Cut
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"So we meet again!" And I offer my hand
All dry and english slow
And you look at me and I understand
Yeah it's a look i used to know
"Three long years... and your favourite man...
Is that any way to say hello?"
And you hold me...
Like you'll never let me go
"Oh
c'mon and have a drink with me
Sit down and talk awhile..."
"Oh I wish I could... and I will!
But now I just don't have the time..."
And over my shoulder as I walk away
I see you give that look goodbye...
I still see that look in your eye...
So dizzy
mr busy - too much rush to talk to billy
All the silly frilly things have to first get done
In a minute - sometime soon - maybe next time -
make it june
Until later... doesn't always come
It's so hard
to think "it ends sometime
And this could be the last
I should really hear you sing again
And I should really watch you dance"
Because it's hard to think
"I'll never get another chance to hold you...
To hold you... "
But chilly
mr dilly - too much rush to talk to billy
All the tizzy fizzy idiot things must get done
In a second - just hang on - all in good time -
won't be long
Until later...
I should've
stopped to think - I should've made the time
I could've had that drink - I could've talked awhile
I would've done it right - I would've moved us on
But I didn''t - now it''s all too late it's over... over...
And you're gone...
I miss you
I miss you I miss you I miss you
I miss you I miss you so much
But how many
times can I walk away
And wish "if only... "
How many times can I talk this way
And wish "if only... "
Keep on making the same mistake
Keep on aching the same heartbreak
I wish "if
only... "
But "if only... "
Is a wish too late...
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Robert
on 'Cut Here'...
"It's
about Billy MacKenzie, once the singer of The Associates. Two months
before The Cure his band was contracted by our record company Fiction.
I knew him since 1978. We appeared on stage together and I took part
at his records. He was a very good friend. In 1996 he figured in our
Mint car video and we made an appointment to see each other soon.
The next thing I heard he had killed himself. I was overwhelmed with
a mix of emotions: anger, feeling of guilt and sadness. I wrote this
song at that time, but I found it too personal to put it on a regular
cd. I could have changed the text into less strong words, like I did
before with such songs, but I still couldn't find it in my heart to
do it." ('Het Algemeen Dagblad, November 2, 2001)
"This song is about Billy MacKenzie who was singing in The Associates.
He was with us for the 'Mint Car' video. We were having a drink at
a table and were supposed to meet the week after to have a drink together.
Then he left and Billy's family announced to me that he'd killed himself.
Of course I had different feelings, as anyone would have when a friend
commits suicide, anger, culpability, and obviously sadness. I'm happy
this single means something to me, 'cos most of the time, singles
are just made for radio." (Europe 2 interview, November 2001)
"I kept passing on the opportunity to sit down and have a drink
with him, have a chat. I was very regretful. I had never used the
words. I wrote them down to get it out of my system. I thought it
might be a good opportunity to actually sing something with a bit
more emotional weight. It is nice to sing a song that meant something,
and to think it is going to be a single is a good thing". (Referring
to Billy Mackenzie, singer of The Associates and a friend of Roberts
for more than 20 years. He killed himself in 1997.)
(JAM! Showbiz 6th November 2001)
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