The "Just like heaven" appreciation thread

anarchist_grungeranarchist_grunger Posts: 161
edited October 2005 in Other Music
this is by far the best Cure song...it's simply brilliant, no question about it...i love all about it:the instrumental is great and the lyrics are just...

"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

what more can u say???it's just this raw emotion...it's one of the songs of my life, i totally love it!!!
if u have some love for this song, please:SHOW IT!!!
"It was a kind of a sick, disturbed rock opera - if Nietzsche were to write a rock opera,"-Jeff Ament about Eddie's first three songs

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  • mrwalkerbmrwalkerb Posts: 1,015
    while I do love it becasue it is a great song, but I like lovesong better
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  • viggs20viggs20 Posts: 1,296
    Definitely one of my favourites...love the lyrics especially the first verse.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,225
    Great Song.

    The Dinosaur Jr cover of it rules :D
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  • AxlUlrichAxlUlrich Posts: 12,652
    great tune..but when it comes to The Cure..LoveSong and A Night Like This do it for me
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  • VEDHEAD27VEDHEAD27 Posts: 3,091
    OK, I must tell you I use to be completey opposed to The Cure...they just never did it for me, mainly his voice. :/ Over the years, thanks to my friends that are rabid fans, I've come to appreciate many songs and can now call my self a "selective" fan. :p This is BY FAR one of my favs and most listened to songs by them. ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!! Music & words alike. GORGEOUS! I must throw some love & appreciation in the mix for this beauty.

    Good call anarchist_grunger. :)
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  • niallniall Posts: 244
    the cure are amazing

    want is the best cure song
  • I have been a Cure fan for a while now! I am really diggin their latest album! They have so many good songs.
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  • CollinCollin Posts: 4,932
    I love that song though it's not my favorite one.
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  • amentvedderamentvedder Posts: 3,610
    *shows love for song* :D

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  • barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    this is by far the best Cure song...it's simply brilliant, no question about it...i love all about it:the instrumental is great and the lyrics are just...

    "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

    what more can u say???it's just this raw emotion...it's one of the songs of my life, i totally love it!!!
    if u have some love for this song, please:SHOW IT!!!


    An absolute anthem... I spent oh, so many high-school days, craizily dancing to this song while being beautifully drunk... life used to be so easy then.
    Hail The Cure!!!!!
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
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    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
  • cookie5798 wrote:
    I have been a Cure fan for a while now! I am really diggin their latest album! They have so many good songs.



    the last album also kicks serios ass
    "It was a kind of a sick, disturbed rock opera - if Nietzsche were to write a rock opera,"-Jeff Ament about Eddie's first three songs

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine now.
    Push me pull me. See ya later

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  • MeddleDealMeddleDeal Posts: 2,547
    a very PRETTIFUL song!!:) One of my favorite Cure songs...you can sense that raw emotion, which I agree w/. It makes you miss that someone SO much..reminds me of my sweetie.

    Robert Smith is such a GREAT lyricist! you can tell he is SO in love in that song.:D
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  • BUENABUENA Posts: 165
    MeddleDeal wrote:
    a very PRETTIFUL song!!:) One of my favorite Cure songs...you can sense that raw emotion, which I agree w/. It makes you miss that someone SO much..reminds me of my sweetie.

    Robert Smith is such a GREAT lyricist! you can tell he is SO in love in that song.:D



    "One Hundred Years" from the album Pornography

    It doesn't matter if we all die
    Ambition in the back of a black car
    In a high building there is so much to do
    Going home time
    A story on the radio

    Something small falls out of your mouth
    And we laugh
    A prayer for something better
    A prayer
    For something better

    Please love me
    Meet my mother
    But the fear takes hold
    Creeping up the stairs in the dark
    Waiting for the death blow
    Waiting for the death blow
    Waiting for the death blow

    Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
    Fighting for freedom on television
    Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
    Have we got everything?
    She struggles to get away . . .

    The pain
    And the creeping feeling
    A little black haired girl
    Waiting for Saturday
    The death of her father pushing her
    Pushing her white face into the mirror
    Aching inside me
    And turn me round
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days

    Caressing an old man
    And painting a lifeless face
    Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
    The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
    All shadows and deliverance
    Under a black flag
    A hundred years of blood
    Crimson
    The ribbon tightens round my throat
    I open my mouth
    And my head bursts open
    A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
    Thrashing in the water
    Over and over
    We die one after the other
    Over and over
    We die one after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other

    It feels like a hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    One hundred years
    "It's the American Dream I am disbelieving... When the gas in my tank feels like money in the bank... I’m gonna blow it all this time, take me one last ride..." - Gone (vedder)
  • jocelynjocelyn Posts: 67
    ***love***

    I've also been obsessed with "Edge of the Deep Green Sea." Gets me every time.
    "I can only be as good as you'll let me."
  • kdpjamkdpjam Posts: 2,303
    i also like from the edge of the deep green sea, as well as the exploding boy, burn, inbetween days, open, untitled, etc. etc. there are so many awesome cure songs.
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  • Love Cats is my favorite maybe.. ;)

    looooooove the cure.. listened to them last night as a matter of fact.
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  • *shows love for song* :D

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    :D:D:D:D:D:D
    "It was a kind of a sick, disturbed rock opera - if Nietzsche were to write a rock opera,"-Jeff Ament about Eddie's first three songs

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine now.
    Push me pull me. See ya later

    <present tense inhabiter #0003 & Even Flow psycho #0036>
  • This is my all-time favorite Cure song. A phenomenal band, and this song was just ideal for them. The rhythms and lyrics and the way they just spin around you..it is just so flawlessly gorgeous. I have much appreciation for this song..and really deepens my love for The Cure. :D
    "Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life, but I'd rather be your moon so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun's not around."
  • viggs20viggs20 Posts: 1,296
    Hot Hot Hot !!!
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  • satur9satur9 Posts: 10
    I love "just like heaven," but my fav is "pictures of you"

    I love The Cure so much, definitively one of my fav bands ever.
  • satur9 wrote:
    I love "just like heaven," but my fav is "pictures of you"

    I love The Cure so much, definitively one of my fav bands ever.



    i'm a big lover of pictures of you also!
    "It was a kind of a sick, disturbed rock opera - if Nietzsche were to write a rock opera,"-Jeff Ament about Eddie's first three songs

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough, I'm fine now.
    Push me pull me. See ya later

    <present tense inhabiter #0003 & Even Flow psycho #0036>
  • twin2twin2 Posts: 894
    "Just Like Heaven" was my favorite song for years and definetly my favorite by the cure.
  • barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    BUENA wrote:
    "One Hundred Years" from the album Pornography

    It doesn't matter if we all die
    Ambition in the back of a black car
    In a high building there is so much to do
    Going home time
    A story on the radio

    Something small falls out of your mouth
    And we laugh
    A prayer for something better
    A prayer
    For something better

    Please love me
    Meet my mother
    But the fear takes hold
    Creeping up the stairs in the dark
    Waiting for the death blow
    Waiting for the death blow
    Waiting for the death blow

    Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
    Fighting for freedom on television
    Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
    Have we got everything?
    She struggles to get away . . .

    The pain
    And the creeping feeling
    A little black haired girl
    Waiting for Saturday
    The death of her father pushing her
    Pushing her white face into the mirror
    Aching inside me
    And turn me round
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days
    Just like the old days

    Caressing an old man
    And painting a lifeless face
    Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
    The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
    All shadows and deliverance
    Under a black flag
    A hundred years of blood
    Crimson
    The ribbon tightens round my throat
    I open my mouth
    And my head bursts open
    A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
    Thrashing in the water
    Over and over
    We die one after the other
    Over and over
    We die one after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other
    One after the other

    It feels like a hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    A hundred years
    One hundred years


    This one is also awesome and impressive... just like the album it comes from...

    A few things come close to the pleasant shock that is hearing this tune live... a few groups come close to compete with the cure live. Just the weekend got me a boot of them playing an acoustic concert in Paris, beautiful!
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
  • meisteredermeistereder Posts: 1,554
    I love this song too, but my favorite is From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea.

    The Cure's lyrics are poetry, even without the music. Amazing songwriting.
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  • barcoachbarcoach Posts: 413
    I love this song too, but my favorite is From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea.

    The Cure's lyrics are poetry, even without the music. Amazing songwriting.

    That song acoustic... wow!!!
    It's not better than the electric live version, but certainly gains a new life.
    And yeah, Robert has many years being one of the strongest lyricists around.
    Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
    -The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
    Mexico C. 12/10/05.

    "There is a rose that I want to live for
    although, God knows, I may not have met her"
    -J. Strummer

    "And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
  • This thread is in dire need of a BUMP!

    I've been listening to Galore a lot over the last few weeks and just absolutely love this song.

    It's so gorgeous in those ways that can't be compared to any other. It's one all in its own. Really shows just how incredibly passionate Robert is about what he writes. Such a phenomenal lyricist, if not, gorgeous poet with the way it so intricately laces through out his writings.

    And to go more in depth the flow of the music in itself, wow! That loose vibe from the guitars into the drumming and that Bass?! Incredibly flawless.

    This song is perfection in every which way, and to those who have never heard it, pleeease make sure you get the opportunity to do so, and to those that have, give it another spin, it's so worthwhile. :D
    "Everyone wants to be the sun that lights up your life, but I'd rather be your moon so I can shine on you during your darkest hour when your sun's not around."
  • electronblueelectronblue WPB Florida Posts: 3,457
    just like heaven iiiiiiis the morst beautiful song that i eVr heard. as much as i wlove pearl jam its my favotie of all. you gwet swalllllllowed up by it. been there abnd done that. i habver beeen listenint to it evyrnite. rock pn porl and robert
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    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • StoneG82StoneG82 Posts: 806
    The Dinosaur Jr. version of this song rocks so hard.

    Although the screaming grates on my nerves like no other. Fucking Lou Barlow.
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  • electronblueelectronblue WPB Florida Posts: 3,457
    just like heaven iiiiiiis the morst beautiful song that i eVr heard. as much as i wlove pearl jam its my favotie of all. you gwet swalllllllowed up by it. been there abnd done that. i habver beeen listenint to it evyrnite. rock pn porl and robert





    ..waaht the fuck was i thinking...~
    ********************************
    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    This is the song that made me fall in love with the Cure. Up until that point I held out thinking I didn't want to get lumped in with all the goth types by saying I loved them. Couldn't resist after Just Like Heaven. That song will hold up forever. It is absolutely beautiful. Pictures of You and the Close to Me re-mix are probably my other favorites.
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