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Speaker 1: Let Me tell you a story on time and LEAs.

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Speaker 2: It's the story behind the song.

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Speaker 3: Love song, any old love song. No Love Song by

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Speaker 3: The Cure was released as the third single from their

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Speaker 3: eighth studio album, Disintegration in nineteen eighty nine. Disintegration considered

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Speaker 3: not only The Cure's greatest album, but one of the

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Speaker 3: greatest albums of that generation.

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Speaker 2: And you love the Cure, don't you?

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Speaker 1: We do?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, He's Robert Smith talking about the album Disintegration and

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Speaker 2: the song.

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Speaker 1: As with everything that we do, once we've done it,

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Speaker 1: I feel less like it. Its like it's an exorcism,

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Speaker 1: so I feel more pieced together since more peaceful as well,

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Speaker 1: since we've made it. It does revert back a little

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Speaker 1: bit too, certainly musically to around the Faith period, in

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Speaker 1: that they are longer sort of quieter or extended atmospheric

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Speaker 1: songs on it, as opposed to the KissMe album, which

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Speaker 1: was like pretty kaleidoscopic. But I think we're just we

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Speaker 1: tend to do that from times time. It's like look back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the catalog of stuff that we've done is

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Speaker 1: so huge now that I sort of look back and

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Speaker 1: think the things that we could still experiment with and

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Speaker 1: then usual comes out of that it's something completely different.

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Speaker 1: So with this record there's it's a mixture of the two.

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Speaker 1: The thing of disintegration is because I wanted the group

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Speaker 1: to do something a bit harder than it gives me

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Speaker 1: a bit more, something a bit more depth through.

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Speaker 3: Look, he's not David Lee Roth. Okay, Robert Smith is

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Speaker 3: one of the shyest little things ever in music, hiding

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Speaker 3: behind all that hair and ilina.

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Speaker 2: And saying describing another album as lleidoscopic.

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Speaker 3: David Robert wrote love Song for his partner Mary Now.

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Speaker 3: He and Mary had been together since high school. They

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Speaker 3: got they when they were fourteen, is when they met.

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Speaker 3: And then he wrote love song for Mary and presented

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Speaker 3: it to her as a wedding present. And so she

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Speaker 3: took them tape in nineteen eighty eight to take.

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Speaker 2: To another room and came back and smothered him in

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Speaker 2: kisses and you are being a cure fand give me

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Speaker 2: back my life of course, and my hair gel where's

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Speaker 2: my product? You, as a cure fan must have sat

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Speaker 2: in front of a stereo many many times reading the

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Speaker 2: lyrics off the album covers so lyrics like whenever Whenever

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Speaker 2: I'm alone with you you make me feel like I'm

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Speaker 2: a home again. I mean really, Robert doesn't get much

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Speaker 2: better than that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he said, it's an open show of emotion.

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Speaker 3: It's not trying to be clever. It's taken me ten years,

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Speaker 3: he said. This is what he said at the time,

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Speaker 3: to reach the point where I feel comfortable singing a

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Speaker 3: very straightforward love song.

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Speaker 1: It's probably the most difficult song that I've had to

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Speaker 1: sing because it doesn't have any kind of twists. It's

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Speaker 1: very straightforward, very honest. I find it very difficult to

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Speaker 1: sing honestly a lot of the time.

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Speaker 2: He's a man of few words, as we know.

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Speaker 3: But an interviewer once called love song the most traditional

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Speaker 3: song the cure I've ever written. For this reason, he

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Speaker 3: asked Robert Smith if he was proud of it, to

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Speaker 3: which Robert replied

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Speaker 2: It was simply a cheap and cheerful married, isn't it