The Cure - One Hundred Years (with lyrics)

Artist: The Cure
Song: One Hundred Years
Album: Pornography
Year: 1982
Label: Fiction Records


Lyrics:

It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time
A story on the radio

Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer
For something better

Please love me
Meet my mother
But the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow

Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on television
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Have we got everything?
She struggles to get away . . .

The pain
And the creeping feeling
A little black haired girl
Waiting for Saturday
The death of her father pushing her
Pushing her white face into the mirror
Aching inside me
And turn me round
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Just like the old days

Caressing an old man
And painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance
Under a black flag
A hundred years of blood
Crimson
The ribbon tightens round my throat
I open my mouth
And my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water
Over and over
We die one after the other
Over and over
We die one after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other

It feels like a hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
One hundred years

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[rosalbina188]

fuck, i'm so ashamed i only found this in 2011...how come nobidy told me about this masterpiece??? but now i'm gonna listen to the whole album all day and all night!

[FirstAlbumTrack]

@rosalbina188 Nothing to be ashamed of. You're enjoying great music now. ;D

[MrVonKorff]

"It doesn't matter if we all die"

[FirstAlbumTrack]

@MrVonKorff Truly a legendary beginning of an album.

[scorpios814]

great album,classic... wonderful song

[FirstAlbumTrack]

@scorpios814 No doubt. One of my favourites.

[Emlovecat]

@Maidenzzwrath I like this album a lot too. There's another album I like too - Disintegration. I'm torn between those two, really.

[0NeoGeo]

@singitloud8 now you know MTV , ABC, NBC, FOX etc.. killed society. and the hip hop, R & B moguls, or corporate owned everything from you shoes to your head.

[0NeoGeo]

robert is talking about the future ( maybe ) the beginning of the end " waiting for the death blow ", look it up ( remote viewing ) they call that the end sequence , solar contamination, a yellow moon, one after the other. 100 years to extinction, almost, i don't know its a great song Robert.

[0NeoGeo]

@rosalbina188 yes just like us back in 87, the album came before that , enjoy we sure did, the cure was it, pushing the music.

[thisiscellll]

@singitloud8 I know that feel, but there are a few great American bands, such as Interpol.

[singitloud8]

it sucks im a teenager and american ;( almost all the best music is from 80s london

[ACCFIfigeneia]

One of the best albums!

[ZOMB13]

It's interesting, I've been hearing The Cure around me for many years, but no one ever played this album at clubs, or stores, or on TV or on movies, now that I listen to it non-stop, I can hear why, it's amazing album before their "happy era" I love playing this song on guitar, first time I heard the first note it spoke to me.

[stephenp1968]

I remember being in high school back in the mid 80s and listening to this and other people listening to madonna, motley crue, alabama and all that rubbish. i stuck out like a sore thumb but i loved every minute of it. i was in on a secret they werent. :)

[1Publicnme]

Cured much of my teen angst...Back in the day! Great album.