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"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream", she said
"The one that makes me laugh", she said
And threw her arms around my neck
Show me how you do it
And I promise you, I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you
Spinning on that dizzy edge
Kissed her face and kissed her head
Dreamed of all the different ways
I had to make her glow
"Why are you so far away?", she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you?"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must've been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and lonely
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
The one that makes me scream", she said
"The one that makes me laugh", she said
And threw her arms around my neck
Show me how you do it
And I promise you, I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you
Spinning on that dizzy edge
Kissed her face and kissed her head
Dreamed of all the different ways
I had to make her glow
"Why are you so far away?", she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you?"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must've been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and lonely
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
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I read an interview with Robert Smith many years ago. When asked about this particular song he said that people can interpret as they see fit. Yet for him personally, this song was really about the bouts he had with his alcoholism and that struggle. The song tells a tale of a binge he had whilst sitting on the edge of a cliffside in Beachy Head in southern England (a cliff and notorious suicide hotspot). Smith states in short: "The song is about hyperventilating–kissing and fainting to the floor." The "she" within the song is symbolic of his then addiction to alcohol. "Kissing" the face, then the "neck" (of the bottles) as he consumes them then throws them over the cliffside. "Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick" refers to his childhood memories of mastering magic tricks, but then Smith added "on another level, it's about a seduction trick, from much later in my life". After waking up from the drinking binge upon the cliffside, the bottles having been discarded in the "raging sea", while "she" (the alcohol) had been drown inside of him. Smith explains this metaphorically here: "Daylight licked me into shape. I must have been asleep for days. And moving lips to breathe her name. I opened up my eyes. And found myself alone alone. Alone above a raging sea. That stole the only girl I loved. And drowned her deep inside of me."
Love your name! "A chuisle mo chroÃ"?? :)