Song of the Week 5

Wild Mood Swings - The Cure - 1996

Wish is definitely possibly the greatest Cure album, and it was also very well received by fans, selling roughly four million copies. I delayed many years in buying the follow up album, Wild Mood Swings, having heard it was not well liked by Cure fans, and that it was a big departure from Wish. I recently picked it up for $4 (or free, depending on how you work the buy 2 get 1 free deal I got), and wow, was I glad I did. I am saddened I waited so long to buy it (much like my experience with Songs of Faith and Devotion, where the first track, I Feel You really through me for a loop, it didn't sound like the Depeche Mode I knew, so I didn't get it for a few years, but once I did it became my favorite album - that long rambling sentence was to lead into the follow) because two of the tracks are definitely two of the best tracks The Cure has ever produced. Granted there are a couple I don't really like at all, but for as good as most of them are, this album deserves to be better liked.

I really feel like Want describes me, almost to a T. Especially the first line.

Want - Wild Mood Swings- The Cure

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
never find new ways to stay
never feel enough today
tomorrow must be more

more drink more dreams
more bed more drugs
more lust more lies
more hate more love

more fear more fun
more pain more flesh
more stars more smiles
more fame more sex

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
want to walk on water
take a trip to the moon
oh give me all this
and give me it soon

more drink more dreams more drugs
more lust more lies more love

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 

And again with two tracks this week - Treasure is possibly the most depressing Cure track I have heard. It is right up there with, and possibly more depressing than, Apart (from Wish, To Wish Impossible Things, also from Wish, is also very sad). For as often as I say I have a cold, black, shrivled up heart, incappable of feelings, Apart and Treasure are very moving songs.

Treasure - Wild Mood Swings- The Cure

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"