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Last Dance
The Cure
I'm so glad you came
I'm so glad you remembered
To see how we're ending our last dance together
Expectant, too punctual
But prettier than ever
I really believe that this time it's forever
But older than me now, more constant, more real
And the fur and the mouth and the innocence
Turned to hair and contentment that hangs in abasement
To a woman now standing where once there was only a girl
I'm so glad you came
I'm so glad you remembered
The walking through walls in the heart of December
The blindness of happiness
Of falling down laughing
And I really believed that this time was forever
But Christmas falls late now, flatter and colder
And never as bright as when we used to fall
All this in an instant before I can kiss you
A woman now standing where once there was only a girl
I'm so glad you came
I'm so glad you remembered
To see how we're ending our last dance together
Reluctantly, cautiously
But prettier than ever
I really believe that this time it's forever
But christmas falls late now, flatter and colder
And never as bright as when we used to fall
And even if we drink I don't think we would kiss
In the way that we did when the woman was only a girl
I am quite pissed off. I mean really...
Although this song is quite an empathic response found at an important time in my life. The feeling that becoming an adult makes you lose something... you become less human. I don't know what I mean exactly. Well,. I do, but it's very hard to explain [without sounding ill]...
A woman now standing where once there was only a girl.
Can't you sense the loss? The absolute emptiness of it... where as time ticks by, what was once beautiful and innocent is replaced by a perversion of what society creates in someone. I don't mean that when people age and lose their beauty they become less lovable.
But... the innocence of love gets lost in the modern world. Time no longer exists in the way it once did. Maybe I'm putting a fuzzy gloss on something which is a simple head-fuck... but, I understand the loss I believe this song attempts to portray.
Yet...
I'm so glad you came
I'm so glad you remembered
All I wanted was to say "bye".
And I sometimes get the idea that that's too much to ask for.
And even if we drink I don't think we would kiss
In the way that we did when the woman was only a girl
And we can't even fake it.