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Robert
on 'This Is A Lie'... "In "This Is a Lie", one of the most sombre songs on "Wild Mood Swings", you describe life as a lie. You sing that every love relationship is a lie, since by choosing one person, you deny everyone else in the world, without being able to know if you have made the right choice or not. That you only pretend, all the way until the end. Is this something that you feel very strongly or is this only a thought?" "It is something that I feel strongly since I don't think it can be any other way. It is like that. No one can be sure. But you can't walk around thinking about it either, you would become insane. That very text is the only one I had to defend in front of Mary, the only one that made her upset. What "why each of us must lose everyone else in the world"? What do you mean?'" (Pop magazine, May 1996) "That particular song came out of the ongoing discussion in the band about various ways to live, monogamy and so on. Within the group, there's a point of view that it's much more satisfying to have several relationships and within those, give and take what you want and what they want. I represent the other extreme, because I'm with one person. So in effect, those particular lyrics aren't my point of view. I'm talking from the perspective of other people to broaden my writing. "It's the first thing I've written that Mary came and asked what I meant by it. She's always given me a huge amount of leeway, creatively speaking... but because it was so anti-monogamy, she came up and said: 'Is this what you really think?' It was much worse before. The original lyric to 'This is a lie' actually had as its final line: 'Travel a long road... in chains'." (Vox 1996) "An argument about 'love'/ a poem". (Cure News 18 - October 1997) |
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