Talk:Lullaby (The Cure song)

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Baines, Josh (8 June 2018). "The 20 Best British Balearic Records Ever". Crack Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2023. People like to make jokes, don't they, about how you never see goths on holiday. The jokes are always very funny because they are based in truth and that is what makes a good joke. No one has ever seen a goth in Ibiza, but they've sure as hell heard a track or two by The Cure, a group who've long been embraced by the fatigue pant wearing Balearic dad mafia. The extended mix of Lullaby is a creepy crawling low slung highly textural slinker. Maybe, just maybe, a goth wouldn't fare so badly out there on the beach…

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Can someone please add this?[edit]

Can someone who understands the formatting please add the following? The US CD single (9 66664-2) should have its own listing, as its tracks differ from the vinyl 12-inch (under which it is currently listed) as well as all the others. The correct track list, taken from the CD single in front of me, is: 1. Lullaby (Remix) 2. Lullaby (Extended Remix) 3. Homesick (Live Version) 4. Untitled (Live Version)

Thanks! Edgehawk (talk) 08:53, 22 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind, I figured it out! Edgehawk (talk) 08:57, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

String Section[edit]

Who did the string section heard on this song? Was it real strings (if so, state which orchestra)?

WikiPro1981X (talk) 20:54, 28 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Meaning of song and lyrics[edit]

The lyrics of this song beg an 'Intrepretation' section if nothing else. While, for my own reasons, this song might appear on its face as a description of opiate withdrawal or a pleading for its ending, I don't presume to say: this is the song's meaning. Still, in two decades of living as a junkie on and off the streets of the southern US, I myself have never heard a dissenting opinion. Really, I don't care, but for the fact that many other songs have sections about their possible, proven, or outspoken meanings; as a hit for its time, I think this song deserves similar treatment. Were it not for my difficult in interpreting the song any other way than that to which I've been accustomed to perceive it, I'd add the section myself. But, it also deserves encyclopedic treatment. Indeed, many songs by this band and others are relevant as articles in their own right: but speaking towards this particular song, I think it deserves a bit more treatment as to the meaning of its content. 75.107.0.39 (talk) 06:50, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Heard this song on the radio this week where it was introduced for a whole minute with a backstory that The Cure really wrote it as a song about a known child molester in the 1980s UK who used to dress all in black, burglarize random kids bedrooms at night as a cat burglar to do his deeds, and that was nicknamed "spiderman" by the local Yellow Press for wearing all black plus his amazing ability to climb facades and come and go without a sound. --79.193.63.236 (talk) 19:39, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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