Lyrics for A Letter To Elise as interpreted by oofus

A Letter To Elise Lyrics
Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know I'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would
If they only would
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
That hides away
From me and you
There're worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the prayers your hands can make
Oh I just take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round
Yesterday
I stood and stared
Wide-eyed in front of you
And the face I saw looked back
The way I wanted to
But I just can't hold my tears away
The way you do

Elise believe I never wanted this
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
I thought you were the girl I always dreamed about
But I let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out...

So Elise
It doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

And every time I try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up
It runs away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else
I can really do
At all...

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sparkle21
03-12-2002

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resignation. the ending of something he tried so hard at. but he could never really understand her. never really knew what was going on in her mind. hes come to the realization that he can't keep living in the past. he sees that yesterday was wonderful, but today is another day. she wasnt what he thought she was. there's nothing left he can do, but let go.

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Against the Grain
04-19-2002

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i agree with that. i had a friendship like this once - and went through the same exact feelings. resignation, that's a good way of putting it. i love the lines "and every time i try to pick it up, like falling sand as fast as i pick it up it runs away through my clutching hands." i know just that feeling.

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Against the Grain
04-19-2002

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i agree with that. i had a friendship like this once - and went through the same exact feelings. resignation, that's a good way of putting it. i love the lines "and every time i try to pick it up, like falling sand as fast as i pick it up it runs away through my clutching hands." i know just that feeling.

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wendyclear
05-02-2002

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this is supa sweet my name is elise i looove this


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Kez
06-04-2002

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no matter how hard he tried to keep the relationship going, it just wasn't meant to be...

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fleaaaaaa
06-08-2002

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what i love about this song is how the tune is so bubbly and happy but the words are sad, its a really interesting contrast, maybe its something about how he seems and how he really is. Like maybe on the surface he pretends hes happy and the words bring out whats really in his heart, anyone agree? Disagree? I love this song, hope they play it when i see them soon.

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psimouse
06-09-2002

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This song makes me cry everytime I hear it. My fiance can sing it very well though, he's so talented. I wonder why, on The Greatest Hits thing that was all acoustic, did Smith mess up all the words?

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fleaaaaaa
06-20-2002

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he didnt mess up, he changed some words a little bit, i love that cd! despite what so many people have said, un-original, yes, but still fun

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reformedpoet
07-03-2002

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wow, i just really love this song. and i have a friend named elyse, too. i once thought about singing this to her, but i wont because he doesnt stay with her, so in the end, it didnt work out.

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gangstapranksta
07-29-2002

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my name's elyce. and everytime i hear this song i just want to cry because it makes me feel like such a horrible person. it describes me so perfectly with my blue eyes. it's horrible. i know that's how most of my relationships end. and i just think this is a really beautiful song but it makes me wonder if all elyce's are evil. they must be. god what a beautiful song

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Kez
07-30-2002

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fleaaaaaa: i'm with you bud! the second disk kicks it!!!

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NewWaveMonkay
08-11-2002

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on mtv unplugged he changed some of the words too...


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cochese79
04-05-2003

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around the time that me and the guy i was going out with decided we werent gonna work out no matter how hard we tried, i heard this in my friends car after a party and wanted to cry so much because he and i tried so hard to make it work. whaaa!

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LittleUrantiaGirl
07-03-2003

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This is the song I constantly listen to while thinking about my ex-boyfriend's best friend, Shane.

(((My ex was a self-defeating bastard, who made me want to end my life. Shane was like an angel compared to my ex. . . .

Shane and I eventually developed feeling for one another, but he was such a loyal friend that he could never get past the fact I had been with his best friend. There were complications involved that we couldn't control, and no matter how much we tried we couldn't make it work. ))))

This song is basically a resignation of one of the subjects in love. Although it's extremely difficult to come-to-terms with, he realizes that he must end the relationship. He loves her, and she loves him, but he knows that love just isn't enough. He wants to be with her more than anything, but for her sake and his, he's making the conscious decision to leave. Perhaps his feelings run deeper for her than hers do for him. He's obviously broken promises, and realized that she's not perfect, like he once believed her to be. They once lived together in a world of make-believe, and now he's come crashing down to earth with the realization that it can never work the way he wants it to. He's tried many times to fix the problems, but he realizes it's useless. . . there's nothing else he can do than say goodbye.

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SoCoRocks14
04-07-2004

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It's so surprising that there aren't that many comments on Cure songs.
Nothing gets better.

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oddquiz
05-22-2004

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I always associate this with Pictures of You - both great songs with a similar structures and themes (acceptance of something that can't be had, longing for the past etc), but they're different and strong enough to each stand on their own.

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pretend_jack
05-26-2004

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and theyre in the same key.

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keighley
06-27-2004

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<3 gorgeous song
absolutely breath taking.

"But I just can't hold my tears away
The way you do.."

ohh. that line makes me shiver.

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keighley
06-27-2004

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<3 gorgeous song
absolutely breath taking.

"But I just can't hold my tears away
The way you do.."

ohh. that line makes me shiver.

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beehaus
12-16-2004

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This song was inspired by Kafka and his relationship with his mistress. He wrote her many letters over the course of their affair.Some she opened and some she didnt. It was a strange relationship.

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bradleyb
12-18-2004

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fleaaaaaa,
I agree and disagree at the same time. This song is not entirely happy, nor entirely sad. The guitar solo is the big climax, in my opinion (one of the best guitar solos of all time!). The song, musically, has sort of a hopeless sense to it. It's happy, sort of, but in a reminiscent sort of way.

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zeppelinfreak
01-10-2005

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One of my favourites by The Cure...

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pfsal
01-14-2005

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classic cure...sums up the entire "wish" album perfectly...cheerful on the outside, but arguably one of the darkest cure albums lyrically of all time...definately goes through a huge transition throughout the album...a personal fav of mine

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spokexx
01-22-2005

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True story. 1996 Im in college in the Mac lab and the "information superhighway" was new. So im in this chat room (Wow, people from all over the country talking in here at the same time?? amazing) and I see a name in the guest list, Elise. So I type to her "oh Elise it doesnt matter what you say" .... and she replies "I just can't stay here every yesterday" Holy shit!! she knows The Cure. We chatted every night. Sent emails (new at the time), eventually led to snail mail and photographs of each other, eventually led to phone calls (i was in Lancaster,PA she was in college in LA) ..remember, this was ALL before online dating. So we decided to meet up during winter break after communicating for 3 months (Actually, I graduated that Dec.96) I flew out there and spent a week with her at her home in Mesa, AZ and she came back with me to philly for a week. We fell deep for each other, but realised our real lives were 3000 miles apart, so it never went further. Thinking back, I dont believe in fate but it's amazing how it all happend because of this song. She was beautiful and I miss her.

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painted_doll
02-04-2005

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Perhaps this is inspired by Kafka and his mistress, perhaps not. Of all the interviews I have ever seen and of all the literature about The Cure I have read, of all the concerts I have seen, of all the fans I have spoken to, I have never heard this. Where did you get this, beehaus? My personal conclusion was this was about a man and his far away lover living inside an ideal love, and they came to the realization that it wasn't what they thought, they couldn't sustain this fantasy relationship, because, perhaps, they didn;t know each other as well as they thought.

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