I think this, like many of The Cure's songs, is actually a stinging critique of the futility and emptiness of dating relationships for young people in the Western world. In this song he describes the reality of someone who has been through many relationships, and is now so deeply filled with doubt, that even as he feels love, he anticipates the failure of the relationship, and the empty feeling that he will have at the end of it (and thereby also sabotages that same relationship).
"her" is actually a generic woman -- he has fallen for so many women, and he keeps falling in love, but it is always ephemeral, always leading to heartbreak. He wants what we all want -- true love, constant companionship, something to fill the hole in his heart. And yet after each failed relationship, he feels farther from his "home" -- where home here refers to the magical place where we feel comfortable, at ease, secure, whole.
The Cure never go far enough to suggest a better system than the horrific modern-day system of "serial dating" -- which leaves lasting emotional scars, self-doubt, and "complexes," -- and leads to insecure failing marriages. But still they point it out very clearly in their songs, and I think very clearly in this one.
but I think it's just about loving someone desperately, and knowing that they're wrong for you. They keep trying to make it work, and it always ends badly; they just don't know how to let go, but they don't know how to be good to one another.
but I think it's just about loving someone desperately, and knowing that they're wrong for you. They keep trying to make it work, and it always ends badly; they just don't know how to let go, but they don't know how to be good to one another.
I think that you are right, especially the part "A different name/ Same old game/ Love in vain". For me it will allways be about a relationship that I had and end sadly. You know like some times you think that songs are made specially for you.
I think that you are right, especially the part "A different name/ Same old game/ Love in vain". For me it will allways be about a relationship that I had and end sadly. You know like some times you think that songs are made specially for you.
I have a different interpretation:
I think this, like many of The Cure's songs, is actually a stinging critique of the futility and emptiness of dating relationships for young people in the Western world. In this song he describes the reality of someone who has been through many relationships, and is now so deeply filled with doubt, that even as he feels love, he anticipates the failure of the relationship, and the empty feeling that he will have at the end of it (and thereby also sabotages that same relationship).
"her" is actually a generic woman -- he has fallen for so many women, and he keeps falling in love, but it is always ephemeral, always leading to heartbreak. He wants what we all want -- true love, constant companionship, something to fill the hole in his heart. And yet after each failed relationship, he feels farther from his "home" -- where home here refers to the magical place where we feel comfortable, at ease, secure, whole.
The Cure never go far enough to suggest a better system than the horrific modern-day system of "serial dating" -- which leaves lasting emotional scars, self-doubt, and "complexes," -- and leads to insecure failing marriages. But still they point it out very clearly in their songs, and I think very clearly in this one.
Just my opinion, and maybe it's lame...
Just my opinion, and maybe it's lame...
but I think it's just about loving someone desperately, and knowing that they're wrong for you. They keep trying to make it work, and it always ends badly; they just don't know how to let go, but they don't know how to be good to one another.
but I think it's just about loving someone desperately, and knowing that they're wrong for you. They keep trying to make it work, and it always ends badly; they just don't know how to let go, but they don't know how to be good to one another.
I think that you are right, especially the part "A different name/ Same old game/ Love in vain". For me it will allways be about a relationship that I had and end sadly. You know like some times you think that songs are made specially for you.
I think that you are right, especially the part "A different name/ Same old game/ Love in vain". For me it will allways be about a relationship that I had and end sadly. You know like some times you think that songs are made specially for you.