THE CURE lyrics of the week

A few weeks back, ShoutAboutMusic looked in detail at the monumental 1989 Cure album, Disintegration. Today, we salute some of the stand-out lyrics from that record. Sweepingly romantic, achingly sad and quite, quite brilliant; this is The Same Deep Water As You...

kiss me goodbye
pushing out before i sleep
can't you see i try?
but swimming the same deep
water as you is hard
"the shallow drowned lose
less than we," you breathe
the strangest twist upon your lips
"and we shall be together..."

"kiss me goodbye, bow your head and join with me"
and face pushed deep reflections meet
the strangest twist upon your lips
and disappear
the ripples clear
and laughing break against your feet
and laughing break the mirror sweet
"so we shall be together..."

"kiss me goodbye"
pushing out before i sleep
it's lower now and slower now
the strangest twist upon your lips
but i don't see and i don't feel
but tightly hold up silently my hands
before my fading eyes
and in my eyes your smile
the very last thing before i go...

i will kiss you i will kiss you i will kiss you
forever on nights like this
i will kiss you i will kiss you
and we shall be together...