This song is about nothing more than the effect that the book had on him as he read it and the way he loved a character and the emotional response of her death in the book.......
so this song is really about how he felt that she felt slowing inhaling the water know that ever time she tried to scream for help her lungs where being filled with water, her last breath..this is how robert described his pain that night in the pub, he felt like it was he who had drowed and we spent the rest of the hours drinking his sorrows like a drowing man.
yes partly taken from the book, but as I recall sitting in a Manchester pub many years ago with robert, this song is based upon a true experience he had with a girl that loved him so much, but could'nt express her love (in words) before he left on tour, severall weeks into the tour he got work that this girl (fushia) that he'd loved beond belief had taken her life late one night after serveral attemps to reach him, she got quite drunk and was swallowed into the timms? river and drowned...
I'd just like to point out that although the lyrics are obviously inspired by Gormenghast and Fuschia, the name of the song is "The Drowning Man", not "The Drowning Girl".
I've heard an old story about a saint girl who jumped from a cliff down to the river and drowned in order to get away and not get raped from the sultan...........
it's srange cause every time i listen to this song it reminds me intensely of that story(but anyway i know that the song is aiming at a different side of meaning).
@captainortega yes actually it has something to do with the Greek history, you see ....a really good friend of mine who is from Greece has told me that certain story and as i could understand it had happened back at that time when the Greeks fought the Turks with all their might in order to keep their freedom....well as it seems i have to learn more,i've always found very interesting the Greek history anyway.......
@captainortega yeah i know long way back to the ancient times
'till the middle ages when the bloody and cruel wars began to send
inhumanly a millions of innocent people along with their brave fighters beneath the ground which they honored by defending,battling,and dying for it like true heroes..... all of their names now are written in history and they will never be forgotten.......
This song is so deeply haunting and so mesmerizing!! It takes me to so many levels in my emotions. Such a gorgeous song full of real meaning and feeling. I have loved The Cure for 28 years now and they have never ceased to amaze me with all the beauty in their songs and melodies and the way it reaches deep into the heart of your emotions. The Cure is such an awesome and amazing band of all time!! Robert is a poetic genius!! ILY Robert!! The Cure forever my friends!! ♥
This is just gorgeous!! A truly haunting and yet so beautiful song!! Just reaches the depths of my soul!! Robert is so beautiful. His voice just peirces my heart!! Such pure beauty and pure brilliance indeed. Always loved them, always will!! The Cure forever and always!! ♥
This is exciting, because I was looking for one of the greatest songs the earth has ever produced: Drowning Man by U2, and didn't expect to find a mind numbingly repetitive song that is so punishing, I feel I've paid for every sin I've ever committed. Thank you Cure...for this cleansing torture.
What's really notable here is that Robert Smith read a book of fiction and then wrote this song. A piece of literature had such an impact or at least appeared to have such an impact that he was able to create such a powerful song, mourning and longing for the tragically dead Fuchsia!
Just watched the whole Gormenghast in one go. It's already 6am and I've got to go to work, but I can't bring myself to pause this song. Such a beautiful story, so beautifully done. I have to read all the books now.
the most beautiful and so depressive song from the cure, i remeber the first time i heard "faith" along long time ago...... great version thanks!!! from france clément the dreamer......
Fuchsia is about to jump in the books but she changes her mind. Then she's startled by someone at the door and accidentally falls...hitting her head on the window pane as she goes.
Is this about a girl (Fuchsia) who killed herself jumping/sliding down a cliff but when she dives into the water she regrets it and want to be back but the water is more powerful and 'drowns her at its ease'.
And then the 'I would have left' part is about a guy who would've done everything to save her
that is how I undrerstand the lyrics
anyways it is lyrically genius (like most Cure songs especially from this time and Pornography).
That's what it apparently seems. But actually according to Robert, here "Fuchsia" is Robert himself or his dreams. So Fuchsia is a metaphor for Robert's dreams. Maybe this song can be interpreted as a morbid way of explaining how his dreams got washed away by jumping or succumbing to a real-life situation.
That's what is so special about songs like this one and 'A Forest'. The female personification is just given to represent something. You can draw several other interpretations as well.
yeah I love the lyrics of their songs especially of their early ones... sometimes really short but still great
I like it to interpret them as it is mostly not that easy and you never actually know whether you are right or not.. well when you interpret something there is actually no false or right it is just how you see it how you understand it from your point of view.
but I love it.. short songs (for example All Cats Are Grey) but written geniusly!
You could see it that way, but the 'Fuchsia' in question is a reference to Lady Fuchsia Groan of the Gormenghast books who committed suicide by drowning herself. Robert Smith has stated the song is based on her himself.
@Eisonhawk This is about a character named Fuchsia in a book called "Gormenghast." She drowns in the way described here. Some of these lines are taken directly from the book, actually! :-)
This song is about nothing more than the effect that the book had on him as he read it and the way he loved a character and the emotional response of her death in the book.......
leshutch74 1 month ago
so this song is really about how he felt that she felt slowing inhaling the water know that ever time she tried to scream for help her lungs where being filled with water, her last breath..this is how robert described his pain that night in the pub, he felt like it was he who had drowed and we spent the rest of the hours drinking his sorrows like a drowing man.
sharkuttack 4 months ago
yes partly taken from the book, but as I recall sitting in a Manchester pub many years ago with robert, this song is based upon a true experience he had with a girl that loved him so much, but could'nt express her love (in words) before he left on tour, severall weeks into the tour he got work that this girl (fushia) that he'd loved beond belief had taken her life late one night after serveral attemps to reach him, she got quite drunk and was swallowed into the timms? river and drowned...
sharkuttack 4 months ago
@sharkuttack ehhhhhhhhh??????????
GormenghastLostboy 2 months ago
I'd just like to point out that although the lyrics are obviously inspired by Gormenghast and Fuschia, the name of the song is "The Drowning Man", not "The Drowning Girl".
Cashane 6 months ago
This songs reminds me of the lonesome nights before recieving chemoterapy when i had cancer as a 14 year old..fuck me this song is strong.
bmniq 7 months ago 7
Uploaded on the birthday of Veronica Grey
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SunDancingQueen 9 months ago
I've heard an old story about a saint girl who jumped from a cliff down to the river and drowned in order to get away and not get raped from the sultan...........
it's srange cause every time i listen to this song it reminds me intensely of that story(but anyway i know that the song is aiming at a different side of meaning).
Quentelent 10 months ago
@Quentelent i dont know if you are reffering to the Greek women back in the greek revolution in 1821. Sounds quite similar
captainortega 9 months ago
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Quentelent 8 months ago
@captainortega yes actually it has something to do with the Greek history, you see ....a really good friend of mine who is from Greece has told me that certain story and as i could understand it had happened back at that time when the Greeks fought the Turks with all their might in order to keep their freedom....well as it seems i have to learn more,i've always found very interesting the Greek history anyway.......
Quentelent 8 months ago
@Quentelent As a greek,i can surely tell you that our history is indeed very insteresting,and goes waaay back.
captainortega 8 months ago
@captainortega yeah i know long way back to the ancient times
'till the middle ages when the bloody and cruel wars began to send
inhumanly a millions of innocent people along with their brave fighters beneath the ground which they honored by defending,battling,and dying for it like true heroes..... all of their names now are written in history and they will never be forgotten.......
Quentelent 7 months ago
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captainortega 8 months ago
i love this song!!!!
I'd not heard it for years then it just transported me back to be 18 and crying after drinking too much cider and feeling that my heart would break
beautiful song
lustreboy 11 months ago
My favourite song too...I often wonder if listening to too much Cure is healthy...but I just cant help it....
thegapputt01 1 year ago 5
Wow, just wow!!!!!!
MowgliX 1 year ago
This song is so deeply haunting and so mesmerizing!! It takes me to so many levels in my emotions. Such a gorgeous song full of real meaning and feeling. I have loved The Cure for 28 years now and they have never ceased to amaze me with all the beauty in their songs and melodies and the way it reaches deep into the heart of your emotions. The Cure is such an awesome and amazing band of all time!! Robert is a poetic genius!! ILY Robert!! The Cure forever my friends!! ♥
darkforest121 1 year ago
This is just gorgeous!! A truly haunting and yet so beautiful song!! Just reaches the depths of my soul!! Robert is so beautiful. His voice just peirces my heart!! Such pure beauty and pure brilliance indeed. Always loved them, always will!! The Cure forever and always!! ♥
ihatecurehaters 1 year ago
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah nur geil ..i love robert
66mortuus 1 year ago
This is exciting, because I was looking for one of the greatest songs the earth has ever produced: Drowning Man by U2, and didn't expect to find a mind numbingly repetitive song that is so punishing, I feel I've paid for every sin I've ever committed. Thank you Cure...for this cleansing torture.
Love,
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BurnedAliveByIslam 1 year ago
What's really notable here is that Robert Smith read a book of fiction and then wrote this song. A piece of literature had such an impact or at least appeared to have such an impact that he was able to create such a powerful song, mourning and longing for the tragically dead Fuchsia!
Art creates art!
chrisocony 1 year ago 3
one by one my senses are dying
logen9finger 1 year ago
Just watched the whole Gormenghast in one go. It's already 6am and I've got to go to work, but I can't bring myself to pause this song. Such a beautiful story, so beautifully done. I have to read all the books now.
redfoxonstilts 1 year ago
ahhhhhhh.....so beautiful.
thanks, Robert and friends. <3
shavepate 1 year ago
I liked the cure as a kid, but I found this song over the Unto Ashes Version, glad I found it though! I had forgotten the title.
DieSushiBitch 1 year ago
My favourite too
atakd 1 year ago
the most beautiful and so depressive song from the cure, i remeber the first time i heard "faith" along long time ago...... great version thanks!!! from france clément the dreamer......
MrSuedehead72 1 year ago
i love the drums on this song, very joy divisiony
beneaththesky18 1 year ago 4
Why is it so difficult to just find decent (by that I mean album) versions of the Holy Hour stuff on Youtube?!
damselnat 1 year ago
I love the percussion on this. I wonder exactly what was used.
TheCoffeeCreature 2 years ago 3
some times you slip
AnEnemy100 2 years ago
just the most perfect song.....touched by cod and devil.......touched by love..........HERSELF!!!!!!!!!
anthili69 2 years ago 2
Just perfect.
Made by God.
marryhens 2 years ago 3
it's my favourite cure song...........so overlooked...do beautiful......
adamski177 2 years ago 13
damn... its my favorite Cure song also... has been for well over a decade...
ethankoenig 2 years ago 22
@ethankoenig Also my fav , along with Faith.
A great influence in choosing to learn and play Bass.
SuperPais 5 months ago
This is the best version of 'The Drowning Man', I have ever heard. What a wonderful recording as well!
Thank-you for posting this special audio version:)
ajittffcure 2 years ago 6
Have you heard the cover version by Unto Ashes? =] It's certainly worth listening to.
Deinonychosauria 2 years ago
@ajittffcure
if it is possible try the live version of hamburg 2002. i don't know why exactly but it creates such dynamics that by far seem divine.
1000sachenmuell 1 year ago
this songs chills me - it's so beautiful
EveKadmon 2 years ago 3
drowns her at its ease
joydivisionthecure 2 years ago
thank you
joydivisionthecure 2 years ago 2
read Titus Groan and Gormenghast to understand what the song is about...the death of fucshia
tripandfuschia 2 years ago
this is the saddest version of this song that I've heard
Ombrenuit 2 years ago 3
Fuchsia is about to jump in the books but she changes her mind. Then she's startled by someone at the door and accidentally falls...hitting her head on the window pane as she goes.
k1ttycat 2 years ago
Gormenghast !!!!!!
Amazing!
k1ttycat 2 years ago
when I take a look at the lyrics:
Is this about a girl (Fuchsia) who killed herself jumping/sliding down a cliff but when she dives into the water she regrets it and want to be back but the water is more powerful and 'drowns her at its ease'.
And then the 'I would have left' part is about a guy who would've done everything to save her
that is how I undrerstand the lyrics
anyways it is lyrically genius (like most Cure songs especially from this time and Pornography).
Mstar82 2 years ago
it's actually from a book
"i wish it was all true
i wish it couldn't be a story
the words left me lifeless hopeless breathing like the drowning man"
but don't ask me what book
alinktozelda 2 years ago
its from a Mervin peakes book...Gormenghast trilogy !!
darkasnight101 2 years ago
thank you
alinktozelda 2 years ago
That's what it apparently seems. But actually according to Robert, here "Fuchsia" is Robert himself or his dreams. So Fuchsia is a metaphor for Robert's dreams. Maybe this song can be interpreted as a morbid way of explaining how his dreams got washed away by jumping or succumbing to a real-life situation.
That's what is so special about songs like this one and 'A Forest'. The female personification is just given to represent something. You can draw several other interpretations as well.
ajittffcure 2 years ago 3
yeah I love the lyrics of their songs especially of their early ones... sometimes really short but still great
I like it to interpret them as it is mostly not that easy and you never actually know whether you are right or not.. well when you interpret something there is actually no false or right it is just how you see it how you understand it from your point of view.
but I love it.. short songs (for example All Cats Are Grey) but written geniusly!
Mstar82 2 years ago 6
You could see it that way, but the 'Fuchsia' in question is a reference to Lady Fuchsia Groan of the Gormenghast books who committed suicide by drowning herself. Robert Smith has stated the song is based on her himself.
Iphigenia86 2 years ago
@ajittffcure you sure he's not just singing 'for you shhhh' instead of all this fuchsia this & fuchsia that...?
Eisonhawk 1 year ago
@Eisonhawk - What do you mean? I don't understand your question.
ajittffcure 1 year ago
@Eisonhawk This is about a character named Fuchsia in a book called "Gormenghast." She drowns in the way described here. Some of these lines are taken directly from the book, actually! :-)
Artoveli 1 year ago 2
@Artoveli Really? I love "Gormenghast!" :D
I must not have gotten to that part yet, though.
DistractedFirefly 1 year ago
@DistractedFirefly Oh man, sorry to spoil it like that then! *facepalm*
Artoveli 1 year ago
@Artoveli wow interesting. I read the book a couple of years back, and wasn't all that bothered by it. This song is truly beautiful though
lustreboy 11 months ago
im drowning in the imageries that this song conjures in my head...
fatminnow 2 years ago 2
my absolute favourite Cure...I have at least 12 live versions of this
thanks for the post !!
kmfdm10392 2 years ago 4
Love the Cure...hate Warner Music Group.
denpunk666mitsos 2 years ago 5