Lyrics to
Grinding Halt

This version of Grinding Halt was released by The Cure in 1979.

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No light
No people
No speak
No people
No cars
No people
No food
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything’s coming to a griding halt

No sound
No people
No clocks
No people
No fine
No people
No me
No people

Stopped
Short
Grinding halt
Everything’s coming to a griding halt
Everything’s coming to a griding halt

Slow down
Slow down
No people
Slow down
Everything’s coming to a
Everything’s coming to a
Everything’s coming to a
Everything’s coming to a

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About Lyrics and Grinding Halt by The Cure

The lyrics to Grinding Halt are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Cure used when the song was created in 1979. The lyrics to Grinding Halt have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Cure and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Grinding Halt by The Cure. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Grinding Halt" means the words set to the music of Grinding Halt, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Cure. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Grinding Halt and the lyrics to Grinding Halt are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Cure who came here looking just for the lyrics to Grinding Halt, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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