Pretty ironic that you'd be listening to this with "the love of your life" lol A song about how love's a mirage shaped by your desires and fantasies doesn't strike me as the more suiting.
Either way... What these comments say.. It's a beautiful song... No matter what it means... You have good taste Sir.... Some people are very immature when leaving a dumb ass comment... :/ anyways.... Keep being awesome... 🔹🌙🔹🎶🌿🎶
Maybe no one is gonna read this comment, but I want to leave here the thoughts I've had while listening this song. Nowdays we feel like we are always late and we just cant stop and listen a song, we keep searching something to do, like reading comments, instead of just listening and feeling the song. And when the song is more that 2 minutes, very feel people know how to appreciate it. This was the first song in a while that I just left playing in my bed, layed down and started to listen carefully to feel every instrument... and I felt like I've just discovered the key of the whole universe... but then the music ends and I forgot everything.
.... That depends on what you mean. You make it sound like humans always had free time and could just stop to listen to music. When in reality, people having the free time to do what you just described is more available to people more than ever and a lot of people DO just listen to music while doing nothing else. Or maybe, just maybe, people can multitask and enjoy and appreciate a song while doing something else. I know, I know. What a wild concept, being able to do more than one thing at a time. What you said can be said about everything. When was the last time you just sat out side and just appreciated nature? The last time you appreciated a good book? Appreciated fine arts? If you’re going to try and sound “deep”, at least put actual thought into what you are going to say and ale it actually “deep” and not complain about how people feel like we are “always late” and that no one just kicks back and just chills anymore. Cause we apparently have now some how magically lost that ability. When in reality, humans for thousands and thousands of years never had the time to just kick back and relax and appreciate anything. They had to work 12+ hours everyday just to barely survive while also worrying about if their town, city, or farm will get raided, a war breaking out, or getting mailed by a wild animal. Just because you don’t see people laying around in their beds just listening to music or because they don’t share it on social media, doesn’t mean they don’t do it. Heaven forbid that the vast majority of people don’t blast every tiny little thing they do on social media. I also don’t get where is idea of “nowadays we are too busy or always running late” when the average person would have spent 3 years of their life watching commercial ads on TV when they die, which tells me, we have a lot of free time. I have also never personally known someone who was saying they were always running late or too busy. The part of we aren’t allowed to multitask to appreciate something is also stupid. Going off about how people do other things while listening to music and not just listen to it and “feel it”. Meanwhile, here you are, doing the same exact thing you just went off about people doing while listening to music. Congrats on being a hypocrite. You’re comment also highlights your huge lack of understanding on how humans work and how our brains work. Humans can feel every instrument of a song while doing something else. Humans can appreciate a good song while doing something else. Humans are capable of multitasking.
The narrator wasn't literally chasing a phantom or a ghost, he was chasing an image of a person in his mind that wasn't real. When he realizes that this idealization of a woman isn't reality ("the girl was never there"), he's all alone, completely lost in the "forest." He knows he will repeat this process over and over again. Too real.
I'm agree with you, today I think this song also it could be' the best description in music of a depression status, a mind Ghost labyrinte without an exit.
yeah dude, i wish i was growing up in the 80s ahaha, music was at its peak, all of my favourite music is from the 80s or early 90s, such a revolutionary time for a lot of things! I'm a goth whos style is very influenced by the 80s era of goth or post punk, hard to find people with my style locally these days when back in the 80s my town was full of em ahaha
Not for myself...even though I was a teen from 1980+ I can listen to Billie Holiday then Billie Eilish ...The Cure then XXXTentacion, Cyndi Lauper then $uicideBoys...Personally I dislike the same old,same old " music was better in my day" bullshit..
so brilliant, an iconic gothic piece, I was 13 when it came out, it took me several years to be able to fully appreciate it, now at 55 I find it almost transcendental
Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl While you can Come closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice And start to run Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees Suddenly I stop But I know it's too late I'm lost in a forest All alone The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again and again
I'm 55 and I remember this in the 80s.i told my 17 year old twins sons about the cure and they said dad we have been listening to them since we started collage.shows my boys have good taste 😊
Curieux mais j'ai 54 ans et c'est mon fils qui m'a dit "pap's vient on va voir The Cure en concert 😂" belle idée super concert. J'espère qu'ils repasseront en France en 2024 2025
So I did my research and it turns out that this was the Cure's FIRST single for the 80s!! which I think is pretty cool. This song was on their second album and the year was 1980. They were just getting warmed up!!!!! :)
To think this epic masterpiece is their first single is ridiculous. I was only 6. I wouldn’t discover them until a few years later when Fascination street played on MTV.
The simplicity of this song yet the profound depth and eeriness it conveys is truely amazing.. always my favourite cure song though I havn't heard them all( not even nearly)
Prince, Van Halen and The Boss would only be saved on those days. But Ali you are so right: Queen, The Police, The Cure, Depeche, U2, Dire Straits, Cranberries , Tear for Fears, Prodigy, Faithless, Portishead, Radiohead, and the list will be endless
When i first heard A forest.. I instantly fell in love with the Song.. And then i asked my friend what was it called?.. He replied.. "A Forest... I asked him again what was it called ??.. He replied again.. A Forest ! .. That totally blew my mind.. I couldn't believe somebody would call a song.." A Forest ".. Pure genius.. 💜
In the early eighties I was at art college in Middlesbrough (UK). As part of an Audio visual project I used A Forest as the background track. I created a series of photographs shot in a woodland near Carlisle with a beautiful girl in a long dress, I got good marks for the project, I was obsessed with the track and played in constantly on my record player, 12” vinyl. It is now 2019 and i don’t have the vinyl any more, but I am lying next to the girl in my project, I love this track, and the girl in my AV, more that words can say.
What a great song, I love it! I put it into my "Shellshocked Radio - Recommendations" List: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mOCH3fUw0j0.html and Radio Show! Very well done!
In my opinion, this is the best piece of The Cure. I feel the atmosphere of the forest, even during in "17 seconds". Robert's voice and Simon's bass ... ACH
"A Forest" Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl While you can Come closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice And start to run Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees Suddenly I stop But I know it's too late I'm lost in a forest All alone The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again and again
My Navy buddy introduced me to this song and The Cure in 1989. On the beach in San Diego cruising w this song blaring. My buddy died a few years ago and he was and always will be Superman to me. I'll never forget you Blas.
yeah I love that bit too! Sounds like he's venting sheer frustration, which every bloke can understand about the emotional playing with emotion that women inflict upon men! They enjoy it too. So he feels hes trapped in a maze of infatuation. Which he can't get out of! He's suffering!
I was stationed in Giessen Germany while in a the US Army 1988. I used to dance to the Cure at a underground bar. It was the greatest time of my life! I had many collage age German friends and the Cure made my time spent very special...
Damn, stationed in Nuremberg in 1989 with the Army and used to go to the "off limits" Komm club for the punk shows. I introduced the pogo-ing Germans to some West coast mosh pits!
A Foreat *IS* my favorite Cure song, and The Chauffeur is criminally underrated! Any song they could have released as a single from RIO would have owned the airwaves. Such an amazing album!
Such a masterpiece. Best band of the 80's. Truly believed they paved the way for grunge to be possible. They were so different than anything else being made then
My stepdad is a roofer and he once fixed Robert Smiths roof. Proudest moment of his life haha. Apparently he had his hair and makeup all done up but was wearing trackies and a football shirt.
Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands such as the Cure and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands? Thank you from Sicily.
as a young gal I was listening Cure , Bauhaus , Sisters , Mission ,Joy Division, DM, JLG, U2...but this song somehow I missed, but beauty of living is that my daughter who is 17 now and who listen the same music revaled this song to me ...now this is one of my all time fav songs..
I'm 23 but my dad (49) had always played good music like this while I was growing up. The cure has always been one of my favorites since I can remember. I got tickets to see the cure this June and I still can't even wrap my head around that fact that I get to see them perform. Its nice to see that music like this still lives on in younger generations :)
I am seeing them next week. I am very excited--I have been waiting for a chance to see them live for almost 30 years! Its actually one of my bucket list items, haha.
Im 47 and still love all the bands you have mentioned. Just class musicians with a unique sound that grabs your soul. I have brought my 9 year old daughter up listening to this music and she loves it. She also loves New Model Army and The Wonder Stuff :-)
@@yolandacamino8188 Thanks for being an amazing fan , and also thanks for the support you've showered on us all. I hope you never stop listening to our music and watching our musical videos.
Lyrics Come closer and see See into the trees Find the girl While you can Come closer and see See into the dark Just follow your eyes Just follow your eyes I hear her voice Calling my name The sound is deep In the dark I hear her voice And start to run Into the trees Into the trees Into the trees Suddenly I stop But I know it's too late I'm lost in a forest All alone The girl was never there It's always the same I'm running towards nothing Again and again and again and again
I live on the Lower Rhine, and in my hometown there is a club that often has events where there is still a really old school atmosphere. I danced to this song again last weekend. Like when I was younger in the late 80s :-))))
I think this will be one of those songs that will be remembered and cited in about 200 years from now as people look back at the roots of pop music, rock music etc.... Bravo Robert Smith & Co. Timeless music.
I am 55 now and i have seen them open with this song in Cologne in the 80ies and i remember vividly that i had the biggest full body goosebumps of my life, when the bass run started. This was one of the biggest songs in goth circles back then.
Man, seeing them at Fiddlers Green in Colorado, maybe the first Lollapalooza and in the late 80's was incredible. Then seeing them at Red Rocks in Colorado was beyond the top. If you havent been to Red Rocks in Colorado you need to put it in you bucket list. Its an experience you will never forget. Not only the band, just the experience and the museum of rock is breathtaking. Love you all! But that doesnt matter so much is just seeing them live. I guess I'm lucky.
There is an ominously encroaching sense of pathos, despair & desperate reflection that can be clearly discerned by the relatively steady, flawlessly fluctuating beat of this song, in conjunction with Smith's eerily echoing voice, yet eventually such lingering despondency & wistful yearning is gradually supplanted by a sense of excited urgency, of these bursts of primal obsession, of love sought & dreamt about, whether found or not, that constant search fueled by powerful, viscerally inspired fantasy. Basically, this song's theme is about that eternal search for meaning in close, loving relationships, dark & foreboding in ways, yes, yet also tempting, seductive & seeking to satisfy this soulful longing that is as ancient as the human race itself, all while buoyed by a sincere hope & desire that drives one along, irregardless of unseen dangers, thus giving that person a deeper sense of purpose, all while running through these deep, dark & haunted woods, mist enshrouded, of imaginary dimensions, seeking that long prophesied & fantasized about love, that obsession. Very trance inducing, & eerily mesmerizing. That's what I took from this somewhat obscure, darkly brooding yet marvelous musical gem. Echoes of The Cure's future greatness can be heard within......
Going on 40, was a huge fan of the few cure songs on MTV back in the late 80's/early 90's. I didn't pay much attention then, because they were "old" songs then. It seems like they have been stuck in my head for the past 25 years. Just started on their huge catalog of amazing songs, and realizing how much they have influenced the music that I started listening too as a teen ... nine inch nails, tool, etc.
I definitely hear how tool is extremely influenced by them ...... When I first sat down actually listened to the cure my first thought was "Tool before they were Tool"
I still love the haunting first bars of this song. I heard it for the first time over 30 years ago, and it still gets me every time. It will still get me 30 years from now If I'm still alive. A Cure classic.
Same!!! I was hooked from the first moment, played it on repeat for months those many years ago. They don't make 'em like this anymore, or if they do I haven't heard. It's so eerie & melancholy & magical, the heartbeat bass line at the end, ugh, perfection.
I’m sitting at my uncle Miguel’s bedside at Methodist Hospital off Greenhouse & I-10, as he is healing from the horrible after affects from COVID. He is the sunshine of our family, he always puts a smile on our face and it hurts to see him unable to use his body at the moment. He will heal and live a better life, because I truly believe he is being reborn. He love the cure and is jamming right now at 2:56am
Only music I listen to is older music, it has this special tune in each and every song, newer songs all sound basically the same thats why I don't like it
im 17 and discovered them a little over a year ago but didnt really listen to much before 6 or so months ago when i found disintegration at a thrift store, then i bought faith, now im buying seventeen seconds off amazon
Im 56, bought this in 12" on day of release and I'm still listening I never caught Bieber fever, because I always had The Cure OBRA PRIMA DA MUSICA INTERNACIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Eu os vi em PORTO ALEGRE em1987.
Even if I loved Andy's part of The Cure's history and his drumming of this song in the "Concert" album, this is completely Laurence Tolhurst's C-ducer miked drumming. Well he and producer Mike Hedges did it.
