..... THE CURE LYRICS - TITLES STARTING WITH LETTER L .....

||||| 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

||||| 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 believe that this time it's forever

but older than me now
more constant
more rea
l 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 where once
there was only a girl

i'm so glad 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 believe 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

||||| The Last Day of Summer |||||

nothing i am
nothing i dream
nothing is new
nothing i think
or believe in or say
nothing is true

it used to be so easy
i never even tried
yeah it used to be so easy...

but the last day of summer
never felt so cold
the last day of summer
never felt so old
never felt so...

all that i have
all that i hold
all that is wrong
all that i feel
for or trust in or love
all that is gone

it used to be so easy
i never even tried
yeah it used to be so easy...

but the last day of summer
never felt so cold
the last day of summer
never felt so old
the last day of summer
never felt so cold
never felt so...

||||| Let's Go to Bed |||||

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 don'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 play it if you don't play 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

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 don't say it first

doo doo doo doo
let's go to bed!
doo doo doo doo
let's go to bed!

||||| 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...

||||| Like an Animal |||||

one mile in the air
that's where she lives
her body looks so thin
and pink and small
dropping eggs from nervous shaking hands
and swallowing her fingers as they fall

two people dance on the edge
three of us push them away
there's nowhere to go
we're all in this
but nothing can hurt us at all
fight her all you want you'll never win
couldn't we just once leave her in bed
let the dry air cut her happy throat
hide her heart and lose her happy head

first i was a murderer
then i was a saint
now i live on stolen time
twist and run like paint
like an animal
tuesday in the sun nothing could be worse
not now not ever not anymore...

||||| 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)

||||| Looking Glass Girl |||||

like a looking glass girl
in a minature world
saw you dance like dice
and tumble to the floor
like a looking glass girl
in a minature world
whirl your disney arms
and jump the merry-go-round
the umbrella man is shouting
we shake his paper hands
there's mirrors down beneath our feet
so "let's skate down the street"
the casino man is laughing
he wears a shivering hat
we peel away like tinsel
stick like splinters to the wall
like a looking glass girl
in a minature world
she saw you dressed in rags
in-and-out of a jack-in-a-box
because she's a looking glass girl
in a minature world
whirl your see-saw-arms
and ride the catherine wheel
(foot, foot)

||||| 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 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 a while
it's the grooviest thing
it's the perfect dream

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 dinner huh?
we should have each other with cream
then curl up in the fire
get up for a while
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?

||||| 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

||||| Lullaby |||||

on candystripe legs the 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...

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