Let's
Go To Bed
Let me take your hand
I'm shaking like milk
Turning
Turning blue
All over the windows and the floors
Fires outside in the sky
Look as perfect as cats
The two of us together again
But it's just the same
A stupid game
But I don't
care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you don't say it first
You think
you're tired now
But wait until three...
Laughing at the Christmas lights
You remember
From December
All of this
then back again
Another girl
Another name
Stay alive but stay the same
It's just the same
A stupid game
But I don't
care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't play it
If you don't play it first
You can't
even see now
So you ask me the way
You wonder if it's real
Because it couldn't be rain...
Through the right doorway
And into the white room
It used to be the dust that would lay here
When I came here alone
But I don't
care if you don't
And I don't feel if you don't
And I don't want it if you don't
And I won't say it
If you don't say it first
Doo doo doo
doo
Let's go to bed!
Doo doo doo doo
Let's go to bed!
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Robert
on 'Let's Go To Bed'...
"It
was because I wanted the group - I didn't want to be 'Robert Smith,
ex-Cure,' so the only way I thought to escape that was to keep the
vehicle of the Cure moving. I thought the best way to do that was
to write the most extreme song, the most anti - Pornography type of
song, with the most banal elements, and that was Lets Go To Bed. And
once we'd done that, it sort of cracked the whole thing open, and
people no longer thought of us as very gloomy." (The Head On
The Cure Creem December 1986).
"It's a foolish title and the lyrics don't mean a thing. Musically,
I mixed in everything bad I'd heard for years but even when we'd recorded
it, I still didn't think it was horrible enough. So Bill remixed it
and there it was!"
(Ten Imaginary Years - 1988)
"A nonsense set of words to complement what I then considered
to be a hideous piese of 'commercial' pap... but it grew on me...!!!"
(Cure News 10 - December 1990)
"‘Let's Go To Bed’ is not my favourite Cure song, by
a long way, but I realize what it did for us. And I can think back
and remember the feeling I had when it was getting radio play, and
things were changing. It was an experiment, and it was working. And
I remember really being kind of enthused by that. Thinking, "I
can actually do something really different and it will work."
And it gave me a lot of confidence.
“At the time, '82, it came off the back of us doing "17
Seconds," "Faith" and "Pornography." And
we were kind of on an ever-downward spiral, and I was in a pretty
bad mental state. ["Let's Go to Bed"] was kind of a road-to-Damascus
sort of experience for me. I thought I would do something I would
completely hate and that I would be totally opposed to--at the time,
I wanted to take a holiday from myself, really. That's why I did that
song.
“I found it easy. I thought, "I've got this mental block
about lots of different things," and in that song and in the
accompanying video, just laying myself open to ridicule was a great
experience for me. It made me grow up. In a funny way, it was one
of the most childish things we've ever done, and yet I thought it
was the most grown-up thing we'd done to that point.
“I've never been a fan of irony. I thought, "I've got to
throw myself into this." And I thought most pop songs are about
"Let's Go To Bed"--that's the bottom line pretty much--so
I thought, "I'll just do that. I'll be very up front." ...
It summed up the idiot pop side I'd been fighting against." (Live
Daily 8th November 2001)
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Let's
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Let's
Go To Bed 7" Single (back) |
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