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For Robert

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For Robert was released on July 9, 1991 by Rock Noise as a part of the album Interview Down Under

Song Details

AlbumInterview Down Under

Release DateJuly 9, 1991

LabelRock Noise

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM197

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Now I love Robert. Robert if you're listening, if you're ever in

Australia and you tune into this station, and you're listening

Let's do a single together. I'd love to do a single with Robert

Smith. I haven't told him yet. I'm planning to, and I know that we're

His favorite group. But I'm sure he only really likes us because I'm

In them. And me and Robert'd be great. Bob and Ian. Ian and Bob

I don't, his name can come first, but I've heard he's big in France

Yeah, very big, and like you earn a lot of soddin' cash over there

So Bob if you're listening, me and you do a single. I'll write the

Words, 'cause I've heard you have problems writing lyrics. You can

Write the music. We can sit down, listen to, uh, what was that New

Order last album? There's a lot of good stuff you can rip off from

That album. They all ripped us off anyway in the sodding beginning

So, you know, we shoulda, I should, you know, me, Will, Les and Pete

Should be getting a lot more cash than we're getting. 'Cause we wrote

Everything since 1978 or 9, we've written everything, really. Every

Song that has been written since 1978 or 79, say 79, we have written

In effect. But me and Robert Smith, we could do this great song. Bit

Like "In Between Days", like that kind of "dun dun dun du-dun du-dun

Dun dun", you know, that kind of bass riff, chugging away. I'll write

The lyrics, and me and him could sing like, he could sing the first

Verse. If he's big in France, if they hear his voice on the first

Verse, then they'll rush out and buy it. I'll sing

The chorus, maybe with his voice in there as well

Then I'll sing the next verse. Yeah, we could do it easy

And it'd be a smash. Anton Corbijn can take the photo

Well I don't know, if you said that about a Bucks Fizz video, or

You'd think "Oh, that looks, that seems a bit weird." But when you

Know that the Cure are doing it, and they're sitting in a wardrobe

It just makes sense with the Cure, I think. I think if we did a

Video like that we'd look too embarrassed or self-conscious. I mean

I think he does as well, but he's, he's more bevvy than I am

Usually. That's what I like about him. I'd love to go out for a night

With Robert Smith. But I met him once with Lorraine in Liverpool

We went backstage and, like, 'cause Lorraine's always liked the Cure

She always liked his voice and stuff. I used to hate his voice, but

He just, his voice now just seems to hold this mystery for me that

I never used to think. It's because the songs have changed, I think

And uh, before it was all like real doomy, dirgey, it used to annoy

Me, but now it's like when he's singing "and we are in between

We're there, you and me", just like a kid of 5 singing it, you know

It's like real. How he can manage to sound that innocent, I don't

Know. It's like, I think he's a real, not a genius or anything, but

I think he, The Cure and us I think are the only two

Groups left now that are doing anything from that

Period. Like there might be new groups coming up

I like Jesus and Mary Chain, that "Just Like Honey" stuff

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