The Cure - Lament

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Today there was a tragedy
Underneath the bridge
A man walked
Cold and blue
Into La Ment
The sky coloured perfect
As the man slipped away
Waving with a last vanilla smile
Somewhere at a table
Two drowned fools
Smoking
Drinking water as they talked
Of how they loved our lady
And oh the smell as candles die
One more ice cream river body
Flowed underneath the bridge
Underneath the bridge..........

[@arberahmetaj7874]

Robert Smith is one of the greatest artist of all time. He has that special way of touching your soul like no one else has.

[@replicas79]

there is Gary Numan aswell

[@sanjose528]

Arber Ahmetaj so perfectly and nicely put !

[@bobdoubter2977]

+Arber Ahmetaj Well put...one of the bands from the 80's that sounds great. His voice is so...sympathetic, like a ghost's yearning for something lost singing from a place from a long time ago...creepy but enchanting all at once.

[@MowgliX]

You said it! :)

[@luisgerardo309]

C´mon man..you went so far... it is just a pop band

[@jaqque9633]

Here I am, grown man, with children older than Robert Smith when he wrote this, still getting teary-eyed listening to this. I would spend many a night driving around, listening to The Cure. Listening takes me right back to those moments.

[@natoratorbiz6738]

Same

[@pierreguinot9238]

Idem !

[@dogsrbetter]

Same ❤

[@zachariahlloyd6043]

*Right there with you friend* My little girl is about to have a kid, *I'm gonna be a Grandpa....* *WHERE DID THE YEARS/DECADES GO??*

[@deltabud1]

I’m here to remember back too

[@babydaddy60613]

My all time favorite Cure song. I want an entire album of this feeling.

[@archer60x43]

Check out Sunshine Blind’s album Love The Sky to Death

[@politicallyincorrect5802]

It s called "JAPANESE WHISPERS"....

[@Brendan-Black]

​@@politicallyincorrect5802Eh, the rest of the _Japanese Whispers_ compilation doesn't have this track's vibe.

[@arnaudbernier1406]

​@@Brendan-Blackwell, it's called Pornography. It feels very close to The Figurehead to me

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Yeah, Pornography is about as close as you’re going to get. Maybe Faith.

[@henkmeerdink2088]

This is, without a doubt, one of the most quintessential Cure songs.... I have had this play in my head for nearly 40 years... haunting, catchy... the Cure...

[@unefillequipassaitparla4925]

The Cure casually coming out with the most soul crushing, unreal, beautiful, magnificent, pure, touching song to ever exist :

[@Puzzledtraveller]

Discovered The Cure in 1987, I was 14. I was never the same.

[@kirawinter7951]

I discovered them, and fell in love at the age of 14 as well! Their music has been the constant soundtrack to the decades since, and the love is still deep, strong, and beautifully sad. Thank you Robert & company, for all the gorgeous heartache.

[@ManoSaarinenCarmanen81]

I was 11 when i bought Wish in '92 and i've been a huge fan since that wonderful day. I have all the albums and i hope Robert Smith & boys will release new album soon... ...it's been almost a decade since their latest.

[@nataschapanopoulou2138]

Me too! I love them since I was 13 or 14 and this love is unbroken and lasts forever!

[@Soma-dr4jm]

Mano Saarinen Same! 92 changed my life...

[@jorgegenoves8315]

Me too, i saw them live back in 1987 and my life changed....i was only 14.....

[@blues4365]

I'm on the ferry to Dover, it's misty and windy. In my walkman covered ears sounded this masterpiece as i stared at the sea with the spray in my face . I was 17 and my heart was drenched in melancholy... Amazing how music preserves our memories.. Love this track forever!

[@lifelikeweeds819]

When I moved to Portland Oregon in 2000 I used to walk around the city in all the misty and fog and rain listening to this on repeat. It's an audible time capsule I can open any time I choose.

[@bricecline-smith8147]

this was tbe last album i collect from them as i had all the albums by 1992 i was 14...something about the white plastic tape and one page cover was intentionally genericly decieving to hide the potency.....i realized this song would never not be important to me..steve severen and robert smith co wrote this and it was something i dont think either of them couda made alone so timing was everything...that they had been friends and got slong ect...and then this song was allowed in from the either..i duno

[@daveosc]

blues4365 awesome imagery

[@robertflynn6686]

Sounds familiar as you said. Melancholy ? I used to listen to 'sister Christian ' by knight rangers a lot that way. Now cars don't even have disc players. I guess you could see across the channel on a better day crossing. I guess about that time 1982 to 1983 the band and robert split leading to evocation of past memory he had about a body pulled from a river.. I am sure that was not in your mind atv17.!!. I understood then after losing Simon almost Robert did have suicidal thoughts but he never did it thankfully.

[@marciorocha2003]

Pergect conclusion

[@darkmatter7301]

There’s no doubt this is one of the Cure’s best ever tracks. So much emotion in it.

[@dogsrbetter]

This is one of my all time favorite cure songs....and I owned every single tape (lol) up to Wish....and yet people think of Friday I'm in love when they think of the cure. That was one of their worst, sadly.

[@RandomButBeautiful]

One of their best songs. The Glastonbury 1990 live version also amazing, one of the few times they played it live and probably the biggest crowd.

[@kylabotting]

"...the sky colored perfect as the man slipped away waving with a last vanilla smile..." how beautiful these lyrics are.

[@michellebeatty9108]

So touching

[@leonstraatman1857]

One of my favourite songs by the cure,such a deep feeling and shivers.....

[@MrFolky77]

I am a big French fan of the Cure, and I must say, after reading almost ALL the comments that I am really delighted to see that one of my absolute favorite songs by them is many people's favorite as well!... ANd I loved reading such good quality comments, written in good English, French or even Portuguese, from people of all ages, with obviously a great taste and sensitivity, something that we greatly miss these days around... The Cure forever, and especially songs like this one, or the Same Deep Water as You, another absolute gem (from Disintegration)...

[@CureChannelone]

+Da. Greg. Thanks for your comment. You are welcome curefriend! Have a nice day!!

[@1minosnikos]

commentaire fin et adapté

[@LenOnTheDoor0000]

Da. Greg. It becomes even more beautiful when you hear about the sad history behind such a song...

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

It's wonderful you guys in France supported a band largely ignored in the UK, who couldn't find the success here, because of trash pop from The Hit Factory blocking their material from the higher end of the British Music charts. I recall finding two Cure Vinyls in a hypermarket outside Boulogne!!

[@mikeray1544]

Agreed Folky Seven...................

[@GLXYNXS]

This is the perfect song to listen to when you're walking around at night.

[@eedi0ta695]

accurate

[@bobdoubter2977]

And Walking After Midnight by Patsy Cline.

[@adamkaczmarek8304]

Even better to ride a bike through the city at 3 AM.

[@clvrswine]

Creepy comment.

[@Shikta-poobah67]

@@clvrswineWhy? People have all kinds of different reasons for walking around at night. Not all of them are sinister or dubious. For many years when I was bartending I had a 2 mile walk home every night at 2:30-3am, and I would frequently listen to stuff like this on my Walkman during that time. Those are actually some of my fondest memories, and the best part… no one was harmed.

[@TNMAN555]

The Cure is definitely best fucking band ever. Discovered them in 1982 and they still touch me. Seen them 13 times in concert!

[@NefeliOdisseas]

And here I am, listening to the Cure since over 30 years! My favourite artist for ever and ever! ❤

[@Shikta-poobah67]

Funny thing about “The Walk” EP, that this was originally released on in ‘83, was that Bob at that time was really trying hard to avoid the gloom ‘n doom of The Cure’s “dark trilogy” (Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography) and branch out into more poppy territory (Let’s Go To Bed), and more danceable rhythms, as evidenced by the other 3 songs on the EP. This song was a real oddball, and came across more like a leftover from the Pornography era… and that’s why I loved it so much, and still do.

[@TheCureMEP]

so deep and dark. i love this song so much

[@CureChannelone]

Me too

[@charlottesometimes2287]

I've been adoring this song for more than 30 years now. It has that something special which makes it so different ....

[@Obomaeatschildren]

I'm sorry you will not like this if you think your a cure fan and all you have is the greatest hits. This is actually one of thier greatest songs ever!!! You must hear all their music over 26 albums!!! to really appreciate it, this is absolutely my favorite song. It just moves me every time, the music the lyrics so different, each song will have different meanings and to each person

[@henkmeerdink2088]

You are right...

[@offgridlowtech]

One of their best. Rarely performed.. very fortunate to have seen them play it live in 1990.

[@JBW929]

One of their greatest songs ever. Not only is it well written, but it is sung with an emotion and intensity very few other artists can replicate. The Cure is the greatest band of all time.

[@pdx650]

One of The Cures' best songs ever.

[@Stella-oo8ko]

really beautiful, atmospheric, deep, dark and …sad! The Cure at their best. Love it!!!

[@madjer87]

When I listen this music never can`t stop my tears drop...

[@lyonslaforet]

The single The Walk is one of the most perfect singles recorded by the Cure thanks to its B-Sides including this little gem!

[@albertounited]

My favorite song from "Japanese Whispers".

[@franckgerard1150]

Me too since always !

[@CureChannelone]

:)

[@garenne3676]

Oui avec just on kiss

[@sulladrum]

Nobody writes hauntingly beautiful songs as well as Robert Smith

[@raffaellaravalico]

The hidden pearl of Japaneese Whispers

[@kylabotting]

One of the first cassette tapes i bought...and i was hooked immediately.

[@winetrcrowwisente]

i think the whole album might be a hidden pearl...

[@kylabotting]

for myself, personally, this is one of their best albums...

[@djouletube]

joydivisiongirl the same for me, a great album very underrated ;)

[@andrewmorrison8680]

joydivisiongirl Was originally on a 4 track 12" single with The Walk.

[@texasBMXer]

The cold mechanical rhythm of the drums, the guitar from 2:53 onward, and Robert Smith's howling and yelps in this song remind me so much of Joy Division that hearing this song for the first time was like discovering an obscure Joy Division B-side or demo.

[@devinthierault]

+texasBMXer Komakino has drums like this.

[@FRANCESGUM]

Joy Division...you're right! Good call =)

[@mariano420]

the cure is my cure

[@f.w.2054]

I like their more commercial stuff, but its songs like this that really make me a huge Cure fan!

[@Kazujaman]

2:52. Za każdym razem gdy słyszę ten krzyk przechodzą mnie ciarki po plecach. Ten krzyk to rozpacz, to ból, to smutek.... lament.

[@ozymandias81ytchannel36]

Feelings turned into notes, the eerie distant voice of Robert Smith entangled in a desperate lament made of pure inspirational art. This is why The Cure and Joy Division will always be my favourite artists / band, one can reproduce a valzer and stab your heart with just 17 seconds of music, the other can grab you from your neck and rise high until you'll feel blue, but also with improved consciousness of ordinary life... And with both it's all up to you if to feel sad, happy, serious, depressed, realistic. They are both my life and this song is a small sign.

[@batbitten]

Yes. Joy division. You know well. These go hand in hand. Try some later bowie, heathen album. Same vibe. Excellent.

[@kimsvejstrup9138]

One of my all time top 10 Cure songs.. At this moment its number 1..

[@reneel3063]

Always one of my favorites by them ❤️ The Cure always made my soul feel heard. A rarity in this world.

[@siren71]

This song is both beautiful and haunting for me. I played both this and Plainsong repeatedly while dealing with my Mother's illness and ultimate passing. It will forever remind me of that time and her. Thanks Robert.

[@DeusExMachina-qk7rs]

This one touched my soul so deeply when I was young. Sad and yet so incredibly beautiful. Didn't really understand the text, but that didn't matter. The music is speaking for itself. I still love it.

[@HaleG9]

I enjoy those late 1980ies songs of The Cure much more these days than I could at the time. When I was 15-16 years old I took this as going too much into the direction of Pop. Now, with more than 50 years, and a wider horizon it just fills me with beautiful melancholy.

[@sophiewilleme9921]

Tellement sublime ce morceau qui à mes yeux est aussi fort émotionnellement parlant que The Figurehead…

[@benoitbertrand910]

Totalement en accord avec toi!

[@arnaudbernier1406]

Deux de mes morceaux préférés !

[@olivsmiraglia2424]

Vu en concert dernièrement sur Montpellier, groupe incroyable

[@sophiewilleme9921]

@@olivsmiraglia2424 moi aussi je les ai vu à Montpellier en novembre 2022, je n’oublierai jamais ce concert il était fabuleux, il y avait eu A Strange Day mais pas The Figurehead c’est mon seul regret. Le temps est passé mais Robert a conservé sa voix, les Cure est un groupe de légende dont les morceaux uniques sont intemporels. Ce concert fut tellement plein d’émotion et j’avoue avoir versé des larmes quand ils ont joué A Strange Day car c’est avec ce morceau que j’ai découvert les Cure et The Figurehead m’a fait comprendre que j’aimerais ce groupe toute ma vie, Pornography restera toujours mon album préféré.

[@marinamattioli1224]

ci sono alcune canzoni dei Cure che NON POSSO riascoltare senza stare malissimo. Questa è una di quelle. Le altre sono A strange day e Just one kiss. Mi sto facendo davvero del male oggi

[@eclectico78]

that bass line is brilliant, so powerful!

[@josemartinez-nl8dn]

Agree also the drums

[@wozefa]

this is one of the best cure songs ever.

[@shanedog9082]

One of the first albums I ever bought as a child at 11 years old. I still love it.

[@chriswright3832]

This reminds me of the depression i felt moving back to the prairies and feeling like i was the only one in a city of a million listening to this.

[@fukingidiot9156]

This is the haunting sound that makes me like the Cure so much. I don't have the words to describe where the music takes me.

[@olitlaloc]

That bass is totally Robert's style. He wrote everything on Seventeen seconds and lots of the basslines on Faith and pornography. He did Lament on his own. In my opinon, one of the greatest songs ever writen.

[@zoeherriot]

He apparently writes a lot of songs by starting with the bass. I’m pretty sure he wrote the fascination street bass line (it’s basically the same on his home demo).

[@alonsocomin6215]

The cure puede ir de un extremo a otro del registro pop sin despeinarse como ningún otro grupo ha sido capaz de hacer. De la melancolía al pop tontorron, conservando la capacidad de crear melodías hermosas. Os sigo desde la recopilación “on the wave” de 1980. Gracias.

[@kate9341]

От этой песни странно щемит в груди. Тревожность и красота

[@Oonof4]

Rarely performed live, this is Robert at his best. Quite simply, one of the most profound songs of the twentieth century.

[@KarenKayH]

Beautiful beyond words. Pure genius.

[@wori1968]

so many memories

[@ledhead999]

I remember this being a one sided freebie with the magazine "Flexidisc" It eventually found its way onto the 12 inch 4 track "Let's go to bed - I still have that original flexidisc. Loved the song then, love it now

[@lydialomeli4273]

the awesome, more haunting and fluty flexipop version is also available on the join the dots album

[@turkrnenistann]

the most perfect song

[@janellesmith4564]

Last itme I saw The Cure live was at a Livid Festival in Brisbane in 2000. This is my favourite song by far, but then again all their songs are good. Loved them since I got my first album back in 1985. I never get sick of listing to them

[@n84434]

We played this at our wedding..... what a reaction

[@MrAgmoore]

LOL what year?

[@Brendan-Black]

@@MrAgmoore 2035

[@lyonslaforet]

The Cure knew how to write quality B-sides!

[@yorchsalmel]

This song makes me feel so sad :(... but it´s beautiful

[@linorosi8002]

perhaps my favourite cure song...

[@angelsennarr2194]

+Lino Rosi es brutalment bòna!!!

[@djstarsign]

Same

[@vincenzollamas]

i put this up there with one of my fave Robert Smith/Cure songs of all time

[@vincenzollamas]

@BoatingGuy was just mentioning to someone how the chorus/melody in wailing wall is one of the most beautiful things Robert has written

[@michellegarza4206]

such a beautiful song,pierces the heart and soul

[@EyeWonderOne]

Everyday after school in my senior year I'd put this record on. It was the B side song on a single record I owned. 1990.

[@happy--radio]

the cure sings the truth....and that is why they amaze us. that is why they still have fans. they sound like no other. no one will ever recreate what they are. hats off to them. other bands may get close to being what they are,were,but in my opinion there is only one cure,one band that sings every emotion out there,and this is why i love them.

[@flywheeldk]

Puzzled Traveller I was also 14 in 1987 when I til discovered The Cure and it chancer everything and I am Still a huge fan. I am going to see them live in Copenhagen in Oktober 😀

[@alexagodin8433]

Such a beautiful song holy shit

[@Nonames12347]

this song is one of the greatest ever released. a really lament... love

[@lostinnevermore5354]

Thank you Robert 🙏 I wouldn’t have survived my teens without you🖤💜🖤 I love you forever my sweet angel.

[@davidfurino2987]

This song totally captures the 80’s. Aloha from Kauai

[@StevieJerusalem]

fills me with a glow to hear this again after soo long it feels like being in the company of a long absent friend thx for making such great music it sounds better than a remembered & I loved it also

[@holdDeez1993]

The cure is the Essence of youth

[@tippo1300]

one of the best bands ,real music ,all origional so varied,and can play live .and still standing the test of time

[@nataschapanopoulou2138]

Wonderful! One of the best! I love the Cure forever!!

[@rungholt]

The best band of the world!!!!!

[@prallplatte]

one of their best!!

[@haydenwittig8877]

THIS BRILLIANT GEM OFF JAPANESE WHIPERS ALBUM CIRCA 1984.THE TONES ARE VERY SAD VERY CURE LIKE MELONCHOLY. LAURENCE TOLHURST HAD SUCH AN INFLUENCE OF THEIR SOUND . BRILLIANT SYNTH SOUNDS. ANDY ANDERSON FORMER DRUMMER MUCH MISSED.

[@corcovado33]

For sure...this song seems coming so far away in my own personal memory...directly to the middle of the 80' s when I was teenager... On that song...there is - for sure - Robert SMITH and The Cure...but don' f forgett also the other man behind that pure treasure...the famous producer Steve NYE...- Penguin Café Orchestra...JAPAN' s band...and his charismatic singer...David SYLVIAN..., Steve NYE was the producer of TIN DRUM - the last JAPAN LP...and Brillant Trees...the first D.S...LP JYF...

[@Nonames12347]

this is one of the best non-simon-gallup made bass line ever, dude

[@brunodiet3207]

Knowledger... ;)

[@fourscoreand9884]

Whose is it?

[@sixtedetoro4901]

Steve Severin on bass

[@fourscoreand9884]

@@sixtedetoro4901 Thanks.

[@vincenzollamas]

@@sixtedetoro4901 it's actually Robert Smith. i've been thinking about this lately, i think Robert may have written a lot of the basslines that Simon Gallup played, though i am guessing Simon wrote much of the earlier bass parts like on Seventeen Seconds & Faith

[@tinabolte1142]

I feel like I'm finally coming home when I hear this song!♥️👍♥️

[@tippo1300]

one of the best bands ,real music ,all origional so varied,and can play live .

[@karin7978]

This is such a blast from the past. I went on holiday to Lanzarote with 2 friends in 1984'ish, who were so awful to me, but I had my cassette of The Cure in my Sony Walkman and took myself off for walks listening to this album, which got me through the 2 awful weeks I had to spend with them, the friends!

[@tomfennell2039]

great guitar and drums

[@victorrosales6012]

and keybords too

[@kv3591]

Lament. Beautyful Melody

[@Uthark]

this should be played in every concert, such an amazing song, by the way, awesome pictures!!

[@GriefTourist]

One of their very best songs.

[@Retro_Brewz]

I remember listening to this as a B side on a cassette with my older sister in ‘93. Robert and the Cure are forever.

[@blaknblond]

I played and played this album during a mini trip around europe....lovely memories

[@jefjaeger]

Excellent haunting tune...a great example of The Cure's best work...

[@questguess69]

a girl I knew back in high school gave the vinyl ep with this song on it to me as a sort of present....I havin't seen her in many years now so hearing this again is a lament indeed..

[@zeldathekat2252]

love the way Robert touches my soul

[@madjer87]

beautiful infinite sadness...

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

That resonating bass from Gallup is just sublime. In this track, you can hear where their future sound was from Disintegration and Wish.....

[@glcuriste]

Correction.The bass is from Robert Smith himself.

[@andrewphippsphillips1455]

@@glcuriste thank you for the information, but we both stand corrected..... I gather it was Steve Severin, Banshees's bassist who was also working with Robert on their side project The Glove......

[@tini_mg33]

Love the Cure forever. This is my favorite breakup song lol

[@FS-ti2bo]

Robert sometimes heals my wounded soul more than any doctor could.

[@happy--radio]

Pure beauty....this song is sooo eerie and I love it!

[@Gtfallofyer]

Fantastic band! Been there for all my good memories during the 80's. And still as influential today.

[@azureoful]

Such a beautiful and haunting song !! One of my fav from them !!

[@Amber-lv9sd]

One of my favourites

[@saulpena4018]

A friend of mine stole this cassete and give it to me!! I was like....who is this?? I said The Cure???? Really? I was confussed by the cover!! Great album!! I love it

[@MrAgmoore]

The art thief LOL

[@OzzyGonzalez-b8q]

If I could feel like when I hear this song I want to live forever and have this feeling , perfect 😂

[@elamorte]

This song is a monument ...made out of sound...

[@sunnyd4734]

Beyond beautiful.

[@valmirreisnogueira7733]

I like the cure