The Cure - Lament Live 1990

Audio Only, The Cure, Lament, live in Leipzig, 04/08/1990.

Simon Gallup: bass
Robert Smith: vocals and guitar
Boris Williams: drums
Porl Thompson: guitar, saxophone
Perry Bamonte: guitar and piano

Lyrics:

Today there was a tragedy
Underneath the bridge
A man walked
Cold and blue
Into lament
The sky coloured perfect
As the man slipped away
Waving with a last vanilla smile

Somewhere at a table
Two drowned fools
Smoking
Drinking water as they talked
Of how they loved our lady
And oh the smell as candles die

One more ice cream river body
Flowed underneath the bridge
Underneath the bridge

Category:

Music

Tags:

• cure
• lament
• live
• 1990
• smith
• gallup
• primary
• florianklose

[lostandwounded]

what did rob say "this is the gospel of the set"?

[Oloferne8181]

@lostandwounded "this is the goth bit of the set"

[amigajenni]

Only Boris could play this song with the right soul for the song. Cure used to play this one with Andy, but to be true, the drums werent' right.

Boris is the best drummer in Cure history.

[herrrob14]

This is one of the most dreamy romantic songs that The Cure produced, and that's saying a lot.

[simionTheOne]

Simon's bass couldn't sound any better

[rubettes75]

mon fils est nee un mois apres ce concert ! c'est trop bien .

[Takac1979]

Fantastic!

[plushoom]

@Oloferne8181

he could pronunce better

[boltring]

@simionTheOne i seem to recall it might have featured on the Japanese Whispers E.P. released around 1982/1983. Also on the same vinyl is "The Upstairs Room" and "The Dream". The producer Steve Nye who also produced Blue Monday by New Order apparently worked on this (there are simalarities). I think RS wrote & recorded this mostly on his own after the demise of the band (temporarily) following the Pornography Tour. I have this on vinyl at home if you want any more info

[samueljaros]

The original version of "Lament" had different lyrics and came as a flexi-disc given away with the magazine Flexipop. Then a re-recorded version featured on the 12" version of "The walk", which was the version that was included on the 1983 compilation "Japanese whispers".