Just like Heaven

This song is about a dreamy day near the seashore with a loved one. Lead singer Robert Smith was brought up in the town of Crawley in Southeast England, which is about 40 miles from Beachy Head (a cliff and notorious suicide hotspot). It's a very romantic song that reads like a screenplay, opening with some dialog from the leading lady: Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick The one that makes me scream There's a kiss on the dizzy edge, the glow of love, and then our hero wakes up alone. This being a Cure song, it's an ambiguous ending: We're not sure if it was all a dream, or just seems like one because it's too good to be true, as if he's in heaven.

According to Rolling Stone magazine, this was cut at a vineyard in the South of France, and is Robert Smith's favorite Cure song. The band's girlfriends hung out at the sessions, which influenced the music: "The girls would sit on the sofa in the back of the control room and give the songs marks out often," Smith said. "So there was a really big female input."

Robert Smith was in the throes of love when he wrote this song. His girlfriend, Mary Poole, he met when he was 14; in 1988, a year after "Just Like Heaven" was released, they got married, and it stuck.