The Cure: Disintegration Meaning

Disintegration Lyrics

Oh I miss the kiss of treachery

The shameless kiss of vanity

The soft and the black and the velvety

Up tight against the side of me

And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed

And run in thickening streams of greed

As bit by bit it...

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   anonymous

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   Feb 28th, 2:38pm report

   
   

   One of the most powerful songs. As has been said, this song about a painful end of a relationship and the accompanying feelings that go with that. Swirling through the Shock, Withdrawal, Internalization, Rage and Lifting (SWIRL) as Susan Anderson describes in the breakup process. He goes over and over these feelings trying to put together the pieces of a puzzle that can’t be put together and finally realizes that there’s nothing more than to accept that the end is just the end.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Nov 13th, 2019 11:56pm report

   
   

   In my opinion, the song is about infidelity and heartbreak. As another person above said, Robert Smith sings about how he misses the younger days of his relationship. He misses the dangerous and fierce kisses, the earlier days where they used to fuck every day and every night, and that part makes me think heartbreak. He sings about how it's not like it used to be, and because of that, he begins to feel more attracted to younger women. "The addiction of duplicities"
   Obviously, he refers to sexual intercourse. Another way of saying that they used to "go at it like bunnies"

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Nov 26th, 2018 11:38pm report

   
   

   That it could be about the end of a relationship is obvious but I think it could be about an artist leaving the stage too. Specially the 2nd half of the song.

   
   
   
   

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   chickenwaffles666

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   Aug 3rd, 2018 8:41am report

   
   

   i believe that the song is about a realationship that has fallen apart an because of that his whole world has broken into pieces so he feels the desire to die because he does not see worth in living anymoree

   
   
   
   

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   chickenwaffles666

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   Aug 3rd, 2018 8:38am report

   
   

   i actually can see a lilttle bit of a suicidal desire in the song , i belive that the song is about a relationship that has fallen appart and because of that his whole world has broken into pieces and he does not see the worth on living anymore

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Mar 8th, 2018 3:50pm report

   
   

   It seems to me, to be about a relationship that has lost its love. He sings about missing the dangerous kisses they used to enjoy, and how he cannot help but be attracted to lots more women because he isn't getting any love from his existing relationship. They both know that it isn't working, but he knows that when it ends, it will end like all his relationships - painful and bitter. He sings about going round and around again- all his romance fails and he knows eventually he will leave her too, even though it will break them both and probably push him over the edge.

   
   
   
   

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   Sep 29th, 2017 9:37pm report

   
   

   It's about an affair with a younger person, who gives validation to it because of their obsession with the band and their popularity.

   
   
   
   

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   Apr 1st, 2015 4:41pm report

   
   

   Even though he misses and yearns the love he once knew that felt good with all of the trappings in a relationship finally turned inward on it's self in the hope to stop the pain of sin, while dissintragating slowly in the feeling of falling without hitting the bottom of the void and continually being sucked slowly by the black hole of the mind.

   
   
   
   

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   Apr 22nd, 2012 4:03pm report

   
   

   I think that the song is about him having a child and how he cannot accept the next chapter of his life.

   
   
   
   

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    Jun 22nd, 2011 6:57am report

    
    

    I think it's about how there is always that one special person will leave you bleeding for them.