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Written by: Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Boris Williams,
Porl Thompson, Roger O'Donnell, Lol Tolhurst
Produced by: Smith, David M. Allen
Released: May '89 on Elektra
Charts: 8 weeks
Top spot: No. 71
"Most love songs are just calculated attempts at commercial exploitation. They're not anything to do with love as I understand it," said Cure leader Smith. After the relatively cheerful pop songs of Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, he wanted to write the Cure's heaviest songs yet: With this epic of cascading synths and broken dreams, he succeeded.
Appears on: Disintegration (Elektra)