Disintegration poems

Poems inspired by the classic album from 1989

If you were to ask me my favorite album of all time, I’d probably respond that it’s too difficult to pick only one. There is so much great music out there and so many fantastic albums I still have yet to listen to. But if I had no other choice but to list the album I hold dearest to my heart it would be Disintegration by The Cure from 1989.

Few songwriters know how to craft such deep, consuming. and melancholic soundscapes like Robert Smith, and even fewer singer possess a voice capable of making every word reach your soul so profoundly and effortlessly.

The lyrics to this album have haunted me for a long time. The following poems are an attempt to interpret, rearrange, and create something new from Smith’s lyrics.

Hope you enjoy!

* These poems have multiple citations from Robert Smith and are created from the framework of various songs from the album ‘‘Disintegration'‘ by The Cure. Thus I cannot claim full authorship of these poems.

Disintegration poems

Dreaming of you:
I feel it all fading and paling
   and I’m begging
      In the cold

It’s like the cold
   if you were dead

My hands upon my head
  a shaking and a shaking
   in your bed

I feel like i’m being eaten
  Eaten
   day after day—

I’ll never lose this pain
  Never dream of you again
   Never fly on your wings 

For the wind howls
It blows and blows
Goes on like—
   It’s the end of the world

It’s like the cold if you were dead

In our mortal reign
   It shall never rain again

I’ll never dream of you again
 I’ll never lose this pain

The edge of the world:
We are living on the edge of the world
   Living in each others gazes
    My hands before my fading eyes
     The strangest twist upon your lips

I will kiss you forever
 My hands upon your hips 
   Shaking and shaking 
    blissfully we kiss

I would kiss you forever
  If only we could be together
   Instead You hopelessly drift

  The eyes of
    The ghosts
     catch us again 

Clinging on to hope
  as I feel
   Like I’m being eaten 

A thousand shivering furry holes
 Swallowing us—
  Around the earth we go

We are living on the edge of the world

Prayers for rain:
Your eyes upon me
 Inflicting
  An infectious sense
    of hopelessness 

You pray for rain
  yet nowhere does time
   glow

All of our lives
  And
   Nothing to show for it 

You pray for rain
 In our intimate hour
  Finding ourselves
   Killing time again

Touch me like you mean it
  Let our bodies sink
   Sink deeper and deeper

Prayers for rain
  Amongst our hopelessness
   Killing time again 

Your touch
 A touch— so plain
  So stale it kills

You pray for rain
 Killing time again 

It’s cold
 Like the cold if you were dead

It’s just the way you smile
 I said

Just the two of us—
  Killing time again

Just the two of us 
 praying for rain