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The Cure – All Cats Are Grey
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The early demos being written for the band’s third album Faith were upbeat, but one night Robert Smith wrote “All Cats Are Grey” (and “The Funeral Party”) and “that really set the
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The Cure – All Cats Are Grey (Live Somewhere Summer/81)
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[Verse] / I never thought that I would find myself / In bed amongst the stones / The columns are all men begging to crush me / No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes / And no flags
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The Devastations – All Cats Are Grey
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[Verse] / I never thought that I would find myself / In bed amongst the stones / The columns are all men begging to crush me / No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes / And no flags
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The Mountain Goats – Get High and Listen to The Cure
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“Get High and Listen to The Cure” was released on the 7" Welcome to Passaic. It was first written for the Mountain Goats' 2017 album Goths, but didn’t make the cut, despite strong
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The Silent Love – The Girl From Ciputat
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You driving your own car / Under the blue stars / You love to watching movies / Audrey hepburn movies / You listening to the cure / All cats are grey / But pink your favourite
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The Cure – The Funeral Party
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The fifth song off of The Cure’s third album, Faith, is about the death of singer Robert Smith’s grandparents, according to the September 1989 edition of Cure News, a fanzine
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The Cure – Drowning (Group Home Instrumental Demo 9/80)
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[instrumental]
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The Cure – The Holy Hour (Group Home Instrumental Demo 9/80)
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I kneel and wait in silence / As one by one the people slip away / Into the night / The quiet and empty bodies / Kiss the ground before they pray / Kiss the ground and slip away
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The Cure – A Short Term Effect (Live at Hammersmith Odeon)
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Movement, no movement, just a falling bird / Cold as it hits the bleeding ground / He lived and died, catch sight, cover me with earth / Draped in black, static white sound / A day
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The Cure – Forever (Live Somewhere Summer/81)
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Pulling this watch as faces go / Pulling in a word and done it slow this other time / I see your face is silent / Oh, we go away and play / What have you done / Takes a feeling
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The Cure – Primary
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“Primary” was the lead single of Faith. It was the band’s second charting single in the UK – almost their second top 40, peaking at #43. It also reached #29 in New Zealand.
In
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The Cure – Let's Go to Bed
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After releasing three consecutively more gloomy albums, each supported by stressful tours and an ever-increasing use of drugs, The Cure had self-destructed. Primary songwriter
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The Cure – The Drowning Man
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According to Smith, “The Drowning Man” was based on the Gormenghast books by Mervyn Peake. The character Fuchsia is perched on a windowsill after learning her lover is responsible
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The Cure – The Holy Hour
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In a Cure fanzine, Robert Smith says of the song:
written whilst sitting listening to mass in the catholic friary church in crawley on sunday night, trying to make since (sic) of
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The Cure – The Upstairs Room
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[Verse 1] / I love it, all these games we play / I close my eyes, you run away / I'm sure I asked you to stay / But now you're gone / [Verse 2] / Today I feel a grey pulse in my
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Taylor Swift – You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)
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“You’re Losing Me” is a From The Vault track of her tenth studio album, Midnights. At first, the track was available to purchase for 24 hours on Taylor’s website, then released
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The Cure – Faith
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Smith told a fanzine in 1989 that the inspiration behind the title track to Faith is:
self explanatory, as optimistic as I could get, it does, or should, offer a note of HOPE.
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Edelweiss (Hungary) – Witchdoctor
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Beyond the blue horizon, far above the clouds / In a land that no-one knows, live four or five magicians / Who spend their days casting wonderful spells / Come with me now into
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Josh Gray – Imagine
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[Verse 1] / She walks in my coat / Laughs at all of my jokes / So dragged down to the bone / Stood outside of the door / Lean back onto the wall / Can't hold back anymore / [Pre-
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The Cure – Doubt
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Robert Smith told a fanzine that the inspiration behind “Doubt” was:
expressing the anger and frustration at the pointlessness of everything (at the time?), trying to fight the
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Ted Nasmith – Beruthiel
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[Verse 1] / Hear a tale of sorrow / A tale of love and hate / Of the sea-king’s queen nefarious / And of her tragic fate / King Tarannon she married / For reasons now unknown / And
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The Roots (Ft. Dice Raw) – Ain't Sayin Nothin' New
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“The kind of thing that Dice and I would always put together. A song very much like "The Lesson” or any of the other collaborative efforts between he and I. There’s that underlying
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Doja Cat & The Weeknd – You Right
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Initially announced via Billboard on its Music Awards article, “You Right” is the third single to appear on Doja Cat’s highly acclaimed third studio album Planet Her.
Doja has
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The Cure – A Forest
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“A Forest” was The Cure’s first charting single in the UK, reaching #31. It was their second to chart in New Zealand, peaking at #38.
Robert Smith considers “A Forest” as the
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