Cut Here

Album: Cut Here (2001)
Charted: 54
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  • "So we meet again!" and I offer my hand
    All dry and English slow
    And you look at me and I understand
    Yeah it's a look I used to know
    "Three long years and your favorite man
    Is that any way to say hello?"
    And you hold me like you'll never let me go

    "Oh c'mon and and have a drink with me
    Sit down and talk a while..."
    "Oh I wish I could and I will!
    But now I just don't have the time"
    And over my shoulder as I walk away
    I see you give that look goodbye
    I still see that look in your eye

    So dizzy Mr Busy, too much rush to talk to Billy
    All the silly frilly things have to first get done
    In a minute sometime soon, maybe next time, make it June
    Until later doesn't always come

    It's so hard to think "It ends sometime
    And this could be the last
    I should really hear you sing again
    And I should really watch you dance"
    Because it's hard to think
    "I'll never get another chance
    To hold you to hold you"

    But chilly Mr Dilly, too much rush to talk to Billy
    All the tizzy fizzy idiot things must get done
    In a second, just hang on, all in good time, won't be long
    Until later

    I should've stopped to think, I should've made the time
    I could've had that drink, I could've talked a while
    I would've done it right, I would've moved us on
    But I didn't, now it's all too late
    It's over, over
    And you're gone

    I miss you, I miss you, I miss you
    I miss you, I miss you, I miss you so much

    But how how many times can I walk away and wish "If only"
    But how many times can I talk this way and wish "If only"
    Keep on making the same mistake
    Keep on aching the same heartbreak
    I wish "If only"

    But "If only"
    Is a wish too late Writer/s: Jason Toop Cooper, Perry Bamonte, Robert James Smith, Roger O'Donnell, Simon Johnathon Gallup
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 4

  • Mh from WalesSuch heartfelt lyrics. An ode to a dear departed friend. Every single one of us should take heed of the message here. That is, treat each moment spent with others as if it's the last one. Then we can have no regrets. Or at least less regrets. Nice song Mr Smith, I hope you find what you're searching for one day. I'm sure you will.
  • Ali from Wine, Caquite sad...=/ i love robert. but i love this song, too...the fact that its so happy and stuff...when i was a lot younger i knew almost all the words, and yeah...i thought it was pretty sad at times, but i actually then looked up the lyrics...and the whole song is a story. a sad one. and i guess im pretty much retarded for that. but i HEART it!!!
  • James from Portland, Orthe friend in question was Billy Mackenzie of the band Associates - who were also on Fiction records with the Cure
  • Florencia from Buenos Aires, ArgentinaI read a coment from robert that said that it was written to a friend of him who killed himself after recording a video with the cure. Robert was so sad because he loved him so much and he didn't see him for a long time after this video. Sad story, isn't it?
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