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Rating: This Album is a breathtaking force of nature, with melodies that on one hand embody a chilling and mysterious hypothermic glacial stillness of an iceberg, and on the other hand, melodies that embody the incandescent, erupting core of destructive lava from a volcano that has never slept.
On the cover, the fiery red luscious lips are ready to kiss your heart, and the stared eye that penetrates your soul. And he, Robert Smith, champion mentor of troubled and lost souls in the depths of this life, an enchanting sprite of real and tangible fairy tales who this time grants open ground to the sharing of musical ideas of the whole group and the creation of this colorful naïf, temporarily leaving aside previous otherworldly gloom and giving space to chance and the vastness of exploratory inspiration, jazz, psychedelic, rock, and dark, when you listen to the tracks, you're catapulted beyond the mind, the substance of this Album is given by the effect of penetration into the intimate, an intense journey between pleasure and a consuming sadness, emotionally distorted and disjointed, texts that speak of emotional life, love, sex, betrayals, breakups, rebirths, and paranoid depressions that capture endless pleas for hugs up to touching all dimensions of love.
It is a magic that leaves you speechless without disappointing you for even a moment. There are eighteen tracks to go through in a captivating unknown...- “The Kiss” rock passionately scratching - “Catch” pop of joyful carefreeness - “Torture” The Cure’s soul - “If Only Tonight We Could Sleep” spontaneously hypnotic dark-oriental sound, balanced and deep - “Why Can’t Be You?” main track of the whole Album, brilliant, energetic to the max, the video is also great - “How Beautiful You Are” a day of embarrassing memories of the first heartbeats - “Snakepit” dark, murky, anguishing, harrowing - “Hey You!!!” the only track that was excluded from the cd- “Just Like Heaven” a friendly dazzling embrace - “All I Want” an exhausted, tortured and suffered passion, a fight to the extreme - “Hot Hot Hot!!!” naive and childish - “One More Time” a poignant plea and humiliating begging for a reason or a single word denied - “Like Cockatoos” a succession of daily paranoia - “Icing Sugar” one of the tracks that drives me the craziest, it is feline and tearing, it is a vital scream of infinite joy, the desire to fight to the end - “The Perfect Girl” funny, a look at the crowd around you and feeling so evasive and uncommon - “A Thousand Hours” the love held tight in the palm of your hand that reaches to the chest, the impossible desire to see again and talk to those who are no longer in this earthly life - “Shiver And Shake” schizophrenic and charismatic - “Fight” a scream-ending, fantastic track, a hymn to love, loving yourself to know how to love others and all that is lovable.
Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me, is an Album that makes you understand that nothing is impossible, that wanting is power, it's a sort of homework, it helps the will to react to all that makes you suffer and annihilates your spirit, it allows you to find an alternative on your own, a way out, a ray of sunshine to keep walking.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 The Kiss (06:16)
kiss me kiss me kiss me!
your tongue is like poison
so swollen it fills up my mouth
love me love me love me!
you nail me to the floor
and push my guts all inside out
get it out get it out get it out!
get your fucking voice
out of my head!
i never wanted this
i never wanted any of this
i wish you were dead
i wish you were dead
i never wanted any of this
i wish you were dead
dead
dead
dead
02 Catch (02:44)
Yeah I know who you remind me of
A girl I think I used to know
Yeah I'd see her when the days got colder
On those days when it felt like snow
You know I even think that she stared like you
She used to just stand there and stare
And roll her eyes right up to heaven
And make like I just wasn't there
And she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But never even caught her name
And sometimes we would spend the night
Just rolling about on the floor
And I remember even though it felt soft at the time
I always used to wake up sore...
You know I even think that she smiled like you
She used to just stand there and smile
And her eyes would go all sort of far away
And stay like that for quite a while
And I remember she used to fall down a lot
That girl was always falling
Again and again
And I used to sometimes try to catch her
But never even caught her name
Yes I sometimes even tried to catch her
But never even caught her name
03 Torture (04:16)
I'm in the room without a light
The room without a view
I'm here for one more treacherous night
Another night with you
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight it screams
And screams and screams
And pulls some more
Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this
Hanging on your back
I'm helpless again
My body is cut and broken
It's shattered and sore
My body is cut wide open
I can't stand anymore
It tortures me to move my hands
To try to move at all
And pulled
My skin so tight it screams
And screams and screams
And screams for more
Hanging like this
Like a vampire bat
Hanging like this
Hanging on your back
Oh, it's torture
And I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there
It's torture
But I'm almost there
04 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (04:53)
If only tonight we could sleep
In a bed made of flowers
If only tonight we could fall
In a deathless spell
If only tonight we could slide
Into deep black water
And breathe
And breathe...
Then an angel would come
With burning eyes like stars
And bury us deep
In his velvet arms
And the rain would cry
As our faces slipped away
And the rain would cry
Don't let it end...
05 Why Can't I Be You? (03:13)
You're so gorgeous I'll do anything!
I'll kiss you from your feet
To where your head begins!
You're so perfect!
You're so right as rain!
You make me
Make me hungry again
Everything you do is irresistible
Everything you do is simply kissable
Why can't I be you?
I'll run around in circles
'Til I run out of breath
I'll eat you all up
Or I'll just hug you to death
You're so wonderful!
Too good to be true!
You make me
Make me hungry for you
Everything you do is simply delicate
Everything you do is quite angelicate
Why can't I be you?
You turn my head when you turn around
You turn the whole world upside down
I'm smitten I'm bitten I'm hooked I'm cooked
I'm stuck like glue!
You make me
Make me hungry for you
Everything you do is simply dreamy
Everything you do is quite delicious
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?
Why can't I be you?
You're simply elegant!
07 The Snakepit (07:00)
Well we're a mile under the ground
And I'm thinking that it's Christmas
And I'm kissing you hard
Like I've got very important business
And no one knows
And no one sees us
Because they're drinking their selves senseless
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snakepit
Well I'm out in a car
And it's just full of stupid girls
And I've forgotten how to speak
And I just can't remember a word
And my eyes feel like they're bursting
And they're splitting like plums
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing
And I'm writhing in the snake pit
08 Hey You! (02:23)
Hey you!!!
Yes you
Yes you the one that looks like Christmas
Come over here and kiss me
Kiss me
Hey you!!!
Yes you
Yes you the one that looks delirious
Come over here and kiss me
Kiss me
09 Just Like Heaven (03:32)
'Show me, show me, show me
How you do that trick
The one that makes me scream,' she said
'The one that makes me laugh,' she said
And threw her arms around my neck
'Show me how you do it
And I promise you, I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you...'
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head
And dreamed of all the different ways
I had to make her glow
'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?'
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest oceans
Twisting in the water, you're just like a dream
Just like a dream
Daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
And moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
I found myself alone
Alone
Alone above a raging sea
That stole the only girl I loved
And drowned her deep inside of me
You
Soft and only
You
Lost and lonely
You
Just like heaven
11 Hot Hot Hot!!! (03:34)
The first time I saw lightning strike
I saw it underground
Six deep feet below the street
The sky came crashing down
For a second that place was lost in space
Then everything went black
I left that basement burning
And I never went back
The second time I saw it strike
I saw it at sea
It lit up all the fish like rain
And rained them down on me
For a second that boat was still afloat
Then everything went black
I left it underwater
And I never went back
Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when that lightning comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it a lot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!
The third time I saw lightning strike
It hit me in bed
It threw me around
And left me for dead
For a second that room was on the moon
Then everything went black
I left that house on fire
And I never went back
Hey hey hey!!!
But I like it when that lightning comes
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I like it a lot
Hey hey hey!!!
Yes I'm jumping like a jumping jack
Dancing screaming itching squealing fevered
Feeling hot hot hot!!!
13 Like Cockatoos (03:39)
She walked out of her house
And looked around
At all the gardens that looked
Back at her house
(Like all the faces
That quiz when you smile...)
And he was standing
At the corner
Where the road turned dark
A part of shiny wet
Like blood the rain fell
Black down on the street
And kissed his feet she fell
Her head an inch away from heaven
And her face pressed tight
And all around the night sang out
Like cockatoos
"There are a thousand things" he said
"I'll never say those things to you again"
And turning on his heel
He left a trace of bubbles
Bleeding in his stead
And in her head
A picture of a boy who left her
Lonely in the rain
(And all around the night sang out
Like cockatoos)
14 Icing Sugar (03:49)
You're delicious
Dreaming
Slack jawed
Green eyed
Rub my nose in
Icing sugar
Smooth as
When this cold and deadly
Blade
Kisses the fruit
So soft
And gently breathing
Under your skin
Oh I'll empty you
I'll empty you
As empty as a boy can be
As empty
As a boy can be
15 The Perfect Girl (02:33)
You're such a strange girl
I think you come from another world
You're such a strange girl
I really don't understand a word
You're such a strange girl
I'd like to shake you around and around
You're such a strange girl
I'd like
To turn you
All upside down
You're such a strange girl
The way you look like you do
You're such a strange girl
I want to be with you
I think I'm falling
I think I'm falling in
I think I'm falling in love with you
With you
16 A Thousand Hours (03:23)
For how much longer can I howl into this wind?
For how much longer
Can I cry like this?
A thousand wasted hours a day
Just to feel my heart for a second
A thousand hours just thrown away
Just to feel my heart for a second
For how much longer can I howl into this wind?
18 Fight (04:31)
Sometimes there's nothing to feel
Sometimes there's nothing to hold
Sometimes there's no time to run away
Sometimes you just feel so old
The times it hurts when you cry
The times it hurts just to breathe
And then it seems like there's no-one left
And all you want is to sleep
Fight fight fight
Just push it away
Fight fight fight
Just push it until it breaks
Fight fight fight
Don't cry at the pain
Fight fight fight
Or watch yourself burn again
Fight fight fight
Don't howl like a dog
Fight fight
Just fill up the sky
Fight fight fight
Fight til you drop
Fight fight fight
And never never
Never stop
Fight fight fight
Fight fight fight
So when the hurting starts
And when the nightmares begin
Remember
You can fill up the sky
You don't have to give in
You don't have to give in
Never give in
Never give in
Never give in
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