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.
@fleaaaaaa That's something you see in a lot of Cure songs, the combination of "cheerful"-sounding music with lyrics that are either really cynical or just plain despondent: Inbetween Days, Let's Go to Bed, Dressing Up, Club America, Play For Today, Wendy Time, The Upstairs Room, I'm Cold [if you get a chance, listen to the demo version on the deluxe edition of BDC/TIB], Strange Attraction, 2 Late, Just One Kiss, Push, and a too-long-to-list number of the songs on Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry...I could just keep listing them. Even "Pictures of You" and "The Hungry Ghost" have...
@fleaaaaaa That's something you see in a lot of Cure songs, the combination of "cheerful"-sounding music with lyrics that are either really cynical or just plain despondent: Inbetween Days, Let's Go to Bed, Dressing Up, Club America, Play For Today, Wendy Time, The Upstairs Room, I'm Cold [if you get a chance, listen to the demo version on the deluxe edition of BDC/TIB], Strange Attraction, 2 Late, Just One Kiss, Push, and a too-long-to-list number of the songs on Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry...I could just keep listing them. Even "Pictures of You" and "The Hungry Ghost" have this kind of thing going on, although they're not quite as musically, you know, bouncy.
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.
@fleaaaaaa That's something you see in a lot of Cure songs, the combination of "cheerful"-sounding music with lyrics that are either really cynical or just plain despondent: Inbetween Days, Let's Go to Bed, Dressing Up, Club America, Play For Today, Wendy Time, The Upstairs Room, I'm Cold [if you get a chance, listen to the demo version on the deluxe edition of BDC/TIB], Strange Attraction, 2 Late, Just One Kiss, Push, and a too-long-to-list number of the songs on Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry...I could just keep listing them. Even "Pictures of You" and "The Hungry Ghost" have...
@fleaaaaaa That's something you see in a lot of Cure songs, the combination of "cheerful"-sounding music with lyrics that are either really cynical or just plain despondent: Inbetween Days, Let's Go to Bed, Dressing Up, Club America, Play For Today, Wendy Time, The Upstairs Room, I'm Cold [if you get a chance, listen to the demo version on the deluxe edition of BDC/TIB], Strange Attraction, 2 Late, Just One Kiss, Push, and a too-long-to-list number of the songs on Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry...I could just keep listing them. Even "Pictures of You" and "The Hungry Ghost" have this kind of thing going on, although they're not quite as musically, you know, bouncy.