http://vodpod.com/watch/1036731-the-cure-just-like-heaven
This was the first video I ever saw by The Cure. I was reallllyyy confused, all I could think was that this song was my favorite ever and the video was even cooler and WHY is their hair so big? It was probably the coolest video I'd ever seen... Until I watched Lullaby.. That creeped me out a bit x]
One of THE best pop songs to be written by the almighty Robert Smith (and possibly one of the best pop songs ever...??). This song is off the album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, The Cure's true breakthrough album in 1987. The band's line-up at the time was Robert Smith singing and playing guitar and keyboards, Simon Gallup on bass, Porl Thompson playing guitar, keyboards and saxophone, Lol Tolhurst on keyboard/"other" (yipes...), Boris Williams drumming, and Roger O'Donnell on keyboards. AMAZING LINE-UP.
This album exhibited all sides of the Cure. From slow, love songs like One More Time, to odd little things; Like Cockatoos, to beautiful calm songs like If Only Tonight We Could Sleep? to radio friendly tunes like Why Can't I Be You? and Just Like Heaven, angsty songs that completely WIN like Fight and Shiver & Shake, and Robert's inspired-by-amazing-literature approach that never fails in How Beautiful You Are.
Just Like Heaven is, obviously, a love song, if a wee bit depressing.... I mean, the girl he loves fell into the sea.. But in the biography Never Enough (yeah, I DID go there...) Robert talks about going for a walk or something with his friends and Mary near a cliff by their home hear the sea in England when he was in his early 20s or teens... It was very foggy and I think he was a bit drunk and he was lost at night... He was afraid of falling off the edge of the cliff, so he basically sat down somewhere in this place and waited until morning. Haha that story made me smile...
In the video, the woman Robert dances with in the middle of the song is his wife, as of 89 (I'm pretty sure...) Mary Poole. Ain't they CUTE together?? :D *fangirliness over*
How is it, that even with a gorgeous radio-friendly song that everyone loves, still has amazing lyrics??
Just Like Heaven
"Show me show me show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream" she said
"The one that makes me laugh" she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it
And I promise you I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways I had
To make her glow
"Why are you so far away?" she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you
That I'm in love with you"
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven...
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