Lyrics for 10.15 Saturday Night as interpreted by oofus

10.15 Saturday Night Lyrics
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...

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...

It's always the same...

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Ratzody
09-14-2002

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reminds me of being a teenager.. cept these days i know how to fit a washer on a tap

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sqwiggly
10-30-2004

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Well to me it reminds me of when a family member or lover doesn't come home one night and your just waiting, worried sick, for them to come home. Every sound you hear in the house, you think it's them.

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Leobasita
12-03-2004

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It's just a teenager party song... Waiting for that girl call... that's all...

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ming ming
12-24-2004

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It sounds as if Robert Smith is talking of a rogue lover he adores but knows she doesn't love him as he lives her, and he waits for her patiently to arrive home
"Where she's been
And I'm crying for yesterday "
. It could also be as simple as a teenager party song but what sort of teenage song calls for such sorrowful and passionate vocals??

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theexplodinggirl
01-06-2005

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This song is pretty self-explanatory, especially for a Cure song. Waiting for the phone, water dripping. -drip- -drip- -drip- -drip-

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ZombieCultHero
02-26-2005

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Yes, the song is pretty self-explanatory. But just for the hell of it, im going to stick this in here-
Robert Smith says of the song "10:15 Saturday Night was written at the table in our kitchen. Watching the tap dripping, feeling utterly morose, drinking my dad's homemade beer...my evening had fallen apart, and i was back at home feeling very sorry for myself!"
This is one of the first Cure songs i ever heard, and the one that clinched my obsession for The Cure. i make it a point to listen to it every saturday night, as close to 10:15 as i can.

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the_lovecat7000
04-07-2005

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this song depresses me a bit. that's exactly what i do on a saturday night, NOTHING! and yet, this song is one of my many favorites that i can't get enough of . . . .

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Child Of Music
05-29-2005

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There are 4 versions of this song on the expanded Three Imaginary Boys. Why?

Also, I love this song. It's haunting.

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xpsychicheartsx
06-02-2005

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being the obsessive cure fan that i am.. when i was younger, i always thought there had to be a deeper meaning to this..

..i thought, it was about getting stood up, or maybe desperately waiting for that one person to call and all you hear is the drips of a sink, instead of the phone ringing..

..then i came across an article, years back where robert smith says "self-explanatory- me sitting on a kitchen sink, waiting for a call"

and i reread the lyrics and came to the conclusion that i have way to much time on my hands

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MurderRapeLove
07-14-2005

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The beauty of the cure has always been in the profundity of their art. Listen deeply to how every aspect of the song is another dripping sound all leading into the moment of frenzied frustration with the guitar grinding. The bass line, the drums, the drooling guitar chords. Listen carefully...

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ashit
12-28-2005

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It sounds like he is waiting for his lover or partner to come home and he is scared for her and he patiently waits for her and does it all the time and he is crying for the days when she didn't do that to him or something

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lipssocoldtheyburn
01-12-2006

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I bought the b sides/rarities. I had never heard this song before. beautiful. I adore it.

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danohuiginn
04-04-2006

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OK, I do appreciate what murderrapelove says about the sounds. But I can't help finding it all a bit trivial and comic. It reminds me of Adrian Mole's poem:

The tap drips and keeps me awake,
In the morning there will be a lake.
For the want of a washer the carpet will spoil,
Then for another my father will toil.
My father could snuff it while he is at work.
Dad, fit a washer donīt be a burk!

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MurderRapeLove
06-06-2006

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well all art is basically charicature. but thanks for appreciating

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TheSilverNoble
06-29-2006

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Just waiting for a girlfriend on a Saturday. They were together yesterday, but he didn't see her today and now he's sad. Simple, but very good.

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Dressed2Depress
09-06-2006

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I think it's about being stood up and the image of a dripping tap ties into not only a device to mark the passing of time but also I understand that a form of torture the chinese developed was to tie someone down and drip water on their forehead. That's probably completly unrelated but I get the feeling that the dripping tap causes the singer a similar kind of anguish in this song.

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charlieSometimes
09-21-2006

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I LOVE this song. This is when i first decided The Cure was great, when i found out that i wasn't the only lonely loser who spends week-ends alone at home.

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marquicerise
10-20-2006

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"I always wanted Arab and 10:15 to be a double A-side. Arab was a great rabble rouser when we played it live, but it was almost a novelty song, whereas 10:15 was more representative of what we were trying to do"
-Robert Smith
Join The Dots [liner notes]

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xinnerx
10-30-2006

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One time, I listened to the Three Imaginary Boys album in the kitchen and when the song was over, the drip of my tap picked up the highhat rhythm where it left off...

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bananahammock316
04-14-2007

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reflects earthly sounds with his guitar,reflectrs moods with his riffs,robert smith = something special, classic cure song on "the" cure album. they never sounded as good again

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robot in disguise
07-08-2007

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they never sounded as good again? picky...

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&paper_angel&
07-16-2007

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I have to agree with bananahammock316, but it's a shame The Cure didn't like this album...

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yttling_jazz
03-08-2008

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this song started playing on shuffle on a saturday night at 10:13.. kind of freaky.

i love this song.

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alterantis
12-22-2008

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LONELINESS
yes, is true, he was drinkin beer at his parents,., in a sink,.,. waitting a phone call,.,
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the music as every other art depends on a message,.,,. hear the music.,,. those repetitive notes., and silence ,...,. ,., the message FOR ME is lonelines i close my eyes , imagine that im there.,,. and everything comes to my head is loneliness and nostalgia,...,,.
everyone has an own interpretation.,. which is completely valid,.,,.,.,.,.

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monster36604
01-15-2009

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This song live is really cool. I love their older sound. Simple and original.

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