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Faith Lyrics: Catch me if I fall, I'm losing hold / I can't just carry on this way / And every time I turn away / I lose another blind game / The idea of perfection holds me / Suddenly, I see
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Everybody would have said: ‘My god, the Cure has changed again, they must have lost it’. It doesn’t make any sense. Seventeen Seconds talks about instinctive, childish emotions. For a lot of people this made sense. With Faith we continue our growth, it talks about age, getting older and dying. It sounds depressing, but it’s not meant to be that way.
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Catch me if I fall I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me Suddenly I see you change Everything at once The same But the mountain never moves Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There's nothing left but hope Your voice is dead And old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait If only we could stay Please Say the right words Or cry like the stone white clown And stand forever Lost forever in a happy crowd No one lifts their hands No one lifts their eyes Justified with empty words The party just gets better and better I went away alone With nothing left But faith · Submit Corrections · Writer(s): Simon Gallup, Robert James Smith, Laurence Andrew Tolhurst · AZLyrics · C · The Cure Lyrics ·
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October 12, 2020 -
i've been listening to the cure for a while and i can't stop thinking about robert's lyrics.
In faith we have lyrics with multiple interpretations as "all the cats are grey" lyrics or in other voices.
Specially thinking about one sentence in the last song that says: "rape me like a child, christined in blood". Does anybody knows what is robert talking about? i just don't get it
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It was a dark time for them at the time Lol Tolhurst lost his mother and Robert lost his grandmother. They were 21 so that was pretty hard on them. Here is a great article on the album. https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/kaiofelipe/album/4392-faith/
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I was also thinking about this lyric tonight. I found this definition for a baptism by blood: Q. 1. What does Baptism by Blood mean? A. 1. Baptism by blood is the shedding of one's blood for the faith of Christ. He who has the intent of being baptised, but dies as a martyr while preaching the Gospel before receiving the Sacrament, he has received the Baptism by blood. So a child who died because of their religion before they were baptized?
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Faith [Live] Lyrics & Meanings: Catch me if I fall / I'm losing hold / I can't just carry on this way / And every time / I turn away / Lose another blind game / The idea of perfection holds me / Suddenly I see you change / Everything at once / The same / But the mountain never moves / Rape me like a child / Christened in blood / Painted like an unknown saint / There's nothing left but hope / Your voice is dead / And old / And always empty / Trust in me through closing years / Perfect moments wait / If only we could stay / Please / Say the right words / Or cry like the stone white clown / And stand forever / Lost forever in a happy crowd / / No one lifts their hands / No one lifts their eyes / Justified with empty words / The party just gets better and better / / I went away alone / With nothing left / But faith
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This is for everyone that died today in china, its called faith" Catch me if I fall I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me...
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Faith (The Cure album) - Wikipedia
October 13, 2025 - Record Mirror's Mike Nicholls found ... meaningless, self-important and bereft of any real heart or soul". In a retrospective review, Chris True of AllMusic called Faith "a depressing record, certainly, but also one of the most underrated and beautiful albums the Cure put together." In 2010, Fact ranked the album as one of the 20 best "goth records ever made". All lyrics are written ...
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The Cure Lyrics: Faith
Catch me if I fall I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me Suddenly I see you change Everything at once The same But the mountain never moves Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There's nothing left but hope Your voice is dead And old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait If only we could stay Please Say the right words Or cry like the stone white clown And stand forever Lost forever in a happy crowd No one lifts their hands No one lifts their eyes Justified with empty words The party just gets better and better I went away alone With nothing left But faith
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July 20, 2021 - i kneel and wait in silence as one by one the people slip away into the night the quiet and empty bodies kiss the ground before they pray and slip away… i sit and listen dreamlessly a promise of salvation makes me stay then look at your face and feel my heart pushed in as all around the children play the games they tired of yesterday they play i stand and hear my voice cry out a wordless scream at ancient power it breaks against stone i softly leave you crying… i cannot hold what you devour the sacrifice of penance in the holy hourThe Cure’s “The Holy Hour” · These lyrics intensely
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Faith [live] Lyrics by The Cure
(It's the last song, it's called "Faith") Catch me if I fall I'm losing hold I can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me Suddenly I see you change Everything at once the same But the mountain never moves Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There's nothing left but hope Your voice is dead and old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait If only we could stay Please say the right words I cry like the stone white clown and stand Lost forever in a happy crowd And
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THE CURE - FAITH LYRICS
Catch me if I fall, I'm losing hold Can't just carry on this way And every time I turn away Lose another blind game The idea of perfection holds me Suddenly I see you change Everything at once, the same But the mountain never moves Rape me like a child Christened in blood Painted like an unknown saint There's nothing left but hope Your voice is dead and old And always empty Trust in me through closing years Perfect moments wait If only we could stay Please, say the right words Or cry like the stone white clown And stand lost forever in a happy crowd No one lifts their hands No one lifts their
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r/TheCure on Reddit: How do yall interpret this verse from "Faith"?
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More specifically the "lost forever in a happy crowd" line. I always thought it sounded cool and in the mood of the song but never really understood what it represents. Sorry if it's a stupid question haha
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It means a lot to me deeply. And that's why one of my social media names is the stone white clown.... I go out and try to be sociable - but I am "lost forever in a happy crowd" where everyone is smiling and having a good time and I am breaking inside. "No one lifts their eyes" for me is they are carrying on in blissful ignorance to the pain some feel. I get the "justified with empty words" from a few people I dare open up a little to saying everything is going to be ok... "The party just gets better and better" is sarcasm at is rawest. That's how I personally interpret it. Thanks for reading!
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Well, this song completely reflects romanticism in literature. in terms of you are lost, no one understands you, you are immersed in melancholy and notice those things that people ignore and continue to live a supposedly “happy” life without noticing bad things in the context of the song, all people have the notorious faith in something, but you don’t have it, you understand that all this is a deception, unlike other people, and you are "lost forever in a happy crowd” because people usually find the meaning of life through faith , an explanation of the things that happen to them, faith works as a support... perhaps Robert meant something else, but it is for me that the song takes on such meaning... but as I remember, he also had problems believing in something and the song was written about it