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The Cure - Lullaby

Lullaby is a 1989 single by The Cure from their album Disintegration.

"Lullaby" reached number five in the UK upon release, becoming the band's highest charting single; it remains, in fact, their only single to grace the Top 5 in the UK.

The song won Best Video at the 1990 Brit Awards.

Covers

The song has been sampled by various artists, including Just Jack in the song "Snowflakes" for his 2002 album The Outer Marker, Rachel Stevens in the song "All About Me" from her 2005 album Come and Get It, Sono in the song "Someday" from the 2007 album Panoramic View, and by metalcore outfit Motionless In White, in the song "Black Damask (The Fog), for their 2012 album Infamous. It was also sampled by hip hop artist Akala (rapper) in the song "I Don't Know" on his 2007 album Freedom Lasso. It has been covered by British post-punk revival band Editors on the compilation Radio 1: Established 1967, and by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant while on tour in 1995 (with Porl Thompson as support musician). Editors' version reappeared on Pictures of You – a tribute to Godlike Geniuses The Cure, which came with the 28 February 2009 issue of NME. "'Lullaby' is the greatest dark pop song… possibly of all years," said bassist Russell Leetch.

Faithless's 2006 album To All New Arrivals features "Lullaby" within the track "Spiders, Crocodiles, and Kryptonite", where Robert Smith has re-recorded the vocals.

The track is used as the backing to the trailer to the TV show The Secret Circle and was featured in the British TV shows Misfits and Fresh Meat.

The lyrics:

On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes

Softly through the shadow of the evenin' sun

Stealin' past the windows of the blissfully dead

Looking for the victim shivering in bed

Searchin' out fear in the gathering gloom

And suddenly a movement in the corner of the room

And there is nothing I can do when I realize with fright

That the Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight

Quietly he laughs and shaking his head

Creeps closer now, closer to the foot of the bed

And softer than shadow and quicker than flies

His arms are all around me and his tongue in my eyes

Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy

Don't struggle like that or I will only love you more

For it's much too late to get away or turn on the light

The Spiderman is having me for dinner tonight

And I feel like I'm being eaten

By a thousand million shivering furry holes

And I know that in the morning

I will wake up in the shivering cold

And the Spiderman is always hungry