A "conversation" was being had by members in the "Homesick" thread, and they were discussing what those particular lyrics meant to them and how they relate to their own lives...reading the "lines" thread, it's pretty obvious many can relate so many different lyrics to themselves..soooo..I was thinking, if there are particular lines, music, in the Cures repatoire that really "touch" you, for whatever reason, share them here, in this thread...I know this has been tried before, but, I find it really interesting to see how different people interpret maybe even the same lines...so, fire away!!...don't be shy, and include as many as you like...
hey, i'm from south australia too!! small world... haha
There are so many lines from Cure songs that just give me chills.
Pictures of You is important to me because I would listen to it all the time and just break down because I was in a long distance relationship a few years ago and all I had was my pictures. "I almost believe that they're real"
Before Three - When my girlfriend would visit we would always go to the beach and everything was perfect. So when Robert speaks of being under the summer sun and all the emotions it conjures up it always takes me back to those moments. Also, "hold me like this for a hundred, thousand, million days" from The Edge of The Deep Green Sea... both wonderful songs!
The Bloodflowers album also has many lines that I can relate with and that mean a lot to me. "The last day of summer never felt so cold", "held your hands to my shining eyes".... so many great lines that love.
Disintegration... i love "the strangest twist upon your lips" and all of Plainsong.
The Cure have never failed, they're music and words mean so much to me, from the best song to the not so great song (of which there aren't many), it all means so much... "so much more than everything"- pictures of you
The Figurehead means alot to me, as it makes me think about the side of me I have troubles with - my appearance. He makes alot of allusions to facial features and worthlessness and to me it always speaks to that one aspect of my life.
10:15 Saturday Night contains the lyrics of being home alone with nothing to do, waiting for someone to call you. I have this experience alot, and I find myself very lonely on the weekend, waiting for someone to approach me instead of taking the initiative myself.
Why Can't I Be You? The whole thing really, I feel like I'm not worth someone else's time and effort, I feel envious of others and wish I could be them...so this one really relates to me, regaurdless of what Smith was trying to say originally.
Again, without the lyrics of every song layed out in front of my eyes, I can only paraphrase and reference the songs themselves as opposed to the lyrics which speak to me.
Mint Car- "The Sun Is Up, I'm So Happy I Could Scream..." "I Really Don't Think It Gets Any Better Than This" "Birds Sing, We Swing"
When I'm in a bad mood or depressed, this song always brings me up.
"And It'll Always Be Like This, Forever and ever and ever...."
It stops me from worrying about the future and just have fun with the present.
The Drowning Man - "The loneliness grows and slowly fills her frozen body" , I often feel quite lonely, isolated inside my head, its hard to explain but also the line - "Still seeing worlds that never were" means alot. Also i really like the gormenghast books.
Fear of Ghosts - Again the feeling of being alone and not really caring, hopelessness and wanting things that won't come back...friendships and things like that.
Chain of Flowers - I love this song, it reminds me of a really happy time, in particular, a little church on a hilltop in Switzerland overlooking Lake Geneva and being really exited.
Other Voices - The feeling of self doubt, being different from everyone else. It makes me think about my little world and my "distorted view of reality" - (according to doctors :?). I question myself alot, im not quite schizophrenic! But sometimes imagine voices, movement... it could be ghosts...
Primary- "The further we go, and older we grow the more we know the less we show"
To me, it means when you're an adult, you'll be occupied with many things and your personality won't shine as much if you're so overly occupied. I think it means to just relax and have a good time when you can so people can get to know the real you.
To me, it also means to just have fun and make the best memories possible in the present, because everyone will seperate after high school. The more you try hard to fit in is how far you go. Growing old is just with the age and maturing. Knowing more is learning by expeiriences. This all goes into the future, but then, you also lose the ability to show your true colors.
COLD: "Ice in my eyes and eyes like ice don't move". Sorrow and loneliness. Looking on a cold world that doesn't accept you.
this is really good! keep it up! very interesting...:smth023
Quote from: tigermilk on January 22, 2008, 08:51:51
hey, i'm from south australia too!! small world... haha
hey! always good to see another "croweater"!! howdy doody!! :-D
Why Can't I Be Me? -
"I try so hard to be just for you, careful what I want to know and what I do, make my second nature all you ever see, you're sure it's the only way to be...". To me it's all about the compromises we make to fit in with others, whether it be with partners, friends or in our professional lives. I've struggled a lot over past months with the concept of "work face vs real face". I'm quite a different person at work. My work requires me to be very controlled and unemotional, whereas in reality I can be very emotional. Being controlled and professional is very tiring at times....but as long as I can be the "real" me around my family and friends, then it's ok.
Disintegration -
"But I never said I would stay to the end...". This line reminds me of something my now ex husband said to me years ago (many years before we broke up).
"When we both us knew how the ending would be..." The pain and panic(?) in Robert's vocals really overwhelm me, remind me of the pain and panic I felt when I realised it was over. But I find it comforting in a strange way - hey, I'm not the first person to go through it and I won't be the last....
Quote from: melly on January 28, 2008, 06:54:14
this is really good! keep it up! very interesting...:smth023
Quote from: tigermilk on January 22, 2008, 08:51:51
hey, i'm from south australia too!! small world... haha
hey! always good to see another "croweater"!! howdy doody!! :-D
I was born and raised in Adelaide!! It's still "home"..
"It doesn't matter if we all die".
It basically summarises my view of humanity... :-D
Drifting up the stairs
I see the steps behind me
Disappearing
Can you help me?
(from 'Three Imaginary Boys')
These words have nothing to do with my life, so I'm not sure if the following comment belongs in this thread, but anyway, here it goes...
My idea is that this imagery - stairs with steps disappearing - possibly comes from a dream Robert had. But even if it's not the case, i think it kind of provides a powerful intuition of what achieving SUCCESS means. A premonition from Robert? The image of "climbing stairs" can clearly be associated to the idea of "achieving success". In this context the "steps disappearing" would stand for the fact that when you get really famous/successful you lose much of your roots. You forget where you come from, lose touch with people that used to mean much to you, your whole life changes. And there's really no way of going back, of climbing down the stairs back to your point of departure. In this sense the stairs do disappear. You can of course at some point in time lose your success, lose your money and your fame, but then we cannot say that you have CLIMBED DOWN the stairs of sucess. What we say is that you FELL from your pedestal...
This idea could also be linked to the lyrics of "Fear of Ghosts":
The further I get
From the things that I care about
The less I care about
How much further away I get...
Closedown is a song that resonates with me quite a bit, Its isolation and sorrow but it still manages to be hopeful, I used to listen to it when I was single and my friends would ignore me to go on dates and I couldnt find anyone... (dont worry I did eventually ;))
Open reminds me of all the times I would go to places I diddnt want to go with people I diddnt care about and who diddnt care about me simply for the purpose of being able to go somewhere with someone and be able to fit in and be part of something. Except it diddnt work, I always felt like:
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 feel inside...
Disintegration
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
To me I always felt like it was being in such a crazy and desolate place in your mind with racing thoughts driving you into madness. Like if the world was watching you make every mistake. Well that's how I felt personally when I listened to this one day (it wasn't a good day for me XD)
There are SO many, but ok, here we go :-D
A Forest - It's always the same. I'm running towards nothing, again and again and again - Reminds me of situations when you feel kinda trapped, like moving on and on, but nothing really changes.
Cut here - "In a minute, sometime soon, maybe next time, make it June, until later... doesn't always come." - A guy I was in love with, a bet, a promise which doesn't always come.
Jumping someone else's train - I love it! It's just my opinion and Robert is so damn right with his words :-D
Want - For me, it's a very sad song which reminds me of melancholic times, which were beautiful in a strange way. This song means a lot to me, because it really, really touches me.
Pictures of you - Makes me think of someone special I couldn't have. All I had were pictures and dreams, I almost believed they were real ;)
These were just a few, there are tons of songs which mean a lot to me...
Cut here
It's so hard to think
"It ends sometime
And this could be the last
I should really hear you sing again
And I should really watch you dance"
Because it's hard to think
"I'll never get another chance
To hold you... to hold you... "
My mother always told me "Look at me good, cause maybe you won't see me anymore". Maybe she's too dramatic, but it's true. Specially when you make a long trip, and you don't know for sure if you will see again the people you love. Your family. Your friends. Your girlfriend. Your wife. Life can change in a second.
Robert says that it's It's so hard to think "It ends sometime And this could be the last..." but actually we should think that way always. Only thinking that way we will live each moment with total intensity. That's how we have to live life, with passion.
Quote from: dsanchez on August 12, 2008, 22:37:41
Robert says that it's It's so hard to think "It ends sometime And this could be the last..." but actually we should think that way always. Only thinking that way we will live each moment with total intensity.
this is true.
actually i might even go a bit further: one of the best pieces of advice i ever learned was that we should learn to consider ourselves already dead because it's only then that we stop worrying about everything.
it was soemthing i read long ago from a book by carlos castaneda (a pretty strange book by the way, in most ways... but it had some good pieces of advice like this). imagine that your death is always right next to you, only an arm's reach from you. we have an illusion of living forever and we do everything in our power, to put out mortality out of our mind. but instead, remember to think about your death (like a creature sitting there right next to you, ready and set...) often enough and actually consider yourself already dead, like it already caught you. and a lot of foolish petty little things and worries immediately clear up from your mind and only important things remain.
Quote from: japanesebaby on August 12, 2008, 22:52:39
actually i might even go a bit further: one of the best pieces of advice i ever learned was that we should learn to consider ourselves already dead because it's only then that we stop worrying about everything.
That's really a great tip. Took note of that. I guess that will help to ease the fears and paranoias I have sometimes :smth023
The Perfect Boy strikes a chord with me because one of my closest friends was a girl who kept falling for the wrong guys. She wanted to be in love so badly and kept telling me that this was the right guy for her and sometimes it even seemed like that. But they would always end up hurting her. And she would be left crushed.
And her heart may be broken a hundred times
But the hurt will never destroy
Her hope, the happy ever after girl
One day finds the perfect boy
disintegration
now that i know that i'm breaking to pieces i'll
pull out my heart and i'll feed it to anyone
it helped me through a lot, coping with death, dealing with family issues, surviving middle school, break-ups, and just life in general. really listening to this song for the first time was an epiphany, it made me realize that i wasn't alone in how i was feeling.
this is a lie
this isn't truth this isn't right
this isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
when i first heard this song i was struggling with attachment issues. i was in a relationship where i was loving and not being loved in return, and this song woke me up, especially those two lines.
lovesong
however far away, i will always love you
this song means a lot to me. there was a lot of loss in my life when i heard this song, and it definitely lifted me in some way. it was also given to me on a mix tape from my first boyfriend, and i think it will always remind me of him.
close to me
this song just reminds me of being alone, being bored, being stuck in the same routine -- it often gets me to go out and do something.
lost
i can't find myself
it reminds me of when i'm not sure who i am, what i need, how i want to live my life. it's another one that reminds me i'm not alone.
i could go on forever, but i think i'll spare you. :)
Quote from: mothtoaflame on August 30, 2009, 08:51:09
i could go on forever, but i think i'll spare you. :)
there is nothing to 'spare' us from. :) i find it amazing how a bunch of people that haven't even met each other can communicate through having the same passion!
i can just say that in general the cure's music makes me feel understood and less alone. and that's why i'll keep on listening to it no matter what!!!
Quote from: alwaysprayingforRAIN
there is nothing to 'spare' us from. :) i find it amazing how a bunch of people that haven't even met each other can communicate through having the same passion!
well said. i don't think i've ever thought of it that way. i agree, it is amazing! :)
end - 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 .... 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. I feel like this alot. just sort of jaded and tired of listening to the same stuff from people.
from the edge of the deep green sea - she slips her dress like a flag to the floor, hands in the sky surrenders it all. reminds me of a particularly interesting experience ;)
a foolish arrangement - throwing me her bravest smile, defiant glittering shivering guile. catching cold is quick this time, but fish? fish may take a while. don't know why really but i just love those lyrics.
halo & home - the entire songs - makes me think of my wife
scared as you - the whole song - i feel this way often.
I think I will start with "out of this world" and I will not highlight the lines, I will take it as a whole song, namely the quote that Robert brought to it
"I think that particularly with "Out Of This World", I was just trying to get that sense that I often have which is a kind of curse that whenever I'm enjoying something, I'm always thinking that it's gonna end"
yes, this curse haunts me all the time, this hopeless feeling of the passage of time and the feeling that you live in the past .. because the present is leaving with every second, everything always ends and I hate it
"Kiss me goodbye
Pushing out before I sleep
Can't you see I try
Swimming the same deep water as you is hard... " this is not directly related to the meaning of the song, but still... for me it means that it's harder for me than for other people, the feeling that I'm just not fit for life in general, I'm just .. very tired "... can't you see i try.. swimming the same deep water as they is hard"
"I've been watching me fall for it seems like years
Watching me grow small, I watch me disappear" - sometimes, because of my mental illness, i feel like i'm breaking down more and more, and it lasts for years... i just falling, slowing down... but that's sometimes, haha, don't worry, i try to confront my problems and i think i'm making progress on that, although sometimes I feel really bad..
oh and i also really love "if only tonight we could sleep"
I love this idea of ��eternal rest so much...
"Everything you do is irresistible
Everything you do is simply kissable
Why can't I be you?" - sometimes I like a person so much that I want to be him myself or like him... for example, take Robert, I want to be like him.... haha, it's quite funny if you remember the backstory of this song, when one fan ask Robert why he(fan) cant be him XD
at the end of this list (I think someday I will add it, because I still have a lot of lines from songs!) I think and I became very sad, because not a single line or song is connected with other people in my life or with some an important person, simply because.... I simply don't have such people, as you can see, I'm very lonely and very fixated on myself, haha...
sometimes I write white poetry, but I don't think I'll ever be able to write something about love or relationships with people... I just don't know anything about it, I'm not familiar with it... and it's very sad, I don't understand why this happened to me... haha, sorry, I went back to my experiences, as usual XD