Lyrics A Letter to Elise (1990 Demo) - 2022 Remaster - The Cure

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do
I know I'll never really get inside of you
To make your eyes catch fire
The way they should
The way the blue will pull me in
If they only would
If they only would
At least I'd lose this sense of sensing
Something else that hides away

From me and you
There's worlds to part
With aching looks and breaking hearts
And all the smiles your hands can break
But I can take as much as you can throw
And then throw it all away
Oh I'll throw it all away
Like throwing faces at the sky
Like throwing arms round

Yesterday I stood and stared
Like a stone infront of you
And the way I stared it felt
I looked right out of you
And watching me stand like a stone
I broke inside of you

Elise believe me
Take me away from this
And secretely we'll slip into all our promises
Away from it all
In the cover of the night again
And we watch the years fall
And then we'll cheer it up like this, we do

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say
I just can't stay here every yesterday
Like keep on acting out the same
The way we act out
Every way to smile forget
And make-believe we never needed
Any more than this
Any more than this

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
There's nothing else I can really do
There's nothing else I can really do
At all