I was assigned "The Stranger" by Albert Camus in college, and I read it. My prof said if you lived your life by this philosophy you'd be a wreck. I swear that I got as much from this song as I got from the book, plus it rocked.
@@dannyhightower911 of course it's more than that lmao. I just tried to sum it up in a short dumbed-down phrase. But it's definitely not something that would turn you into "a wreck" if you live by it. If Camus wasn't a happy person that doesn't mean that his philosophy is to be unhappy.
Didn't mean to turn this into a "continental fiction" debate, which I think was the class during which I was assigned this novel. I still maintain that my PhD Northwestern University professor likely had a valid opinion. I don't claim to be an expert on existentialism. I dig the Cure. I have an autographed poster in my basement.
+J. Deiss remarkable, short, honest, absurd book. I had the good fortune of having it as part of my high school French class. The teacher was a brilliant Haitian ex-pat who didn't seem to mind that we were only 16. That same year, in English class, we read "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles... the less said about that the better.
Another great bass in the song The Tower by Wye Oak, though it’s a lead instrument in this case (solo starts at the one minute thirty-six second mark). th-cam.com/video/sqC4Vx4p2b8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EJIJXRJRu0Gyi2Ty
@@pobbinistaI am French and I am absolutly atonished to see that so many foreign people know about this very classical masterpiece of French litterature
The Cure - Killing an Arab Standing on the beach With a gun in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring down the barrel At the Arab on the ground I can see his open mouth But I hear no sound I'm alive, I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab I can turn And walk away Or I can fire the gun Staring at the sky Staring at the sun Whichever I chose It amounts to the same Absolutely nothing I'm alive, I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab I feel the steel butt jump Smooth in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring at myself Reflected in the eyes Of the dead man on the beach The dead man on the beach I'm alive, I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab
People will take what they want from this song. It can't be helped. Just keep in mind this is Robert at 19 (Sep.20,1978) giving artistic expression to one of his favorite books. The band were all teenagers at the time with what I doubt to be cruel intentions.
Most 19 year olds these days are playing video games, texting, or getting pissed out of their skulls. I doubt that more than 0.1% of them have even heard of 'L'Etranger' never mind read it.
Reminds me of that black cassette tape I my sister had. I listened to it non stop when I was a kid. What a freaking amazing band, still to this day. Its probably been over 30years since I heard this song and I rattled it off like it was yesterday lol
I had an uncle named Lalo but he lived in central California and played the saxophone, I’m not sure he heard of the Cure though lol.. he was a cool guy. 😁
Just a heads up, this song is based off of "The Stranger" by nobel prize winning Albert Camus where the main character is a French Algerian who kills an arab on the beach after his mother's funeral
+Sammy Hannat - merci beaucoup ! That is the reality , so it was the Mr Hollande`Goverment that apologiest ( demander pardon) to the all Algerians - 55 years later. By the way, the Cure-Frontman,Mr Shmiths is gay - so i am same NO MORE HATECRIME IN THIS WORLD - EVEN IN WORDS LIKE HERE ARE PRESENTED FROM .mc donalds James Orlando Andrew Chase and Donald Trumps
we could apply themes of The Stranger to the way present day people overreact to this song...I wrote an essay in college about the attitude of the jury who assume things about the man because of what he did, they just assume, and people are so knee jerk these days, they also don't take into consideration the meaninglessness of the actions of a person suffering a mental break down, or alternate explanations which aren't "that's racist"
Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus" (Cure News number 11, October 1991). It has nothing to do with current events... >.
I read Camus 14 years old. I was in a cure pen pal chain from Creem magazine I collected rare pics of Robert Smith. I had cure posters on my wall in 7th grade. I painted my nails the cure. The year is 2018 and I still love this song. That's a good song.
wow that's quite an ill-formulated statement you make there on behalf of Camus... hope?! Have you even read his oeuvre? :D He argues for pragmatic atheism and the whole point of absurdism is to depict the dire insufficiency and meaningless all-consuming void of terms like hope, faith, existential compliance etc. wtf man... as a matter of fact, the absurd is described as an immutable pillar and likewise consequence of flawed and incomplete human nature. The highest degree of liberty and scope of action can only be accessed if one accepts the absurd in order to revolt subseqeuntly against any pseudo-meaningful bullshit there is... by doing so, one never gets stuck, one never loses faith cuz there's simply none left. Basically, he's not even an existentialist or atheist given that he's neither a disbeliever ( ergo he does not believe that there is no god) nor a believer - his thoughts were pragmatically individualistic while establishing a sense of collectively shared basis of existential hardship we all face and encounter no matter were we are on this wretched world. There is no need for fancy self-righteous ideas, a helping divine hand or crypto-nationalist approaches... it's tragically ridiculous... everytime I look around seing what goes down here and there in our postmodern, postfactual and postsecular world. Why don't we heed 20th century thinkers, who were all to wary of what risks such narrow-mindedness entails? Human tragedy is alive and kicking again as we grow week instead of growing strong. We favor cushy, safe and shiny dependence (ideationally and materialisticially) over the uncanny night of lucidity and independence. wtf is that. Stop slaggin and kick up some existential riots. I'm not done with this world yet
I had a craving of listening to this song at full blast on my stereo...classic single from The Cure...I can hear this and A Forest over and over again...
Just started reading The Stranger the other day, read this scene this morning and immediately thought of the song. Never put two and two together until now, but have always loved this song!
For people who are offended by the title. I am Arab and when I saw the title I was shocked but I get information and music is not racist .. she is from a book
I think Robert Smith was inspired by the book, The Stranger, by Albert Camus. I just finished reading that book a couple of weeks ago. In that book, the main character killed an Arab man. The book also makes frequent references to the sun and the beach.
I noticed this too when I was in my high school English class over 20 years ago!!! I pointed it out to my teacher and she asked me to share it with the class :)
I was aware of The Cure in the early '80s and knew of this song and their comments about how it wasn't anti-arab. Decades later, I finally read The Stranger and had a new take on the book and the song. Love it even more now. Fantastic to hear/read the lines and recognize them and read them in context.
I hadn’t heard this song since I was a kid listening to my dads albums. Just woke up when it was a focal part of a dream I had. First thing I did was open TH-cam and listened. Still an absolutely great song
I read "The Stranger" by writer/philosopher Albert Camus in junior high, years ago. What are the kids reading now? The theme is existentialism, not racism. Pick up a book, read, form your own opinion.
[LYRICS] I'm standing on the beach With a gun in my hand Staring at the sky Staring at the sand Staring down the barrel At the Arab on the ground I can see his open mouth But I hear no sound I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab I can turn And walk away Or I can fire the gun Staring at the sky Staring at the sun Whichever I chose It amounts to the same Absolutely nothing I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab I feel the steel butt jump Smooth in my hand Staring at the sea Staring at the sand Staring at myself Reflected in the eyes Of the dead man on the beach The dead man on the beach I'm alive I'm dead I'm the stranger Killing an Arab
Why would anyone who actually read the book 'The Stranger ' think this song is racist? Absurd ! The main character had absolutely no bias or judgement whatsoever. He was so alienated he wanted to feel something. Only at his execution did he wish that he heard 'howls of execration'
The song has nothing to do with Arabs, it's an allegorical reference to Albert Camus' novel The Stranger, where the protagonist Meursault kills an Arab on an Algerian beach for no apparent reason. Meursault, "The Stranger," then reinterprets the event to diminish responsibility and protect himself from psychological harm. It's about suppression and denial.
I agree,the media,and gov't are conglomerates, that incite fear,and uncertainty at times to control the masses,I rather be an original thinker,than most of the sheep out their! I never read the book,but it seems interesting!
This song i dedicate to two Arabs that put knife on my neck to steal mi ten e. Alber Cami, you are my hero, here in Spain they say that you are Catalan,. Viva Espana.
I love the cure, and the stranger is one of my favourite books and I didn't even notice the correlation between this song and the book for some reason wow
"I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hop was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration." --the last three sentences of the novel (English trans., Random House)
Who are listening this in 2024?
Me.
Me
yee
The Best of 'The Cure'
Learn to speak english
I was 15 years old when I first heard this song.
Now I'm 50.
And it's still new.
No, it's not new. You need to listen something new and different.
Your brain will shrink 😀.
Thé cure pour
We're right here.all of us. Right here
im 15 rn lmaoo
@@valentinasuarez9303 Just 5 years older than when I started listening to my mom's cassettes. Good taste kiddo❤
Mother died today. Or yesterday; I can't be sure
Not that it really matters anyways
Aujourd'hui maman est mort. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.
Like this is way much better
Did you have a cup of coffee and a cigarette?
Just read this book today, I finally understand these comments.
**MAMAN
I was assigned "The Stranger" by Albert Camus in college, and I read it. My prof said if you lived your life by this philosophy you'd be a wreck. I swear that I got as much from this song as I got from the book, plus it rocked.
Might want to read the book again though, just for the end bit where Mersault is on trial. Inspired “The Wall” a bit, I think.
His philosophy basically amounts to "you should enjoy life as much as possible cause it's absurd anyway". Your prof should read more Camus lol
@@valentinvali9622 Its more than that. And no, I bet the proffesor knew more Camus than you did. And Camus was not a particularly happy person.
@@dannyhightower911 of course it's more than that lmao. I just tried to sum it up in a short dumbed-down phrase. But it's definitely not something that would turn you into "a wreck" if you live by it. If Camus wasn't a happy person that doesn't mean that his philosophy is to be unhappy.
Didn't mean to turn this into a "continental fiction" debate, which I think was the class during which I was assigned this novel. I still maintain that my PhD Northwestern University professor likely had a valid opinion. I don't claim to be an expert on existentialism. I dig the Cure. I have an autographed poster in my basement.
The Cure has always had an absolutely smoking bass guitar sound. They've had several players over their long career but the bass is always kicking.
Okay
Thanks to Simon 🖤
Not really. Simon mostly
Michael Dempsey, Simon Gallup, Phil Thornalley, and Simon again and going forward.
See his open mouth but I hear no sound
The Stranger is such an amazing book
+J. Deiss by?
+Marian-David Wolff Albert Camus.
Yes it is 💕
+Sand Wichfeet Have you tried this book? it´s very good and an easy read
+J. Deiss remarkable, short, honest, absurd book. I had the good fortune of having it as part of my high school French class. The teacher was a brilliant Haitian ex-pat who didn't seem to mind that we were only 16. That same year, in English class, we read "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles... the less said about that the better.
I'm not a COVID-19 expert but this is The Cure
I’m stealing that line and using it before it’s too late....
INFOWARS?
Remember when Jerry Springer had a that Final Thought conclusive segment every show?
Hire this guy and I'll watch it.
OSTED You right , amigo 🇲🇽
The best antithood in Italy.
The Cure por siempre, saludes desde Colombia
This song has the coolest bass line I’ve heard.
I have always loved this bass line too!!!
Greatest bass line to me!
Great bass line. Give this bass solo a listen, also great (starts at 1:36).
th-cam.com/video/sqC4Vx4p2b8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EJIJXRJRu0Gyi2Ty
Another great bass in the song The Tower by Wye Oak, though it’s a lead instrument in this case (solo starts at the one minute thirty-six second mark).
th-cam.com/video/sqC4Vx4p2b8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=EJIJXRJRu0Gyi2Ty
Cant believe one of my favorite bands made a song about one of my favorite books
Me too. I remember reading the book and thinking that I knew the story from somewhere. Albert Camus L'Etranger. Have you also read La Peste?
@@pobbinistaI am French and I am absolutly atonished to see that so many foreign people know about this very classical masterpiece of French litterature
@user-ll4ws8dv5y I used to live in Perpignan in the late 90s. I used to read French books to help me learn the language.
@@pobbinista That’s great ! Have you read any other classical books?
I read Boule de Suif
One of the first cure songs i heard. Still love them
The Cure - Killing an Arab
Standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the Arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound
I'm alive, I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab
I can turn
And walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I chose
It amounts to the same
Absolutely nothing
I'm alive, I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab
I feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach
The dead man on the beach
I'm alive, I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab
@@chanjackie2299 ??
Cheers, mate!
@@ab1r741 Don't feed the trolls.
I can turn and walk away or rapid fire on the gun sounds cooler brah
Albert CAMUS "L'étranger"
Listened to this just because it was banned from Spotify.
Me too! Hahahaha
What's crazy is there is a cover of this song on Spotify by The Reign but they banned the original by The Cure like what the heck
Brittany Davis I just looked and it’s there now
Wtf r u kidding? Pathetic!
They do have this song on spotify but its a live version.... I couldnt find it for months but I found it a few days ago
People will take what they want from this song. It can't be helped. Just keep in mind this is Robert at 19 (Sep.20,1978) giving artistic expression to one of his favorite books. The band were all teenagers at the time with what I doubt to be cruel intentions.
Exactly. Times were very different then. Funny how it's all changed...not :(
Nevertheless,an excellent song.
Most 19 year olds these days are playing video games, texting, or getting pissed out of their skulls. I doubt that more than 0.1% of them have even heard of 'L'Etranger' never mind read it.
David Bentley ok boomer
@@davidbentley4032 we read it in school though
title of the song :more true than ever, we should do it !
Every single Cure video:
*I don't know about Coronavirus but this is The Cure*
Reminds me of that black cassette tape I my sister had. I listened to it non stop when I was a kid. What a freaking amazing band, still to this day. Its probably been over 30years since I heard this song and I rattled it off like it was yesterday lol
My stepdad from Mexico showed me this song when I was in about 2nd grade. Loved it ever since. Thanks Lalo
I had an uncle named Lalo but he lived in central California and played the saxophone, I’m not sure he heard of the Cure though lol.. he was a cool guy. 😁
Just a heads up, this song is based off of "The Stranger" by nobel prize winning Albert Camus where the main character is a French Algerian who kills an arab on the beach after his mother's funeral
+Sammy Hannat - merci beaucoup ! That is the reality , so it was the Mr Hollande`Goverment that apologiest ( demander pardon) to the all Algerians - 55 years later. By the way, the Cure-Frontman,Mr Shmiths is gay - so i am same NO MORE HATECRIME IN THIS WORLD - EVEN IN WORDS LIKE HERE ARE PRESENTED FROM .mc donalds James Orlando Andrew Chase
and Donald Trumps
+Sammy Hannat Most of the people commenting with racist shit probably never opened a book in their lives, not to mention Albert Camus books.
+Luca Argenti doesnt mater, some1 is gay or not, in Greatbritten promotion for hommosexuel-livestyle was illegal, in fakt Jimmy Sommervil songs .
we could apply themes of The Stranger to the way present day people overreact to this song...I wrote an essay in college about the attitude of the jury who assume things about the man because of what he did, they just assume, and people are so knee jerk these days, they also don't take into consideration the meaninglessness of the actions of a person suffering a mental break down, or alternate explanations which aren't "that's racist"
cool
Robert Smith has said that the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus" (Cure News number 11, October 1991). It has nothing to do with current events... >.
Classic case of 'no symbols where none intended'
And I am NOT justifying terrorism, because it is a vicious circle, you only get what you give. Peace for all
Mike Burkard They are so literal.
I play this song all the time and I play the cure music often,,, The Cure is Brilliant, ok Everyone ❤❤❤
I read Camus 14 years old. I was in a cure pen pal chain from Creem magazine I collected rare pics of Robert Smith. I had cure posters on my wall in 7th grade. I painted my nails the cure. The year is 2018 and I still love this song. That's a good song.
there is no way someone can understand camus at year 14
“political cartoons for donald trump”
I love THE CURE
They were and still cutting edge for alternative music
I love that Camus is being discussed online. Maybe there is hope for the future.
+Konig Corvus He's been discussed for some time now. Nothing has changed though.
An essentially solipsistic worldview negates the need for the concept of a monotheistic god figure when that perspective is one's own
wow that's quite an ill-formulated statement you make there on behalf of Camus... hope?! Have you even read his oeuvre? :D He argues for pragmatic atheism and the whole point of absurdism is to depict the dire insufficiency and meaningless all-consuming void of terms like hope, faith, existential compliance etc. wtf man... as a matter of fact, the absurd is described as an immutable pillar and likewise consequence of flawed and incomplete human nature. The highest degree of liberty and scope of action can only be accessed if one accepts the absurd in order to revolt subseqeuntly against any pseudo-meaningful bullshit there is... by doing so, one never gets stuck, one never loses faith cuz there's simply none left. Basically, he's not even an existentialist or atheist given that he's neither a disbeliever ( ergo he does not believe that there is no god) nor a believer - his thoughts were pragmatically individualistic while establishing a sense of collectively shared basis of existential hardship we all face and encounter no matter were we are on this wretched world. There is no need for fancy self-righteous ideas, a helping divine hand or crypto-nationalist approaches... it's tragically ridiculous... everytime I look around seing what goes down here and there in our postmodern, postfactual and postsecular world. Why don't we heed 20th century thinkers, who were all to wary of what risks such narrow-mindedness entails? Human tragedy is alive and kicking again as we grow week instead of growing strong. We favor cushy, safe and shiny dependence (ideationally and materialisticially) over the uncanny night of lucidity and independence. wtf is that. Stop slaggin and kick up some existential riots. I'm not done with this world yet
Don't get your hopes up.
there is not.
I love love love the Cure! My favorite for 40 years!
Listening to this as a kurd hits different
Turn up bass on your headphones, enjoy! :D
Simon Gallup, man!
Nice to see you here.
that was actually Micheal Dempsey's bass
title of the song :more true than ever, we should do it !
@@chanjackie2299 and the Jews as well, since we are giving out stupid opinions.
"And each successive shot was another loud, fateful rap on the door of my undoing."
One of the greatest lines in literature, and the novel is full of them.
I had a craving of listening to this song at full blast on my stereo...classic single from The Cure...I can hear this and A Forest over and over again...
Albert Camus was an existentialist writer active in the 1950s, post WWII.
Another powerful novel is 'The Plague'..
Just started reading The Stranger the other day, read this scene this morning and immediately thought of the song. Never put two and two together until now, but have always loved this song!
For people who are offended by the title. I am Arab and when I saw the title I was shocked but I get information and music is not racist .. she is from a book
Excessivement attaché a une certaine morale ? C'est à dire ?
***** Ça a l'air pas mal, je le prendrais a l'occasion. Merci du conseil ;)
Oui oui! She is from ze book, ohn hon hon! Haha. I'm sorry.
PrepperWorkShop Dafuq?
Daddy Junky Maghribi, mish kedda?
This Comment section;
50% ITS NOT RACIST. GET INFORMED 50% The Stranger is a good book 0% Hey, The Cure was pretty good for a first single.
nobody asked for it, but thanks anyway I guess, for your statistical analysis of the comments
at least the comment providing statistics about other comments is more than 0%
back when this song came out we weren't sensitive snowflakes like kids are now
@@ElCameronDormido yet you wine all the fucking time
@@adamtolley5621 soy boy alert!
What a timeless masterpiece!I das them first live in Berlin 1987.Absolutely great!🤘🏻💜
I didn't know Smith read Camus. Damn, two of my favorite artists.
There's another Cure song based on Baudelaire's poem "Les Yeux des Pauvre".
"Aujourd’hui, maman est morte..."
Magnifique
Wsh ma daronne est crevée mais balek
First time I saw them they played this, the guitar sound seemed to echo and bounce round the theatre, really uncanny and I still remember it.
It's made by a guitar pedal called chorus or something
My favorite Cure song. Just their very best song.
*THAT **_BEAUTIFUL_** BASS*
I think Robert Smith was inspired by the book, The Stranger, by Albert Camus. I just finished reading that book a couple of weeks ago. In that book, the main character killed an Arab man. The book also makes frequent references to the sun and the beach.
Robert said it’s about the book
staring at the sun with a gun in my hand staring at a copy at albert camus' book the plague... wait, that's not right.
This song is a complete reference to the Camus novel. One of the greatest writers ever!
@@caseytins I agree. I read another one of his books this year, The Plague.
I noticed this too when I was in my high school English class over 20 years ago!!! I pointed it out to my teacher and she asked me to share it with the class :)
I was aware of The Cure in the early '80s and knew of this song and their comments about how it wasn't anti-arab. Decades later, I finally read The Stranger and had a new take on the book and the song. Love it even more now. Fantastic to hear/read the lines and recognize them and read them in context.
My ultimate favorite Cure Song
if i think of my childhood , i think of the cure :) my mother teached me good music .
Rob Smith is a class Act a British legend
More than 40 years of this song and as fresh as The Cure is !
I can't believe one of my favorite authors wrote a book based on one of my favorite songs 🙏🙏🙏
Wicked bass playing. Drives the whole song.
i love the harmonic guitar solo (minor)
Simon Gallop is an underrated bassist
Manesh Ezra this wasn't Simon it was Michael something from the cures early days
Joe Vaughan Thanks for the info!
Phil C the bass makes me moist loves it
It's been years and years that I haven't heard this song , love it!!!
One of their best songs. I was 15 when this album came out. I'm 50 now.
I hadn’t heard this song since I was a kid listening to my dads albums. Just woke up when it was a focal part of a dream I had. First thing I did was open TH-cam and listened.
Still an absolutely great song
En mis 15 años, y ahora en los 47 años, jamás voy a dejar de escuchar este magnífico grupo musical.. por siempre the Cure...
Same dudee, that Quality is so Bad
I read "The Stranger" by writer/philosopher Albert Camus in junior high, years ago. What are the kids reading now? The theme is existentialism, not racism. Pick up a book, read, form your own opinion.
+Heather Horner JR HIGH?!?
+John Morley hmmm, it was so long ago, but it actually must have been high school. 10th grade-ish
lol i see...ya i taught middle school for a bit & none of those kids were ready to open themselves to the gentle indifference of the world!
The theme is the absurd not existentialism although hey are similar. read the sister book to it, the myth of sisyphus.
I remember I read mine in 8th Grade.
[LYRICS]
I'm standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the Arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound
I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab
I can turn
And walk away
Or I can fire the gun
Staring at the sky
Staring at the sun
Whichever I chose
It amounts to the same
Absolutely nothing
I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab
I feel the steel butt jump
Smooth in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring at myself
Reflected in the eyes
Of the dead man on the beach
The dead man on the beach
I'm alive
I'm dead
I'm the stranger
Killing an Arab
Never thought times would be as crazy as they are today. I feel at peace when I listen to The Cure.
Omg! ❤️ Nunca habia escuchado esta BELLEZA! 🤘🔥 LA CURA.. ES THE CURE!!❤️🖤🥁🎸🎸🎸🔥
This like so many Cure songs is a work of art!
The CURE IS THE BEST 🖤🤩🤘🤘🤘
Why would anyone who actually read the book 'The Stranger ' think this song is racist? Absurd ! The main character had absolutely no bias or judgement whatsoever. He was so alienated he wanted to feel something. Only at his execution did he wish that he heard 'howls of execration'
as an arab i can confirm this killed me
i love this song. perfect for right now
Played this at the bar the other night! My favorite song from that album
Bought this when it came out & saw them couple of times in 1979 supporting Siouxsie and the Banshees & double headline with WIRE great days
one of my favorite Cure songs
Great song. Love the lyrics.
I read Camus's book every year..it grounds me, it gives you so much to think about..whilst answering all your questions. ❤
One of my all time favorite Cure songs ❤ ❤ ❤
The song has nothing to do with Arabs, it's an allegorical reference to Albert Camus' novel The Stranger, where the protagonist Meursault kills an Arab on an Algerian beach for no apparent reason. Meursault, "The Stranger," then reinterprets the event to diminish responsibility and protect himself from psychological harm. It's about suppression and denial.
Meursault - one of great vintage (wine speaking) !!!!!
wrong its about arabs taking over the liquor stores and other bissness's in the u.s. thats why robert smith moved to the u.k.
What? this is not a book about denial. This is not why Camus wrote the book.
I agree,the media,and gov't are conglomerates, that incite fear,and uncertainty at times to control the masses,I rather be an original thinker,than most of the sheep out their! I never read the book,but it seems interesting!
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This song makes the book alive. I can see the beach where Meursault is standing, feel the unbearable heat of the sun, and the reflection of the knife.
My favorite song since 2015
This is a 🎯 hit song..😊
Incredible band on every level !
Discovered this song back in high school, and just got to reading Camus. I feel so left behind.
Heyy, we are friends on Facebook. I've just seen your comment. Cool.
Still one of their best songs
One of the best I really like the Cure especially I like this song Because of his lyrics
RIP Albert Camus
a little late, aren't you?
Dude died 60 years ago.
Pretty much completely opposite to what he was all about, but ok
Sartre>Camus
@@ahoranolose6389 sartre always said that liked the liberty, but used to defend the Soviet Union lol
Wow my parent always said the cure was a amazing band..for now on I’m going to trust them a lot more 👏🏼
Thank u the cure for this amazing music so deep so dark and powerfull
2023 & this song still applies
intense tune, love that guitar riff at the beginning
That moment where you accidentally stumble upon a song you've heard before that you really liked and never knew you'd find it out of nowhere.
title of the song :more true than ever, we should do it !
Magnificent musicianship. A class recording.
This song i dedicate to two Arabs that put knife on my neck to steal mi ten e. Alber Cami, you are my hero, here in Spain they say that you are Catalan,. Viva Espana.
How comes this sounds excellent whereas the version on Spotify sounds like it was recorded on a wired lemon?
true haha
Streaming sucks. Only cd
This is playing nonstop in Gaza right now.
This song has such an exhilarating and energizing title!
I was there when I got back this song was banned on every radio station in the US no shit
yep, me too
What can I say but pure magic from Robert and the boys
Grande The Cure y grande Camus, ya que sin uno ni otro está rola quizás no existiera...
My favourite book ever. And the song captures it perfectly
I love the cure, and the stranger is one of my favourite books and I didn't even notice the correlation between this song and the book for some reason wow
Great song with wonderful message…love the cure for their courageous artistry
very nice song...i like it
Oh the memories come flooding in....
“Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.”
"Four short knocks on the door of misery.."
“There is no love of life without despair about life.”
title of the song :more true than ever, we should do it !
Great song!
Love it!!!
"I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hop was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration." --the last three sentences of the novel (English trans., Random House)
The Stranger - Albert Camus. One of my favorite books of all-time!
40 years and one day since it was released... My how time flies.
What A Great Song , What A Great Band !!!