In May of 1987, when The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" was released, and for the 19 weeks it was on the charts, I was nowhere near a Top 40 radio station.
And I'm pretty sure I couldn't be happier.
There are a couple things I just don't get about this song:
1. Why it's listed as the 483rd greatest song of all time when it never even got above 40 on the radio charts
2. What the farnsworth is it trying to say?
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It starts out with some decidedly PG-13 quotes from the singer's girlfriend:
"Show me, show me, show me, how you do that trickThe one that makes me scream," she said"The one that makes me laugh," she saidAnd threw her arms around my neck
But before the first verse is over, she's getting all accusatory and whiney:
"Why are you so far away?" she said"Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you?That I'm in love with you?"
Then things get all weird and poetic and I don't know if it's still the girlfriend talking or the singer:
You, soft and onlyYou, lost and lonelyYou, strange as angelsDancing in the deepest oceansTwisting in the waterYou're just like a dreamJust like a dream
Not only like a dream, but an actual dream, judging by the second verse:
Daylight licked me into shapeI must have been asleep for daysAnd moving lips to breathe her nameI opened up my eyesAnd found myself aloneAloneAlone above a raging seaThat stole the only girl I loved...
NOW I get it, he's singing about his dead girlfriend.
...And drowned her...
How sad!
...deep inside of me
Wait...what???
You, soft and onlyYou, lost and lonely You, just like heaven
Soft...lost...lonely...HOW IS THAT JUST LIKE HEAVEN??!!?
"I Obviously Don't Understand Heaven"
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