" Italy AS 5000 676 (juke box promo)
7" Australia
7" Japan (+insert)

The Caterpillar/Happy The Man/Throw Your Foot released 5/84
12" UK FICSX 20
12" France 821 458 1
12" Netherlands 821 458-1

A Forest (live)/Shake Dog Shake (live) 7" France 881 622 7 (promo)

A Forest (live)/Primary (live) (from "Concert" released 10/84
12" France 881 448 1
12" Germany 881 448 1
12" Netherlands 8 81448-1 (entitled "Excerpt")

Inbetween Days/The Exploding Boy released 7/85
7" UK FICS 22 (paper label)
7" UK FICS 22 (plastic label)
7" France 883 270 7
7" Italy 883 270 7
7" Germany 883 270 7
7" Spain 883 270 7
7" Japan (+insert)
7" US (promo)
7" US 7 69604
7" Brazil
7" Australia (promo)
7" Australia

Inbetween Days/Other artist 7" Italy AS 5000 710 (juke box promo)

Inbetween Days/The Exploding Boy/A Few Hours After This released 7/85
12" UK FICSX 22
12" Portugal 883 270 1
12" France

Inbetween Days/Inbetween Days (ext)/Stop Dead
12" US STED 06688-2 (promo)
12" US 8 66882-0
12" Canada 9668820

Inbetween Days/Other artist 12" Brazil 2801 120 (promo)

Inbetween Days video/IBD/Exploding/Few Hours After/Six Ways (live)/Push (live)
CDV UK 080 182 2 (video in PAL format) released 10/88

Close To Me/A Man Inside My Mouth released 9/85
7" UK FICS 23 (paper label)
7" UK FICS 23 (plastic label)
7" UK FICSG 23 (poster bag)
7" France 883 361 7
7" Italy 883 361 7
7" Germany 883 361 7
7" Spain 883 361 7 "Cerca de mi"
7" Ireland 883 361 7
7" Netherlands 883 361 7
7" Australia WEA

Close To Me/Sinking 7" Canada 9 69551-7 (promo)

Close To Me (ext)/A Man Inside My Mouth/Stop Dead released 9/85
12" UK FICSX 23
12" France 883 361 1
12" Netherlands 883 361-1
12" Germany 883 361 1
12" Philippines EPPRO 8419


Close To Me/other artist 7" Brazil 2801 143 (promo)

Close To Me video/CTM (ext)/A Man Inside My Mouth/Stop Dead/New Day
CDV UK 080 180-2 (video in PAL format) released 1987

"Quartett": CTM/A Man.../Stop Dead/New Day 7" East Ger. Amiga 556195

"Half an Octopuss": CTM/A Man.../Stop Dead/New Day 10" UK FICST 23

"Quadpus": Close To Me/A Man.../A Night Like This/New Day released 9/85
12" Canada 9 66856-0
12" US D-66856

A Night Like This/A Night Like This 12" US ED 5130 (promo)

The Blood/Six Different Ways 7" Spain 883 836-7 (withdrawn)

Boys Don't Cry (new vocal)/Pillbox Tales released 4/86
7" UK FICS 24
7" France 883 937 7
7" Spain 883 937 7
7" Germany 883 937 7
7" Portugal
7" Australia
7" Japan (promo)
7" Japan (+insert)
7" Philippines PRO 3754

Boys Don't Cry (new vocal, ext)/Pillbox Tales/Do The Hansa released 4/86
12" UK FICSX 24
12" France 883 937 1
12" Germany 883 937-1
12" Uruguay 883 937 1
12" Spain 883 937 1 "Los hombres no lloran"

Let's Go To Bed/Boys Don't Cry (new vocal) released 4/86
7" US 7-69537
7" US 7 69537 (promo)
7" Canada 9 69537-7 (promo)

Let's Go To Bed/Let's Go To Bed 7" US 7 69537 (promo)

Let's Go To Bed (edit)/Let's Go To Bed (ext) 12" US ED 5146 (promo)

KMKMKM radio sampler: JLH/Catch/AIW/Perfect/HBYA/Torture/WCIBY
CDS US PR2071-2 (promo)

KMKMKM sampler: The Kiss/Catch/Just Like Heaven/WCIBY
12" UK KSME 1 (promo)

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 12" UK KSME 2 (interview promo only)
(also known as "Robert Smith Talks About KMKMKM")

Why Can't I Be You?/A Japanese Dream released 4/87
7" UK FICS 25 (paper label)
7" UK FICS 25 (plastic label)
7" Germany 888 454 7
7" France 888 454 7
7" Spain
7" Italy AS 5000 747 (juke box promo)
7" Australia
7" Japan 5 DM 0183 (+insert)
7" US (promo)
7" US 7-69474

Why Can't I Be You?/A Japanese Dream/Six Different Ways (live)/Push (live)
2.7" UK FICSG 25 (live tracks from "Orange")

Why Can't I Be You? (ext)/A Japanese Dream (ext) released 4/87
12" UK FICSX 25
12" France 888 484 1
12" Spain 888 484 1
12" US 0-66810
12" Canada
12" Argentina "Por que no puedo ser tu"
12" Japan
CDS Europe 888 454 2

Why Can't I Be You? (ext)/A Japanese Dream (ext)/Hey You!
CDV Europe 080 184 2

Why Can't I Be You? (video)/WCIBY (ext)/A Japanese Dream (ext)
CDV Japan 080 185-5 (video in NTSC format)

Why Can't I Be You? (edit)/Why Can't I Be You? (ext)
12" Brazil 2 801 200 (promo)

Catch/Breathe released 6/87
7" UK FICS 26 (paper label)
7" UK FICS 26 (plastic label)
7" UK FICSP 26 (clear vinyl in printed PVC bag)
7" Netherlands
7" Australia
7" Japan 5 DM 0197

Catch/Breathe/A Chain Of Flowers released 6/87
12" UK FICSX 26
12" Germany 888 688-1
12" Brazil 2801 209 (promo)
CTS UK FICSC 26 (both sides)

Catch/Breathe/Kyoto song (live - "Orange")/A Night Like This (live - "Orange")
12" UK FICSE 26
12" Germany 888 728 1

Catch (video)/Catch/Breathe/A Chain Of Flowers/Icing Sugar (New Mix)
CDV Europe 080 1862 (video in PAL format?)
CDV Japan W18X 22011 (video in NTSC format)

Just Like Heaven/Snow in Summer
7" UK FICS 27
7" UK FICS 27 (marbled white vinyl)
7" UK FICSP 27 (picture disc)
7" France 887 104 7
7" France 887 104 7 (mispressed)
7" Italy
7" US [??? I don't believe this exists - everson]
7" Australia
7" South Africa PD 2563
CTS US [??? I don't believe this exists - everson]

Just Like Heaven (remix) /Snow In Summer/Sugar Girl
12" UK FICSX 27
CDS UK FIXCD 27
CDS Europe 887 104-2

Just Like Heaven/Breathe
7" France 887 104 7
7" US 7 69443

Just Like Heaven (remix)/Breathe/A Chain Of Flowers
12" France 887 104 1
12" US 0-66793
CTS US 66793-4

Just Like Heaven (video)/Catch/Hot Hot Hot!!!/Why Can't I Be You? (remix)
CDV US 64002-2 (video in NTSC format)

Hot Hot Hot!!!/Hey You!
7" UK FICSDJ 28 (promo only)
7" Germany 887 329 7 (promo only)
7" US 7 69424

Hot Hot Hot!!! (remix)/Hey You!!! (remix) CTS US(El.) 9 69424-4

Hot Hot Hot!!!/Why Can't I Be You? 7" US 7 65967 (Tower Records)

Hot Hot Hot!!! (ext)/Hot Hot Hot!!! (remix)/Hey You! (ext)
12" UK FICSX 28
12" Germany 887 330 1
12" Argentina 887 330-1
CDS UK FIXCD 28
CDS Europe 887 330-2
CTS US 9 667 834

Hot Hot Hot!!! (3 versions: remix, ext, lp) 12" US ED 5273 (promo)

Hot Hot Hot!!! 12" Argentina (radio promo)

Lullaby/Pictures of You/Lovesong/Plainsong CDS UK Disin 1 (promo)

Lullaby/Babble
7" UK FICS 29
7" UK FICSP 29 (clear vinyl in PVC bag)
7" UK FICSG 29 (gatefold sleeve)
7" UK (radio promo)
7" France 871 990 7

Lullaby/Other Artist 7" Italy AS 5000 820 (juke box promo)

Lullaby
7" Poland (red flexi)
7" Poland (yellow flexi)

Lullaby (ext)/Babble/Out Of Mind
12" UK (promo)
12" UK FICSX 29
12" UK FICVX 29 (pink vinyl)
12" France 871 990 1

Lullaby (remix)/Babble/Out Of Mind/Lullaby (ext)
CDS UK FICCD 29 (8mm/3")
CDS Europe 871 991 2

Lullaby/Lullaby (ext)/Babble/Out Of Mind
CDV Europe 080 982 2 (video in PAL format?)

Lullaby/Lullaby (ext) 12" Brazil 2801 340 (radio promo)

Lullaby/Homesick (live - "Entreat") (on both sides) CTS US 9 46924-9

Lullaby (remix/ext)/Homesick (live - "Entreat")/Untitled (live - "Entreat")
12" US 0 66664
CDS US 9 66664-2

Lullaby (3 versions: remix, lp, ext remix)
CDS US (promo)
12" US ED 5418 (DJ promo+tour poster)

Fascination Street (remix)/Babble
7" US 7 69300 (promo)
7" US 7 69300
CTS US 9 469300

Fascination Street (remix)/Fascination Street (ext) 12" US ED 5374 (promo)

Fascination Street (ext)/Babble/Out Of Mind 12" US 0 66704
Fascination Street (remix)/Babble/Out Of Mind/Fascination Street (ext)
CDS US 9 66702-2

Fascination Street (one song) CDS US Pr 80752 (promo)

Lovesong/2 Late
7" UK (radio promo)
7" UK FICS 30
7" UK FICSG 30 ("lovebox" with linen print of cover artwork)
7" France 889 844 7
7" US 7-69280 (plain Elektra sleeve)
CTS UK FICCS 20
CTS US 9 469280

Lovesong/Lovesong 7" UK FICS 30 (white label test pressing)

Lovesong/Other artist 7" Italy AS 5000 824 (jukebox promo)

Lovesong 7" Poland (red flexi)

Lovesong/Fascination Street 7" US Spunn Gold

Lovesong (ext)/2 Late/Fear of Ghosts
12" UK FICSX 30
12" France 889 847 1
12" UK FICSX 30 DJ (DJ promo)
12" US 0 66687
12" US ED 5398 (DJ promo)

Lovesong (lp version twice) 12" US ED 5390 (promo)

Lovesong (1 song) CDS US (promo)

Lovesong (7" mix)/2 Late/Fear of Ghosts/Lovesong (ext mix)
CDS UK FICCD 30
CDS Europe 889 847-2

Lovesong/Lovesong(ext)/2 Late/Fear of Ghosts
CDV Europe 081 398-2 (video in PAL format)

Pictures of You (remix)/Last Dance (live - "Entreat") green photo, rel. 3/90
7" UK FICA 34
7" UK FICPA 34 (green vinyl)
7" Germany 873 908 7 (promo)
7" Germany 873 908 7
CTS UK FICCA 34

Pictures of You (remix)/Prayers for Rain (live - "Entreat") purple photo
7" UK FICB 34
7" UK FICPB 34 (purple vinyl)
7" France 873 910 7
CTS UK FICCB 34

Pictures of you 7" Poland (red flexidisc) Pictures of you 7" Poland (yellow flexidisc)

Pictures of You (ext)/Last Dance (live)/Fascination Street (live) green photo
12" UK FICXA 34
12" UK FICXPA 34 (green vinyl)
12" US 0 66639
12" France 873 909 1
CDS UK FICDA 34 (just remix instead of ext)

Pictures of You (strange mix)/Prayers for Rain (live)/Disintegration (live)
12" UK FICXB 34
12" UK FICXPB 34 (purple vinyl)
12" France 873 911 1
CDS UK FICDB 34 (just remix instead of strange mix)

Pictures of You/Last Dance/Fascination Street/Prayers for Rain/Disintegration
CDS US 9 666392 (all four "b-sides" on one disc

Pictures of You (remix/ext remix) 12" US ED 5452 (promo+poster)

Pictures of You (1 song) CDS US PR 8165-2 (promo)

Integration: box set of 4CDS from Disintegration US 9 66633-2 (+poster)

Never Enough/Harold and Joe released 9/90
7" UK FICS 35
7" France 877 908 7
CTS UK FICCS 35 (both sides)
CTS US (both sides)

Never Enough/Harold and Joe/Let's Go to Bed (milk mix) released 9/90
12" UK FICSX 35 (big mix)
12" UK (promo)
12" US 0-66604
CDS UK FICCD 35
CDS UK FICDP 35 (big mix) (ltd picture disc + sticker)
CDS France 877 909 2
CDS US (promo)

Close to Me (closest mix)/Just Like Heaven (dizzy mix) released 10/90
7" UK FICS DJ 36 (promo)
7" UK FICS 36
7" France 879 147 7
7" Spain 879 146 7 (promo)
CTS UK FICCS 36
CTS US (both sides)

Close to Me (remix)/The Walk (remix) 12" UK CURE PRO1 (promo)

Close to Me (closer mix)/Just Like Heaven (dizzy mix)/Primary (red mix)
12" UK FICSX 36
12" France 879 147 1
12" US
CDS UK FICCD 36 (closest mix)

Close to Me (closer mix)/Just Like Heaven (dizzy mix)/WCIBY (ext)
CDS UK FICDR 36 (ltd + poster)

Close to Me (radio edit) CDS US PR 8276-2 (promo)

A Forest (tree mix)/Inbetween days (shiver mix)
7" France 867 384-7
12" France 2137 (promo)
CDS France 867 385-2
CDS France 4112 (gold picture disc)
CDS France 4112 (silver picture disc)

Inbetween Days (edit of Mixed Up version) CDS US PRCS 8328-2 (promo)

Mixed Up 4-song promo CDS UK PRO CD1

High/This Twilight Garden released 3/92
7" UK FICS 39
7" France 865 564 7
CTS UK FICCS 39
CTS France 865 564 4
CDS France 865 564 2

High 12" UK (promo+poster)

High (higher mix)/This Twilight Garden/Play
12" UK FICSX 39
12" UK (radio promo + ballon)
12" France 865 564 1

High/Open
12" UK FICSX 41 (High "trip mix"/Open "fix mix") (clear vinyl)
CTS Fiction promo -- advance white lable cassette
CDS US 64766-2

High/This Twilight Garden/Play/High (higher mix) released 3/92
CDS France 4211 (promo)
CDS France 865 565-2
CDS Japan
CDS US
CDS UK FICCD 39 (lyric card+ltd edition box for Wish singles)

Friday I'm In Love/Halo
7" UK FICS 42
7" France 863 000 7
CTS UK
CTS France 863 000 4
CDS UK FICCD 42 [??? I don't think this exists -- has 4 songs]
CDS France 863 000 2
CDS US 64742-2

Friday I'm In Love (strangelove mix)/Halo/Scared As You
12" UK FICSX 42 (marbled vinyl)
12" France 863 000 1
12" UK Ficsx 42DJ (promo)

Friday I'm In Love/Halo/Scared As You/Friday I'm In Love (strangelove mix)
CDS UK FICCD 42 (+lyric card)
CDS France 863 067 2 [??? I thought this was 863 001-2]
CDS US
CDS Japan

Friday I'm In Love CDS US (promo)

A Letter To Elise/The Big Hand
7" UK FICS 46
7" France 863 756 7
CTS US 4-64693
CTS France 863 756 4 (both sides)

A Letter to Elise (7" remix edit/12" ext remix) CDS US PRCD 8638-2 (promo)

A Letter to Elise/The Big Hand/A Foolish Arrangement
12" UK Ficsx 46DJ (promo)
12" UK FICSX 46
12" UK (ltd sleeve) [??? is this the one in a PVC bag?]
12" France 863 756 1

A Letter to Elise/The Big Hand/A Foolish Arrangement/Elise (blue mix)
CDS UK FICCD 46 (+lyric card)
CDS France 863 797 2 [??? thought it was 863 757-2]
CDS promo

Wish Sampler: Wendy/Elise/Cut CDS France (ex Liberation)

"Five Live": Primary/A Forest/Pictures of You/Fascination St./10:15 Sat. (three tracks from "Concert", two from "Entreat", released in 1992)
CDS Australia CURE1

Classic Sampler: Lovecats/CTM(closer mix)/Lovesong/Charlotte/Lullaby/WCIBY/A Forest
CD UK CURE 1 (promo sampler)

2 song Promo for Show CDS UK SHOWPRO 1

"Sideshow": Tape/JLH/Fascination Street/The Walk/Let's Go To Bed
CDS US 66276 2 (digipak)

"Parispro": Catch (live)/Play For Today (live) CDS UK PARISPRO 1

Purple Haze/Purple Haze
12" US
CDS US ProCD 6704-R (promo)

"Lost Wishes": Uyea Sound/Cloudberry/Off to Sleep.../The Three Sisters
CTS UK FICCS 50 (available only from the Fiction office in London)


Compilation appearances:

20 of Another Kind (Boys Don't Cry)
LP UK POLX1

The Last Stiff Compilation (Jumping Someone Else's Train)
LP UK Stiff USE-3

Times Square soundtrack (Grinding Halt)
LP US RSO RS-2-4203

ClassX Three (The Walk remixed by Joseph Watt)
CD E9251-1 (promo)

Certain Damage! Volume 4 (Hot Hot Hot!!!)
CD US CMJ-CD 0004

Stranger Than Fiction (To the Sky -- also Cult Hero "I Dig You")
CD UK CIFCD 3 (promo)

Stranger Than Fiction Part II (To the Sky)
CT US PRCS 4293 (promo)

Lost Angels soundtrack (Fascination Street)
LP US A&M SP 3926

Rubiyat (Hello I Love You+short reprise) (also cover of Inbetween Days)
2CD US Elektra 960940-2

Maximum Bliss (Open (fix mix))
CT came with Select Magazine in '92

Radio Daze (10.15 Saturday Night from Peel Session)
CT came with 5/92 VOX

Great Xpectations Live (Just Like Heaven, Disintegration - XFM concert 6/13/93)
CD UK XFMCD 1

Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (Purple Haze)
CD US Reprise 9 45438-2

Videos: (CDVs are listed above)

Staring at the Sea videotape and laserdisc
the videos of the songs on the CD (1986)

The Cure In Orange videotape and laserdisc
from videotape of concert in Provence, SotB tour
amazing sound quality, OK concert, released 11/87, recorded 8/86

Picture Show videotape (laserdisc in Japan)
videos since Staring at the Sea, released 6/91

Play Out videotape in UK (pay per view in US)
documents a "week" in the life of the Cure in January 1991, from
the Secret Gig at the Town and Country II to the British Music Awards
released 12/91

Play Out videotape and laserdisc in US
documents a "week" in the life of the Cure in January 1991, from
the Secret Gig at the Town and Country II to the British Music Awards
This is the same as the pay per view, which is missing about 30
minutes of material found on the UK version.
released 9/92

Show videotape and laserdisc
A film of a concert from the Wish tour.