The Cure - The figurehead

Sharp and open
Leave me alone
And sleeping less every night
As the days become heavier and weighted
Waiting
In the cold light
A noise
A scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten
With spiders inside them
And dust on the lips of a vision of hell
I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year

A hundred other words blind me with your purity
Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance
I think about tomorrow
Please let me sleep
As I slip down the window
Freshly squashed fly
You mean nothing
You mean nothing

I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls
All the time
Lose me in the dark
Please do it right
Run into the night
I will lose myself tomorrow
Crimson pain
My heart explodes
My memory in a fire
And someone will listen
At least for a short while

I can never say no to anyone but you

Too many secrets
Too many lies
Writhing with hatred
Too many secrets
Please make it good tonight
But the same image haunts me
In sequence
In despair of time

I will never be clean again
I touched her eyes
Pressed my stained face
I will never be clean again

Touch her eyes
Press my stained face
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again
I will never be clean again

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Music

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• The Cure
• Pornography
• The figurehead

[Mr1stcat]

thanks for not posting live >:~) or someone elses stupid little cover x)

[kaivillneff123]

god i love this song

[stephenp1968]

@Maidenzzwrath mine too. 

[Maidenzzwrath]

@filipepfg why not 100,000000000000000 times

[Maidenzzwrath]

the cure are my Favorite band and always will be my favorite band

[filipepfg]

i wanna click on like button one hundred times!

[controlFunctionmedia]

Possibly the best album ever made. And one of the most powerful tracks.

[lyonslaforet]

I love the drums part in this song that gives it a martial feeling!

[FREAK12111]

a year ago this song was uploaded how can i ever thank you lol

[MrThomasdrewsen]

I just saw this track singled out as ''a filler'' on Pornography and an example of ''sound over substance'' on allmusic.com - I was like, WTF!?! To me it's their best track ever and one that I enjoy together with the best songs from Sisters of Mercy's debut album (when I'm in that kind of mood :-)

[Mr1stcat]

@KabbalahWestCoast i know it sounds awful but im sorry im just a firm beliver that a masterpice should be left alone if it aint broke dont fix it >;~) so many remake nowdays its so sad really

[13akisgate]

oh lord this is so fucking genius....one of best songs ever made from the cure!together with one hundred years made the pornography album something very special....