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Bloodflowers is the eleventh album by English band The Cure, released in 2000. The album is seen as a sombre return to form by critics and fans alike. Robert Smith has expressed on several occasions that the album is the final part in his "trilogy" (the 3 albums he feels best define the Cure), the first being the 1982 album Pornography, and the second being the 1989 album Disintegration.
Bloodflowers is considered by many Cure fans to be a return to the band's roots after the stylistic departure of Wild Mood Swings. It is the third and final album in Robert Smith's "trilogy" of the three albums he feels most express The Cure. In 2002, the band performed Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers in their entirety to a Berlin audience, and released the recording on DVD in 2003, titled The Cure: Trilogy.
Bloodflowers was a moderate success, debuting at #16 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart, eventually selling 300,000 copies in America. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2001.
The Cure are an English alternative rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member. The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the punk rock revolution in the United Kingdom. During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the gothic rock genre.
After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired. With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed" Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look). The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart. By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004. The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, 10 EPs and over thirty singles during the course of their career. Since 2010, they have been working on a fourteenth studio album.
Album: A Lifetime Burning
This dream never ends you said
This feeling, never goes
The time will never come, itll slip away
This wave never breaks, you said
The sun never sets, again
Theses flowers, will never fade (Never fade)
This world never starts, you said
This wonder, never leaves
The time will never come, to say goodbye
This time never turns, you said
This night never falls, again
And these flowers will never die
(Never die)
(Never die)
And these flowers will never die (Never die)
This dream always ends, I said
This feeling always goes
The time always comes to, slip away
This wave always breaks, I said
The sun always sets, again
And these flowers will always fade (Will always fade)
This world always stops, I said
This wonder always leaves
The time always comes, to say goodbye
The time always comes, I said
The night always falls again
And these flowers, will always die
(Always die)
(Always die)
(Always die)
Between you and me
Its hard to ever really know who to trust
Out of pain, wondering
Between me and you
Its hard to ever really know who you choose
Out of fear, what to do?
Never fade
Never die
You give me, the flowers of love
Always fade
Always die