10 Iconic Songs That Don’t Mean What You Think

Just like Heaven by the Cure

Many magazines have rated Just like Heaven highly in their lists of the greatest love songs ever made, but they also couldn’t make sense of the trick that makes one scream, hug, and laugh. The lyrics that confuse most of the fans were actually nothing but the shortness of breath.

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Robert Smith, in an interview, said that the song was inspired after a trip he took to Beachy Head with his girlfriend. He said that there was a lot of hyperventilating, kissing, making out, and falling to the ground while doing so. “ Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick ” is an allusion to both, Smith’s cameo as a magician during his youth, and “a seduction trick from a lot later in my life.”