The Cure - The Drowning Man (BBC Sessions)

Audio Only, The Cure - The Drowning Man BBC Sessions 1979 - 1985.
Session 4 (tracks 1.14 to 1.16)
Richard Skinner Session
Langham, England
1981-02-26
Airdate: 1981-03-02

Smith/Gallup/Tolhurst

She stands twelve feet above the flood
She stares
Alone
Across the water

The loneliness grows and slowly
Fills her frozen body
Sliding downwards

One by one her senses die
The memories fade
And leave her eyes
Still seeing worlds that never were
And one by one the bright birds leave her ...

Starting at the violent sound
She tries to turn
But final
Noiseless
Slips and strikes her soft dark head
The water bows
Receives her
And drowns her at its ease
Drowns her at its ease

I would have left the world all bleeding
Could I only help you love
The fleeting shapes
So many years ago
So young and beautiful and brave

Everything was true
It couldn't be a story

I wish it was all true
I wish it couldn't be a story
The words all left me
Lifeless
Hoping
Breathing like the drowning man

Oh Fushia
You leave me
Breathing like the drowning man
Breathing like the drowning man

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• Cure
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• 1981
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• tolhurst

[ethankoenig]

damn... its my favorite Cure song also... has been for well over a decade...

[adamski177]

it's my favourite cure song...........so overlooked...do beautiful......

[leshutch74]

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.......

[GormenghastLostboy]

@sharkuttack ehhhhhhhhh??????????

[sharkuttack]

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]

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...

[SuperPais]

@ethankoenig Also my fav , along with Faith.

A great influence in choosing to learn and play Bass.

[Cashane]

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".

[bmniq]

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.

[Quentelent]

@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.......

[captainortega]

@Quentelent As a greek,i can surely tell you that our history is indeed very insteresting,and goes waaay back.