Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
Echo & the Bunnymen
“The Cutter” is the second single released from Echo & the Bunnymen’s 1983 album Porcupine.
The song features an Indian raga violin being played by L. Shankar, the famed ethnic musician who’s worked with Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads and Lou Reed. He was allegedly brought in by the...
[Intro]
Cutter
Cutter
Cutter
[Verse 1]
Who's on the seventh floor?
Brewing alternatives
What's in the bottom drawer?
Waiting for things to give
[Pre-Chorus]
Spare us the cutter
Spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the
Mustard
[Chorus]
Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another drop in the ocean
[Verse 2]
Come to the free for all
With Sellotape and knives
Some of us six feet tall
We will escape our lies
[Pre-Chorus]
Spare us the cutter
Spare us the cutter
Couldn't cut the
M-m-mustard
[Chorus]
Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another drop in the ocean
[Bridge]
Am I the happy loss?
Will I still recoil
When the skin is lost?
Am I the worthy cross?
Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off?
[Chorus]
Conquering myself until
I see another hurdle approaching
Say we can, say we will
Not just another drop in the ocean
Ocean
[Post-Chorus]
Watch the fingers close
When the hands are cold
[Refrain]
Am I the happy loss?
Will I still recoil
When the skin is lost?
Am I the worthy cross?
Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off?
[Outro]
Am I the happy loss?
Will I still be soiled
When the dirt is off?
The Cutter was written by Les Pattinson & Pete de Freitas & Ian McCulloch & Will Sergeant.
The Cutter was produced by Ian Broudie.
Echo & the Bunnymen released The Cutter on Fri Jan 14 1983.
Writer and guitarist Will Sergeant spoke about “The Cutter” and gaining popularity in the U.S. in a 2017 interview:
It was a funny time, you know. A funny period. It was all that British Invasion thing. We did a few tours of America where we just played clubs – the Paradise, and places like that. T...