The Cure - Close To Me Lyrics

The Cure Lyrics

"Close To Me"

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

Just try to see in the dark
Just try to make it work
To feel the fear before you're here
I make the shapes come much too close
I pull my eyes out
Hold my breath
And wait until I shake

But if I had your faith
Then I could make it safe and clean
If only I was sure
That my head on the door was a dream

I've waited hours for this
I've made myself so sick
I wish I'd stayed asleep today
I never thought that this day would end
I never thought that tonight could ever be
This close to me

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

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Writer(s): Robert James Smith

"Close To Me" is the second single from the album. The song was released in September 1985. There were three releases: the album version, the 7" single mix version and the 12" extended mix version.

Frontman Robert Smith explained this song to Q Magazine, "The words were actually about this sense of impending doom that I used to get. I had chicken pox when I was really young and it started there. I used to get these horrible, nightmarish visions of this head that used to hover in the chink of light that would come when the bedroom lights were turned off and the door was just ajar."

The music video was directed by Tim Pope. In it, the band members are pictured trapped in a wardrobe standing on a cliff's edge.