The Cure – The Lovecats

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  General Comment:Love this music, love his voice, love the video! His eyes, hair and skin are so perfect!!!!!!

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  General Comment:I don't know what this song means, but I love this song, and never get tired of it. His voice is soooooooo adorable!!!!!

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  General Comment:is "We should have each other with cream" sexual?

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  General Comment:I feel the song is about the mourning of two thieves that were in love in 1950's Paris. The girl was caught and murdered, Now the young man difts through his self destructive life with little of the lively person he was once. He misses her greatly and moves away to try and bury his sorrowful regrets. It compares them to cat's. Their cunning and flawless preformance...their sadness at the untimely end of ones journey. 'Course it could just be about cats.

  Flagged SpaceGypsieson July 09, 2011   Link

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  Song Meaning:"Let's go and throw
  All the songs we know...
  
  Into the sea
  You and me
  All these years and no one heard
  I'll show you in spring
  It's a treacherous thing
  'We missed you,' hissed the lovecats"
  
  This set of lyrics would, at first glance at least, lead me to believe that it's reference to The Cure's deviation from their normal song style, and that the "Lovecats" might be those that write all the trendy love songs that become hits.
  
  "'We missed you,' hissed the lovecats" might be a reference to other musicians giving praise or a welcoming back to a more mainstream type of song.
  
  "All these years and no one heard" might be a reference to how long it had been since this band created a song of this nature.
  
  
  There's really nothing here to indicate anything about actual cats. In fact, the lyrics specifically mention the love cats aging, returning to something, being greeted by other cats, and a few other items that directly contradict that idea.
  
  It's also clearly not about a suicide pact - for those very same reasons.

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  General Comment:O.O the bass is awesome

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  General Comment:That's what I love most about The Cure. The fact that they can have such sad, dark, beautiful words with a catchy tune. It's so ironically beautiful, Robert Smith really is an amazing lyricist.

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  General Comment:I always thought it was just about this really passionate, wild, fun, amazing relationship between two young people in love. Bit happier than the suicide idea...

  Flag Hanji123on March 27, 2010   Link

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    Lyrics mean different things to different people. Whether its about a suicide pact or a bag of kittens drowned, it is about an undying blissful attachment to one another; an intense playfulness. Theres more than likely some double meanings within the song. Artists may say different things at different times to keep their mystique.

    Flag radiohead99on April 26, 2010  
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  My Opinion:Gotta say I reckon fiddlefaddle is on the money: that 'lets go and throw all the songs we know into the sea' is an indication Smith was in the mood to write something completely opposite to what they'd been doing with albums 2-4. I also buy into darkfairy0911's explanation it was off the tale of "love cats" being thrown into the river. I don't, however, buy the whole suicide pact bit. For all their dark culture leanings, I don't buy it that EVERY one of The Cure's songs was about suicide pacts, and to draw the lyrics into being about that is too much of a stretch, imho.
  I think it is an ironic recoil to all the depressing music they were doing at the time, something insatiably cute and fluffy, something so anti-The Cure of the time, as an antidote to criticism, or to themselves. Afterall, it's off their last dark album.
  PS; NME's reviewer at the time wrote that it wasn't to be lyrically analysed, but viewed as "a dense wash of emotional colour"

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    Sorry, out of the PERIOD of the last of their depressing albums. Lovecats isn't actually ON the Pornography album.
    
    PLUS, I missed this quote: "In the aftermath of the bleak Pornography, Robert Smith returned from a month-long detox in the Lake District to write the antithesis to what the Cure currently represented."
    Says all I was saying: "ironic" "antithesis" to what The Cure were at the time.
    /thread

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  General Comment:This song contains some of Robert Smith's greatest ever meows. Most Cure covers fail because no-one meows quite like Smith.

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