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The Cure singer and emo icon Robert Smith says he struggles to write songs about death now that he's older: “As you get older, it becomes more real."

The Cure singer and emo icon Robert Smith revealed that he struggles to write songs about death now that he's older: 'I can write words but I don't really feel like singing them.'

Robert Smith's macabre sensibilities helped launch the Cure to massive success — but nowadays the musician is finding it harder to write about songs about death. And then it starts happening to people you know, your immediate family and friends, and suddenly it's a different thing and it's something that I struggled with lyrically was to how to put this into the songs." "It's the one thing that as I've grown older, I've found much much harder to do — write words that I want to sing," he said in an interview with BBC.

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