The Cure - Discography

*Discography*
Albums	Singles

Wrong Number

Lime green lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes I'm seeing
Lime green lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams

Lime green lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the snakes I'm seeing
Lime green and tangerine
Are the sickly sweet colours of the devil in my dreams

It gets to Friday and I give you a call
"You know I'm getting kind of worried
No she doesn't seem herself at all...
Lime green and a sickly kind of orange
I've never seen her like this before..."

I had the best laid plans this side of America
Started out in church and finished with angelica
Red and blue soul with a snow white smile
"Can you dig it?"
I had the best laid plans this side of America
Started out in church and finished with angelica
And now I dig in the dirt
And I'm down here for a while...

You've got to make up your mind and make it soon
Is there room in your life?
For one more trip to the moon?
Is there room in your life
For one more?

Burn red burn red burn red burn red and gold
Are the deep dark colours of the snakes I hold
Burn red burn red burn red and gold
Are the deep dark colours of the devil at home
"She pulls me down just as I'm trying to hide
Grabs me by the hair and drags me outside
And starts digging in the dirt...
For a not so early bird its the only way
For her to get the worm..."

"Hello? Are you still there?"
...and much too late...
"Sorry, wrong number"

Robert on 'Wrong Number'...
When asked what inspired him to write 'Wrong Number'
"Oh no... the one question I can't answer... Most of the songs I've written, lyrically, I can explain because they have a narrative structure: a beginning, a middle and... an end (laughs). But Wrong Number doesn't. It's like three different things. I honestly don't know... Well, I do, but we would be on air for another hour. Part of it is about... I always found it funny, the idea of colours being in fashion or out fashion. And lime green and tangerine... I can remember my older sister wearing it. I'm old enough to remember the late sixties. And it was such a horrific combination and people were wearing it in summer... lime green and tangerine. And people believe they can, like, look good and fashionable if they wear the right colours.
That is just one part of the song. The other part is a phonecall I got when I was in America in summer for a couple of shows for another radio station. But it's not that important really... Probably because I met Bowie and he told me that you don't have to worry about what the words mean... Hang on... You don't... have... the... words... worry..." (Modern Rock Live 1997)

Wrong Number
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