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***PRESS RELEASE***

THE CURE headlining Los Angeles KROQ Radio's Anniversary Concert Sells out in
Record Time
Los Angeles radio station the World Famous KROQ's 25TH Anniversary show
dubbed Inland Invasion: Flashback to The Future, featuring THE CURE as the
headliner has sold out in record time
Over 50,000 tickets have been sold for the event in less than 4 days
Clear Channel has commented that it is the fastest selling event in the
history of their Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion Venue which is * * the largest
Amphitheatre in the U.S.A, * *

"There is a tremendous passion for THE CURE's prolific catalog of music and
relevance as the standard bearer for the alternative rock format as evidenced
by the rabid demand for tickets for this event" commented Del Williams
Organizer of the event

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"Faith" was sung in Rome after Robert Smith saw what was happening at Tianneman (Peking) this day. Maybe this song's most brilliant version.
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"It's like there's two different ways of looking at things. You can either think : it doesn't make any fucking difference at all anyway, so that you are like stuck in the same place. And it wouldn't make any difference whether you were to die right now with a coin stuck right in the middle of your head. Or if you were prepared to go and say : "I need to sing a song called Faith". But someone says you can't sing it. So what do you do ?
This is for everyone that died today in China. It's called FAITH."

Catch me if I fall
I'm losing hold
I can't just carry on this way
And every time
I turn away
I lose another blind game
The idea of perfection holds me
Suddendly I see you change
Everything at once
The same
But the mountain never moves
You rape me like a child
Christened in blood
Painted like an unknown saint
Nothing left but hope
Your voice is dead
And old
And always empty
Trust in me through closing years
'Cause perfect moments wait

If only we could stay
Please
Say the right words
Or cry like the stone white clown

And stand
Lost forever in a happy crowd

No one lifts their hands
No one lifts their eyes
You justified with every word
The party just gets better and better
I went away alone
With nothing left
But faith

(Robert starts to 'Go off' here:)

It makes me think I would dare this.
It makes me think I would dare this.
Someone walks up to you and is so much bigger than you and says : "Shut your fucking face !".
You can grab hold of their eyes and go-o-o,
and they will fall down in front of you,
fall down in front of you.
But it's so much different if a man walks up and he's this high...
He says : "Shut your fucking face !"
And puts a gun in my mouth.

What will I do ? What will I do ?
What would you do ?

He won't let me speak, he says : "You can only say the word -YES-.
If I ask you a question you say -NO-
I shoot the back out of your fucking head".

He says : "Do you love me ?
Do you love me ?"

I'll say, I'll say......... I'll say...

He's this small, this far away. He says : "I'm fucking waiting for your answer. Answer me now ! Do you love me ? Do you love me ?"

(Bloodcurdling scream)Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahouuuuuuuuuhhh !
I SAY NO !
'Cause I fucking don't love you ! 'Cause I fucking don't love you !
Walk into the room, push anything in my face, anything in my mouth !
I'll never fucking love you !

And push this deep inside your head.
And push this deep inside your head.
This means nothing, means nothing !

There's nothing left but faith.
There's nothing left but faith.
There's nothing left but faith.
There's nothing left but faith...

Thank you very much and good night.
And don't forget.
Good night.


Rome, Palaeur 04.06.89