We move like cagey tigers
We couldn't get closer than this
The way we walk
The way we talk
The way we stalk
The way we kiss
We slip through the streets
While everyone sleeps
Getting bigger and sleeker
And wider and brighter
We bite and scratch and scream all night
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
We missed you hissed the lovecats

We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty!
Oh you know that I'd do anything for you
We should have each other to tea huh?
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up by the fire
And sleep for awhile
It's the grooviest thing
It's the perfect dream

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
We missed you hissed the lovecats
We missed you hissed the lovecats
We missed you hissed the lovecats

We're so wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully
Wonderfully pretty!
You know that I'd do anything for you
We should have each other to dinner
We should have each other with cream
Then curl up in the fire
Get up for awhile
It's the grooviest thing
It's the perfect dream

Hand in hand
Is the only way to land
And always the right way round
Not broken in pieces
Like hated little meeces
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this?

I love you, let's go
Oh, solid gone
How could we miss
Someone as dumb as this?



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Track duration: 03:39

"The Lovecats" as written by Robert James Smith

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    General Comment:Love this music, love his voice, love the video! His eyes, hair and skin are so perfect!!!!!!
    Flag HappyLeo7on November 04, 2012   Link
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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!!!!!
    Flag Froggy77on October 18, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:is "We should have each other with cream" sexual?
    Flag kxrmx49on September 12, 2012   Link
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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.
    Flag Alastoron March 04, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:O.O the bass is awesome
    Flagged mediocremurphyon December 18, 2010   Link
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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.
    Flag chainofflowerson June 28, 2010   Link
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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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    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"
    Flag aragondon January 25, 2010   Link
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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.
    Flag tittletaton November 05, 2009   Link

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