The Cure – Cold

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  General Comment:According to Smith:
  
  "Is another song about another drug and it's grip..."
  
  The man is a lyrical genius.

  Flag monster36604on November 25, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:i feel that the songs on pornography seem to fit together chronologically, like its telling a story. The previous song "A Strange Day" is about someone committing suicide because he thinks it's the answer. But i believe that this song is this person's soul looking at his dead body, and realizing that it is better to be alive, but it is too late. It does seem at first like the song is about someone else dying, but that is inconsistent with the rest of the album. So the narrator is this person's soul, which is shapeless, nameless, and is neither in heaven or hell; it is nowhere. I think that the name he's referring to is his own, and it is Cold because it has no meaning anymore.

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  General Comment:Definately Chirs_Valentine. It's an excellent song that is by no doubt gloomy, and yes I can see the Cure being tagged as goth if only their work up until pornography is taken into account. It is suck a stark contrast to The Top and KMKMKM.

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    Head on the Door, Disintegration, Wish, Bloodflowers, yeah there were many albums after Pornography that were heavily goth. Especially Disintegration and Bloodflowers :)

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  General Comment:A shallow grave
  A monument to the ruined age
  Ice in my eyes
  And eyes like ice don't move
  Screaming at the moon
  Another past time
  
  I love that stanza

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  General Comment:"Your name like ice into my heart"
  
  Doesn't get more emotional than that.

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  General Comment:To me probably the most underrated of all cure songs. Everytime you listen th this song there is something new to behold. This song is in the same class as the figurehead, a forest and same deep water as you. Ubeleivable song - great version on the triiogy. Pornography the best cure album by a mile.

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  General Comment:But then again, sorrywrongnumbah, isn't that just what defines a goth band - publicly stating that they are not goth? Sisters of Mercy claim the same ;)

  Flag HateSaikoon January 30, 2005   Link

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  General Comment:Agony of life, love lost and drug induced inertia. Great stuff!

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  General Comment:This Cure song is the ultimate dark and depressing Cure song. As the title of the is Cold, you actually feel a cold chill running down you spine listening to this song. Pornography which is the title of the album the song is on, is one of the Cure best..ever.

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  General Comment:It seems to me that this song is a major indicator of why the Cure is known (rather stereotypically) as the gloomy, "goth-rock" band that mainstream music media portrays them to be.
  Gloomy? At times, deliciously so...and self-indulgently perfect at it; though by no means is that the only feeling their music conveys. "Goth"? Not at all, Robert Smith says, and I agree (although I am certainly no expert at what is and is not goth...I am only a die-hard Cure fan, and that's basically as far as it goes).
  In short, "Cold" is a fanastic song, and it's every bit as frigid as the January air here in Wisconsin. I would suggest that immediately after listening to this song, switch right on over to "Do the Hansa," or "The Caterpillar," for a delightfully amusing contrast.

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    London After Midnight, The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, it's kind of the thing for a big goth band to deny them being "goth". and not all goth songs are gloomy, look at Bauhaus, many song's they've done aren't gloomy and are positively upbeat

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