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Just Like Heaven
Written By: Pearl Thompson, Boris Williams, Lol Tolhurst, Simon Gallup & Robert Smith
Artist: The Cure
Released: 1987
“Just Like Heaven” was the third single from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me It was inspired by a trip Robert Smith took with his then-girlfriend (future wife) Mary Poole to Beachy Head at East Sussex. Smith told Blender in 2003: “The song is about hyperventilating – kissing and fainting to the floor. Mary dances with me in the video because she was the girl, so it had to be her. The idea is that one night like that is worth 1,000 hours of drudgery.” “Just Like Heaven” was The Cure’s first top 40 hit in the US. It also reached the top 40 in France, New Zealand and the UK. In the summer of 1992, Smith called it “the best pop song the Cure has ever done.” Per Robert Smith – about how the band’s girlfriends influenced the music – “I’ve never been a big fan of irony. The girls would sit on the sofa in the back of the control room and give the songs marks out of 10. So there was a really big female input.”
[Verse 1]
"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream", she said
"The one that makes me laugh", she said
And threw her arms around my neck
"Show me how you do it, and I promise you
I promise that I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you"
[Verse 2]
Spinning on that dizzy edge
Kissed her face and kissed her head
Dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow
"Why are you so far away?", she said
"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you?
That I'm in love with you?"
[Refrain]
You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream
You're just like a dream
[Verse 3]
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
And found myself alone, alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
[Refrain]
You, soft and only
You, lost and lonely
You, just like heaven
Like Real People Do
Written By: Hozier
Artist: Hozier
Released: 2014
Alternate version included: Live in America, 2015
This song is a metaphor. Hozier uses “bog bodies” in Ireland, bodies which are exhumed after centuries of natural mummification, to describe a new relationship.
[Verse 1]
I had a thought, dear, however scary
About that night, the bugs and the dirt
Why were you digging? What did you bury
Before those hands pulled me from the earth?
[Chorus]
I will not ask you where you came from
I will not ask and neither should you
Honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
[Verse 2]
I knew that look, dear: eyes always seeking
Was there in someone that dug long ago
So I will not ask you why you were creeping
In some sad way, I already know
[Chorus]
So I will not ask you where you came from
I would not ask and neither would you
Honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips
We should just kiss like real people do
[Chorus]
I could not ask you where you came from
I could not ask and neither could you
Honey, just put your sweet lips on my lips
We could just kiss like real people do
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i swear something awakens in me whenever Just Like Heaven by The Cure starts playing
im probably gonna make an edit of the goth kids to it later
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My friend called and to my suprise I have a clubhouse ticket for the Just like Heaven festival. I'M RECORDING EVERYTHING CUS HOLY SH*T THAT'S AN EXPERIENCE ✨️ WHAT A BLESSING 🙌
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I couldn't help but while watching the new trailer,I thought 2nd season of interview with the vampire is Loustat AU from the movie Just Like Heaven with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo and honestly I love it 😍 😆
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