The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You | Reaction!

[@mariomanno1]

It doesn't matter how hard I try but I'll never find the words that will explain how remarkable and perfect I find this song to be. For context, Disintegration is my favourite album period. This track is a big part of that for pulling a big switcheroo on me. Before listening to the album and looking at the track listing, I thought tracks like this were gonna ruin the album being 9 minutes and 8 minutes long (title track). When actually getting to this song though, it turned out to be the moment I knew I was never turning back again to the life I knew prior to The Cure. Like you said, it simply doesn't feel like 9 minutes and to me when something feels a lot faster than its runtime, that's always a good sign.

[@piershollott339]

Disintegration is an incredible album, period. This song always kind of reminded me of a mix of the title track from Faith, some of the darker songs on Kiss Me x 3, maybe Like Cockatoos or A Thousand Hours, and Carnage Visors. And the one-two punch of this song with the title track on Disintegration, followed by Homesick, gets me right in the feels every time. I don't know if this song is about Fuschia Groan from Gormenghast, but it has a similar vibe to songs like All Cats Are Gray and Drowning Man. Leaves very little doubt that Robert Smith is a genius.

[@InsignificantNick]

Yes, those are my exact thoughts on not being able to find the words to describe it. I feel like I'm selling it short no matter what I say.

[@twomindz79]

You must watch the Trilogy live version. Smith with tears in eyes. So beautiful .

[@InsignificantNick]

I like your username

[@twomindz79]

@@InsignificantNick You know who doesn't? ( probably) .Chrisopher reeves wife and kids . 😉

[@Gothgalactica]

Trilogy is so good. Watched it many times 🖤

[@joebristol1487]

One of my wife's favorite Cure songs we were lucky enough to see it live at Shoreline Amphitheater a few years ago.

[@worstalentscout]

my favourite The Cure song........

[@mjm5081]

Me too ❤

[@Zinglebarb]

and mine

[@jhay4324]

Thank you for reacting to one of the most beautiful songs on the greatest album ever made. By anyone. Period. Seriously, if you get the chance, I recommend lying in a candlelit room and immersing yourself in the exquisite melancholy of the entirety of this sublime masterpiece...

[@InsignificantNick]

That sounds lavish!

[@jhay4324]

@@InsignificantNick 72 minutes of rapturous ennui is well worth the effort.

[@ijustneedmyself]

Disintegration, the track, regularly made me weep for years whenever I listened. It doesn't have the same effect on me now, but whew 🥲 This album is lovely.

[@bryonduncan1789]

Roger' synth and Robert's guitar play so well together

[@piggyd0g72]

University at the end of the 80s, looking out of my dorm window at sunset. I wallowed in the darkness of this track. Love your reactions. Great selections.

[@musicaddict5076]

This album has to be listened to from beginning to end. Such a masterpiece. So lucky to have seen them on this tour a few times. One of my favorite tours ever.

[@jeffreybee]

This is my favorite track from a masterpiece album. Turn it up in your headphones, close your eyes and get lost in the gorgeous layers of this song.

[@jvgogh5077]

One of the album covers he autographed for me when we'd met. Such a memory. He is a polite, warm, expressive yet shy & quiet soul; my perception from our exchange. I'm happy that I got to thank him. Robert's work is so varied which is lovely, but his consistency of an emotional delivery is stellar & gripping. Now I have the song Jupiter Crash in my head.... and now PUSH. Hopefully everyone hears those if they haven't already. x

[@Geordievinylrecords]

I have the 12” picture disc of the album.

[@ijustneedmyself]

It's kinda weird... This song isn't one that I randomly think "I need to hear this song right now!!" however whenever I listen to it I am completely wrapped up in its beauty.

[@8darkknight472]

Exactly!!!!

[@jord-o965]

Completely opposite for me haha

[@Gothgalactica]

Perfectly described how I feel about this song as well

[@ijustneedmyself]

@@jord-o965 That's great 🙂 There's something for everyone on this album.

[@ijustneedmyself]

@@Gothgalactica Amazing, huh? It's gorgeous live as well (of course).

[@malcolmpayne8211]

Nick, you have just reviewed a track from my favourite album of all time. Pictures of you is a must for review.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

The Cure, classic band, can do no wrong in my eyes, ears. I can NOT believe I am getting A Forest signed by the original keyboardist Matthieu Hartley! C.

[@piershollott339]

My take on this song is that it starts out with "kiss me goodbye before I sleep", as if a loved one is leaving, and maybe after an argument or intense conversation, "swimming the same deep water as you is hard"... but then it ends with "the very last thing before I go, I will kiss you and we will be together again forever", as though to suggest that the loved one may leave and return, and regardless of whatever comes to pass, their love will withstand even death, when they both leave this mortal coil. You will listen to Disintegration and Picture of You, the other really long songs on the album. One of the b-sides from the Picture of You single, 2 Late, is also a brilliant song.

[@frankbigwolf4725]

I learned this song. Same water as you. Is about a older guy dating a younger woman....And it's about someone trying to forget " his" or the last generation. Robert Smith was referring to the " hippie generation" 60's to 70' s era's.

[@billymanilli]

yep... it's kinda a double entendre (the whole song), as well... If you go through the lyrics; It is also "describing" the two, in love, actually being at the edge of a lake and slowly wading into the deeper and deeper parts, until they're "under the water" and drown; as they just "can't take it any more" (self- deletion, if you will... 😟) ~ a few "key" lyrics ~ "wading out before I sleep" "bow your head and join with me", and face pushed deep" , REFLECTIONS meet" (the reflection of their faces in the water) .... "the strangest twist upon your lips" (caused by the ripples and reflection) "ripples clear" "it's lower now", and slower now" ... and the rest of it...

[@lauce3998]

The sequence of Prayers of rain, The same deep water and Disintegration is the most memorable in the band's career, their most inspired moment. Also this song that begins with those thunders and that rain makes a lot of sense to hear it after hearing in the previous song Robert begging for rain. And all this state of sadness in the album ends up exploding in the next song that is Disintegration, which is about a break and this time Robert starts screaming instead of lamenting, where there are also the best lyrics that the singer has never written.

[@Cerulean0987]

I remember when this album first came out. I drove to the top of the largest hill in our area during a thunder and lightning storm, turned off the car and took it all in. It was a transcending experience.

[@InsignificantNick]

That certainly sounds like a transcending experience!

[@mjm5081]

My fave song from one of my fave albums. Been listening to the entire album for over 30 years! Used to play along on drums in the basement of my childhood home. My folks were probably listening upstairs and concerned about my well being 😃

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

Kiss 💋 me goodbye 👋.. dark and bleak, very relaxing to listen to as well. Disintegration is a classic though.

[@rosenfield10]

I'm requesting a B-side by The Cure called "Breathe."

[@Grithron2]

Personally I favour the theory that this song is about an aquatic double-suicide pact in which, instead of just drowning, the couple are literally frozen on the verge of a kiss. On the 1989 tour this was one of the songs in which Robert was likely to have one of his turns where he broke down in tears whilst trying to sing (e.g the penultimate night of the Wembley residency - which is the take used for Entreat Plus). Ftr: Last time I had a bout of real depression I referenced this song in a piece of rubbish literature which is probably still out there somewhere.

[@anthonyrippa686]

The metaphor of what happens to a human body when it's drowning ... applied to the protagonist's relationship with a dysfunctional woman. Is From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea the sequel to this.

[@dismask]

you just popped up for me on my recomended to watch... enjoyed a lot of what your reactions are.. have you ever thought of Doing Dead Can Dance Sanvean (I Am Your Shadow)?

[@8darkknight472]

When two people "love" each other but can't get along. And try to force it because they don't want to see eachother with anyone else.

[@BostonTeacup]

hey man please react to Plainsong off this album! One of the best intro’s to an album ever!!

[@karimygirl5826]

Disintegration is by far the best album ever put out. Change my mind. ❤

[@tonys8608]

Look it up there is an interview on KZbin of him saying that…

[@DennisLurm]

Disintegration : a obra prima do Cure

[@lauce3998]

Robert Smith has never sung as well as on this album.