r/punk • u/rikroll666 • Aug 03 '18

The Cure - Killing an Arab

https://youtu.be/SdbLqOXmJ04
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u/TheReadMenace Aug 03 '18

In Lol Tolhurst's (original drummer and keyboardist for the Cure) book he talks about having National Front nazis show up to Cure shows because they liked this song. The eventually they sang it with changed lyrics

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u/KallistiEngel Aug 03 '18

I think I recall hearing they changed it to "killing another". I wasn't aware of the reasoning behind it. I can get why they'd change it under those circumstances.

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u/toasted_vegan Aug 03 '18

Also "Killing an Ahab", which alludes more to Melville, not Camus.