Songfacts®:

• The song was inspired by the artwork of the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, who felt that he had produced good art when he felt that "a bloodflower popped out from his heart." Robert Smith added: "As a coincidence, about the same time, I was reading a poetry book about World War I, and one of the poems described how a wound in one of the soldiers, hit by a bullet, opened a blood flower in his body. I liked this analogy, between pain and art." (Folha de Sao Paulo, 2000).
• When Robert Smith says "these flowers will never die" he is talking about how the group was going to break up but their legend will live on forever and that they will never fade out or be forgotten. >>

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• In a 2000 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Smith says "'Bloodflowers' was written during a period when I was really disenchanted with the group and had no intention of carrying on. But the process of making it changed my mind."
• Rumor, not known fact, has it that The Cure recorded two different endings to this track... one was the downer version released on the album of the same name, the other was a more happy-ending version. >>

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• Bloodflowers, The Cure's 11th studio album, was their last release with their longtime label, Fiction Records (an imprint of Polydor). They'd been with the company since they released their debut single, "Killing An Arab," in 1978.
• The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards but lost to Radiohead's Kid A.