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All Cats Are Grey by The Cure
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Robert Smith & Simon Gallup & Lol TolhurstAbout
The early demos being written for the band’s third album Faith were upbeat, but one night Robert Smith wrote “All Cats Are Grey” (and “The Funeral Party”) and “that really set the tone for the album”, which ended up very somber.
In 1989, Smith explained the song is about being ‘trapped in caves’ (a...
All Cats Are Grey Lyrics
[Verse]
I never thought that I would find myself
In bed amongst the stones
The columns are all men begging to crush me
No shapes sail on the dark deep lakes
And no flags wave me home
[Chorus]
In the caves, all cats are grey
In the caves, the texture coats my skin
In the death cell, a single note rings on and on and on
All Cats Are Grey Q&A
Who wrote All Cats Are Grey's ?
All Cats Are Grey was written by Robert Smith & Simon Gallup & Lol Tolhurst.
Who produced All Cats Are Grey's ?
All Cats Are Grey was produced by The Cure & Mike Hedges.
When did The Cure release All Cats Are Grey?
The Cure released All Cats Are Grey on Tue Apr 14 1981.
What did The Cure say about "All Cats Are Grey"?
Robert Smith said in a 1989 fanzine that the song is about:
a nightmare of being lost / trapped in caves – echoes of the grave and of prison cells and again of growing old.
So is this song about Robert's grandparents, like in The Funeral Party?
Lol Tolhurst shared in 2016:
I had a hand in some Cure lyrics so obviously they were from my own experiences, like “All Cats are Grey” which was about my mother’s death. But also Robert’s words have always helped me too. We went through many of the same things together growing up so they are releva...