Like Throwing Arms Round Yesterday

Wish
The Cure (1992)

The ninth studio album from The Cure was released thirty years ago today.  It would reach #1 in the UK and was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 35th Grammy Awards.

Robert Smith may be the only person who could write a beautiful and heartbreaking song of resignation like A Letter To Elise and include it on the same album as a song that reaches the pure joy of Friday I'm In Love.

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

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 are worlds to part

With aching looks and breaking hearts

And all the prayers your hands can make

I just take as much as you can throw

And then throw it all away

I'll 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 I'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 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

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