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4:13 Dream
Switch

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Switch

Release date: 23rd October 2008

From 4:13 Dream

Track 8

3:42

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About This Track

'Switch' by The Cure is a 2008 alternative track from the album '4:13 Dream'. The lyrics sketch a selfhood that slips out of reach, with the speaker feeling themselves replaced and rewritten without a word, even as they insist they know this new version of them is not quite the same. There is a restless, almost self-interrogating tone to the catalogue of wishes, desires, and a life built on conceit and deceit, culminating in the uneasy thought, “Not sure who I was”.

"Switch" is a track by The Cure, from the album 4:13 Dream, released 23rd October 2008. The track is 3:42 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 12 articles about The Cure.

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Lyrics

Switch

Sometime it seems
I stopped being myself
And without a word
Turned into somebody else
Full of wishes wants dreams
And desires
For a life
Of conceit and deceit
And repeat and rewrite
Not sure who I was
Before this me and I changed
But I know this me now
Is not really the same

Friends are as strangers
And strangers as friends
And I feel like I'm wired in a why
Yeah my friends are as strangers
And strangers as friends
And I feel like I'm lost in a lie

And every day my world gets slower
And colder and smaller
And older and lower
And every day
My treat gets closer to trick
Yeah every day my world gets slower
And colder and smaller
And older and lower

And I'm tired of being alone with myself
And I'm tired of being with anyone else
Yeah I'm tired
Like I'm sick

None of my favourite things
Are quite right
To the mirror man
Screaming at me
In the spite of another
False start
Dirty worn out and used
Up and down
To the ground
Disavowed
So confused
All made up in the belief
That me is the same
As the eyes in the glass
But I see my eyes change

Friends are as strangers
And strangers as friends
And I feel like I'm wired in a why
Yeah my friends are as strangers
And strangers as friends
And I feel like I'm lost in a lie

And every night my world gets quicker
And lighter and shorter
And tighter and slicker
And every night
My truth gets closer to dare
Yeah every night my world gets quicker
And lighter and shorter
And tighter and slicker

And I'm sick of being alone with myself
And I'm sick of being with anyone else
Yeah I'm sick of being alone with myself
And I'm sick of being with anyone else

Yeah I'm sick
Like I'm tired

Like I'm scared

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Track details

From 4:13 Dream

3:422008

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Album

24th October 2008

Track number

8

Release year

2008

1Underneath the Stars
6:17
2The Only One
3:55
3The Reasons Why
4:35
4Freakshow
2:28

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