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Before Three The happiest
day I ever knew |
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Robert
on 'Before Three'.... "This one I was starting to get a bit more upbeat, and it was a good point in the record, about three songs in, to lift things up a bit. It's the memories that I hold and I'm sure that again everyone holds, of certain perfect days and nights. Particularly you have a period in your early teens where everything is so heightened. There is an element of that self awareness, everything just suddenly starts to seem really bright and everything's very important. It was just that. There are still key moments in my life and however old I get they're always gonna be there. They're like the touchstones for me, of how good things can be, and how bad things can be. Its like referencing both of those. Originally this song was like a good and a bad side, and I thought it was a bit too close to Labyrinth having a light side and a dark side. So I ditched the dark side and kept the song, and I turned it into like happiest day and happiest night. Hardly any of these songs on this record are lyrically ground breaking for me, I'm returning to a number of themes, I think most artists do actually. The point of it is trying to illuminate things in a slightly different way and present them in a different way. I was aware of returning to certain themes, then I thought, if we're going to call this album 'The Cure' I had to do that, I can't possibly start off on some bizarre tangent or something that doesn't mean anything to me because I'd be missing the point. This opportunity is about expressing exactly those things that the Cure have always dealt with and Before Three laments the passing of time, but at the same time holds the idea that if you can hold onto those memories in a very real sense then you can't go too far wrong, I think that's very true, and that's going back to the idea that even though you acknowledge that you do change, you really have to hold onto some of the things that happen to you when you're younger, in order not to change too much, or if you change and forget then I really do feel you loose yourself." XFM, June 2004 |
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