Let's Go To Bed

I like it too Eduardo!!

Some really horrible new singer sampled this on one of her songs and I would like to punch her. I won't even post her name here.  But this is great.  

Thanks a lot, pip!

i never knew!
i gotta dig my copy out now
how the memory fails!

Let’s Go To Bed,
(Godwina and I like to do in depth analysis on lyrics, here are some of our thoughts on Let’s Go To Bed-These opinions are for fun and different perspective, I think all good poetry is meant to be interpreted by the individual, and we all see things differently.)

At first this song just seemed to me like silly fun gibberish. Listening to it in the context of post-Pornography, I’m struck by what a shock this must have been to those early cure fans. To leave the bleak beautiful hell of the Pornography world for the candy colored world of Let’s Go To Bed! A shock to the system. I always liked the song, and of course love those stand out lines “perfect as cats”, “Laughing at the Christmas lights”! Perfection! But I’ve now found more to love.

In the first verse, I picture a cold winter New Year’s Eve night (more on why later). Two lovers out in the cold, “take your hand”, “shaking like milk” and “turning blue”, a lovely way to say come close and hold me, I’m freezing!
“Fires outside in the sky / Look as perfect as cats” – fireworks? They do look a little bit like cat whiskers when you think about it.
“It’s just the same, A stupid game” “All of this then back again” “Stay alive but stay the same”- this is what makes me think of New Year’s. The reminder of the passing of time, we are getting older, time is passing but we go through these same traditions every year over and over. For RS, coming from the chaotic world of running around the world touring for Pornography, then spending “a few weeks to recuperate in the bedroom I had grown up in” (**Rolling Stone interview 2004), how surreal normalcy must have felt?
“You can’t even see now / so you ask me the way” – this line is very striking to me in the context of Pornography. On that album there are many allusions to blindness, “blind me with your purity” “touched her eyes” “blind dancing on a beach of stone” etc., I find it very interesting that in LGTB, the other person is now blind, he is guiding her. He went off and saw the world, saw the chaos and the darkness, he now knows the way. World wise and world weary, “it’s always the same” “is it always liked this” but now he speaks to this theme with less malice.
My favorite part of the song is the theme of Let’s go to bed. “I don’t care if you don’t”… reminds me of youthful nights, those conversations -should we go to this party or that party, should we go out, “I don’t care if you don’t, I don’t feel if you don’t”, let’s just go to bed. To me this says the person you are with is enough, you don’t need the parties the wild times or the chaos, even on New Year’s Eve.

** Rolling Stone Interview excerpt 2004
“It took me a few weeks to recuperate in the bedroom I had grown up in, because I was like totally gone. And I decided to be a pop star [laughs].
When I took "Lets Go to Bed" to Fiction and played it to them, it was like silence. They looked at me, like, "This is it. He's really lost it." They said, "You can't be serious. Your fans are gonna hate it." I understood that, but I wanted to get rid of all that. I didn't want that side of life anymore; I wanted to do something that's really kind of cheerful. I thought, "This isn't going to work. No one's ever gonna buy into this. It's so ludicrous that I'm gonna go from goth idol to pop star in three easy lessons.
Suddenly, "Let's Go to Bed" was turning into a big hit, on the West Coast particularly, and we had a young, predominately female, teenage audience. It went from intense, menacing, psychotic goths to people with perfect white teeth. It was a very weird transition, but I enjoyed it. I thought it was really funny.
We followed it up with "The Walk" and "Love Cats," and I just felt totally liberated. With "Love Cats," I suggested that we were going to do something that's kind of like a Disney take on jazz, based around the Aristocats. And suddenly everything we did started to sell."
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-cure-album-by-album-20040618#ixzz4CR8xliI7

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