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The Cure

Cold

Release date: 3rd May 1982

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About This Track

A study in emotional numbness and rejection, 'Cold' builds its landscape from images of physical distance and frozen affect. The narrator moves through scenes of abandonment, his back turned, his words mouthed without warmth, crawling across a mirror as though searching for some reflection of himself. The song's central conceit, that a lover's name enters the heart like ice, transforms intimacy into a kind of wound. The track sustains this chill through repetition and restraint. Everything is rendered cold: life itself, silence, even the eyes that refuse to move. There is no climax, no release. Instead, the refrain circles back, the same phrase returning like a thought that cannot be shaken, until the song ends where it began, trapped in its own frozen logic.

"Cold" is a track by The Cure, released 3rd May 1982. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about The Cure.

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Lyrics

Cold

[Verse 1]

Scarred, your back was turned, curled like an embryo

Take another face, you will be kissed again

I was cold as l mouthed the words and crawled across the mirror

And wait, await the next breath

[Refrain]

Your name like ice into my heart

[Verse 2]

A shallow grave, a monument to the ruined age

Ice in my eyes and eyes like ice don't move

Screaming at the moon, another past time

[Refrain]

Your name like ice into my heart

[Verse 3]

Everything as cold as life (Can no one save you?)

Everything as cold as silence (And you will never say a word)

[Outro]

Your name like ice into my heart

Your name like ice into my heart

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Cold

1982
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Writer
Lol Tolhurst, Robert Smith, Simon Gallup
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