(I found this alternate, sunnier take on The Cure’s “One Hundred Years” in an old text file hiding in a forgotten corner of my hard drive. I wrote this a few years ago, mostly through the magic of find and replace, laughed to myself, and then promptly forgot about it.)
The Cure - One Hundred Cheers
It doesn’t matter if we all smile
Ambition in the back of a rainbow car
In a high building there’s so much we can do
Going home time
Happy stories on the radio!
Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
Who could ask for anything better?
Who could ask
For anything better?
Please love me
Meet my mother
Then the smiles take hold
Frolicking up the stairs in the light
Waiting for the love blow!
Waiting for the love blow!
Waiting for the love blow!
Stroking your hair as the patriots are kissed
Laughing for freedom on the television
Sharing the world with happy pigs
We’ve got everything!
She cuddles and loves to play …
The sunshine
And the frolicking feeling
A little rainbow haired girl
Waiting for Saturday
The love of her father caressing her
Caressing her white face into the mirror
Contentment inside me
And turn me round
Just like a sunny day!
Just like a sunny day!
Just like a sunny day!
Just like a sunny day!
Caressing an old blankie
And painting a radiant face
Just a piece of chocolate cake in a clean room
The puppies close in under a big full moon
All fuzzy and happy
Under a rainbow flag
A hundred cheers of ice cream!
Crimson
The ribbon loosens round my throat
I open my mouth
And my pants burst open
A sound like a dolphin, happy in the water
Happy in the water
Over and over
We smile one after the other
Over and over
We smile one after the other
One after the other!
One after the other!
One after the other!
One after the other!
It feels like a hundred cheers
A hundred cheers!
A hundred cheers!
A hundred cheers!
A hundred cheers!
One hundred cheers!
