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Tell me who doesn't love
What can never come back
You can never forget how it used to feel
The illusion is deep
Its as deep as the night
I can tell by your tears you remember it all
I am paralyzed by the blood of Christ
Though it clouds my eyes
I can never stop
How it feels to be dry
Walking bare in the sun
Every mirage I see is a mirage of you
As I cool in the twilight
Taste the salt on my skin
I recall all the tears
All the broken words
I am paralyzed by the blood of Christ
Though it clouds my eyes
I can never stop
When the sunsets glow drifts away from you
You'll no longer know
If any of this was really true at all
What can never come back
You can never forget how it used to feel
The illusion is deep
Its as deep as the night
I can tell by your tears you remember it all
I am paralyzed by the blood of Christ
Though it clouds my eyes
I can never stop
How it feels to be dry
Walking bare in the sun
Every mirage I see is a mirage of you
As I cool in the twilight
Taste the salt on my skin
I recall all the tears
All the broken words
I am paralyzed by the blood of Christ
Though it clouds my eyes
I can never stop
When the sunsets glow drifts away from you
You'll no longer know
If any of this was really true at all
Lyrics submitted by oofus
Track duration: 03:43
"The Blood" as written by Thomas Michael Smith, Christopher Dominic Urbanowicz, Russell Leetch, Edward Owen Lay
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, EMI Music Publishing
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I can’t fit everything together, but there is a lot of interesting stuff here. Obviously, the chorus can be taken in a religious sense. A Christian realizes that he has been blinded by his own religion, but knows that he can’t give it up. On the same note, the verse including “walking bear in the sun” seems reminiscent of Christ spending forty days and nights in the desert and being tempted by Satan.
Can you really attribute the first verse to simply drinking wine? It is really great stuff. This verse could be about how we look at distant relationships through rose-colored glasses. Like how a child of divorced parents will “hate” the custodial parent, but think that the distant parent is great, even though they never see them. In this case, there was apparently a break-up, but he still has the illusion that everything was great. He is blinded to the truth but can’t help it. However he later “recalls all the tears” and “broken words”. This brings into question the narrator’s very concept of reality: “You'll no longer know
if any of this was really true at all...”
These are just my ideas. Songs like this are great because they are so open to personal interpretation by the listener. I wish there was more of that on this website.
"I'm paralysed by the blood of Christ….. That was poetic licence, 'cos I changed it from 'The Tears Of Christ', which is a drink…… It's a very cheap Portuguese wine, it's a very heavy drink that all the workers drink... it's about 12p a bottle. I was given a bottle of it and I drank it, and I noticed the label, which is the Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus under one arm and a bottle in the other hand. It was completely brilliant... this is drunk by hundreds of thousands of people, and it's a pretty visionary drink, really! I was convinced I was Portuguese, I just sank into this reverie of being a Portuguese flamenco guitarist..."
"The Blood" was what he wrote while being drunk on the stuff.
This song is AWESOME!
I see this song as his search into eternity with
the painful memories of lost love...
Yes, I remember reading somewhere about the
bottle with Christ's picture on it... also I am well
aware of Robert's spiritual seach....Life ain't easy...
but we all thirst for hope and truth.
sometimes i think theres no need to ever listen to any other band but the cure, they encompass every emotion and need i ever feel
idunno, something like that.
ps. LOVE the Cure, robert smith is the shit.
1. He is talking about the life of possibly "a demon" because demons are paralyzed by the Blood of Christ.
2. He got drunk (paralyzed) by some sort of wine like fleaaaaa says in the above post.
GREAT song...love it.