PILLBOX LISTS

an index of recurring themes...

COLOURS

BLACK
FIRE IN CAIRO:   "Nighttime follows silent and black..."
WORLD WAR:           "Dressed in Berlin black..."
GIVE ME IT:           "my heart is black..."
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: "Ambition in the back of a black car;" "a little black-haired girl waiting for Saturday;" "Under a black flood..."
FOREVER: "The sky goes black..."
A SHORT TERM EFFECT: "Draped in black, static, white sound..."
JUST ONE KISS: "Remember the time that the sky went black..."
BIRDMAD GIRL:      "As black as stone and mad as birds..."
BANANAFISHBONES: "Go red and blue and black and white..."
IF ONLY TONIGHT WE COULD SLEEP: "If only tonight we could slide into deep black water..."
HOT HOT HOT:    "Then everything went black..."
LIKE COCKATOOS:   "The rain fell black down on the street..."
DISINTEGRATION:   "the soft and the black and the velvety..."
APART:          "but she just drops her pearl-black eyes..."
FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE: "I don't care if Monday's black..."
END:            "And every soul black night..."
BURN:             "Dream the crow black dream..."
CLUB AMERICA:   "I ride into your town on a big black trojan horse..."
GONE:        "Black clouds and rain and pain in your head..."
WATCHING ME FALL: "Her hair is black..." "her eyes are black"

GREY
ANOTHER DAY:   "Winter in watercolours, shades of grey..."
ALL CATS ARE GREY:   "In the caves, all cats are grey..."
THE UPSTAIRS ROOM: "and so I feel the grey pulse in my head..."
THROW YOUR FOOT:   "You're tired and your face is grey..."
A MAN INSIDE MY MOUTH: "I was grey, damp and sore..."
HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE: "A weary greyish man..."
FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE:    "Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too..."
TO WISH IMPOSSIBLE THINGS: "and all the sky is grey..."
ADONAIS:        "where heads grow sorrow grey..."
GONE:                 "wake up feeling grey..."

WHITE
PRIMARY:  "The innocence of sleeping children dressed in white..."
CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES: "The light seems bright and glares on white walls..."
FAITH:         "Or cry like the stone white clown..."
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: "Pushing her white face into the mirror..."
A SHORT TERM EFFECT: "Draped in black, static, white sound..."
LET'S GO TO BED:  "Through the right doorway and into the white room..."
SPEAK MY LANGUAGE:"Your white face left me blue..."
PIGGY IN THE MIRROR: "Sixteen white legs and a row of teeth..."
BANANAFISHBONES:    "Go red and blue and black and white..."
A FEW HOURS AFTER THIS: "Like two white checks, like opposite poles..."
A JAPANESE DREAM:     "China white girl..."
SNOW IN SUMMER:        "Slipping in your soft white heart..."
PICTURES OF YOU:    "You were stone white, so delicate..."
WRONG NUMBER:      "with a snow-white smile..."
WATCHING ME FALL:    "there's a thin white cold new moon..." "the bed is white"
COMING UP:        "it's a snow-white original mix..."

CRIMSON
FIRE IN CAIRO: "Shifting crimson veil..."
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: "One hundred years of blood, crimson..."
THE FIGUREHEAD: "crimson pain, my heart explodes..."
STRANGE ATTRACTION:"and kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms..."

BLUE
FIRE IN CAIRO:   "Slowly fading blue, the eastern hollows..."
PRIMARY:     "sleeping children in their blue soft rooms..."
LET'S GO TO BED:   "turning, turning blue all over the windows and the floors..."
LA MENT:        "A man walked cold and blue into La Ment..."
SPEAK MY LANGUAGE: "Your white face left me blue..."
PIGGY IN THE MIRROR: "Cracks in the pale blue wall..."
BANANAFISHBONES:    "Go red and blue and black and white..."
SNOW IN SUMMER:        "breathing in the sky blue sounds..."
DOING THE UNSTUCK: "kick out the gloom, kick out the blues..."
FRIDAY I'M IN LOVE:     "I don't care if Monday's blue..."
A LETTER TO ELISE:    "The way the blue could pull me in..."
THIS TWILIGHT GARDEN: "to kiss the sky cloud soft and blue;" "to kiss the sky wide deepest blue..."
CLUB AMERICA:  "Blue Suzannes all around..." "I couldn't help but notice your icy blue eyes..."
GONE:    "wake up feeling blue..."
WAITING:  "frost pale blue, the colour of a perfect day;" "a cherry tree girl and a dust blue room..."
WRONG NUMBER:  "red and blue soul with a snow-white smile..."

RED
COLD COLOURS: "red - the Christmas tree shines..."
PRIMARY:    "Dressed in red and yellow, innocent forever..."
DOUBT:         "So savage with red desperation..."
SIAMESE TWINS:       "We writhed under a red light..."
SHAKE DOG SHAKE:   "I'll tear your red hair by the roots..."
BIRDMAD GIRL:      "I try to talk, the sky goes red..."
BANANAFISHBONES:     "Go red and blue and black and white..."
FEAR OF GHOSTS:  "Splitting blood red windows in my heart..."
DOING THE UNSTUCK:   "Turn everything red and the beat (dream) is complete..."
STRANGE ATTRACTION:"faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies (old goodbyes)..."
WRONG NUMBER:   "burn red and gold, the deep dark colours..."; "red and blue soul with a snow-white smile..."
WATCHING ME FALL:    "and in the blood red Tokyo bed..."

YELLOW/GOLD/ORANGE
COLD COLOURS:     "Yellow - such a happy colour..."
PLASTIC PASSION:  "Plastic passion is a gold guarantee..."
WORLD WAR:         "Give me a golden hand..."
ARIEL: "Golden midnight taking us across the water..."
PRIMARY:     "Dressed in red and yellow, innocent forever..."
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: "The soldiers close in under a yellow moon..."
PORNOGRAPHY:    "Sour yellow sounds inside my head..."
TO THE SKY:       "I was floating in a golden haze..."
THIS TWILIGHT GARDEN: "into your golden words from me..."
THE 13TH:  "I'm surprised at how hot, honey-coloured and hungry she looks..."
WRONG NUMBER:  "lime green and tangerine, the sickly sweet colours..." "sickly kind of orange..." "red and gold, the deep dark colours..."

GREEN
ICING SUGAR:      "slack jawed, green-eyed..."
SNOW IN SUMMER:    "slipping in your deep green heart..."
THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA: "from the edge of the deep green sea..."
GONE:         "wake up feeling green..."
WRONG NUMBER:  "lime green and tangerine, the sickly sweet colours..."

PINK/PURPLE
THE DROWNING MAN: "Oh! Fuschia!"
MR PINK EYES:  "Be like me, Mr. Pink Eyes..."
CATERPILLAR:  "Dust my lemon lies with powder pink and sweet..."
GIVE ME IT:      "hanging in a groovy purple shirt..."
A PINK DREAM:   "apart in pink and perfect moments play..."

COLOUR
A SHORT TERM EFFECT: "Colours that flicker in water..."
SIAMESE TWINS:     "The first colours, the first kiss..."
TO THE SKY:    "and I was floating through the colours of a sky..."
ANOTHER DAY:  "winter in water colours..."
LA MENT:     "the sky coloured perfect..."
OPEN:      "and the colour and the music's too loud..."
THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA: "I've never been so colourfully-see-through-head before..."
HALO:       "you show me colours and I'm crying..."
THE 13TH:  "how hot, honey-coloured and hungry she looks..."
WAITING:     "the colour of a perfect day..."
WRONG NUMBER:  "the sickly sweet (deep dark) colours of the snakes (devil)..."

Christmas/Snow                   Water                   Animals                         Colours
Mirrors                             Telling Time                 Fire                              Blood
Moon                                   Heavenly             Places <--NEW!

Lists were compiled by perusing the lyrics on the Cure's Official Web Site. and the archive at Curiosity - The Cure Anomalies.

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