The Cure - Endsong

And I'm outside in the dark staring at the blood red moon
Remembering the hopes and dreams I had and all I had to do
And wondering what became of that boy and the world he called his own
I'm outside in the dark wondering how I got so old

It's all gone, it's all gone
Nothing left of all I loved
It all feels wrong
It's all gone, it's all gone, it's all gone
No hopes, no dreams, no world
No I, I don't belong
I don't belong here

It's all gone, it's all gone
I will lose myself in time
It won't be long
It's all gone, it's all gone, it's all gone

Left alone with nothing, the end of every song
Left alone with nothing, the end of every song
Left alone with nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing

The Cure - The Walk [Acoustic version]

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

We walked around a 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...

The Cure - 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 Cure - Mint Car

The sun is up
I'm so happy I could scream!
And there's nowhere else in the world I'd rather be
Than here with you
It's perfect
It's all I ever wanted
I almost can't believe that it's for real

I really don't think it gets any better than this
Vanilla smile
And a gorgeous strawberry kiss!
Birds sing we swing
Clouds drift by and everything is like a dream
It's everything I wished

Never guessed it got this good
Wondered if it ever would
Really didn't think it could
Do it again?
I know we should!!!

The sun is up
I'm so fizzy I could burst!
You wet through and me headfirst
Into this is perfect
It's all I ever wanted
Ow! it feels so big it almost hurts!

Never guessed it got this good
Wondered if it ever would
Really didn't think it could
Do it some more?
I know we should!!!

Say it will always be like this
The two of us together
It will always be like this
Forever and ever and ever...

Never guessed it got this good
Wondered if it ever would
Really didn't think it could
Do it all the time?
I know that we should!!!

The Cure - 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

The Cure - World In My Eyes

Let me take you on a trip
Around the world and back
And you won't have to move
You just sit still

Now let your mind do the walking
And let my body do the talking
Let me show you the world in my eyes

I'll take you to the highest mountain
To the depths of the deepest sea
And we won't need a map
Believe me

Now let my body do the moving
And let my hands do the soothing
Let me show you the world in my eyes

That's all there is
Nothing more than you can feel now
That's all there is

Let me put you on a ship
On a long, long trip
Your lips close to my lips

All the islands in the ocean
All the heaven's in motion
Let me show you the world in my eyes

That's all there is
Nothing more than you can touch now
That's all there is

Let me show you the world in my eyes

(originally recorded by Depeche Mode)

The Cure - Taking Off

Tomorrow I can start again

With back to earth and carry on

The same as I did yesterday

Yeah I’ll pick it up once more

And morning I’ll be onto it

From square one start

And push it for a bit

Like I do everyday…

I’ll get it down for sure

But tonight I climb with you

Tonight

So high with you

Tonight I shine with you

Tonight

Oh i’m so alive with you

Tomorrow I’ll begin anew

With heavy head to hold it

As I do it all like yesterday

Yeah I’ll break it out again

And morning I’ll be there in time

For clock back move

And make it for a while

To get through everyday…

I’ll roll it out the same

But tonight I climb with you

Tonight

So high with you

Tonight I shine with you

Tonight i’m so alive…

With you it’s always here and never there

With you it’s always here and never where

With you it’s always here and never how

With you it’s always here and always now

Yeah tomorrow I will start again

With back to earth and carry on

The same as I did yesterday

Yeah I’ll pick it up once more

And morning I’ll be onto it

From square one start and “bit a for it push”

Like I do everyday…

I’ll get it down for sure

But tonight I climb with you

Tonight

So high with you

Tonight I shine with you

Tonight

The Cure - Birdmad 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

The Cure - Plastic Passion

Plastic passion is a hard to handle

Plastic passion is a sold out scandal

Oh! it’s a plastic passion

Plastic passion is the ladies lover

Plastic passion is the marble mother

Oh! it’s a plastic passion

Plastic passion is a diamond delight

Plastic passion is the nadir of night

Oh! it’s a plastic passion

Plastic passion is a hycoscine heart

Plastic passion is a transparent tart

Oh! it’s a plastic passion

Plastic passion is a gold guarantee

This plastic passion is murdering me

Oh! it’s a plastic passion

The Cure - Bare

If you’ve got something left to say

You’d better say it now

Anything but “stay”

Just say it now

We know we’ve reached the end

We just don’t know how

“Well at least we’ll still be friends”

Yeah one last useless vow…

“There are different ways to live”

Yeah I know that stuff

“Other ways to give”

Yeah all that stuff

But holding onto used to be

Is not enough

Memory’s not life

And it’s not love

We should let it all go

It never stays the same

So why does it hurt me like this

When you say that I’ve changed?

When you say that I’ve aged?

Say I’m afraid…

And all the tears you cry

They’re not tears for me

Regrets about your life

They’re not regrets for me

It never turns out how you want

Why can’t you see?

t all just slips away

It always slips away

Eventually…

So if you’ve got nothing left to say

Just say goodbye

Turn your face away

And say goodbye

You know we’ve reached the end

You just don’t know why

And you know we can’t pretend

After all this time

So just let it all go

Nothing ever stays the same

So why does it hurt me like this

To say that I’ve changed?

To say that I’ve aged?

Say i’m afraid…

But there are long long nights when I lay awake

And I think of what I’ve done

Of how I’ve thrown my sweetest dreams away

And what I’ve really become

And however hard I try

I will always feel regret

However hard I try

I will never forget

I will never forget

The Cure - The Loudest Sound

Side by side in silence

They pass away the day

So comfortable, so habitual…

And so nothing left to say

Nothing left to say

Nothing left to say

Side by side in silence

His thoughts echo round

He looks up at the sky…

She looks down at the ground

Stares down at the ground

Stares down at the ground

Side by side in silence

They wish for different worlds

She dreams him as a boy…

And he loves her as a girl

Loves her as a girl…

And side by side in silence

Without a single word…

It’s the loudest sound

It’s the loudest sound…

It’s the loudest sound I ever heard

The Cure - 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

Come around at Christmas

I really have to see you

Smile at me slyly

Another festive compromise

But I live with desertion

And eight million people

Distant noises

Other voices

Pulsing in my swinging arms

Caress the sound

So many dead

And all the other voices said

Change your mind

You’re always wrong

The Cure - The Scream

Yeah I’ve been this way before

But something down here changed

The spring sun hanging slower

Colder in the sky

And your voice sounds strange

Your voice sounds strange

Yeah I’ve been down here before

But this time

Something really isn’t right

Summer sun hangs smaller

Paler in the sky

And your eyes are too bright

Your eyes are too bright

It’s like everything I know

Is twisted out and wrong

The fall sun hanging flatter

Lower in the sky

And your smile is gone

Your smile is gone

It’s like twisted out I know

Now I can’t wake to

Break apart this dream

Winter sun hangs weaker

Older in the sky

And you start to scream

You start to scream

You start to scream…

Scream and you scream

This is not a dream

This is how it really is

There isn’t any other this

Is not a dream

Scream and you scream

Why you have this need

Why you can’t be satisfied

Always want another why

You have this need

Scream and you scream

Dare me to believe

Dare me now to show I care

One last chance to make the dare

Me to believe

Scream and you scream

How we ended here

How we got from then to now

Never really followed how

We ended here

The Cure - 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 all alone

Wishing you were years away

Don’t suffer

No more

Just step inside and listen

Listen to my pillbox tales

The Cure - Accuracy

We sit in the same room

Side by side

I give you the wrong lines

Feed you

Look into my eyes

We both smile

I could kill you

Without trying

Accuracy

That’s accuracy

That’s accuracy

Practice all day for accuracy

Mirror mirror on the wall

The Cure - 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 sing and shout

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 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 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 beat is complete

With the sound of your world

Going up in the fire

It’s a perfect day to throw back your head

And kiss it all goodbye!

It’s a perfect day for getting wild

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 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 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 the fire

It’s a perfect day to throw back your head

And kiss it all goodbye!

The Cure - 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 I always dreamed about
But I let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out

So 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 runs away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
At all

The Cure - Pictures Of You

I've been looking so long at these pictures of you

That I almost believe 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 brighter and wider than 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

Hold for the last time then slip away quietly

Open my eyes

But I never see anything

If only I'd thought of the right words

I could have held 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

The Cure - The Walk (Everything Mix)

Everything

I called you after midnight

Then ran until I burst

I passed the howling woman

And stood outside your door

We walked around a 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

We 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

Everything

Everything

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

Everything

Everything

Everything

The Cure - 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)