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                     "TOO LATE"
                     

      So I'll wait for you
      Where I always wait
      Behind the signs that sell the news
      I'll watch for you like yesterday
      And hope for you
      One day that once
      Spent out on me
      And up 'til late
      I search for you
      Your hat pushed straight
      Away from me
      Your measured step
      Heads up you win
      Always too late

      If I could just once catch your eye
      Invisible against the words
      That hold you down in solitude
      And never let you go
      The way that every time
      My eyes just close
      Like lids of wooden men in file
      I put you under rainy day
      Your hat's all off
      And I'm gone away



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                      "BABBLE"
                      

      Nothing ever changes
      Nothing ever moves
      I swim around in circles
      In the same old lifeless room
      And talk about the mirror man
      The whispers in my ear again
      The hot and sticky pillow man
      Is smothering my face again

      Nothing ever changes
      Nothing ever moves
      And I run around hysterical
      In dead persistent gloom
      And babble out in simile
      Like dog-head-monkey-music me
      Shut up shut up shut up shut up
      Shut up!!!
      And let me breathe...

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                      "BREATHE"
                      

      Breathe
      Breathe on me
      Be like you used to be
      Breathe on me

      Move in me
      Be like you used to be
      Move in me
      Move in me

      Be with me
      Be like you used to be
      With me
      With me



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                 "CHAIN OF FLOWERS"
                 

      Please wake up
      It's so dark and cold
      Please wake up
      I feel so alone
      And I feel so scared
      That you're going away
      And I feel so scared...

      All I want is summer
      Stories from before
      Just like the day you tried to hide
      Behind the churchyard wall
      And fell asleep before I came
      I found you
      In a chain of flowers
      Sleeping like a marble girl
      Sleeping in another world...

      I'll never tell you
      Of all the different ways
      You make me so afraid...



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                "CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES"
                

      All the faces
      All the voices blur
      Change to one face
      Change to one voice
      Prepare yourself for bed
      The light seems bright
      And glares on white walls
      All the sounds of Charlotte sometimes
      Into the night
      With Charlotte sometimes

      Night after night she lay alone in bed
      Her eyes so open to the dark
      The streets all looked so strange

      They seemed so far away
      But Charlotte sometimes did not cry
      The people seemed so close
      Playing expressionless games
      The people seemed so close
      So close
      So many
      Other names



      Sometimes I'm dreaming
      Where all the other people dance
      Sometimes I'm dreaming
      Charlotte Sometimes
      Sometimes I'm dreaming
      Expressionless the trance
      Sometimes I'm dreaming
      So many different names
      Sometimes I'm dreaming
      The sounds all stay the same
      Sometimes I'm dreaming
      She hopes to open shadowed eyes
      On a different world
      Come to me
      Scared princess
      Charlotte sometimes

      On that bleak track
      (See the sun is gone again)
      The tears were pouring down her face
      She was crying and crying for a girl
      Who died so many years before...

      Sometimes I dream
      Where all the people dance
      Sometimes I dream
      Charlotte sometimes
      Sometimes I dream
      The sounds all stay the same
      Sometimes I'm dreaming
      There are so many different names
      Sometimes I dream
      Sometimes I dream...

      Charlotte sometimes crying for herself
      Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself
      But it's always with love
      With so much love it looks like
      Everything else
      Of Charlotte sometimes
      So far away
      Glass sealed and pretty
      Charlotte sometimes



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                   "DO THE HANSA"
                   

      Ein zwei drei vier
      Steve oh yeah
      Platinum all the way
      Do the hansa
      Do the hansa
      Etc etc

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                 "THE EXPLODING BOY"
                 

      I couldn't hear a word you said
      I couldn't hear at all
      You talked until your tongue fell out
      And then you talked some more
      I knew if I turned
      I'd turn away from you
      And I couldn't look back

      Tell yourself we'll start again
      Tell yourself it's not the end
      Tell yourself it couldn't happen
      Not this way
      Not today



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                  "FEAR OF GHOSTS"
                  

      Like a feeling that I'm down
      Down inside my heart
      Like I'm looking out through
      Splitting bloodred
      Windows in my heart
      >From a higher up than heaven
      And a harder down than stone
      Shake the fear that always clawing
      Pulls me clawing down alone
      As I spitting splitting bloodred
      Breaking windows in my heart
      And the past is taunting
      Fear of ghosts
      Is forcing me apart
      And the further I get
      >From the things that I care about
      The less I care about
      How much further away I get...

      I am lost again
      With everything gone
      And more alone
      Than I have ever been
      I expect you to understand
      To feel it too
      But I know that even if you will
      You cannot ever help me
      Nor can I
      Ever help you



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             "A FEW HOURS AFTER THIS..."
             

      The look before I go
      Is the look for you
      You only have to look and it will all come true
      And we can fall outside
      Into the fizzy night
      Or pull me down in here
      You know it's all the same

      I only want to see if you are happy again
      Or we can roll around
      And find out upside down

      A few hours after this and we're apart again
      Like two white checks
      Like opposite poles
      In a secret game
      (like nothing like these I suppose...)
      I really should have known by the cut of your smile
      That the answer would be simple
      It still took you awhile to get it out of me
      I thought you'd do it easily

      Just put your hands around my heart
      And squeeze me until I'm dry
      I never thought you'd ever start to ever ask me why

      I never saw you again



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                   "HAPPY THE MAN"
                   

      I'll never understand
      (Come closer and I'll whisper)
      Who was that standing in the rain?
      If only I could remember
      What he said
      (And how it all began)

      Happy the man
      With the face that smiles

      But it has to have a name
      (Something strong, something faithful, something pure)
      How does he look so safe?

      He'll never
      Never turn away
      Happy the man



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                    "HEROIN FACE"
                    

      Spit out the shout of a warning
      Death is an honour with doubts
      So you live in the end
      And you mistrust the start
      Because you don't think it counts

      But you'll pay for yourself
      You'll pay for yourself
      You're just a heroin face

      You see a heroin face in the mirror
      And someone is clutching your breath
      And you believe in the needle of night
      You're only doing your best

      But you'll pay for yourself
      You'll pay for yourself

      You believe in the needle of night
      And someone is cluthing your breath
      So you mistrust the start
      By always running away
      But you'll never come back

      You're just a heroin face
      Heroin face



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                     "I'M COLD"
                     

      You're begging me to stay
      But I'm laughing in your face
      You're so desperate
      Not to let those years of care
      All go to waste
      But it was you who wanted love
      Not romance
      You have to pay the price
      My body may be made of fire
      But my soul is made of ice

      I'm me
      I'm cold
      I'm cold
      I'm told
      I'd love to love you girl
      But my body
      Has just been sold



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                 "A JAPANESE DREAM"
                 

      I'm going back to the land of the blind
      Back to the land where the sun never shines
      I'm going back there and I'm hoping to find
      Everything just as it was before
      I left it all behind

      I slept at nights there hysterically
      Twisted and turned
      But I just couldn't get free
      Opened my eyes
      But I still couldn't see
      But I could feel her
      China white girl

      So I get down on the floor
      Like I am worshipping god
      Burning like a monkey
      I get down on the floor
      Like I am praying to the lord
      Burning like a monkey

      Mmmmmm that was a Japanese dream alright
      The sound of the storm
      And the flickering light

      And the way that her scent used to fill up the night like...
      Like her scent used to fill up the night

      So I get down on the floor
      Like I am worshipping god
      Burning like a monkey
      I get down on the floor
      Like I am praying to the lord
      Burning like a monkey

      Just look at me now
      Just look at me this way
      It looks like I am quite insane
      It looks like I am trying to eat off my face
      It looks like I'm going to the land of the blind anyway
      Back where the sun never shines
      Back to the land of the blind
      Back in a Japanese dream



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               "A MAN INSIDE MY MOUTH"
               

      I woke up at seven and my body was vibrating
      I was wrapped up in a blanket
      I was grey
      Damp and sore
      The bedroom was an engine and my heartbeat was erratic
      (like I think I'm at the racing
      Like the night before)
      I remember one girl standing
      One was sitting on the ground
      One was holding me up
      The other pulling me down
      And I couldn't decide which one was real
      Because there wasn't a sound
      (Like I was pregnant again...)

      "Don't move don't blink don't even breathe" she said
      "Or the photograph will spoil
      And cut you off at the head"
      So I was sucking
      I was suncking like a fat lady would
      But I couldn't hold it down another second
      (Bleagh!)
      "Don't twitch don't shout don't think don't even breathe" she said
      "Or the photograph will spoil and cut you off at the head"
      So I was sweating
      I was sweating like a fat lady would
      And I woke up
      With a man inside my mouth
      (This won't hurt at all)



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                      "NEW DAY"
                      

      New day
      In heaven the ground is waiting
      For the dust
      The seed
      My love once more
      I shout
      New day

      Hold the air and gasp in life
      This solid dance
      This cold cold night
      Is gone
      The dark heat throbs
      The fools sweat swims
      The hazy light
      The deadly sins
      Are gone

      Crack the stone
      Invade my head
      Dropping honey dropping dead again
      The silence shouts
      Across the gap
      Another dreaming
      Love me again
      Shout.



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                    "OUT OF MIND"
                    

      I've been up for days
      And I feel like a menagerie
      I'm scratching 'til I bleed
      And I keep on seeing
      Imaginary lemurs
      In the street
      In the middle of the day
      But as long as I can breathe
      Then I know I'll be OK
      I'll be alright
      I'm out of mind
      I'm out of sight
      I'm out of sight

      I've been up for days
      And I feel like a laboratory rat
      Inside a maze
      And I reel in the monotony of
      Screaming
      At the moon
      In the middle of the day
      But as long as I can see it
      Then I know I'll be ok
      I'll be fine
      I'm out of sight
      I'm completely out of mind
      Completely out of mind

      OK
      Alright
      Come and watch me shake tonight
      Mouth wide
      Soft and bright
      Bite my hand and scream
      OK
      Alright

      Come and watch me break tonight
      Push deep
      Out of sight
      Bite my hand and hold on tight...



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                   "PILLBOX TALES"
                   

      Electric line
      Racing time
      Fire down the wall
      Spinning around
      The killing ground
      It makes you look so small
      Henna years
      The stinging tears
      Flesh on the railway track
      The screaming queen
      On the TV screen
      Is never coming back

      Don't suffer no more
      Just step inside and listen
      Listen to my pillbox tales

      Your special days
      Your winning ways
      You're living out the past
      You're lying lies
      And tying ties
      And running much too fast
      But you feel so sick
      If you run too quick
      And wishing every day
      Wishing you were years away

      Don't suffer no more
      Just step inside and listen
      Listen to my pillbox tales



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                   "MR. PINK EYES"
                   

      You look so cool
      Oh I don't think
      Just fall over be like me
      Mr. Pink Eyes

      Your mind is blank
      And mine's away
      Oh you can't see
      You can't smell
      Mr. Pink Eyes

      It's got to be jazz
      That's what she wants
      You are so vile
      Mr. Pink Eyes

      Oh give me a look
      Give me a look
      Or sit on my head
      Or jump on my foot
      Do something



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                  "SNOW IN SUMMER"
                  

      High up on this mountain
      The whole world looks so small
      And all the rivers
      Run away
      Slipping in your deep green heart
      I drink you as I swim
      And I'm sliding
      And I'm sliding with you
      Slide beneath my skin

      Sleek and deep
      And salty sweet
      You open up in me
      Just like the snow in summer

      High up on this mountain
      The whole world looks so small
      And all the rivers
      Run away
      Slipping in your soft white heart
      I drink you as I swim
      And I'm falling
      And I'm falling with you
      Fall beneath my skin

      Sleek and deep
      And salty sweet
      You come
      And close in me
      Just like the snow in summer

      Just like the snow in summer
      As it melts
      Into the sea



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              "SPLINTERED IN HER HEAD"
              

      Shape is still
      Asleep
      With the toys
      As tall as men
      The pictures in the hallway
      Turning inside
      Whispers
      Unseen
      Jumping against the sky
      Slipping away
      He looks
      For the last time...

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                     "STOP DEAD"
                     

      Let me forget
      let me forget
      Or let me go let me go
      I'll keep it quiet as a whisper
      I'll keep it low low low
      Never
      The biggest word I ever heard
      Stop dead
      Stop dead
      You're getting too close

      Before you even opened your eyes
      I moved about a million ways
      I killed about a million people
      And filled about half a day
      Before you even opened your eyes
      You had to have to ask me who
      I love it
      I mean you

      My face was in your hands
      You looked into my eyes
      You said I tasted right
      And swallowed me alive



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                    "SUGAR GIRL"
                    

      Oh I wish I could find it funny
      You laughing like that
      But instead I change into a rage
      And run around
      Without a face
      I wish I could find it funny
      When you never came back
      But I don't suppose I'll ever know
      The how to keep you
      Goodbye sugar girl

      Goodbye sugar girl

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                  "THROW YOUR FOOT"
                  

      It's funny how your face gets bigger
      Gets bigger in this atmosphere
      And your mouth goes dry
      With every move you try
      It's so funny here

      Jumping around -- click click click
      When you're so slow
      It's like the world is stopping

      Fifteen times I try this
      And every time I faint
      You look at me and
      Start to tell the joke
      About the man who couldn't stop
      Hiccupping

      It would be so perfect
      If you would just fall out the window

      Throw your foot away
      You're tired and your face is grey
      Like the sad old fool
      You groove

      Hey Hey Hey


