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All Cats Are Grey Lyrics
I never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones The columns are all men Begging to crush me No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes And no flags wave me home In the caves All cats are grey In the caves The textures coat my skin In the death cell A single note Rings on and on and on... |
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04-11-2003
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04-16-2003
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04-24-2003
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06-25-2004
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09-17-2004
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05-29-2005
And no flags wave me home." Everything that could once inspire happiness becomes drab, incapable of inspiring any feeling whatsoever: "In the caves
All cats are grey."
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10-02-2005
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01-13-2006
Obviously not what the songs about though, just thought it was a humourous note. I do love what someone said about when it's dark you can't see the cats colour; and it's just grey. I hadn't really paid much attention to the lyrics before I read them just now, but this is one of my favorite cure songs... and very sad...
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01-16-2006
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01-23-2006
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03-30-2006
death with an absence of afterlife.
an athiests view of death
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04-03-2006
This is one of the best Cure songs ever written, and one of my personal favorites. The spinning drums, the smooth bass, and the soft, gloomy keyboards never fail to hypnotize me.
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09-14-2006
"I never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones"
in bed amongst the stones is like gravestones...well at least it is to me.
also the death cell part kinda made me think of a cell like...being his grave. his coffin. well...thats just me..
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10-30-2006
"I never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones
The columns are all men
Begging to crush me"
People wanted her dead, basically.
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12-11-2006
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01-16-2007
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03-26-2007
The place is a cave or crypt of some kind since he says it's a cave and mentions columns (holding up something) and also "dark deep lakes" which might mean underground lakes.
And when are you "in bed amongst the stones"? You really only lie and "sleep" on stones when you are dead. Dead people lie in crypts of stone, often underground.
The columns "all men begging to crush me" also suggest carved columns of people already entombed. Though possibly they could be simply normal columns or even natural pillars, but he feels them wanting to smash him permanently on his stone slab.
There is no life here "no shapes sail on the dark deep lakes" and no way to get out "no flags wave me home."
I don't think there are literally cats in this cave, but by saying "in the caves all cats are gray" he's simply saying that no matter what color something is, it's all gray since it's gray from lack of light.
"The textures coat my skin" seems to be about feeling the darkness and perhaps dust of the other dead covering him and as he slowly fades to be dead like everything else there.
The last part "in the death cell, a single note rings on and on and on" seems to be a reference to hearing the death knell of his own death (as in John Donne's poem that says "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"). This seems to be the last sensation as death overcomes him.
This song is all about a feeling of numbness and death.
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06-10-2007
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07-10-2007
during the faith album he was completely reevaluating his faith in (i think it was) christianity. (possibly one of the branches of christianity, cathlocism i'm sorry i don't know much about church, it angers me so i try to ignore it)
he said " i was looking deep within myself to see what faith i had if any " and the whole album is based on religion, particularly songs like the holy hour just him observing the church and thinking.
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08-16-2007
Every time I listen it, I fell a serene melancolhy remembering me that we have to die, but not now.
About to give a meaning on the words of this song, I think that is like to interpretate an artistic picture: every critic give (feel) his vision that is filtered by his proper experience, that could be often very different from the author meaning. Only Smith, and perhaps neither him, know the real meaning of his words!!!
Often the artists first tranlate in sound their feeling and then add the words to autointerpretate their own songs.
I can only imagine:
1) the cave is an obscure church
2) tha cats are people without interest (people that is prayng) by the vision of a depressed man
3) the textures on the skin are the colored stained glass reflex of the church
4) the death cell is his mind altered by depression or heroine or phsycofarmacs or by his own genial obsession, or all of them
5) The ring or single note is the future death
Fausto
Excuse for my bad english
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08-17-2007
-english proverb
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11-20-2007
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04-03-2008
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05-13-2008
I always thought "all cats are grey" comes from a reasonably famous logic example, viz. "All cats are grey. Spot is a cat. Therefore Spot is grey." I know that sounds ridiculous but perhaps using it is showing the loneliness and emptiness of someone reliant on logic rather than Faith.
I hadn't heard laurelinwyntre's proverb but a quick google brings it up. And makes a lot more sense than what I said - perhaps the logic example is based on the proverb though.
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09-24-2008
"No flags wave anyone home"....there aint any angels, deceased family or anyone waiting for you on the other side.....
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