CURE - B-SIDES

2 Late
Adonais
Babble
The Big Hand
Breathe
Burn
Chain of Flowers
Do the Hansa
The Exploding Boy
Fear of Ghosts
A Few Hours After This...
A Foolish Arrangement
Halo
Happy the Man
Harold and Joe
Heroin Face
I'm Cold
It Used to be Me
I Want to Be Old
A Japanese Dream
Man Inside My Mouth
Mr. Pink Eyes
New Day
Ocean
Out of Mind
Pillbox Tales
Play
Scared as You
See the Children
Snow in Summer
Splintered in Her Head
Stop Dead
Sugar Girl
This Twilight Garden
Throw Your Foot
To the Sky
World War

2 Late

So I'll wait for you
Where I always wait
Behind the signs that sell the news
I'll watch for you like yesterday
And hope for you
One day that once
Spent out on me
And up 'til late
I search for you
Your hat pushed straight
Away from me
Your measured step
Heads up you win
Always too late

If I could just once catch your eye
Invisible against the words
That hold you down in solitude
And never let you go
The way that every time
My eyes just close
Like lids of wooden men in file
I put you under rainy day
Your hat's all off
And I'm gone away

Adonais

As he wakes from this bed [as he breaks this spell?], still young and 
wistful
out this dream of life and lose us
sleeping stone rack [rat?], blind consumed by phantom pain
and displays of greed

He slips from out this shadow land
and pain where heads grow sorrow grey
and age destroys all hope
and spirits crush the men and hide the world [word?]

The worthless watch the soft sky smile
The breathless hear the roll wind song
like [white?] death in [??] no more [moral?] of life [love?] divine

Dream yourself away, he calls
Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me.. be with me..

As he breaks the chains, still-young despairs
Hateful shades of treacherous time
Lose a sleeping, torchered mute
devoured by ghosts in shapes of love

Slips through ties of dust
to be the one we dream - he lives up high
if everything we feel
the young and beautiful and brave of heart

The worthless watch the soft sky smile
The breathless hear the roll wind song
like death in [??] no more [moral?] of life [love] divine

Dream yourself away, he calls
Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me.. be with me..

Dream yourself away, he calls
Eternity awaits us all
Open your eyes and be with me forever..

Babble

Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever moves
I swim around in circles
In the same old lifeless room
And talk about the mirror man
The whispers in my ear again
The hot and sticky pillow man
Is smothering my face again

Nothing ever changes
Nothing ever moves
And I run around hysterical
In dead persistent gloom
And babble out in simile
Like dog-head-monkey-music me
Shut up shut up shut up shut up
Shut up
And let me breathe...

The Big Hand

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your dreams go small
And all your friends run away
Until your memories fall
And the words don't fit
But the way the big hand smiles
You just won't care about it

The big hand makes all of your favourite things
Like all your days run out
And all your hopes disappear
And your smiles just stop
And your eyes go dead
And the shadows start to crawl
In the back of your head

But when the big hand speaks
It's like fireworks and heaven
So you listen don't think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It's like fireworks and friends
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone I'll never
Leave alone again

So when the big hand holds up all your favourite things
And with a touch like glass
Starts to squeeze
You don't ask
'Why me?'
You just slip to the floor
Just slip to your knees

But when the big hand speaks
It's like fireworks and heaven
So you listen don't think
And wish for nothing at all
And when the big hand sings
It's like fireworks and friends
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone never leaving alone
Leaving alone I'm not
Leaving alone
Leaving alone
I'm not leaving alone again

Breathe

Breathe
Breathe on me
Be like you used to be
Breathe on me

Move in me
Be like you used to be
Move in me
Move in me

Be with me
Be like you used to be
With me
With me

Burn

Don't look, don't look 
The shadows breathe
Whispering me away from you
Don't wake at night to watch her sleep
You know that you will always see
This trembling (?) towers a bird mad girl

Every night I burn
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn 
Every night I fall again

Don't talk of love 'cause shadows blur
Murmuring me away from you
Don't talk of worlds that never were
The end is always ever true
There's nothing you can ever say
Nothing you can ever do

Still every night I burn
Every night I scream your name
Every night I burn
Every night the dream's the same
Every night I burn
Waiting for my only friend
Every night I burn
Waiting for the world to end

Just paint your face and shadow smile
Slipping me away from you
Oh it doesn't matter how you hide
Find you if we're wanting to
So slide back down and close your eyes
Sleep awhile - you must be tired

When every night I burn 
Every night I call your name
Every night I burn
Every night I fall again

Every night I burn
Scream the animal screams
Every night I burn
Dream the crow black dream

(repeat)

Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream
Dream the crow black dream

Chain of Flowers

Please wake up
It's so dark and cold
Please wake up
I feel so alone
And I feel so scared
That you're going away
And I feel so scared...

All I want is summer
Stories from before
Just like the day you tried to hide
Behind the churchyard wall
And fell asleep before I came
I found you
In a chain of flowers
Sleeping like a marble girl
Sleeping in another world...

I'll never tell you
Of all the different ways
You make me so afraid...

Do the Hansa

Ein zwei drei vier
Steve oh yeah
Platinum all the way
Do the hansa
Do the hansa...

The Exploding Boy

I couldn't hear a word you said
I couldn't hear at all
You talked until your tongue fell out
And then you talked some more
I knew if I turned
I'd turn away from you
And I couldn't look back

Tell yourself we'll start again
Tell yourself it's not the end
Tell yourself it couldn't happen
Not this way
Not today

Fear of Ghosts

Like a feeling that I'm down
Down inside my heart
Like I'm looking out through
Splitting bloodred
Windows in my heart
From a higher up than heaven
And a harder down than stone
Shake the fear that always clawing
Pulls me clawing down alone
As I spitting splitting bloodred
Breaking windows in my heart
And the past is taunting
Fear of ghosts
Is forcing me apart
And the further I get
From the things that I care about
The less I care about
How much further away I get...

I am lost again
With everything gone
And more alone
Than I have ever been
I expect you to understand
To feel it too
But I know that even if you will
You cannot ever help me
Nor can I
Ever help you

A Few Hours After This...

The look before I go
Is the look for you
You only have to look and it will all come true
And we can fall outside
Into the fizzy night
Or pull me down in here
You know it's all the same
I only want to see if you are happy again
Or we can roll around
And find out upside down

A few hours after this and we're apart again
Like two white checks
Like opposite poles
In a secret game
(Like nothing like these I suppose...)
I really should have known by the cut of your smile
That the answer would be simple
It still took you awhile to get it out of me
I thought you'd do it easily

Just put your hands around my heart
And squeeze me until I'm dry
I never thought you'd ever start to ever ask me why

I never saw you again

A Foolish Arrangement

Christabel strips
And slips like a dream
Breaking ice with arms that gleam with pain
Disdain...
She throws her head
And glides against the stream
Throwing me her bravest smile
Defiant
Glittering
Shivering guile

"Catching a cold is quick this time
But fish?... Fish may take a while..."

Christabel dips and slips from me
And hand pushed deep inside is suddenly free
Triumphant
Reluctantly
Struggling six legs held up for me to see

"Don't be scared
It's nothing new
It's the same old game; only fun with two..."
But fast and over and over
"I can't play this game with you"

Everything she tries to tell me
Leaves me open mouthed and still
Foolishly arrange tomorrow
The way I always will

Christabel trips
And grips my hand
But never to be saved
For a second I understand
And I fall with her...

"I'll never leave you
Love you
See you change into the man I want
But it's not for long this thing
It's not for long..."

Halo

I never felt like this with anyone before
you only have to smile and I'm dizzy
you make the world go round
a thousand times an hour
just touch my head
and send me spinning

I never felt like this with anyone before
you show me colours and I'm crying
you hold my eyes in yours
and open up the world
i can't believe all of this

i want to keep this feeling
deep inside of me
i want you always in my heart
you are everything

i never felt like this with anyone before
you fill my head full of rainbows
and all the rainbows end
is every step you take
just to be with you forever

i want to keep this feeling
deep inside of me
i want you always in my heart
you are everything

Happy the Man

I'll never understand
(Come closer and I'll whisper)
Who was that standing in the rain?
If only I could remember
What he said
(And how it all began)

Happy the man
With the face that smiles

But it has to have a name
(Something strong, something faithful, something pure)
How does he look so safe?

He'll never
Never turn away
Happy the man

Harold and Joe

Nothing ever gets in my way
Nothing ever get on my mind
Nothing ever makes me
stop to think about
nothing of the kind

Nothing ever loses me sleep
Nothing ever wins my heart
Nothing ever makes want to sing along
Nothing makes me want to start

If I'm falling down a mountain
and I pick myself up
If I crash into an aspen
I don't give a frightful
Look around If I am burning
I put myself out
I'm so completely full
I scare the world all the world inside out
Just look around
Just look...

Nothing ever puts me out
Nothing ever pulls me in
Nothing ever makes me want to jump
Nothing makes me want to begin

Nothing ever gets me down
Nothing ever gets me uptight
Nothing ever makes me run around
Nothing makes me feel alright

If I'm hanging from a big tree
I cut myself down
if I look into the sun
I just don't make a sound
If I swallow two galbanums
I spit them right out
I'm so completely full
I scare the world, yeah all the world inside out
Just look around
Just look around
Just look around

Nothing ever gets in my way
Nothing ever gets on my mind
Nothing ever makes me
stop to think about
nothing of the kind

Harold and Joe
go go go
Harold and Joe
go go go

Sing but...

Heroin Face

Spit out the shout of a warning
Death is an honour with doubts
So you live in the end
And you mistrust the start
Because you don't think it counts

But you'll pay for yourself
You'll pay for yourself
You're just a heroin face

You see a heroin face in the mirror
And someone is clutching your breath
And you believe in the needle of night
You're only doing your best

But you'll pay for yourself
You'll pay for yourself

You believe in the needle of night
And someone is cluthing your breath
So you mistrust the start
By always running away
But you'll never come back

You're just a heroin face
Heroin face

I'm Cold

You're begging me to stay
But I'm laughing in your face
You're so desperate
Not to let those years of care
All go to waste
But it was you who wanted love
Not romance
You have to pay the price
My body may be made of fire
But my soul is made of ice

I'm me
I'm cold
I'm cold
I'm told
I'd love to love you girl
But my body
Has just been sold

It Used to be Me

listen... listen... listen... (whispered)
all he needs is everyone i've been
all she needs is everywhere i've seen
all they need anything i've touched
and all you need is everything i've liked
everything i've held
everything i've loved
everything i've tried
everything i've held
everything i've felt
everything i've lost
everything i've cried
until my whole head shrinks
with grinding my teeth
struggling to find a single word i can keep
any kind of truth
any kind of hope
just any kind of world that doesn't make me choke
but i keep saying i will and i won't
i keep saying i do and i don't
i  keep saying i feel but there's nothing to feel
just the strange kind of nothing where there used to be me
used to be me
used to be me

all he needs from me is everyone i've ever missed
and all she needs from me everyone i've ever kissed
all they need from me anything i've ever sung
yeah and all you need from me is everything i've ever seen
everything i've ever done
everything i've ever known
everything i've ever (? heavy echo on this word)
everything i've ever believed
everything i've ever touched
everything i've ever loved
everything i've ever thought
everything i've ever dreamed
until my whole head screams
with grinding my teeth
desperate to find a single word i can keep
any kind of faith
any kind of fix
in just
any kind of world that doesn't make me sick
and i keep saying i will but i won't
i keep saying i do but i don't
and i keep saying i feel but there's nothing to feel
just the strange kind of nothing where there used to be me

anything and everything
all that you need
get it for free
anything everything
all that you need
get it from me

anything everything
all that you need
get it for free
anything everything
all that you need
get it from me
get it from me....

I Want to Be Old

I want to be old
And creek by the fire
I want to smell of rotting wood
It's all I desire
I want my joints to seize up
I want my legs to ache
I want my eyesight to fail
I want my skin to flake
To be old
I want to be old

I want false teeth
And not be able to chew
I want to be senile
A centigenarian fool
I want lots of wrinkles
Want my hearing to go
I want to be ignored
And I want to be slow
To be old
I want to be old

A Japanese Dream

I'm going back to the land of the blind
Back to the land where the sun never shines
I'm going back there and I'm hoping to find
Everything just as it was before
I left it all behind

I slept at nights there hysterically
Twisted and turned
But I just couldn't get free
Opened my eyes
But I still couldn't see
But I could feel her
China white girl

So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey

That was a Japanese dream alright
The sound of the storm
And the flickering light
And the way that her scent used to fill up the night like...
Like her scent used to fill up the night

So I get down on the floor
Like I am worshipping god
Burning like a monkey
I get down on the floor
Like I am praying to the lord
Burning like a monkey

Just look at me now
Just look at me this way
It looks like I am quite insane
It looks like I am trying to eat off my face
It looks like I'm going to the land of the blind anyway
Back where the sun never shines
Back to the land of the blind
Back in a Japanese dream

Man Inside My Mouth

I woke up at seven and my body was vibrating
I was wrapped up in a blanket
I was grey
Damp and sore
The bedroom was an engine and my heartbeat was erratic
(Like I think I'm at the racing
Like the night before)
I remember one girl standing
One was sitting on the ground
One was holding me up
The other pulling me down
And I couldn't decide which one was real
Because there wasn't a sound
(Like I was pregnant again...)

"Don't move don't blink don't even breathe" she said
"Or the photograph will spoil
And cut you off at the head"
So I was sucking 
I was suncking like a fat lady would
But I couldn't hold it down another second

"Don't twitch don't shout don't think don't even breathe" she said
"Or the photograph will spoil and cut you off at the head"
So I was sweating
I was sweating like a fat lady would
And I woke up
With a man inside my mouth
(This won't hurt at all)

Mr. Pink Eyes

You look so cool
Oh I don't think
Just fall over be like me
Mr. Pink Eyes

Your mind is blank
And mine's away
Oh you can't see
You can't smell
Mr. Pink Eyes

It's got to be jazz
That's what she wants
You are so vile
Mr. Pink Eyes

Oh give me a look
Give me a look
Or sit on my head
Or jump on my foot
Do something

New Day

New day
In heaven the ground is waiting
For the dust
The seed
My love once more
I shout
New day

Hold the air and gasp in life
This solid dance
This cold cold night
Is gone
The dark heat throbs
The fools sweat swims
The hazy light
The deadly sins
Are gone

Crack the stone
Invade my head
Dropping honey dropping dead again
The silence shouts
Across the gap
Another dreaming
Love me again
Shout

Ocean

i don't think i'm any closer now
than i was at fifteen
i still don't know what i really want
or how i really feel
sometimes i think i've seen too much
sometimes nothing at all
and sometimes i think i just forgot
and i am so confused

i still need to believe in you
i still need to know you'll never
never give up
i believe in you

so how can you ever let my hope turn to despair
how can you ever stop telling me you care

i still need to believe in you
i still need to know you'll never
never give up
i believe in you

so how can you ever let my hope turn to despair
tell me you believe it too
tell me that you care
how can you ever let my hope turn to despair
how can you ever stop pretending

Out of Mind

I've been up for days
And I feel like a menagerie
I'm scratching 'til I bleed
And I keep on seeing
Imaginary lemurs
In the street
In the middle of the day
But as long as I can breathe
Then I know I'll be OK
I'll be alright
I'm out of mind
I'm out of sight
I'm out of sight

I've been up for days
And I feel like a laboratory rat
Inside a maze
And I reel in the monotony of
Screaming
At the moon
In the middle of the day
But as long as I can see it
Then I know I'll be ok
I'll be fine
I'm out of sight
I'm completely out of mind
Completely out of mind

OK
Alright
Come and watch me shake tonight
Mouth wide
Soft and bright
Bite my hand and scream
OK
Alright
Come and watch me break tonight
Push deep
Out of sight
Bite my hand and hold on tight

Pillbox Tales

Electric line
Racing time
Fire down the wall
Spinning around
The killing ground
It makes you look so small
Henna years
The stinging tears
Flesh on the railway track
The screaming queen
On the TV screen
Is never coming back

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales

Your special days
Your winning ways
You're living out the past
You're lying lies
And tying ties
And running much too fast
But you feel so sick
If you run too quick
And wishing every day
Wishing you were years away

Don't suffer no more
Just step inside and listen
Listen to my pillbox tales

Play

day after day
I let you down
promise you to change
then change my mind
and every time I promise you
it will all be fine
it won't be like this next time

the days you wait
turn into years
always wait
helpless tears
hopeless nights
and all the fears
it will always be like this

you give me everything you have
hoping it will someday be enough
to melt my heart
to make me fall in love

day after day
I let you down
promise you to change it all
then change my mind
and every time I promise you
soon be fine
it won't be like this next time
but tonight we play I think
the final set
I push to hard
and you crack
walk away
don't look back
this time you've really gone

you give me everything you have
knowing it can never be enough
my heart's too old
too hard
too cold
for you to love

Scared as You

you know those things i said
all those things that made you cry
i didn't really mean that stuff
i didn't really mean that stuff
all i ever really mean
when i scream and shout the way i do
is i don't know i really don't
just the same as you
just the same as you

you know those things i said
all those things that made you run away from me
i didn't really mean a word
i didn't really mean i don't believe
all i ever really mean
when i rant and rave the way i do
is i'm scared again
just as scared as you

sometimes it's so hard
to just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
you could just throw it all away

and all those things i said
all those things that made you cry
i didn't really mean that stuff
i didn't really mean to say goodbye
didn't really mean to say goodbye

you know those things i said
all those things that made you run away from me
i didn't mean a word
i didn't really mean i don't believe
all i ever really mean
when i scream and shout the way i do
is i'm scared again
just as scared as you

sometimes it's so hard
i could just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
i could just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
to just throw it all away
sometimes it's so hard
to just throw it all away
just throw it all away
just throw it all away

See the Children

I stopped the car the other day
I had to ask a little girl the way
I thought she'd show me better if she got inside
And once inside I thought I'd take her for a little ride

So I see the children feel the children
See the children feel the children all the time
See the children feel the children
See the children feel the children all the time

I'm the supermarket santa underneath the Christmas tree
The little ones all like to come sit upon my knee
I have to hold them tightly cause they fall to the floor
A little concern
It's against the law

So I see the children feel the children
See the children feel the children all the time
See the children blush and uhh...
...All the time

I pass by the infant school every single day
I push sweeties through the fence but the kids just run away
I only want to talk with them and join in thier fun
But all the little children knew to
Run run run run run run run...

Snow in Summer

High up on this mountain
The whole world looks so small
And all the rivers
Run away
Slipping in your deep green heart
I drink you as I swim
And I'm sliding
And I'm sliding with you
Slide beneath my skin

Sleek and deep
And salty sweet
You open up in me
Just like the snow in summer

High up on this mountain
The whole world looks so small
And all the rivers
Run away
Slipping in your soft white heart
I drink you as I swim
And I'm falling
And I'm falling with you
Fall beneath my skin

Sleek and deep
And salty sweet
You come
And close in me
Just like the snow in summer

Just like the snow in summer
As it melts
Into the sea

Splintered in Her Head

Shape is still
Asleep
With the toys
As tall as men
The pictures in the hallway
Turning inside
Whispers
Unseen
Jumping against the sky
Slipping away
He looks
For the last time...

Stop Dead

Let me forget
let me forget
Or let me go let me go
I'll keep it quiet as a whisper
I'll keep it low low low
Never
The biggest word I ever heard
Stop dead
Stop dead
You're getting too close

Before you even opened your eyes
I moved about a million ways
I killed about a million people
And filled about half a day
Before you even opened your eyes
You had to have to ask me who
I love it
I mean you

My face was in your hands
You looked into my eyes
You said I tasted right
And swallowed me alive

Sugar Girl

Oh I wish I could find it funny
You laughing like that
But instead I change into a rage
And run around
Without a face
I wish I could find it funny
When you never came back
But I don't suppose I'll ever know
The how to keep you
Goodbye sugar girl

Goodbye sugar girl

This Twilight Garden

I lift my lips from kissing you
to kiss the sky
cloud soft and blue
and slow the sun melts down
into your golden words for me

I lift my hands from touching you
to touch the wind that whispers through
this twilight garden
turns into a world
where dreams are real

no-one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
no-one will ever take your place
so in love with you

I lift my eyes from watching you
to watch the star rise shine onto
your dreaming face and dreaming smile
you're dreaming worlds
for me

I lift my lips from kissing you
and kiss the sky wide deepest blue
and slow the moon swims up
into your golden words
for me

no-one will ever take your place
I am lost in you
no-one will ever take your place
so in love with you

Throw Your Foot

It's funny how your face gets bigger
Gets bigger in this atmosphere
And your mouth goes dry
With every move you try
It's so funny here

Jumping around -- click click click
When you're so slow
It's like the world is stopping

Fifteen times I try this
And every time I faint
You look at me and
Start to tell the joke
About the man who couldn't stop
Hiccupping

It would be so perfect
If you would just fall out the window

Throw your foot away
You're tired and your face is grey
Like the sad old fool
You groove

Hey hey hey

To the Sky

One perfect morning I was all alone
Listening to the blaze of summer
Drifting, I was falling, I was floating in a golden haze
Breathing in the sky-blue sun of memories of other days

And in my dreams I was a child
Flowers in my mouth and in my eyes
And I was floating through the colors of the sky
Up to the stars and angels

Up, up, up to heaven
Up, up, up forever
(repeat)

Turning in my prime I looked down on a lake
Traced upon the water there I saw your face
Descending with redemption of the times we've shared
Pushed down ever then up into the sky

And in my dreams I was a child
Flowers in my mouth and in my eyes
And I was floating through the colors of the sky
Up to the stars and angels

Up, up, up to heaven
Up, up, up forever

World War

Dressed in Berlin black
I was only playing
Disguise my words to fool you
From what I was saying
Mud trench
Meat stench
The fatherland is looking on
Grip you in a luger lock
This will be the big one

World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend

Heaven heaven
Give me pride
Give me a golden hand
Smash them with an iron rule
Spit them out like sand
Sit and wait
Then run like hell
Run like hell one time again
Sow the seeds of hate
Underneath destruction

World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend
World war
No one would believe me
No one's a winner
No one's a loser
Just a dead friend

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