I Just Take As Much As You Can Throw

A Letter To Elise
The Cure (1992)

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

Elise it doesn't matter what you do

I know 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 much as 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

Thought this time I'd keep all of my promises

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

There's nothing else I can really do at all