The Cure (77,24 %)
Wild Mood Swings (46,21 %)
In collection
Released: 1996-05-21
Type: Studio
Type: Studio
Ranking:
Artist:
13
Year (1996):
40
Decade (1990's):
391
Overall:
2435
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1.
Want
 05:07
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2.
Club America
 05:02
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3.
This Is a Lie
 04:30
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4.
The 13th
 04:08
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5.
Strange Attraction
04:19
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6.
Mint Car
03:33
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7.
Jupiter Crash
04:16
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8.
Round & Round & Round
 02:39
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9.
Gone!
04:32
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10.
Numb
 04:50
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11.
Return
03:28
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12.
Trap
03:38
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13.
Treasure
03:45
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14.
Bare
07:57
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Album length:
00:01:44
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Lyrics |
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1.
Want
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i'm always wanting more anything i haven't got everything i want it all i just can't stop planning all my days away but never finding ways to stay or ever feel enough today tomorrow must be more drink more dreams more bed more drugs more lust more lies more head more love more fear more fun more pain more flesh more stars more smiles more fame more sex but however hard i want i know deep down inside i'll never really get more hope or any more time any more time any more time any more time i want the sky to fall in i want lightning and thunder i want blood instead of rain i want the world to make me wonder i want to walk on water take a trip to the moon give me all this and give me it soon more drink more dreams more drugs more lust more lies more love but however hard i want i know deep down inside i'll never really get more hope or any more time any more time any more time any more time |
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2.
Club America
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i ride into your town on a big black trojan horse i'm looking to have some fun some kind of trigger-happy intercourse "club america salutes you" says the girl on the door "we accept all major lies we love any kind of fraud so go on in and enjoy... go on in and enjoy!!!" i'm buying for my bright new friends blue suzannes all round and my mood is heavily pregnant... yeah you're right i couldn't help but notice your icy blue eyes they've been burning two holes in the sides of my head since the second i arrived and it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on stars and your canary feather dress your hair in such a carefully careless mess that you're really trying very hard to impress you're such a wonderful person living a fabulous life sensational dazzling perfectly sized such a wonderful person living a fabulous life sharing it with me in club america tonight... so we talk for a while about some band you saw on tv but i don't listen to you and you don't listen to me yeah it's an old routine but it's a very special part of the game and you don't really care what i call you at all when i can't quite remember your name and it's not too hard to guess from your stick-on stars and your canary feather dress the way you're so carefully couldn't care less that you're really trying very hard to impress you're such a wonderful person living a fabulous life sensational dazzling perfectly sized such a wonderful person living a fabulous life sharing it with me tonight yeah you're a wonderful person living a fabulous life fantastic divine and thrillingly bright such a wonderful person living a fabulous lie with me in club america tonight... |
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3.
This Is a Lie
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how each of us decides i've never been sure the part we play the way we are how each of us denies any other way in the world why each of us must choose i've never understood one special friend one true love why each of us must lose everyone else in the world however unsure however unwise day after day play out our lives however confused pretending to know to the end but this isn't truth this isn't right this isn't love this isn't life this isn't real this is a lie how each of us believes i've never really known in heaven unseen and hell unknown how each of us dreams to understand anything at all why each of us decides i've never been sure the part we take the way we are why each of us denies every other way in the world however unsure however unwise day after day play out our lives however confused pretending to know to the end but this isn't truth this isn't right this isn't love this isn't life this isn't real this is a lie this isn't truth this isn't right this isn't love this isn't life this isn't real this is a lie |
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4.
The 13th
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"everyone feels good in the room" she swings "two chord cool in the head" she sings "a-buzz a-buzz a-buzzing like them killer bees..." tell me this is not for real please tell me this is not for real... from time to time her eyes get wide and she's always got them stuck on me i'm surprised at how hot honey-coloured and hungry she looks and i have to turn away to keep from bursting yeah i feel that good! she slips from the stage a foot no more but it seems to take an hour for her to reach the floor and the two chord cool still grooves as she slides towards me smooth as a snake i can't swallow i just start to shake and i just know this is a big mistake yeah but it feels good! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! "if you want i can take you on another kind of ride..." "believe me i would but..." deep inside the 'but' is 'please' i am yearning for another taste and my shaking is 'yes' "you will be all the things in the world you've never been see all the things in the world you've never seen dream all the things in the world you've never dreamed..." but i think i get a bit confused... am i seducing or being seduced? oh i know that tomorrow i'll feel bad but i really couldn't care about that she's grinning singing spinning me round and round smiling as i start to fall her face gets big her face gets small it's like tonight i'm really not me at all and it feels good! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! do it to me! it feels good! |
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Strange Attraction
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it started with a dedication "lost in admiration - happy birthday - i'm forever yours - blossom" faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies i smiled surprised at how when flickered through the wings flew by spelled out my name... six months went by the summer lost obsessively the letters dropped into my life the same soft blood smooth flowing hand "please try to understand - i have to see you - have to feel you - tell you all the ways i need you - yours forever in love..." strange attraction spreads it's wings it varies but the smallest things you never know how anything will change strange attraction spreads it's wings and alters but the smallest things you never know how anything will fade the year grew old incessantly she wrote to me she'd started smoking poetry! i laughed in recognition of a favourite phrase she'd pulled me in... i answered her a christmas card in sepia arranging when and where and how the two of us should meet... her opening so well prepared a nervous smile i couldn't take my eyes from her she whispered "can i use some of your lipstick?" it was perfect so believable i couldn't help but feel that it was real and kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms... strange attraction spreads it's wings it varies but the smallest things you never know how anything will change strange attraction spreads it's wings and alters but the smallest things you never know how anything will fade so alone into the cold new year without another word from her i wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring but weeks went by with no reply until once more my birthday came and with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same... "i'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination - i was sure you'd be the one but i was wrong - it seems reality destroys our dreams - i won't forget you - blossom" faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes... strange attraction spreads it's wings it varies but the smallest things you never know how anything will change strange attraction spreads it's wings and alters but the smallest things and you never know... |
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6.
Mint Car
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the sun is up i'm so happy i could scream! and there's nowhere else in the world i'd rather be than here with you it's perfect it's all i ever wanted i almost can't believe that it's for real i really don't think it gets any better than this vanilla smile and a gorgeous strawberry kiss! birds sing we swing clouds drift by and everything is like a dream it's everything i wished never guessed it got this good wondered if it ever would really didn't think it could do it again? i know we should!!! the sun is up i'm so fizzy i could burst! you wet through and me headfirst into this is perfect it's all i ever wanted ow! it feels so big it almost hurts! never guessed it got this good wondered if it ever would really didn't think it could do it some more? i know we should!!! say it will always be like this the two of us together it will always be like this forever and ever and ever... never guessed it got this good wondered if it ever would really didn't think it could do it all the time? i know that we should!!! |
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Jupiter Crash
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she follows me down to the sound of the sea slips to the sand and stares up at me "is this how it happens? is this how it feels? is this how a star falls? is this how a star falls?" the night turns as i try to explain irresistible attraction and orbital plane "or maybe it's more like a moth to a flame?" she brushes my face with her smile "forget about stars for a while..." as she melts... meanwhile millions of miles away in space the incoming comet brushes jupiter's face and disappears away with barely a trace... "was that it? was that the jupiter show? it kinda wasn't quite what i'd hoped for you know..." and pulling away she stands up slow and round her the night turns round her the night turns... yeah that was it that was the jupiter crash drawn too close and gone in a flash just a few bruises in the region of the splash... she left to the sound of the sea she just drifted away from me so much for gravity... |
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Round & Round & Round
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round and round and round and round and round we go trying so hard to get a hold of everyone here we've got to show how much we love them all we squeak with idiot fake surprise flap our hands and flutter our eyes and lap up all their stupid lies we've got to love them all and i really don't know why we do it like this imitation smiles and how "it's wonderful to be here!" i'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll miss so round and round and round and round and round we go hanging on every shape they throw it's strange the way we can't say no until we love them all... so we laugh at every stupid joke and smoke and choke and point and poke and gag on countless lines... how much we love them all! and i really don't know why we do it like this imitation smiles and how "it's wonderful to be here!" i'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll miss maybe it's the sex with the drugs and the fools or maybe it's the promise of belief? maybe it's the pleasure and the pain of the cruel or maybe it's the promise of relief? and i know that we've said it so many times before "once more and never again" but however many times that we've said it before once more is never the end... |
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9.
Gone!
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oh you know how it is wake up feeling blue and everything that could be wrong is including you black clouds and rain and pain in your head and all you want to do is stay in bed but if you do that you'll be missing the world because it doesn't stop turning whatever you heard if you do that you'll be missing the world you have to get up get out and get gone! yeah you know how it is wake up feeling green sick as a dog and six times as mean you don't want to sing you don't want to play you don't want to swing you don't want to sway all you want to do is nothing on a day like today but if you do that you'll be missing the world because it doesn't stop turning whatever you heard if you do that you'll be missing the world you have to get up get out and get gone! yeah get up get out and have some fun you have to get up get out and get gone! yeah get up get out and get it on get up get out and get gone! you have to get up get out and get living yeah this is really it... so you know how it is wake up feeling grey nothing much to think and nothing much to say don't want to talk don't want to try don't want to think don't want to know who what where when or why... oh but you do that and you're missing the world yeah it's happening right now whatever you heard you do that and you're missing the world you have to get up get out and get gone! yeah get up get out and have some fun you have to get up get out and get gone! yeah get up get out and get it on get up get out and get gone! you have to get up get out and get living yeah this is really it! |
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10.
Numb
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yeah this is how it ends after all these years tired of it all hopelessly helplessly broken apart he finally falls he doesn't want to think doesn't want to feel doesn't want to know what's going on says there's nothing he can do will change anything he doesn't want to know what's going wrong because he's in love with a drug one that makes him numb one that stops him feeling at all he's in love with a drug forget everyone he really doesn't care anymore anymore... yeah this is how it ends after all this time everything just fades away worn-out and empty and all alone with nothing left to say oh it's all too big to make a difference it's all too wrong to make it right yeah everything is too unfair everything too much to bear he doesn't have the strength left for the fight says all he wants is the drug the one that makes him numb the one that stops him feeling at all he just wants to take the drug forget everyone he doesn't want to care anymore just keeps loving the drug the one that makes him numb the one that stops him feeling at all just keeps loving the drug the drug that he's become he isn't really here anymore... and that makes me cry |
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11.
Return
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oh i really love it here! oh you've thought of it all! candlelight! coconut ice! and fur on the floor! and i reeely love the way you wear your hair and nothing more... so tell me... what is going on? i was sure that i'd already gone... but all you say is we're all spinning it's really not just me but that doesn't seem to help me figure out how i can be a prisoner in pvc a minute after three... it didn't used to be like this must be all that sleep i missed... yeah but i really love it here! you've done everything to please! stolichnaya! banco de gaia! bad timing on tv! and i reeely love the way you turn your smile into striptease... but i'm still not sure what's going on and i can't help feeling something's wrong but you just say that we're all spinning and it's really not just me but that doesn't seem to help me figure out how i can be still wrapped inside your rubber as i wriggle at your feet... no it didn't used to be like this must be something strange i kissed... maybe when my eyes were closed? so tell me what is going on? i'm sure that i've already gone... but all you say is we're all spinning and it's really not just me but that doesn't seem to help me figure out how i can be still fixed inside your fantasy a tv refugee... so tell me what is going on? just can't help feeling something's wrong... or is it right this way i feel? someone get me out of here!!! i'm waiting on my knees... |
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12.
Trap
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drowning like a fly in my drink you drone about being on the brink but i really don't care what you think oh i'm sick of it all sick of it all i hate the way it's always the same hate recrimination and blame and you just wait for me to fuck up again oh i'm sick of it all sick of it all the ways you try and put me down sweet revenge for the things i've done the ways you try and twist me around "give me a taste of my own medicine" drowning like a fly in my drink you whine about being out of synch but i really don't care what you think oh i'm sick of it all sick of it all i hate the way you want me to be hate regret and humility and you just wait for me to fall at your feet oh i'm sick of it all sick of it all the ways you try and run me down make me pay for the things i've been the ways you try and push me around all you want to do is win any love you once felt for me has turned into this travesty of selfishness and jealousy so why can't you just let me go? any love you once felt for me has turned into this travesty of selfishness and jealousy so why can't i just let you go? |
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13.
Treasure
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she whispers "please remember me when I am gone from here" she whispers "please remember me but not with tears... remember I was always true remember that I always tried remember I loved only you remember me and smile... for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry" "remember I was always true remember that I always tried remember I loved only you remember me and smile... for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry" |
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14.
Bare
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if you've got something left to say you'd better say it now anything but "stay" just say it now we know we've reached the end we just don't know how "well at least we'll still be friends" yeah one last useless vow... "there are different ways to live" yeah i know that stuff "other ways to give" yeah all that stuff but holding onto used to be is not enough memory's not life and it's not love we should let it all go it never stays the same so why does it hurt me like this when you say that i've changed? when you say that i've aged? say i'm afraid... and all the tears you cry they're not tears for me regrets about your life they're not regrets for me it never turns out how you want why can't you see? it all just slips away it always slips away eventually... so if you've got nothing left to say just say goodbye turn your face away and say goodbye you know we've reached the end you just don't know why and you know we can't pretend after all this time so just let it all go nothing ever stays the same so why does it hurt me like this to say that i've changed? to say that i've aged? say i'm afraid... but there are long long nights when i lay awake and i think of what i've done of how i've thrown my sweetest dreams away and what i've really become and however hard i try i will always feel regret however hard i try i will never forget i will never forget |