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

||||| 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
reflections meet
the strangest twist upon your lips
and disappear
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 don't 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
the very last thing before i go
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...

||||| 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 didn'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

||||| 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

||||| 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

||||| See the Children |||||

la la la la la la la...
i stopped the car

the other day
i had to ask a little girl
the way i thought she'd show me
better if she got inside
and once inside
i thought i'd take her For a little ride...

so i see the children
feel the children
see the children
feel the children
all the time...

see the children
feel the children
see the children
feel the children
all the time...

i'm a supermarket santa
underneath the christmas tree
the little one all like
to Come and sit upon my knee
i have to hold them tightly
because they fall to the floor
a little concern ain't against the law...

so i see the children
feel the children
see the children
feel the children
all the time
see the children
all the time
i pass by the infant school

every single day
i push sweeties through the fence
but the kids just run way
i only want to talk with them
and join in their fun
but all the little children do is run
run run run run run run run...
la la la la la la, la la la la la la...

see the children
feel the children
all the time...
see the children
feel the children
see the children
feel the children
all the time...

||||| 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

||||| Sex-Eye-Makeup |||||

run around the chairs in your sunday dress
it's the best thing money can buy
or leave me on the stairs with my feet in the air
i think that i'm jazzy like christ
one more cigarette and the car burns slow
burning like the body waiting at home
throw out your teeth and call all your friends
someone coughing took away my breath
inches of glass all shiny and new screaming laughing fucks me to death
one more boy full of writing white mice
rolls over again in a london disguise
the blood bath woman in room number one
sex-eye-make-up tonight
she just woke up today to do as she's told
do you want to touch her?

||||| Shake Dog Shake |||||

ha ha ha!!!
wake up in the dark
the aftertaste 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 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

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 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

||||| 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 floor
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

||||| 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

an echo
and a stranger's hand
a short term effect
an echo
and a stranger's hand a
short term effect

||||| 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?

||||| A Sign from God |||||

you know i'm sorry if you misunderstood
but your confusion is a bit overdone
i was only in to do it good
i was only in to have some fun
i went out of my way to get this bad
and you still don't get how far
but now i'm back! i'm new!
and it's a wonderful thing
but you still don't get how things are...

not superstition - i'm talking hideous kinky
no not religion - i'm talking serious oobe
not science fiction - i'm talking horrible freaky
yeah all the stuff you don't believe in well that stuff is for real

got myself a change of life
got myself a change of style
got myself a new direction
got myself a reason why
i just fell right out of my face one day
and i took it as a sign from god
and now i'm feeling good
and i'm moving up
and i've got to do it now

yeah i'm sorry if you misunderstood
but your condition is a touch overplayed
i was only in to do it good
i was only in to get it made
i went way out of my way to get this bad
and you still don't get how far
and now i'm back! i'm new!
and it's a wonderful thing
but you still don't get how things are...

not superstition - i'm talking hideous kinky
no not religion - i'm talking serious oobe
not science fiction - i'm talking horrible freaky
yeah all the stuff you don't imagine well it's happening to me

got myself a change of life
got myself a change of style
got myself a new direction
got myself a reason why
i just fell right out of my face one day
and i took it as a sign from god

||||| 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

||||| Six Different Ways |||||

this is stranger than i thought
six different ways inside my heart
and every one i'll keep tonight
six different ways go deep inside

i'll tell them anything at all
i know i'll give them more and more

i'll tell them anything at all
i know i'll give the world and more
they think i'm on my hands and head
this time they're much too slow

six sides to every lie i say
it's that american voice again
"it was never quite like this before
not one of you is the same..."

this is stranger than i thought
six different ways inside my heart
and everyone i'll keep tonight
six different ways go deep inside

||||| 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 their selves 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

||||| 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

||||| So What? |||||

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i'm not meant to be here
but so what?
nobody's taken your place
nobody's taken your place

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please send off this leaflet
post it today...

and if you knew
nothing could replace you
if you were sane
your heart wouldn't ache
but so what?
so what? so what?

order now!
allow twenty-one days for delivery
the offer closes 31st december 1979...
british sugar bureau...
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 please send me icing and decorating sets
i enclose a cheque and postal order number...
so what? so what?

||||| 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!

||||| Spilt Milk |||||

i don't think i ever know if i ever really want it
could be why i'm never sure if i ever really got it
and i guess it's maybe easier
not to think too much about it...
a house a car a family and friends
yeah all it means to justify the ends

but sometimes... i wonder... in the back of my mind
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm wasting all my time
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm putting off my real life...

what i could've done, where i could've been
when i should've gone, why i should've seen
who i would've loved, how i would've dreamed
and if it's always always too late...

i don't think i ever know that i ever really need it
could be why i'm never sure that i ever really feel it
and i think it's maybe easier to guess i really mean it...
a house! a car! a family and friends!
yeah all it means to justify the ends

but sometimes... i wonder...

a girl! a smile! a holiday and sex!
yeah all it takes to make sense of the rest

but sometimes... i wonder... in the back of my mind
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm killing all my time
sometimes... i wonder... if i'm giving up my real life...

what i could've done, where i could've been
when i should've gone, why i should've seen
who i would've loved, how i would've dreamed
and if it's always, always too late...

and every day that i let slide
is one day more i never try
to break the world
to make my fate
and with every day that i let go
it's one day less i ever know
if it's always
always too late...

||||| 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

||||| Strange Attraction |||||

it started with a dedication "lost in admiration
happy birthday - i'm forever yours - blossom" faded red inside
a tiny book of butterflies i smiled surprised at how when flickered through
the wings flew by spelled out my name...

six months went by the summer lost obsessively the letters dropped
into my life the same soft blood smooth flowing hand "please try to understand
i have to see you - have to feel you - tell you all the ways i need you
yours forever in love..."

strange attraction spreads it's wings
it varies but the smallest things
you never know how anything will change
strange attraction spreads it's wings
and alters but the smallest things
you never know how anything will fade

the year grew old incessantly she wrote to me she'd started smoking poetry!
i laughed in recognition of a favourite phrase
she'd pulled me in... i answered her a christmas card in sepia
arranging when and where and how the two of us should meet...

her opening so well prepared a nervous smile i couldn't take my eyes from her
she whispered "can i use some of your lipstick?"
it was perfect so believable i couldn't help but feel that it was real
and kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms...

strange attraction spreads it's wings
it varies but the smallest things
you never know how anything will change
strange attraction spreads it's wings
and alters but the smallest things
you never know how anything will fade

so alone into the cold new year without another word from her
i wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring
but weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came
and with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same...

"i'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination
i was sure you'd be the one but i was wrong
it seems reality destroys our dreams - i won't forget you - blossom" faded red
inside a tiny book of old goodbyes...

strange attraction spreads it's wings
it varies but the smallest things
you never know how anything will change
strange attraction spreads it's wings
and alters but the smallest things
and you never know...

||||| 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

and the sand
and the sea grows
i close my eyes
move slowly through drowning waves
going away on a strange day

and i laugh as i drift in the wind
blind dancing on a beach of stone
cherish the faces as they wait for the end
a sudden hush across the water
and we're here again...

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...

||||| 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...

||||| 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

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