EnglandThe Cure

Artist rating: 77.24 % (ranking: not set)
Highest rating: 77.51 % (1992)
Most recent trend: 59.05 % (2008)
Highest trend: 84.00 % (1992)

Works
Tracks (A-Ö)

Statistics

Data

Formed: 1976-01

Formed 48 years ago
 

External links

Official site

Genres

Members

Andy Anderson, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper, Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley, Roger O'Donnell, Robert Smith, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst, Boris Williams
1984
63.54 %
1985
67.77 %
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1989
84.53 %
1990

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me

The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
83.51 %
(2013-05-02)
Date released: 1987-05-25
Type: studio

In collection: CD (2008-04-21)
Best track: One More Time
Average track length: 04:15
Average track rating:

Ranking

The Cure:
3
/
13
Year (1987):
8
/
92
Decade (1980's):
48
/
780
Overall:
175
/
2711

Tracks

1
lyrics
06:15
2
lyrics
02:44
3
lyrics
04:18
4
lyrics
04:53
5
lyrics
03:15
6
lyrics
05:14
7
lyrics
07:00
8
lyrics
03:33
9
lyrics
05:22
10
lyrics
03:36
11
lyrics
04:32
12
lyrics
03:40
13
lyrics
03:49
14
lyrics
02:35
15
lyrics
03:24
16
lyrics
03:30
17
lyrics
04:28
 
Total time:
 
01:12:08

Credits

Band members

2Simon Gallup (26)
bass guitar
2Robert Smith (28)
guitar, keyboards, vocals, recorder (7, 12)
2Porl Thompson (29)
guitar, keyboards, saxophone (16)
2Boris Williams (35)
drums, percussion

Producers

Lyrics

The Kiss
06:15
Kiss me kiss me kiss me
Your tongue is like poison
So swollen it fills up my mouth

Love me love me love me
You nail me to the floor
And push my guts all inside out

Get it out get it out get it out
Get your fucking voice
Out of my head

I never wanted this
I never wanted any of this
I wish you were dead
I wish you were dead

I never wanted any of this
I wish you were dead
Dead dead
Dead
Catch
02:44
Yes I know you remind of
A girl I think I used to know
Yes I'd see her when the days got colder
On those days when it felt like snow

You know I even think that she stares like you
She used to just stand there and stare
And rool her eyes right up to heaven
And make like I just wasn't there

And she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But never even caught her name

And sometimes we would spend the night
Just rolling about on a floor
And I remember
Even though it felt soft at the time
I always used to wake up sore

You know I even think that she smiles like you
She used to just stand there and smile
And her eyes would go all sort of far away
And stay like that for quite a while

And I remember she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But never even caught her name

Yes I sometimes even tried to catch her
But never even caught her name
Torture
04:18
I'm in the room without a light
The room without a view
I'm here for one more treacherous night
Another night with you
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight it screams
And screams and screams
And pulls some more

Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this
Hanging on your back
I'm helpless again

My body is cut and broken
It's shattered and sore
My body is cut wide open
I can't stand anymore
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight it screams
And screams and screams
And screams for more

Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this hanging on your back
Oh it's torture
And I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there

It's torture
But I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
04:53
If only tonight we could sleep
in a bed made of flowers
if only tonight we could fall
in a deathless spell
if only tonight we could slide
into deep black water
and breathe
and breathe...

then an angel would come
with burning eyes like stars
and bury us deep
in his velvet arms

and the rain would cry
as our faces slipped away
and the rain would cry

don't let it end...
Why Can't I Be You?
03:15
You're so gorgeous I'll do anything
I'll kiss you from your feet
To where your head begins
You're so perfect you're so right as rain
You make me
Make me hungry again

Everything you do is irresistable
Everything you do is simply kissable
Why can't I be you?

I'll run around in circles
Til I run out of breath
I'll eat you all up
Or I just hug you to death
You're so wonderful
Too good to be true
You make me
Make hungry for you

Everything you do is sinply delicate
Everything you do is quite angelicate
Why can't I be you?

You turn my head when you turn around
You turn the whole world upside down
I'm smitten I'm bitten I'm hooked I'm cooked
I'm stuck like glue
You make me
Make hungry for you

Everything you do is sinply dreamy
Everything you do is quite delicious
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?

You're simply elegant!!!
How Beautiful You Are
05:14
You want to know why I hate you?
Well I'll try an explain...
You remember that day in Paris
When we wandered through the rain
And promised to each other
That we'd always think the same
And dreamed that dream
To be two souls as one

And stopped just as the sun set
And waited for the night
Outside a glittering building
Of glittering glass and burning light...

And in the road before us
Stood a weary greyish man
Who held a child upon his back
A small boy by the hand
The three of them were dressed in rags
And thinner than air
And all six eyes were stared fixedly on you

The father's eyes said "beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boy's eyes said
"how beautiful!
She shimmers like a star!"
The child's eyes uttered nothing
But a mute and utter joy
And filled my heart with shame for us
At the way we are

I turned to look at you
To read my thoughts upon your face
And gazed so deep into your eyes
So beautiful and strange
Until you spoke
And showed me understanding is adream
"I hate these people staring
make them go away from me!"

The father's eyes said "beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boy's eyes said
"how beautiful! She glitters like a star!"
The child's eyes uttered joy
And stilled my heart with sadness
for the way we are

and this is why I hate you
and how I understand
that no-one ever knows or loves another
or loves another
Snakepit
07:00
Well we are a mile under the ground
And I'm thinking that it's Christmas
And I'm kissing you hard
Like I've got very important business
And no-one know
And no-one sees us
Because they're drinking their selves senseless
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snakepit

Well I'm out in a car
And it's just full of stupid girls
And I've forgoteen how to speak
And I just can't remember a word
And my eyes feels like they're bursting
And they're splitting like plums
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snakepit
Just Like Heaven
03:33
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"Show me how you do that trick
the one that makes me scream" she said
"the one that makes me laugh" she said
and threw her arms around my neck
"show me how you do it
and I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"

Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
that I'm in love with you"

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream

Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breath her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me

You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
All I Want
05:22
Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight I'm howling inside
Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight I'm going wild

And all I want is to be with you again
And all I want is to hold you like a dog
And all I want is to be with you again
With you again
Just to hold you like a dog

Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight I'm losing control
Tonight I'm feeling like an animal
Tonight oh I'm getting so low

And all I want is to be with you again
And all I want is to hold you like a dog
And all I want is to be with you again
With you again
Just to hold you like a dog
That's all I want
Hot Hot Hot!!!
03:36
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The first time I saw lightning strike
I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space
Then everything went black
I left that basement burning
And I never went back

The second time I saw it strike
I saw it at sea
It lit up all the fish like rain
And rained them down on me
For a second that boat was still afloat
Then everything went black
I left it underwater
And I never went back

Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when the lightning comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it a lot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!

The third time I saw lightning strike
It hit me in bed
It threw me around
And left me for dead
For a second that room was on the moon
Then everything went black
I left that house on fire
And I never went back

Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when the lightning comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it a lot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!
One More Time
04:32
I'd love to touch the sky tonight
I'd love to touch the sky
So take me in your arms
And lift me like a child
And hold me up so high
And never let me go
Take me
Take me in your arms tonight

Hold me
Hold me up so high
And never let me down
Hold me
Hold me up so high
To touch the sky
Just one more time

Take me in your arms tonight
Take me in your arms
Just one more time
Just one more time
Just one more time
Like Cockatoos
03:40
She walked out of her house
And looked around
At all the gardens that looked
Back at her house
(like all the faces
that quiz when you smile...)

and he was standing
at the corner
where the road turned dark
a part of shiny wet
like blood the rain fell
black down on the street

and kissed his feet she fell
her head an hinc away from heaven
and her face pressed tight
and all around the night sang out
Like cockatoos

"There are a thousand things" he said
"I'll never say those things to you again"
and turning on his heel
he left a trace of bubbles
bleeding in his stead

and in her head
a picture of a boy who left her
lonely in the rain
(and all around the night sang out
like cockatoos)
Icing Sugar
03:49
You're delicious
Dreaming
Slack jawed
Green eyed
Rub my nose in
Icing sugar
Smooth as
When this cold and deadly
Blade
Kisses the fruit
So soft
And gently breathing
Under your skin

Oh I'll empty you
I'll empty you
As empty as a boy can be
As empty
As a boy can be
The Perfect Girl
02:35
You're such a strange girl
I think you come from another world
You're such a strange girl
I really don't understand a word
You're such a strange girl
I'd like to shake you around and around
You're such a strange girl
I'd like
To turn you
All upside down

You're such a
Strange girl
The way you look like you do
You're such a strange girl
I want
To be with you

I think I'm falling
I think I'm falling in
I think I'm falling in love with you
With you
A Thousand Hours
03:24
For how much longer can I howl into this wind?
For how much longer
Can I cry like this?

A thousand wasted hours a day
Just to feel my heart for a second
A thousand hours just thrown away
Just to feel my heart for a second

For how much longer can I howl into this wind?
Shiver and Shake
03:30
You're just a waste of time
You're just a babbling face
You're just three sick holes that run like sores
You're a fucking waste
You're like a slug on the floor
Oh you're useless and ugly
And useless and ugly
And I shiver and shake
When I think of how you make me hate

I want to smash you to pieces
I want to smash you up and screaming
I want to smash you helpless
Down on the floor
Smash you until you're not here anymore

And I shiver and shake
Shiver and shake
Fight
04:28
Sometimes there's nothing to feel
Sometimes there's nothing to hold
Sometimes there's no time to run away
Sometimes you just feel so old
The time it hurts when you cry
The time it hurts just to breathe
And then it seems like there's no-one left
And all you want is to sleep

Fight fight fight
Just push it away
Fight fight fight
Just push it until it breaks
Fight fight fight
Don't cry at the pain
Fight fight fight
Or watch yourself burn again
Fight fight fight
Don't howl like a dog
Fight fight
Just fill up the sky
Fight fight fight
Fight til you drop
Fight fight fight
And never never
Never stop

Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight

So when the hurting starts
And when the nightmares begin
Remember you can fill up the sky
You don't have to give in
You don't have to give in

Never give in
Never give in
Never give in