PILLBOX LISTS

an index of recurring themes...

WATER

LAKES
THE WALK:  "We walked around a lake, and woke up in the rain..."
ALL CATS ARE GREY:"No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes..."
TO THE SKY: "I looked down on a lake, and traced upon the water there..."

SEAS
KILLING AN ARAB: "Staring at the sea, staring at the sand..."
WAILING WALL:    "through seas of prayer..."
A STRANGE DAY:   "And the sand and the sea grows, I close my eyes, move slowly through drowning waves..."
SNOW IN SUMMER:    "as it melts into the sea..."
JUST ONE KISS:   "Remember the taste of the raging sea..."
JUST LIKE HEAVEN:   "Alone above a raging sea, that stole the only girl I loved..."
LOVECATS:   "Into the sea, you and me..."
HOT HOT HOT:  "The second time I saw it strike I saw it at sea..."
THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA: "from the edge of the deep green sea..."
END:    "of every blood dark sea..."
JUPITER CRASH:    "She follows me down to the sound of the sea;" "she left to the sound of the sea..."

RAIN
THE HANGING GARDEN: "Creatures kissing in the rain..."
LET'S GO TO BED:  "You wonder if it's real because it couldn't be rain..."
JUST ONE KISS:   "Rememberthe time that you rained all night..."
THE WALK:  "We walked around a lake, and woke up in the rain..."
HAPPY THE MAN:  "Who was that standing in the rain?"
WHY CAN'T I BE YOU: "You're so perfect! You're so right as rain!"
IF ONLY TONIGHT WE COULD SLEEP: "and the rain would cry..."
HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE: "When we wandered through the rain..."
HOT HOT HOT: "it lit up all the fish like rain and rained them down on me..."
LIKE COCKATOOS:  "like blood the rain fell black down on the street;" "a picture of a boy who left her lonely in the rain..."
PLAINSONG: "'I think it's dark and it looks like rain' you said..."
PRAYERS FOR RAIN:"hopelessness and prayers for rain;" "killing time again, all waiting for the rain..."
PICTURES OF YOU:  "Remembering you standing quiet in the rain..."
2 LATE:     "I put you under rainy day..."
OPEN:      "And the way the rain comes down hard..."
FROM THE EDGE OF THE DEEP GREEN SEA: "'But it's just rain,' I smile;" "it's always the same, wake up in the rain..."
WANT:  "I want blood instead of rain..."
GONE:   "Black clouds and rain and pain in your head..."
A PINK DREAM:    "carries me the scent of faraway rain..."
THERE IS NO IF...:   "it was raining hard and you never heard..."  "I watched as the rain ran through your fingers"

WATER
THE DROWNING MAN: "She stands 12 feet above the flood, she stares alone across the water;" "The water bows, receives her, and drowns her at its ease..."
ONE HUNDRED YEARS: "A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water..."
ANOTHER DAY:    "winter in water colours"
I'M A CULT HERO: "I walk on water and I don't get wet"
ARIEL: "Taking us across the water..."
FOREVER: "Fear no death by water..."
A SHORT TERM EFFECT: "Colours that flicker in water..."
A STRANGE DAY:     "A sudden hush across the water..."
THE WALK:    "I kissed you in the water..."
LA MENT:    "Drinking water as they talked..."
IF ONLY TONIGHT WE COULD SLEEP: "If only tonight we could slide into deep black water..."
JUST LIKE HEAVEN:  "Dancing in the deepest oceans, twisting in the water...:
HOT HOT HOT: "I left it under water and I never went back..."
TO THE SKY:  "I looked down on a lake, and traced upon the water there..."
THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU: "Swimming the same deep water as you is hard..."
WANT:     "I want to walk on water..."

DROWNING
THE DROWNING MAN: "The water bows, receives her, and drowns her at its ease..." "breathing like the drowning man"
PORNOGRAPHY:     "I'll watch you drown in the shower..."
IN YOUR HOUSE:   "I drown at night in your house..."
FOREVER: "This fear of drowning..."
LA MENT:      "Two drowned fools smoking..."
A STRANGE DAY:       "Move slowly through drowning waves..."
JUST LIKE HEAVEN:   "that stole the only girl I loved, and drowned her deep inside of me..."
TRAP:         "Drowning like a fly in my drink..."
THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU: "The shallow drowned lose less than we..."
PICTURES OF YOU:    "Slow drowned you were angels..."

SWIMMING
IN YOUR HOUSE:   "Pretending to swim in your house..."
BABBLE:      "I swim around in circles..."
SNOW IN SUMMER:   "I drink you as I swim..."
HIGH:   "happy as a girl that swims in a world of magic show..."
THIS TWILIGHT GARDEN: "and slow the moon swims up..."
NEW DAY:    "the fools sweat swims..."
THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU: "swimming the same deep water as you is hard..."
GIVE ME IT:   "blood thick swimming round your feet..."

MISC.
10:15 SATURDAY NIGHT: "I'm sitting in the kitchen sink... and the tap drips..."
CLOSE TO ME:  The Videos
LA MENT:   "A man walked cold and blue into La Ment;" "one more ice cream river body..."
KYOTO SONG: "A nightmare of you, of death in the pool..."
JUST LIKE HEAVEN:   "Dancing in the deepest oceans, twisting in the water...:
SNOW IN SUMMER:   "and all the rivers run away..."
OCEAN:   title
BLOODFLOWERS:      "this wave never (always) breaks..." "this tide never (always) turns..."

Line  
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.

 Have an idea for a list or think I forgot something? Email me.

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