Lyrics for A Strange Day as interpreted by oofus

A Strange Day Lyrics
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...

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Chloe le Fay
07-08-2002

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A lovely song about the end of the world.

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theexplodinggirl
01-06-2005

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A Strange Day--what else could it be but the end of the world? Bleak subject, but beautiful song. Luv it!

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painted_doll
02-11-2005

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It's about the end of the world and what he would do if it were the end of the world... Take it all in, laugh, and remember a forgotten song. Sing it sweetly for tomorrow may never come.

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theexplodinggirl
02-12-2005

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Awesome song! I sing it in the car, on the way to work when my radio is broken even though it's so bleak.

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HateSaiko
05-11-2005

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'Held for one moment I remember a song' is really beautifully put. I hope that's what happens right before i die :)

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Gordon69
09-30-2005

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Just perfect raw morbid cure at its best! Classic Cure sound guitars, and etherarl Robert Smit voice! A true classic!

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lipssocoldtheyburn
01-12-2006

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pretty song.

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Selkis
01-20-2006

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Preciosa, Intensa. El fin del mundo.
"An impression of sound, then everything is gone forever..."

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riveroflethe
03-06-2006

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I can't believe there are so few comment's for this song. It's one of my favourite's and it is sooooo Cure. It has everything, dark lyrics, beautiful instruments and really sexy vocals.

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thedownpour
06-02-2006

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My favorte song from my favorite band. A beautiful way to sing about the end of everything.

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Stevenp
08-23-2006

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I really can't believe that "Us or Them" has got more comment's than one of the best Cure songs ever! Well i really love this song, my father becomes so "funny" when he hears this song. He gets sad in a good way, just like me, i start thinking about who I would like "see" at my funeral, and what music that should be played.
When i hear this song, he always tells me, that its like his late childhood getting retold, while he is watching, and then suddenly he seems so strange... My dad is so cool!!!

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thedownpour
09-08-2006

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"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
"

Anyone care to help explain the meaning of the blind man?

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sepherenia
10-19-2006

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Funny, I always thought this was supposed to be the thoughts of someone as they committed suicide (by walking out into the sea and drowning) rather than the end of the world.

Beautiful though.

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riveroflethe
01-08-2007

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I think its wierd that this is the only song on the album to have a glimmer of hope in it, and that's through dying.
Whether its about the end of the world or suicide, I don't know and it doesn't really matter. What does matter is that he's dead.
The music seems to mellow for this song. The rest of the album is full of heavy drums and meloncholic guitars, but this song's music, I think, is quite sweet.
Maybe he's saying that he's been living to die, and now he can escape from his troubles.

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superdopestar
01-11-2007

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i can't believe that there is no mention of the band's heavy drug use during this period. c'mon people Robert was tripping his ass off while he wrote this album! i'm not saying the lyrics aren't deep and meaningful, they are, but the harder to explain lyrics shouldn't be analyzed too hard. Unless of course you're on acid, then this album will probably make perfect sense. but yes i do think this song is about escaping, but more so about escaping reality.

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drpeitsche
01-30-2007

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I play a cover of this song in an Jonny Cash style. I have no clue, what Smiths idea was, but maybe he foresaw 9/11?
The walls crash down and the sky and the impossible explode...

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robot in disguise
07-10-2007

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the blind man...
anyone else notice the themes running through pornography, particularly of hands and mouths connected...mouths are of course an obsession of robert smith's but particularly on this album

"A hand in my mouth"-Pornography
"the blind man kissing my hands"-a strange day
"gives my hands the shape of angels"-hanging garden
"touch her eyes pressed my stained face"-the figurehead

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Imaginaryboy
08-16-2007

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i dont think its about the end of the world. i think its the end of his world. i think its his suicide played out. he cant see the beauty of the world through his own eyes...
"Give me your eyes
That I might see the blind man kissing my hands
The sun is humming
My head turns to dust"

the beauty kills him, makes him sad, his mind cant process the beauty. he knows its there, but he cant see it through his foggy/depressed state.

"And the sand
And the sea grows
I close my eyes
Move slowly through drowning waves
Going away on a strange day"

he walks into the water, * i refer to water because it says sea and sand and waves, but really i think it can be applied to any smothering thing, life itself, too many drugs, anything that leads to the end*.hes ready to die. the sea gets higher around his body, slowly up to his neck. he keeps walking out towards the deepness, pushing through the waves.

"And I laugh as I drift in the wind
Blind
Dancing on a beach of stone"

i love this line... one of my most favourite of any song. here im not sure, maybe hes thinking back, as hes walking/swimming to his death. hes happy that hes blind to the ugliness of the world, and happy the end of his world is coming.

"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"

here its obvious, hes under, and the end comes.

one of my favourite songs. i think it can also be applied to a drug overdose too... same theory. except with another self destructive method.

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nifbutt
09-24-2007

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In my opnion, Pornography is the best of all the cure albums. It's tone and style was Robert Smith's tibutte to the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas.

THE SONG IS ABOUT SUICIDE, AND SUICIDE AT THE BEACH, AND HE IS SUCCESSFUL ON THE SECOND ATTEMPT.

'GIve me your eyes that I might see the blind man kissing my hand' refers to his dispair being to deep, he cannot see the blessings he has. The reference to a blind and paralyzed man kissing his hands and he needs help seeing it, menas he is asking for someone to show him what is good and worth living for.
He then, blind with dispair, he walks into the ocean, 'as the sand and the sea grows' and this is the second time he has tried this 'and we're here again.....'.
'Head falls back adn the walls crash down..... an impression of sound and then everything is gone forever' HE IS DEAD. Chilling especailly if you here the guitar buld up on the last verse. It really projects the horros of suicide.
As usual, great lyrics by Robert Smith.

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CafeMaster
02-22-2008

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I so love this song. But my mother tongue is not English, Actually. So, the lylics was too much difficult to understand for me. Thank you all guys who wrote comments. ^^

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monster36604
11-25-2008

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IMHO - the best song on the Pornography album. I've said it before, but I'll say it again - Robert Smith is a freaking genius!

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razorhead
12-15-2008

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This song is definetly something to think about. I consider it a masterpiece for many reasons. It has very well thought lyrics, the solo is amazing and it has the dark goth character that I like. I don't want to rush into saying that I have it figured out but after reading a bunch of forums and the youtube posts on it, I have realized that many people seem to understand the start of it but fail to get the ending of it.

More specifically Robert starts by describing a miracle that Jesus Christ did as referenced directly from the New testament. This however is only an opening on what he wants to reach too, many people stop at this point without further reading the lyrics in detail.

So he goes on and says:

Dancing on a beach of stone
Cherish the faces as they wait for the end
Sudden hush across the water
And we're here again


This part is a metaphor to me. I think he wants to stress out how sadly most people are deluded with happiness and hope when in reality nothing happens. Hey he even states it clearly 'and we're here again'. Another metaphor hildering some irony towards Christians is 'Cherish the faces as they wait for the end' meaning that there is no end there is no apocalypse... at least according to Robert...


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glOOmyART
03-06-2009

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c'mon people... there's nothing too special about these lyrics...

THIS SONG IS ABOUT LSD (or a similar substance) !!!

and it almost perfectly describes the way the trip feels like from start to end, both lyrically and musically...
and for the trilogy concert also visually!!!

and i'll try to explain it line by line... ish...

the blind man is the writer of the song, and he kisses his own hands to lick the acid from it...
the acid is "the eyes", cause lsd is said to "open" perception... so the blind man wants to "see"...
the light (and also heat) of the sun becomes more intense and begins to blur so it feels like the sun is humming (this line is the perfect description of that impression, i felt exactly the same on one of my trips)
his head falls to dust because the writer is no more able to think in a straight line and he gets on his knees to "play" with all the tiny silly things that come to one's attention when someone is on acid...
the next few lines are just a description how it feels when acid finally fully hits... it hits by waves and it feels like you wanna close your eyes and just drown in everything around you...
then the next "block" show that the writer was not alone to take the trip and that the person / people who was / were with him is / are tripping bad (or different than he is) and waits for the end of it and he tries to comfort him/her/them but is distracted by "a sudden hush across the water" which brings him either back into his own trip or into reality (i'm not completly sure about that)... the line "blind dancing on a beach of stone" could either be the description for the bad trip of the other person / people or mean that the location was somewhere on the european atlantic coast (which is doubtful :P)
the next "block" is again the description of another full wave of acid to hit...
the last block describes the way he "came down" from the trip, tired from the experience and intoxication he lays on the ground and comes back to reality which is kind of like the sky and the impossible (which means "no boundries") explodes (cause in reality, one is constantly confronted with boundries of any kind)... then he tries to manifest his experience in a "song" (which could have been any kind of art) but is not completly able to which makes him feel that this experience will be lost forever (but it could just be kind of robert's sarcasme and nihilisme at that time as well to put that "gone forever" thing in it)

that's pretty much it...


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fuCough
11-08-2009

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In reading the opening of "The Book of Satan" by Anton Le Vey, I noticed a verse very similar to this Cure song's opening lyric. "Open your eyes that you may see, Oh men of mildewed minds, and listen to me ye bewildered millions!" Thought it was a strange coincidence. It's a stretch, but could this song have something to do with Satanism?

I like gl00myART's LSD interpretation. I'll probably think of the song that way from now on.

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