Bestival Live 2011

Cure Bestival Live 2011 Lyrics
1.Lovesong

Lyricist:Simon Gallup, Roger O'donnell, Robert Smith, Porl Thompson,
Lol Tolhurst, Boris Williams

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like
I am home again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like
I am whole again

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like
I am young again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like
I am fun again

However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you

Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like
I am free again
Whenever I'm alone with you
You make me feel like
I am clean again

However far away
I will always love you
However long I stay
I will always love you
Whatever words I say
I will always love you
I will always love you


2.Boys Don't Cry

Lyricist:Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst

I would say, I'm sorry
If I thought that it would change your mind
But I know that this time
I've said too much
Been too unkind

I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try and laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'Cause boys don't cry
Boys don't cry

I would break down at your feet
And beg forgiveness
Plead with you
But I know that It's too late
And now there's nothing I can do

So I try to laugh about it
Cover it all up with lies
I try to laugh about it
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'Cause boys don't cry

I would tell you that I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it's no use
That you've already gone away

Misjudged your limits
Pushed you too far
Took you for granted
I thought that you needed me more

Now I would do most anything
To get you back by my side
But I just keep on laughing
Hiding the tears in my eyes
'Cause boys don't cry

Boys don't cry
Boys don't cry


3.Grinding Halt

Lyricist:Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst

No light
No people
No speak
No people
No cars
No people
No food
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything's coming to a griding halt

No sound
No people
No clocks
No people
No fine
No people
No me
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything's coming to a griding halt
Everything's coming to a griding halt

Slow down
Slow down
No people
Slow down
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a
Everything's coming to a
...


4.Let's Go To Bed

Lyricist:Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst

Let me take your hands
I'm shaking like milk
Turning, turning blue
All over the windows and the floors

Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us together again
But it's just the same, a stupid game

But I don't care, if you don't
And I don't feel, if you don't
And I don't want it, if you don't
And I won't say it, if you won't say it first

You think you're tired now
But wait until three
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember, from December

All of this then back again
Another girl, another name
Stay alive, but stay the same
It's a stupid game, a stupid game

But I don't care, if you don't
And I don't feel, if you don't
And I don't want it, if you don't
And I won't play it, if you won't play it first

You can't even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain

Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone

But I don't care, if you don't
And I don't feel, if you don't
And I don't want it, if you don't
And I won't play it, if you won't play it first

Let's go to bed
Let's go to bed
Let's go to bed


5.The Lovecats

Lyricist:Robert Smith

We move like cagey tigers
Oh, 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
Gettin' 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 the 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 in the fire and sleep for a while
It's the grooviest thing, it's the perfect dream

Into the sea, you and me
All the 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
Oh, 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?
'We missed you', hissed the Lovecats
'We missed you, we missed you'

I'm broken
I love you, let's go
Oh, solid gone
How could we miss someone as dumb as this?
Aha Lovecats


6.The Walk

Lyricist:Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst

I called you after midnight
Then ran until I burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

We walked around a lake
And woke up in the rain
And everyone turned over
Troubled in their dreams again

Visiting time is over
And so we walk away
And both play dead then cry out loud
Why we always cry this way?

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything
Everything, everything, everything

I called you after midnight
Then ran until my heart burst
I passed the howling woman
And stood outside your door

I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing
I saw you look like a Japanese baby
In an instant I remembered everything
Everything, everything, everything

Take me for the walk
Take me for the walk
Take me for the walk


7.A Forest

Lyricist:Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley, Robert Smith, Laurence
Tolhurst

Come closer and see
See into the trees
Find the girl
While you can

Come closer and see
See into the dark
Just follow your eyes
Just follow your eyes

I hear her voice
Calling my name
The sound is deep
In the dark

I hear her voice
And start to run
Into the trees
Into the trees

Into the trees

Suddenly I stop
But I know it's too late
I'm lost in a forest
All alone

The girl was never there
It's always the same
I'm running towards nothing
Again
And again and again and again
...


8.Play For Today

Lyricist:Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley, Simon Smith, Laurence
Tolhurst

It's not a case of doing what's right
It's just the way I feel that matters
Tell me I'm wrong, I don't really care

It's not a case of share and share alike
I take what I require
I don't understand, you say, 'It's not fair'

You expect me to act like a lover
Consider my moves and deserve the reward
To hold you in my arms and wait, and wait
Wait for something to happen

It's not a case of telling the truth
Some lines just fit the situation
You call me a liar, you would anyway

It's not a case of aiming to please
You know you're always crying
It's just your part in the play for today


9.Jumping Someone Else's Train

Lyricist:Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst

Don't say what you mean
You might spoil your face
If you walk in the crowd
You won't leave any trace
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

It won't take you long
To learn the new smile
You have to adapt
Or you'll be out of style
It's always the same
You're jumping someone else's train

If you pick up on it quick
You can say you were there
Again and again and again
You're jumping someone else's train

It's the latest wave that you've been craving for
The old ideal was getting such a bore
Now you're back in line, going not quite as far
But in half the time everyone's happy
They're finally all the same
Because everyone's jumping everybody else's train

Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train
Jumping someone else's train
...


10.The Caterpillar

Lyricist:Robert J Smith, Laurence Tolhurst

Flicka flicka flicka, here you are
Cata cata cata, caterpillar girl
Flowin' and fillin' up my hopeless heart
Oh never, never go

Oh, I dust my lemon lies
With powder, pink and sweet
The day I stop is the day you change
And fly away from me

You flicker and you're beautiful
You glow inside my head
You hold me hypnotized, I'm mesmerized
Your flames are flames that kiss me dead

I'll dust my lemon lies
With powder, pink and sweet
The day I stop is the day you change
And fly away from me

Oh, flicka flicka flicka, here you are
Cata cata cata, caterpillar girl
Flowin' and fillin' up my hopeless heart
Oh never, never go

Oh, I dust my lemon lies
With powder, pink and sweet
The day I stop is the day you change
Fly away, away from me

Cata cata cata, caterpillar girl
Cata cata cata, caterpillar girl
Cata cata cata, caterpillar girl
Cata cata cata, caterpillar girl


11.Inbetween Days

Lyricist:Robert Smith

Yesterday I got so old
I felt like I could die
Yesterday I got so old
It made me want to cry

Go on go on
Just walk away
Go on go on
Your choice is made
Go on go on
And disappear
Go on go on
Away from here

And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you

Yesterday I got so scared
I shivered like a child
Yesterday away from you
It froze me deep inside

Come back come back
Don't walk away
Come back come back
Come back today
Come back come back
Why can't you see?
Come back come back
Come back to me

And I know I was wrong
When I said it was true
That it couldn't be me and be her
Inbetween without you
Without you


12.Why Can't I Be You?

Lyricist:Boris Bransby-williams, Simon Gallup, Robert Smith, Porl
Thompson, Laurence Tolhurst

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, make me
Make me hungry again

Everything you do is irresistible
Everything you do is simply kissable
Why can't I be you? 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'll just hug you to death

You're so wonderful
Too good to be true
You make me, make me, make me
Make me hungry again

Everything you do is simply delicate
Everything you do is quite angelicate
Why can't I be you? 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 me, make me
Make me hungry again

Everything you do is simply dreamy
Everything you do is quite delicious
So why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you? Why can't I be you?

Why can't I be you? Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you? Why can't I be you?

You're simply elegant


13.Disintegration

Lyricist:Boris Bransby-williams, Simon Gallup, Roger O'donnell, Robert
Smith, Porl Thompson, Laurence Tolhurst

Oh I miss the kiss of treachery
The shameless kiss of vanity
The soft and the black and the velvety
Up tight against the side of me

And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed
And run in thickening streams of greed
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go my party piece

Oh I miss the kiss of treachery
The aching kiss before I feed
The stench of a love for a younger meat
And the sound that it makes when it cuts in deep

The holding up on bended knees
The addiction of duplicities
As bit by bit it starts the need
To just let go my party piece

But I never said I would stay to the end
So I leave you with babies and hoping for frequency
Screaming like this in the hope of the secrecy
Screaming me over and over and over

I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the ending would be

So it's all come back round to breaking apart again
Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again
Making it up behind my back again
Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again

Holding it up behind my head again
Cut in deep to the heart of the bone again
Round and round and round and it's coming apart again
Over and over and over

And now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces
I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone
I'm crying for sympathy, crocodiles cry for the love of the
crowd
And the three cheers from everyone

Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof
Through the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eye
Through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me to get closer
to Heaven
Than ever feel whole again

I never said I would stay to the end
I knew I would leave you with babies and everything
Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
Screaming me over and over and over

I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew how the end always is
How the end always is

How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
Always is, always is


14.Fascination Street

Lyricist:Boris Bransby-williams, Simon Gallup, Roger O'donnell, Robert
Smith, Porl Thompson, Laurence Tolhurst

Oh it's opening time down on Fascination Street
So let's cut the conversation and get out for a bit
Because I feel it all fading and paling and I'm begging
To drag you down with me to kick the last nail in

Yeah, I like you in that like I like you to scream
But if you open your mouth then I can't be responsible
For quite what goes in or to care what comes out
So just pull on your hair, just pull on your pout

And let's move to the beat like we know that it's over
If you slip going under, slip over my shoulder
So just pull on your face, just pull on your feet
And let's hit opening time, down on Fascination Street

So pull on your hair, pull on your pout
Cut the conversation, just open your mouth
Pull on your face, pull on your feet
And let's hit opening time down on Fascination Street

Down on Fascination Street
Down on Fascination Street
Down on Fascination Street
On Fascination Street


15.Lullaby

Lyricist:Boris Bransby-williams, Simon Gallup, Roger O'donnell, Robert
Smith, Porl Thompson, Laurence Tolhurst

On candy stripe legs the spider man comes
Softly through the shadow of the evening sun
Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
Looking for the victim shivering in bed

Searching out fear in the gathering gloom
And suddenly a movement in the corner of the room
And there is nothing I can do, when I realize with fright
That the spider man is having me for dinner tonight

Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed
And softer than shadow and quicker than flies
His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes

'Be still, be calm, be quiet now my precious boy
Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more
For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light
The spider man is having you for dinner tonight'

And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning
I will wake up in the shivering cold
And the spider man is always hungry

Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly
I have something


16.Plainsong

Lyricist:Boris Bransby-williams, Simon Gallup, Roger O'donnell, Robert
Smith, Porl Thompson, Laurence Tolhurst

'I think it's dark and it looks like it's rain', you said
'And the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world', you
said
'And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead'
And you smiled for a second

'I think I'm old and I'm feeling pain', you said
'And it's all running out like it's the end of the world', you
said
'And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead'
Then you smiled for a second

Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
'It's just the way I smile', you said


17.The End Of The World

Lyricist:Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper, Simon Gallup, Roger O'donnell,
Robert J. Smith

Go if you want to
I never tried to stop you
Know there's a reason
For all of this you're feeling

Love, it's not my call
You couldn't ever love me more
You couldn't love me more
You couldn't love

Me, I don't show much
Its not that hard to hide you
See in a moment
I can't remember how to

Be all you wanted
I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love

You want me to cry and play my part
I want you to sigh and fall apart
We want this like everyone else

Stay, if you want to
I'll always wait to hear you
Say there's a last kiss
For all the times you ruin this

Well, it's not my fault
You couldn't ever love me more
You couldn't love me more
You couldn't love

Love me more
I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love

You want me to lie, not break your heart
I want you to fly, not stop and start
We want us like everything else

Maybe we didn't understand
It's just the end of the world

Maybe we didn't understand
Not just a boy and a girl
It's just the end of the
End of the world

Me, I don't say much
Its far too hard to make you
See in a moment
I still forget just how to

Be all you wanted
I couldn't ever love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more
I couldn't love you more


18.10:15 Saturday Night

Lyricist:Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst

10.15 on the Saturday night
And the tap drips under the strip light
And I'm sitting in the kitchen sink
And the tap drips
Drip
Drip
Drip

Waiting for the telephone to ring
And I'm wondering where she's been
And I'm crying for yesterday
And the tap drips
Drip
Drip
Drip

It's always the same


19.Killing Another

Standing on the beach, with a gun in my hand
Staring at the sky, staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel at the other on the ground
I see his open mouth but I hear no sound
I'm alive, I'm dead
I'm a stranger killing another
I can turn and walk away or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky, staring at the sun
Whichever I choose it amounts to the same
Absolutely nothing
I'm alive, I'm dead
I'm a stranger killing another
I feel the silver jump smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea, staring at the sand
Staring at myself reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach
I'm alive, I'm dead
I'm the stranger killing another