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The Cure: Part 1 with Hanif Abdurraqib

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Killing an Arab

10 15 Saturday night is one of the great track one, side one album one songs of all time. It allows you a window into the kind of writer that Robert Smith would become even though he wrote the song when he was 16. There's actually not a ton of language at all in the song. I mean, it's literally the feeling of like the anxious waiting, you know.

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