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There are 108 misheard song lyrics for The Cure on amIright currently.
"100 Years"
I am b****in' in the back of a black car.
Ambition in the back of a black car.
"100 Years"
The circus comes in under a yellow moon.
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon.
"A Few Hours After This"
I'm looking for the nub
My nub has turned blue
You only have to lick and you can see it too.
The look before I go
Is the look for you
You only have to look and it will all come true.
"A Letter To Elise"
Every day, we smile and s***.
Every day, we smile, forget.
"A Night Like This"
You're just the most gorgeously stupid thing I ever caught in the world.
Your trust the most gorgeously stupid thing I ever cut in the world.
"Boy Don't Cry"
But I know that this old man has said too much, been too unkind.
But I know that this time I have said too much, been too unkind.
"Boys Don't Cry"
Discharged your helmet.
Misjudged your limit.
"Burn"
Testicles burn my tongue.
Tousled bird mad girl.
"Charlotte Sometimes"
Shut up, sometimes.
Charlotte sometimes
"Close To Me"
But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe to dream
But baby I was sure
That the head on the door was a dream
But if I had your face
I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream
"Close To Me"
I've waded, I was a fish.
I've waited hours for this.
"Disintegration"
Crocodiles cry,
Make love in the crowd,
And the green cheese for everyone!
Crocodiles cry,
For the love of the crowd,
And three cheers from everyone
"Disintegration"
Crocodiles cry
For the love of the crowd
And the free cheese for everyone.
Crocodiles cry
For the love of the crowd
And three cheers from everyone.
"Disintegration"
Crocodiles cry
In the laughing hand
That reaches from everyone.
Crocodiles cry
For the love of the crowd
And three cheers from everyone.
"Doing the Unstuck"
It's a perfect day for letting go
for setting fire to British boats
It's a perfect day for letting go
for setting fire to bridges, boats
"Drowning Man"
You sure, you leaveing me breathing like a drowning man.
Fushia, you leave me breathing like a drowning man.
"Fascination Street"
Choirboy goes in Haunted killer comes out
Quite what goes in Or to care what comes out
"Foxy Lady"
You know you are a cute little African.
You know you're a cute little heartbreaker.
"Friday I'm In Love"
Fried egg, I'm in love.
Friday I'm in love.
"Friday I'm In Love"
Oh take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night.
"Friday I'm In Love"
She just cheats me around and around
Sleek as a shriek spinning around and around
"Friday I'm In Love"
She just cheeks me round and round
Sleek as a shriek, spinning around and around
"Friday I'm In Love"
Sick as a sheik spinning round and round
or
Sick as a sheep spinning round and round
or
Sick as a sheep spinning round and round
Sleek as a shriek spinning round and round
"Friday I'm In Love"
Slick as a Shakespeare, round and round
Sleek as a shriek, spinning round and round
"Friday I'm In Love"
Thursday, watch the wars instead.
Thursday, watch the walls instead.
"Friday I'm In Love"
Tuesday's great and Wednesday too
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
"Friday I'm In Love"
Tuesday, Wednesday hard to tack.
Tuesday, Wednesday heart attack.
"Friday I'm In Love"
You can never get enough
Enough of disco.
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff.
"Friday, I'm In Love"
To see your shoes in the spirit's shrine
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
"Give Me It"
Out of my f***ing mind.
Deaden my glassy mind.
"Give Me It"
S**** so hard.
This room's so hot.
"High"
When I see you sticky as lips
As licky as chips.
When I see you sticky as lips
As lick as trips.
"Hot Hot Hot"
Hey, hey, hey, I like it when that black man comes.
Hey, hey, hey, I like it when that lightning comes.
"In Between Days"
I should've liked the child.
I shivered like a child.
"Jumping Someone Else's Train"
You want to belong to them but you smell
It won't take you long to learn the new smile
"Just Like Heaven"
All the different ways I had to make her groan
All the different ways I had to make her glow
"Just Like Heaven"
Dancing in a deeper snowshoe existing in the walls
Oh, you're just like the dream.
Dancing in the deepest oceans twisting in the water
You're just like a dream.
"Just Like Heaven"
Existing in the water
You're just like a dream.
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream.
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me how to do that trick,
The one that makes me scream, 'sea sick'
Show me how you do that trick,
The one that makes me scream, she said
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me how you do that trick,
the one that makes me scream 'She's sick!'
Show me how you do that trick,
The one that makes me scream, she said
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me how you do that trick,
the one that makes me scream: sea-sick
Show me how you do that trick,
the one that makes me scream, she said
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream 'Sea Sick!!'
'Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream', she said.
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream 'Seasick!'
'Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream,' she said.
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream, 'Scissor!'.
'Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream', she said
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me how you do that twist
The one that makes me seem seasick.
Show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream, she said.
"Just Like Heaven"
Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream 'She's sick!'
'Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick
The one that makes me scream,' she said.
"Just Like Heaven"
Spinning all that dizzy air
Spinning on that dizzy edge
"Just Like Heaven"
Spinning all that juicy air
Spinning on that dizzy edge
"Just Like Heaven"
Spinning on a dizzy edge
Crystal pain, crystal hedge.
Spinning on that dizzy edge
I kissed her face and kissed her head.
"Just Like Heaven"
Stormy on the girl I like.
Stole the only girl I loved.
"Just Like Heaven"
You look just like Kevin.
You look just like Heaven.
"Just Like Heaven"
You strange as angels
Dancing on a dream assumption
Dreaming of a world that's yours
Just like a dream.
You strange as angels
Dancing in the deepest ocean
Twisting in the water
You're just like a dream.
"Just Like Heaven"
You stranger, danger
You strange as angels
"Just Like Heaven"
You, Rice-a-Roni
You, lost and lonely
"Just Like Heaven"
You, soft and homely
You, soft and only
"Just Like Heaven"
You, stranger danger.
You, strange as angels.
"Killing An Arab"
Living in an Arab
Killing an arab
"Killing An Arab"
Living in an era
Killing an arab
"Last Dance"
Of air and contempt that hangs in a basement
To hair and contentment that hangs in abasement
"Let's Go To Bed"
Nothing ever pleases us.
Laughing at the Christmas lights.
"Love Song"
You make me feel like I am funnel cake.
You make me feel like I am fun again.
"Lullaby"
And I feel like I'm being beaten by
A thousand million shivering furry Hos.
And I feel like I'm being eaten by
A thousand million shivering fury holes.
"Lullaby"
And I feel like I'm being eaten by
A thousand Indian children full of holes.
And I feel like I'm being eaten by
A thousand million shivering fury holes.
"Lullaby"
Softer than shadow and curly fries
Softer than shadow and quicker than flies
"Man Inside My Mouth"
Don't even breathe she said or the folks that always fall and cut you off at the head
Don't even breathe she said or the photograph will spoil and cut you off at the head
"Mint Car"
So kiss me, queer.
So pinch me quick.
"Piggy In The Mirror"
Bowels in your mouth and the same dry sore.
Flowers in your mouth and the same dry song.
"Plainsong"
I think it starts when it looks like this
"I think it's dark and it looks like rain" you said
"The 13th"
A-buzza buzza buzza like tequila bees.
A-buzza buzza buzza like them killer bees.
"The 13th"
This is the two cord coffee cup
This is the two cord cool
"The 13th"
This is the two-chord Gothic everybody.
This is the two-cord cool, everybody.
"The Baby Screams"
The stripey, stripey, stripey dead
Strike me, strike me, strike me dead.
"The Blood"
Every mirror I see is a mirror I don't use.
Every mirage I see is a mirage of you.
"The Caterpillar"
Capture me, that girl.
Caterpillar girl
"The Caterpillar"
Flicker, flicker, flicker, flicker
Here you are.
If I, if I, if I
Could hear you walk.
"The Caterpillar"
I've tossed my lemon lime.
I'll dust my lemon lies.
"The Caterpillar"
I've tossed my lemon lime.
I'll dust my lemon lies.
"The Caterpillar"
Ketchup in a gun
Caterpillar girl
"The Caterpillar"
O toss my leather gloves
Where Power Pig can see.
O dust my lemon lies
With powder pink and sweet.
"The Love Cats"
All the years and no one's home.
All the years and no one heard.
"The Love Cats"
Badda-boom, badda-bing, it's a treacherous thing.
I'll show you in spring, it's a treacherous thing.
"The Love Cats"
Call 1-3-1-3-1-3-1-3-PRETTY.
So wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty.
"The Love Cats"
How could we miss someone as dull as this?
How could we miss someone as dumb as this?
"The Love Cats"
I want to be, want to be, want to be better.
Wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty.
"The Love Cats"
Intimacy, you and me
Into the sea, you and me
"The Love Cats"
Oh want me, want me, want me, want me pretty.
You're so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty.
"The Love Cats"
One-three, one-three, one-three, one-three Kitty.
Wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty.
"The Love Cats"
So want-a-flea, want-a-flea, want-a-flea, want-a-flea pretty
So wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty
"The Love Cats"
We move like Cajun tigers.
We move like caged-in tigers.
"The Love Cats"
We move like caged tigers.
We move like cagey tigers.
"The Love Cats"
We moved like Cajun tigers.
We move like cagey tigers.
"The Love Cats"
We should have each other to dinner,
We should wash each other in pee
We should have each other to dinner,
We should have each other with cream
"The Love Cats"
We should have each other to dinner
We should have each other with tea.
We should have each other to dinner
We should have each other with cream.
"The Love Cats"
We should have each other's dinner
We should have each other whipped creamed.
We should have each other to dinner
We should have each other with cream.
"The Love Cats"
You wanna feed, wanna feed, wanna feed, wanna feed kitty?
You're so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty.
"The Love Cats"
You're so one-flea, one-flea, one-flea, one-flea pity
You're so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully pretty
"The Lovecats"
We move like Cajun tigers.
We move like cagey tigers.
"The Only One"
I love what you do to my balls.
I love what you do to my bones.
"The Same Deep Water As You"
And disappear the nipples clear
And disappear the ripples clear
"The Walk"
I kissed you in the water
Made your dry lips sick.
I kissed you in the water
Made your dry lips sing.
"Why Can't I Be You?"
I'll eat you all up
Or I'll just f**k you to death
You're so wonderful
You're too good to be true
You make me
Make me horny for you
I'll eat you all or up
Or I'll just hug you to death
You're so wonderful
You're too good to be true
You make me
Make me hungry for you
"Why Can't I Be You?"
I'll kiss you from your feet to where your hip begins.
I'll kiss you from your feet to where your head begins.
"Why Can't I Be You?"
You make me holy for you.
You make me hungry for you.
"Why Can't I Be You?"
You make me horny again.
You make me hungry again.
"Wrong Number"
I had the best baked clams
I had the best laid plans
"Wrong Number"
I had the best laid plan since 'Saddam-America'.
I had the best laid plans this side of America.
"Wrong Number"
I had the best plaid pans this side of America
Started out in George and finished with yam jelly curd.
I had the best laid plans this side of America
Started out in Church and finished with Angelica.