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“The Hanging Garden” was the sole commercial single release from The Cure’s album Pornography. Two releases of it were under the title A Single. It reached #34 in the UK, becoming their second-highest charting single there at the time – until the following year when “The Walk” broke the top 20.
Cure frontman Robert Smith said in a fanzine, “The Hanging Garden is something like about the purity and hate of animals fucking.” While it’s not very specific, that’s all that’s really known about the song’s meaning. However, the title may be a reference to The Hanging Gardens in Mumbai, India, which is well known for its view of the Arabian Sea and its hedges, which are carved in the shapes of animals.
The lyrics to “The Hanging Garden” appeared in the original comic book The Crow. The group was asked if the song could be used in the 1994 film based on the comic, but Smith reportedly liked it so much he opted to write a new song for the soundtrack instead – “Burn”.
I open my mouth and my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water The Cure – One Hundred Years
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The “ribbon” is a noose, a collapsible knot in a rope usually used for suicides or public execution. After the ground is pulled from beneath Smith’s feet, his fall is brought to an end when his body weight causes the noose to tighten, thus breaking his neck. (Causing blood to come out of his mouth, hence his “head burst(ing) open.”) The sound of Smith’s neck snapping is the “sound like a tiger thrashing in the water.”
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The narrator’s heart, soul, ideas, creativity and love make up the landscape of his inner world. The trust put into this love interest is shown here as he has given this person an intimate look into this world, leaving the narrator vulnerable, his world now defenseless.
The ensuing heartbreak shatters what he has built, changing his inner world into a distorted, broken image, like a once great city now turned to rubble.
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While all of this may be horrible, you have so little time on this planet that you shouldn’t dwell on it. You have to live for yourself and enjoy your own life instead of focusing on the horrifying conditions in which other people live in. Whether or not these are Smith’s own beliefs, or just a mimic of the beliefs of people around him, is not known.
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A drug addict (or at least some kind of bum with bad teeth) is made to degrade himself for change by dancing and singing.
And take a stand to change my life
So savage with red desperation The Cure – Doubt
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The man is stopping dead in his tracks to face his doubt, which has tormented him for years and made him desperate to destroy it. By doing so, he thinks he’ll finally be able to live the way he always wanted to.
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After his body is found, he is given a funeral, where his body is dressed in black clothes (probably a suit and tie) and placed in a casket which is buried six feet underground.
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