Cut Here

"Cut Here"
Single by The Cure
from the album Greatest Hits
Released 29 October 2001
Genre Alternative rock
Length 4:10
Label Fiction Records
Producer(s) Robert Smith
The Cure singles chronology
"Wrong Number"
(1997)		 "Cut Here"
(2001)		 "The End Of The World"
(2004)

"Cut Here" is a single released by the British group The Cure in 2001 on Fiction Records / Elektra Records. The song was initially released on the album Greatest Hits and reached number 54 on the UK Singles Chart

History

Lead singer Robert Smith is singing about regret, wishing he could go back and make things right, but it's too late. The specific person in the song is his friend Billy Mackenzie, singer of the Scottish New Wave band The Associates, who committed suicide in 1997. Smith explained: "He was with us for the 'Mint Car' video. We were having a drink at a table and were supposed to meet the week after to have a drink together. Then he left and Billy's family announced to me that he'd killed himself. Of course I had different feelings, as anyone would have when a friend commits suicide, anger, culpability, and obviously sadness. I'm happy this single means something to me, 'cos most of the time, singles are just made for radio."

Acoustic version

The song was re-recorded later in 2001 for the band's twelfth studio album, Acoustic Hits, which contains eighteen re-recordings of previous songs by the band using acoustic guitars, and was only released as a limited edition bonus disc to the said greatest hits album. Because of that, this acoustic version is quite rare, and was only released on the Acoustic Hits album, as were all the songs on this album (except for the version of "Never Enough", was released in 2010 on the Brit Awards 2010 album).

Track listing

  1. "Cut Here"
  2. "Signal to Noise"
  3. "Cut Here" (Missing Remix)

Personnel

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