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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
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
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"This one's a bit difficult...umm...blotting out the world through the eating of forbidden fruit? deafened by lust?"
The bass in this song is soooo...cool! One of the best Cure songs
Mr. Smith explained it as "the sickness of lust," (along the lines of "The Kiss.")
I play bass, and am extremely grateful that they really tired on this one, as on most of their songs, e.g., In Between Days, Killin an Arab, the bass is extremely simple. Love the Cure to death, but they strike me as chronic underachievers.
This is not my favorite Cure song. But this is my favorite Cure album. It is supposed to be a complete work, and Other Voices was never really meant to be a single (but those record companies, dont'cha know...). Still, It works so well within the confines of Faith that I still love the song.
Commit yourself." Really hit a chord with me. I don't know. I first heard this about two years ago when I was going through a reabby rocky period in my life and I felt that this song was just WRITTEN for me, you know what I mean?
I really like "But I live with desertion
And eight million people"
It's so true! These days we live in city's /countries with millions of people, we got internet and everything, but STILL people are lonely and stuff.