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The Cure · 1992

Written by Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Boris Williams, Perry Bamonte

6:51 Duration
498 Words

Credits: The Cure: Perry Bamonte, Simon Gallup, Robert Smith, Porl Thompson and Boris Williams.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I really don't know what I'm doing here

I really think I should've gone to bed tonight

But just one drink and there are some people to meet you

I think that you'll like them, I have to say, we do tonight

I promise in less than an hour, we will honestly go

Now why don't I just get you another

While you just say hello

Yeah, just say hello

Just say hello

[Verse 2]

So I'm clutching it tight, another glass in my hand

And my mouth and the smiles moving up as I stand up

Too close and too wide and the smiles are too bright

And I breathe in too deep and my head's getting light

But the air is getting heavier and it's closer

I'm starting to sway

And the hands all on my shoulders don't have names

And won't go away

So here I go

Here I go again

[Bridge 1]

Falling into strangers and it's only just eleven

I'm staring like a child until someone slips me Heaven

Take it on my knees just like a thousand times before

I get transfixed, that fixed

And I'm just looking at the floor

Just looking at the floor

Yeah, I look at the floor

[Verse 3]

I'm starting to laugh like an animal in pain

I've got blood on my hands, I've got hands in my brain

The first shot of retch leaves me gasping for more

I stagger over screaming on my way to the floor

And I'm back on my back

With the lights and the lies in my eyes

And the colour and the music's too loud

And my head's all the wrong size

So here I go, here I go again

[Bridge 2]

Yeah, I laugh and I jump, and I sing and I laugh

And I dance and I laugh, and I laugh and I laugh

And I can't seem to think where this is

Who I am, why I'm keeping this going

Keep pouring it out, keep pouring it down

Keeping it going, keep pouring it down

And the way the rain comes down hard

That's the way I feel inside

[Verse 4]

I can't take it anymore, this it I've become

This is it like I get when my life's going numb

I just keep moving my mouth, I just keep moving my feet

I say, "I'm loving you to death like I'm losing my breath"

And all the smiles that I wear and all the games that I play

And all the drinks that I mix and I drink until I'm sick

And all the faces I make and all the shapes that I throw

And all the people I meet and all the words that I know

Makes me sick to the heart, oh, I feel so tired

And the rain comes down hard

That's how I feel inside

[Outro]

And the rain comes down hard

That's how I feel inside

And the rain comes down hard

That's how I feel inside

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