PILLBOX LISTS

an index of recurring themes...

FIRE

FIRE IN CAIRO: "Burn like fire in Cairo;" "you take me in your arms and start to burn;" "flare with a wonderful light..."
I WANT TO BE OLD: "I want to be old and creak by the fire..."
I'M COLD:    "my body may be made of fire but my soul is made of ice..."
PILLBOX TALES:    "fire down the wall..."
SIAMESE TWINS:    "laughing into the fire..."
THE FIGUREHEAD:    "my memory in a fire..."
PORNOGRAPHY:   "she found his last picture in the ashes of the fire..."
LET'S GO TO BED:  "fires outside in the sky look as perfect as cats..."
SHAKE DOG SHAKE:     "and hold you blazing..."
PIGGY IN THE MIRROR:"the midnight sun will burn you up..."
BIRDMAD GIRL:   "this girl just burns with love, she's burning burning deep outside; nighttime nighttime sets my house on fire..."
CATERPILLAR: "your flames the flames that kiss me dead..."
KYOTO SONG:   "I turn on fire, and next to me..."
IF ONLY TONIGHT WE COULD SLEEP: "with burning eyes like stars..."
LOVECATS:   "curl up by the fire and sleep for a while..."
HOT HOT HOT:  "I left that basement burning;" "I left that house on fire..."
HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE: "glittering glass and burning light..."
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT:  "or watch yourself burn again..."
A JAPANESE DREAM:     "burning like a monkey..."
TO THE SKY:    "listening to the blaze of summer..."
HAROLD AND JOE:  "If I am burning then I put myself out..."
THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA: "and she listens like her head's on fire..."
DOING THE UNSTUCK: "for setting fire to bridges;" "burn down the house, burn down the street;" "the sound of your world going up in the fire..."
A LETTER TO ELISE: "to make your eyes catch fire the way they should..."
CUT:     "fire go out and friendship die..."
END:      "and burning eyes and hearts on fire..."
THE BIG HAND:   "when the big hand strikes (sings) it's like fireworks and heaven (friends)..."
BURN:     "every night I burn..."
CLUB AMERICA: "they've been burning two holes in the sides of my head..."
WRONG NUMBER:  "burn red, red and gold..."
39:   "so the fire is almost out and there's nothing left to burn... " "the fire is almost cold (dead)..." "I used to feed the fire" "half my life in flames" "to keep the fire ablaze"

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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