#a letter to elise

[roseillith]

The Cure A Letter To Elise CD single (1992)

[theresglitterinmydaiquiri]

“Oh Elise It doesn’t matter what you say

I just can’t stay here every yesterday”

“The Way the Blue could pull me in

If they only would

If they only would”

“Oh Elise Believe I never wanted this

I thought this time I’d keep all of my promises”

“But I let the dream go

And the promises broke

And make believe ran out”

-A letter to Elise, The cure

Aka the most beautiful song of all time

[poprocklyrics]

And every time I try to pick it up like falling sand As fast as I pick it up It runs away through my clutching hands

A Letter to Elise, The Cure

[astrabear]

Thirty years ago this month, "A Letter to Elise" was released as a single. I don't remember now when I heard it on the radio for the first time - sometime in late 92, I think. But I remember how it felt to listen to it. I'd never experienced anything like it before, never felt like a song just reached into my head and rewired my brain. I bought Wish as a result (I was already familiar with "Friday I'm in Love," which I enjoyed but didn't hugely care about), and that's where it all began.

By the time I graduated high school, not quite five years later, I had so many Cure posters on my walls that I ran out of room and affixed them to my ceiling. I had all their albums. I haunted indie record shops and radio station events looking for imports and rarities. I had t-shirts and tablature books and unauthorized biographies. I went to libraries and used the cumbersome 90s magazine indices to look up old articles and interviews.

And I've never looked back. I don't have the fannish energy I had when I was younger - I don't feel compelled to surround myself in swag, I don't give a shit about their personal lives or political opinions, and I find much of their post-Wish output frankly meh. But in thirty years, they've never not been my favorite band. I can't think of anything else that's worked its way into my marrow and become part of me the way The Cure has.

Happy 30th!

[theskelosbadlands]

And every time I try to pick it up like falling sand

As fast as I pick it up

It runs away through my clutching hands

But there's nothing else I can really do

[freshdanks]

Rare blink-182 A Letter To Elise (Cure Cover) MTV Icon 2004

[lin-archive]

don’t know if youve posted this yet, but im really fond of this video of lmm performing the cut john adams rap!!

HELL YEAH IT'S SO GOOD!!!

[littledashdraws]

elise and her little buddy from the aviary

[eziosofia]

Thinking about the Ratonhnhaké:ton/Arno team-up game we never got...

[haemosexuality]

marceline only reading simon's letter where he apologizes to her and only listening to her mom's recording where she apologizes to her a thousand years later after she had lived her entire life believing that they abandoned her is kind of representative of how when youre a kid your parents will hurt you and you're gonna grow up with that hurt and itll change you and shape who you are and for a while its gonna feel overwhelming but sometimes, later in life when you're older and you've healed, you're able to look back at that time and realize that they might've not meant to hurt you. they were people too and they mightve been hurting themselves and while that does not change the effect it had on you it does help you understand and forgive them

[thatdeshigirl]

Fur Elise - Faouzia // Lie - Sasha Alex Sloan // Lie - Sasha Alex Sloan // @thatdeshigirl on tumblr

[elisedonut]

one thing that's come from finding potter search and using it a lot is that I don't really see what people mean when they act like Percy's like mean?

like I've seen all these moments before but something about seeing them all back to back was making me think about this

like i don't know if it's just the neuro-spicy in me making me read things differently but like other then the letter i just don't really see it?

Like he just seems direct to me maybe a bit cold in uncomfortable situations but intentionally cruel?? i don't see it

[trashcreatyre]

Forgot i drew this tbh

Og pic