WISH

1992

1 . open
2 . high
3 . apart
4 . from the edge of the
deep green sea
5 . wendy time
6 . doing the unstuck
7 . friday i'm in love
8 . trust
9 . a letter to elise
10. cut
11. to wish impossible things
12. end

Recensione di: ^@ero§miththebe§t^

Anno 1992.
I Cure sono appena usciti da una grave crisi, che ha portato all'allontanamento
di uno dei membri fondatori dei Cure, Laurence Tolhurst, poichè, secondo Smith,
era diventato solo un peso per la band. Inoltre il grunge sta prendendo sempre
più piede e molti fan sono preoccupati che i Cure, in balia degli eventi dovuti alla
recente crisi, possano dare "di matto" e trovare Robert smith a coverizzare
i Nirvana (sembra assurdo, ma è la pura verità).

Ogni dubbio però viene subito spazzato via dalla traccia iniziale
(che prosaicamente si chiama "Open"), che è un tipico brano "alla
Cure" e già da qui si può notare un ritrovato intresse per l'uso della chitarra
distorta, che verrà poi sviluppato e amplificato nelle traccie successive.
Se Open è una traccia in perfetto stile Cure, altrettanto in stile pop è
la seguente "High", il cui attacco ricorda tanto la mai abbastanza amata
"Pictures of you", presente nel precedente lavoro del gruppo, Disintegration.
Wish è infatti un album costruito sul perfetto bilanciamento tra pezzi pop e
pezzi tipicamente "alla Cure". Così, si posso alternare brani come "Apart",
cupa e riflessiva canzone che rimanda quasi ai Cure di Faith, e "From the edge
of the deep green sea", che io ritengo il brano migliore dell'album, in cui la
chitarra elettrica è prepotentemente padrona della canzone, che va a simulare
le onde del mare, con un effetto incredibilmente emozionante e coinvolgente
allo stesso tempo, e brani tipicamente pop come "Wendy time" e la ballata
"Doing the unstuck".
Dopo quest'ultima, arriva uno dei pezzi pop più belli in assoluto dei Cure,
ovvero la storica "Friday I'm in love". La canzone, per quanto allegra e solare,
nasconde un impossibilità di essere felice, se non solo in un giorno della
settimana o in un particolare momento, ed essere triste in tutti gli altri.
Subito dopo segue "Trust", con piano all'attacco della canzone che cattura
immediatamente l'attenzione e trasporta in una canzone lenta, in cui gli archi
ricamano la melodia sul piano e Robert è in ottima forma vocale. A questo punto,
per chiudere la aprte migliore dell'album, c'è la ballata "A letter to Elise",
con probabilmente uno dei testi più belli scritti da Smith e dove l'assolo di chitarra
risulta liberatorio ed emozionante. Dopo "Cut", forse il pezzo peggiore (se mai si
possa parlare di pezzi brutti in album di questo calibro) del disco, una canzone
con chitarra distorta in primo piano che sembra riprende "From the edge of the
deep green sea", arriva "To wish impossible things". La canzone è una sorta di
confessione di Smith, una rivelazione quasi impaurita, in cui ammette di aver
"desiderato cose impossibili" e di averne più volte pagate le conseguenze (i vari
periodi di crisi in cui i Cure son passati), ma di essere sempre risorto dalle propie
ceneri, mentre una viola in sottofondo aumenta il l'atmosfera sospesa e incantata
della canzone. Così, dopo questa "confessione", come si era assistito ad una Open,
alla fine si assiste ad una "End", in cui Smith dice di aver raggiunto il punto in cui
non ha più bisogno di nulla e di non essere nulla di ciò che i fan pensano.
Ma questo poco importa: quando ci si trova di fronte ad un album come Wish non
rimane che ascoltare e godersi un autentico capolavoro di emozioni in musica.

open

I really don't know what I'm doing here
I really think I should've gone to bed
tonigh but…
"Just one drink
And there're some people to meet you
I think that you'll like them
I have to say we do
And I promise in less then an hour
we will honestly go
Now why don't I just get you another
While you just say hello…"

Yeah just say hello…

So I'm clutching it tight
Another glass in my hand
And my mouth and the smiles
Moving up as I stand up
Too close and too wide
And the smiles are too bright
And I breathe in too deep
And my head's getting light
But the air is getting heavier and it's closer
And I'm starting to sway
And the hands all on my shoulders
don't have names
And they won't go away
So here I go
Here I go again…

Falling into strangers
And it's only just eleven
And I'm staring like a child
Until someone slips me heaven
And I take it on my knees
Just like a thousand times before
And I get transfixed
That fixed
And I'm just looking at the floor
Yeah I look at the floor

And I'm starting to laugh
Like an animal in pain
And I've got blood on my hands
And I've got hands in my brain
And the first short retch
Leaves me gasping for more
And I stagger over screaming
On my way to the floor
And I'm back on my back
With the lights and the lies in my eyes
And the colour and the music's too loud
So here I go
Here I go again…

Yeah I laugh and I jump
And I sing and I laugh
And I dance and I laugh
And I laugh and I laugh
And I can't seem to think
Where this is
Who I am
Why I'm keeping this going
Keep pouring it out
Keep pouring it down
Keeping it going
Keep pouring it down
And the way the rain comes down hard
That's the way I feel inside…

I can't take it anymore
This it I've become
This is it like I get
When my life 's going numb
I just keep moving my mouth
I just keep moving my feet
I say I'm loving you to death
Like I'm losing my breath
And all the smiles that I wear
And all the games that I play
And all the drinks that I mix
And I drink until I'm sick
And all the faces that I make
And all the shapes that I throw
And all this people I meet
And all the words that I know
Makes me sick to the heart
Oh I feel so tired…

And the way the rain comes down hard
That's how I feel inside…

high

When I see you sky as a kite
As high as I might
I can't get that high
The how you move
The way you burst the clouds
It makes me want to try

When I seeyou sticky as lips
As licky as trips
I can't lick that far
But when you pout
The way you shout out loud
It makes me want to start
And when I see you happy as a girl
That swims in a world of magic show
It makes me bite my fingers through
To think I could've let you go

And when I see you
Take the same sweet steps
You used to take
I say I'll keep on holding you
My arms so tight
I'll never let you slip away

And when I see you kitten as a cat
Yeah as smitten as that
I can't get that small
The way you fur
The how you purr
It makes me want to paw you all
And when I see you happy as a girl
That lives in a world of make-believe
It makes me pull my hair all out
To think I could've let you
leave

And when I see you
Take the same sweet steps
You used to take
I know I'll keep on holding you
In arms so tight
They'll never let you go

apart

He waits for her to understand
But she won't understand at all
She waits all night for him to call
But he won't call anymore
He waits to hear her say
"forgive"
but she just drops her
pearl-black eyes
and prays to hear him say
"I love you"
but he tells no more lies

He waits for her to sympathize
But she won't sympathize at all
She waits all night to feel his kiss
But always wakes alone
He waits to hear her say
"forget"
but she just hangs her head in pain
and prays to hear him say
"no more
I'll never leave again"

How did we get this far apart?
We used to be so close together
How did we get this far apart?
I thought this love would last
forever

He waits for her to understand
But she won't understand at all
She waits all night for him to call
But he won't call
He waits to hear her say
"forgive"
but she just drops her
pearl-black eyes
and prays to hear him say
"I love you"
but he tells no more lies

How did we get this far apart?
We used to be so close together
How did we get this far apart?
I thought this love would last
forever

from the edge of the deep green sea

Every time we do this
I fall for her
Wave after wave after wave
It's all for her
I know this can't be wrong I say
(and I lie to keep her happy)
As long as I know that you know
That today I belong
Right here with you
Right here with you ...

And so we watch the sun come up
From the edge of the deep green sea
And she listens like her head's on fire
Like she want to believe in me
So I try
Put your hands in the sky
Surrender
Remember
We'll be here forever
And we'll never say goodbye...

I've never been so
Colorfully-see-through-head before
I've never been so
Wonderfully-me-you-want-some-more
And all I want is to keep it like this
You and me alone
A secret kiss
And don't go home
Don't go away
Don't let this hands
Please stay
Not just for today

Never never never never never let me go
she says
Hold me like this for a hundred thousand
million days
But suddenly she slows
And looks down at my breaking face
Why do you cry? what did I say?
But it's just rain I smile
Brushing my tears away...

I wish I could just stop
I know another mornent to break my
heart
Too many tears
Too many times
Too many years l've cried over you

How much more can we use it up?
Drink it dry?
Take this drug?
Looking for something forever gone
But something
We will always want?

Why why why you just let me go?
She says
I feel you pulling back
I feel you changing shape...
And just as l'm breaking free
She hangs herself in front of me
Slips her dress like a flag to
the floor
And hands in the sky
Surrenders it all...

I wish I could just stop
I know another moment to break my
heart
Too many tears
Too many times
Too many years l've cried for you
It's always the same
Wake up in the rain
Head in pain
Hung in shame
A different name
Same old game
Love in vain
And miles and miles and miles and miles and miles
away from home again...

wendy time

"Yuo look like you could do with a friend"
She said
"You look like you could use a hand
Someone to make you smile" she said
"Someone who can understand
Share your trouble
Confort you
Hold you close
And I can do all of these
I think you need me here with you"

"You look like you could do with a sister"
she said
" You look like you need a girl to call
your own…
Like fabulous! fabulous!
Call me fabulous!"
And rubbing her hands so slow
"You stare at me all stange" she said
"Are you hungry for more?"
"I've had enough" I said
"Please leave alone
Please go"

It doesn't touch me at all
It doesn't touch me at all

"You know that you could do with a friend"
she said
"You know that you could use a word like
Feel or follow or fuck" she said
And laughing away as she turned
"You've everything but no-one
Like the last man on earth"
"And when I die" I said
"I'll leave you it all"
Door closes
Leaves me cold

It doesn't touch me at all
It doesn't touch me at all

"You really do need a sister" she said
"You really do need a girl to call
your own...
Like wonderful ! wonderful !"
Call me wonderful !
And running her hands so slow
"You stare at me all strange" she said
"Are you hungry for more?"
"I've had enough" I said
"Please leave me alone
Please go
Please go"

doing the unstuck

It's a perfect day for letting go
For setting fire to bridges
Boat
And other dreary worlds you know
Let's get happy !
It a perfect day for making out
To wake up with a smile without a doubt
To burst grin giggle bliss
skip jump sing and shout
Let's get happy !

"But it's much too late" you say
"For doing this now
We should have done it then"
Well it just goes to show
How wrong you can be
And how you really should know
That it's never too late
To get up and go

It's a perfect day for kiss and swell
For rip-zipping button-popping
kiss and well...
There's loads of other stuff can
make you yell
Let's get happy !
It a perfect day for doing the unstuck
For dancing like you can't hear the beat
And you don't give a further thought
To things like feet
Let's get happy !

Kick out the gloom
Kick out the blues
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pull down the mirror and pull down the walls
Tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
Oh just burn down the house !
Burn down the street !
Turn everything red and the beat is complete
With the sound of your world
Going up in the fire
It's a perfect day to throw back you head
And kiss it all goodbye

It's a perfect day for getting wild
Forgetting all your worries
Life
And everything that makes you cry
Let's get happy !
It's a perfect day for dreams come true
For thinking big
And doing anything you want to do
Let's get happy !

Kick out the gloom
Kick out the blues
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pull down the mirror and pull down the walls
Tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
Oh just burn down the house !
Burn down the street !
Turn everything red and the dream is complete
With the sound of your world
Going up in the fire
It's a perfect day to throw back you head
And kiss it all goodbye

friday i'm in love

I don't care if monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's friday I in love

Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn't even start
It's friday I'm in love

Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
Friday never hesitate...

I don't care if monday's black
Tuesday wednesday heart attack
Thursday never looking back
It's friday I'm in love

Monday you can hold your head
Tuesday wednesday stay in bed
Or thursday watch the walls instead
It's friday I'm in love

Saturday wait
And sunday always comes too late
Friday never hesitate...

Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a shriek
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It's friday
I'm in love

trust

There is no-one left in the world
That I can hold onto
There is really no-one left at all
There is only you
And if you leave me now
You leave all that we were
Undone
There is really no-one left
You are the only one

And still the hardest part for you
To put your trust in me
I love you more than I can say
Why won't you just believe?

a letter to elise

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more then this
Any more then this

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know that I'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would if they only would
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
That hides away
From me and you
There're worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the prayers your hands can make
Oh I just take as muchs you
can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round
Yesterday
I stood and stared
Wide-eyed in front of you
And the face I saw looked back
The way I wanted to
But I just can't hold my tears away
The way you do

Elise believe I never wanted this
I thought this time l'd keep all of my
promises
I thought you were the girl I always
dreamed about
But I let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out...

So Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

And every time I try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up
It runs away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else
I can really do
At all ...

cut

If only you'd never speak to me
The way that you do
If only you'd never speak like that
It's like listening to
A breaking heart
A falling sky
Fire go out and friendship die
I wish you felt the way that I still do

The way that I stil do

If only you'd never look at me
The way that you do
If only you'd never look like that
When I look at you
I see face like stone
Eyes of ice
Mouth sweetly telling lies
I wish you felt the way that I still do

The way that I stil do
But you don't
You don't feel anymore
You don't care anymore
It's all gone

If only you'd never pull from me
The way that you do
If only you'd never pull like that
When I'm with you
I feel hopeless hands helplessly
Pulling you back close to me
I wish you felt the way that I still do

The way that I stil do

If only you'd ever speak to me
The way you once did
Look at me the way you once did
Pull to me the way you once did
But you don't
You don't feel anymore
You don't care anymore
It's all gone
It's all gone

to wish impossible things

Remember how it use to be
When the sun would fill the sky
Remember how we use to feel
Those days would never end
Those days would never end

Remember how it use to be
When the stars would fill the sky
Remember how we use to dream
Those nights would never end
Those nights would never end

It was the sweetness of your skin
It was the hope of all we
might have been
That filled me with the hope to wish
Impossible things
To wish impossible things

But now the sun shines cold
And all the sky is grey
The stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
And all i wish
Is gone away
All i wish
Is gone away

All i wish
Is gone away

end

I think I've reached that point
Where giving up and going on
Are both the same dead end to me
Are both the same old song

I think I've reached that point
Where every wish has come true
And tired disguised oblivion
Is everything I do

Please stop loving me
Please stop loving me
I am none of these things

I think I've reached that point
Where all the things you have to say
And hopes for something more from me
Are just games to pass the time away

Please stop loving me
Please stop loving me
I am none of these things

I think I've reached that point
Where every word that you write
Of every blood dark sea
And every soul black night
And every dream you dream me in
And every perfect free from sin
And burning eyes
And hearts on fire
Are just the same old song

Please stop loving me
Please stop loving me
I am none of these things
I am none of these things

I am none of these things