Bare
The Cure * Track #14 On Wild Mood Swings
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Album Wild Mood Swings
Bare by The Cure
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Performed by
The CureProduced by
Robert Smith & Steve LyonWrited by
Robert Smith & Simon Gallup & Roger O’Donnell & Jason Cooper & Perry BamonteAbout
“Bare” is the last and longest track on The Cure’s 1996 album Wild Mood Swings.
Despite being Robert Smith’s favorite song on the album, and originally intended to be the title track of it, Roger O'Donnell revealed shortly before Wild Mood Swings was released that “Bare” almost didn’t make the cut.
Bare Lyrics
[Verse 1]
If you've got something left to say
You'd better say it now
Anything but "stay"
Just say it now
We know we've reached the end
We just don't know how
Well at least we'll still be friends
Yeah one last useless vow
One last useless vow
There are different ways to live
Yeah I know that stuff
Other ways to give
Yeah all that stuff
But holding on to "used to be"
Is not enough
Memory's not life
And it's not love
[Chorus]
We should let it all go
It never stays the same
So why does it hurt me like this
When you say that I've changed?
When you say that I've aged?
Say I'm afraid
[Verse 2]
And all the tears you cry
They're not tears for me
Regrets about your life
They're not regrets for me
It never turns out how you want
Why can't you see?
It all just slips away
It always slips away
Eventually
So if you've got nothing left to say
Just say goodbye
Turn your face away
And say goodbye
You know we've reached the end
You just don't know why
And you know we can't pretend
After all this time
[Chorus]
We should just let it all go
Nothing ever stays the same
So why does it hurt me like this
To say that I've changed?
To say that I've aged?
Say I'm afraid
[Verse 3]
But there are long long nights when I lay awake
And I think of what I've done
Of how I've thrown my sweetest dreams away
And what I've really become
And however hard I try
I will always feel regret
However hard I try
I will never forget
[Outro]
I will never forget
I will never forget
I will never forget
I will never forget
I will never forget
I will never forget
I will never forget
I will never forget
Bare Q&A
Who wrote Bare's ?
Bare was written by Robert Smith & Simon Gallup & Roger O’Donnell & Jason Cooper & Perry Bamonte.
Who produced Bare's ?
Bare was produced by Robert Smith & Steve Lyon.
What did The Cure say about "Bare"?
Robert Smith told Zillo in 2000 that “Bare” was one of only two songs he released in the 1990s that he wrote about himself:
Actually I haven´t written about myself since Disintegration except for songs like “Want” or “Bare” … (On Wish and Wild Mood Swings) I didn´t want to write about me, I wanted...