Pictures of You song

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Pictures of you by The cure.

1.Read the song.

Try to guess if the missing wordsare adjectives,nouns orverbs.

2.Listen to the song and fi in the ban!s.

I've been ______ so long at these pictures of you

That I almost believe that they're _____

I've been _______so long with my pictures of you

That I almost believe that the pictures are

All I can ______

Remembering you, _______quiet in the rain

As I ran to your ______ to be near

And we issed as the ____ fell in

_________ you close

!ow I always held close in your fear

Remembering you,________soft through the night

"ou were bigger and brighter and ______ than snow

#creamed at the ________

#creamed at the sy

And you finally found all your _______

To let it all ____

Remembering,you _____ into my arms

$rying for the ______ of your heart

"ou were stone white#o _______

______ in the cold

"ou were always so _____ in the dar

Remembering,you how you _____ to be

#low _________

"ou were _______

#o much more than everything

!old for the last time then _____ ______ quietly

______ my eyes

%ut I never _____anything

If only I'd _______ of the right words

I could have _____ on to your heart

If only I'd _______ of the right words

I wouldn't be _______ _________

All my pictures of you

_______ so long at these pictures of you

%ut I never ______on to your heart

_________ so long for the words to be _____

%ut always &ust ________ _________

y pictures of you

There was _______ in the world

That I ever _______ more


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Than to _____ you deep in my heart

There was ______ in the world

That I ever _______more

Than to never feel the ________ ________


".#ong meaning.

a()hy is he remembering pictures of a person*)as she someone close to him*

b(Are they still together*

c(!ow does he feel about it*

d(The singer says +I've been looing so long at these pictures of you

That I almost believe that they're real ,)hy does he +almost believe that they-the pictures( are

real*

e()hat could have happened if only he'd thought of the right words*

Pictures of you by The cure

I've been looing so long at these pictures of you

That I almost believe that they're real

I've been living so long with my pictures of you


All I can feel

Remembering

"ou standing quiet in the rainAs I ran to your heart to be near

And we issed as the sy fell in


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!olding you close

!ow I always held close in your fear

Remembering

"ou running soft through the night

"ou were bigger and brighter and wider than snow

And screamed at the maebelieve

#creamed at the syAnd you finally found all your courage

To let it all go

Remembering

"ou fallen into my arms

$rying for the death of your heart

"ou were stone white

#o delicate

/ost in the cold

"ou were always so lost in the dar

Remembering"ou how you used to be

#low drowned

"ou were angels

#o much more than everything

!old for the last time then slip away quietly

0pen my eyes

%ut I never see anything

If only I'd thought of the right words

I could have held on to your heart

If only I'd thought of the right words

I wouldn't be breaing apartAll my pictures of you

/ooing so long at these pictures of you

%ut I never hold on to your heart

/ooing so long for the words to be true

%ut always &ust breaing apart

y pictures of you

There was nothing in the world

That I ever wanted more

Than to feel you deep in my heart

There was nothing in the world

That I ever wanted more

Than to never feel the breaing apart


That ind of intensity is suggested by the music of +1ictures 0f "ou, as #mith and fellow guitarist

1orl Thompson weave in and out of each other2s lines in mesmeri3ing fashion while eyboardist

Roger 024onnell props them both up with stirring chord changes. The music, combined with

#mith2s impassioned vocal, gives the effect of him desperately dashing to stop his lover fromgetting on a plane and leaving for good, only, unlie the movies, the plane leaves before he gets

there.


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#mith sets the tone immediately with a verse that suggests an obsession with the pictures of his

former love5 +I2ve been looing so long at these pictures of you6That I almost believe that they2re

real6I2ve been living so long with my pictures of you6That I almost believe that the pictures are all I

can feel. Those pictures rocet the narrator into the past and a world full of falling sies, dying

hearts, and screaming lovers. 78treme emotions sometimes call for e8treme descriptions.

There is clearly some admiration on his part toward the girl for conquering her demons -+And you

finally found all your courage6To let it all go.( "et her freedom also came at his e8pense, and at

song2s end, #mith2s vocal quivers with emotion no longer restrained as he sums up the narrator2s

pain5 +There was nothing in the world that I ever wanted more6Than to feel you deep in my

heart6There was nothing in the world that I ever wanted more6Than to never feel the breaing

apart6All my pictures of you.

"ou get the feeling that the narrator will be trying to piece those pictures bac together for the rest

of his weary e8istence. The $ure and Robert #mith at their pea captured immense, intense anguishbetter than anybody, and +1ictures 0f "ou is the ultimate manifestation of that ability.

9I've been looing so long at these pictures of you, That I almost believe that they're real.9 I love

having pictures, but it is hard not to have anything to go with them.

This is a song about regret, not being able to find the right words, missing opportunities, asing too

much. All he has left are his pictures of her.

its probably another song in referal to his drowned love**

- i place question mars simply as this is a new revelation to me about robert smith .. i dont study

him i &ust happen to have listened to his music for years(

9remembering you fallen into my arms.. and screamed at the mae believe9.. he was a big driner

9you were stone white so delicate lost in the cold9...and one night &ust before he died i found him

outside in the dar naed and cold and shivering and bruised..

the night he died i told him not to go .. not to get on his bie.. he didn:t wish to leave either but said

he had to but

9if only i thought of the right words9

even though he was an alcoholic he was still an ama3ing person .. &ust lost..

slow drowned

you were angels

so much more than everything

hold for the last time then slip away quietly

he finally found all his courage to let it all go.

9I've been living so long with my pictures of you


All I can feel9

I thin this means because he's been without the person for so long, only seeing the pictures, he's

almost forgotten the feelings he had for them, or how strong they were and now he &ust feels

...empty*

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