One of my favourite Cure lyrics, I really don't know what's about exactly, but I always like a lot the images wich this song evoces. That intro "Hello image. Sing me a line from your favourite song" and "You'll fall in love with somebody else tonight" its really amazing, one of my favourites without a doubt!
I BET the ´hello image´ is a quote from one of Robert´s favorite books--The Happy Death by Albert Camus. There Patrice sometimes says that to his girlfriend. Beautiful book.
Like the expression ´like an animal of god´--SDS--, I guess Robert, ´borrowed´ some expressions for his songs...
“M” was one of the earliest songs written for Seventeen Seconds. It was written before the previous album Three Imaginary Boys was released.
The letter M as the song’s title is an abbreviation of Mary, the first name of Mary Poole, who was Robert Smith’s girlfriend at the time; the two later married.
As Smith mentioned in a Q&A in the Cure News #6 fanzine from 1989, M was a nickname he used for her:
do you and Mary have nick-names for each other? if so, what are they?
i call her “m”. she calls me anything she wants; it changes depending on what time it is…
What have the artists said about the song?
As part of a Q&A in the Cure News #3 fanzine from 1987, frontman Robert Smith said the song was written about: