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Rhythm 10.0
Melody 10.0
Instruments 10.0
Lyrics 10.0
Vocal 8.8
This song has been reviewed 5 times. Overall score for this song, 9.8.
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The Cure - A Letter To Elise Lyrics

Song details
TitleA Letter To Elise
ArtistThe Cure
AlbumWish (1992) , Track 9 ,
Paris [Live] (1993) , Track 9 ,
Galore - The Singles 1987-1997 (1997) , Track 13
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Song lyrics
Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know I'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue could pull me in
If they only would
If they only would
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing something else
That hides away
From me and you
There're worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the prayers your hands can make

Oh I just take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round
Yesterday
I stood and stared
Wide-eyed in front of you
And the face I saw looked back
The way I wanted to
But I just can't hold my tears away
The way you do

Elise... believe I never wanted this
I thought this time I'd keep all of my promises
I thought you were the girl always dreamed about
But I let the dream go
And the promises broke
And the make-believe ran out...

Oh elise
It doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile
Forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

And every time I try to pick it up
Like falling sand
As fast as I pick it up
It runs away through my clutching hands
But there's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else
I can really do
At all...
lyrics submitted by Vinicius Picollo
lyrics corrected by




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11-06-2004 20:23Lailanthirwen is offline Lailanthirwen 

6 posts
they really are! this song makes me crazy... I just want to love the whole world when I hear it, grrrrreat!
24-06-2004 04:27iheartrootbeer is offline iheartrootbeer 

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you want to love the whole world when you hear this song? did you even listen to it? its the most depressing story of a man in love with a woman who keeps so isolated, so cold, such an enigma, that he gives up. he realizes he cant win her over.
personally i love the song. but its the most depressing song in the world. considering i'm an elyse, and so much like the woman in the song. makes me feel like a bad person
24-06-2004 10:33Lailanthirwen is offline Lailanthirwen 

6 posts
Yes! It's such a great song, and even if it makes me want to cry it also makes me enormously happy because it reminds me that there is really good music out there. Say what you want..
07-12-2004 20:32andooCURE is offline andooCURE 

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this is a great song. listening to it is an indescribable experience that nothing else can bring me. one of my co-favorites by the cure(greatest band ever) along with "just like heaven"
17-12-2004 15:54Spaz_Weasle is offline Spaz_Weasle 

7 posts
This album is the best thing to listen to in a break up.
This song is wonderful, the lyrics are suberb (as most Cure lyrics are)- words like 'Elise it doesnt matter what you do, I know I'll never really get inside of you' are so moving and are incredible. Although it is depressing, I found it helpful (!) and touching.
Robert Smith is God.
21-01-2005 07:54mickispickis2 is offline mickispickis2 

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This is one of the best songs in the world. Ever.
19-04-2005 23:06Chrome is offline Chrome 

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AMAZING! One of their best song, after Just like Heaven and Friday I'm in love.. Of course.
24-04-2005 19:19TravisDrumstick is offline TravisDrumstick 

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great song....absolutely fantastic....could listen 2 it over n over again, in fact.....i am......right now
24-11-2006 02:37tawny_paw is offline tawny_paw 

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O.My Gosh!! I LOVE this song...I bought the Cure Galore just for this song....cuz it has my name in it. So depressing


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