“The Hanging Garden” was the sole commercial single release from The Cure’s album Pornography. Two releases of it were under the title A Single. It reached #34 in the UK, becoming their second-highest charting single there at the time – until the following year when “The Walk” broke the top 20.
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[Verse 1]
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In the hanging garden, please don't speak
In the hanging garden, no one sleeps
[Refrain]
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
[Verse 2]
Catching halos on the moon
Gives my hands the shapes of angels
In the heat of the night, the animals scream
In the heat of the night walking into a dream
[Chorus]
Fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls
Jump, jump out of time
Fall, fall, fall, fall out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals cry
[Refrain]
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
[Verse 3]
Creatures kissing in the rain
Shapeless in the dark again
In a hanging garden, change the past
In a hanging garden wearing furs and masks
[Chorus]
Fall, fall, fall, fall into the walls
Jump, jump out of time
Fall, fall, fall, fall out of the sky
Cover my face as the animals die
[Bridge]
(In the hanging garden)
As the animals die
Cover my face as the animals die
[Outro]
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
(In the hanging garden)
The Hanging Garden was written by Simon Gallup & Lol Tolhurst & Robert Smith.
The Hanging Garden was produced by The Cure & Phil Thornalley.
The Cure released The Hanging Garden on Tue May 04 1982.
In 1984, Robert Smith told Shake Magazine of his dissatisfaction with the song’s music video:
For “The Hanging Garden” video, we got the two people who did Madness videos but it was a really awful video. They wanted to make us look serious and we wanted them to make us look like Madness.
In 2003,...