Pt. 3: The Cure

So the next time someone at a record fair swears they have a white-label promo of “The Cure Pt. 3,” smile, nod, and ask to hear it. You’ll be waiting a long time. But that longing? That desire for a resolution that will never come?

If Pornography is Pt. 1 and Disintegration is Pt. 2, then Bloodflowers is technically “The Cure Pt. 3”—the sound of an aging goth finding peace in despair. But again, there is no song by that name. The persistence of this myth speaks to the psychology of fandom. The Cure’s entire discography is built on cycles: love, loss, depression, reluctant hope. A song titled “The Cure Pt. 3” promises resolution. Pt. 1 was the youthful, quirky introduction. Pt. 2 was the descent into the abyss. Pt. 3, in our collective imagination, would be the return . the cure pt. 3

What you will find is a band so influential that their absence creates ghosts. The song is a shared hallucination, a placeholder for every perfect, heartbreaking melody The Cure never wrote. It exists in the same imaginary space as the perfect version of “The Holy Hour” you hear in your dreams. So the next time someone at a record

That is the most Cure thing of all. Have you ever fallen for a fake Cure track? Or do you have a bootleg you swear is real? Let us know in the comments below. But that longing

If you’ve spent any time in goth clubs, alternative forums, or deep-cut YouTube comment sections, you’ve probably heard the rumor. The whisper that, buried somewhere in Robert Smith’s vault or lost on a mislabeled DAT tape from 1987, lies a track titled “The Cure Pt. 3.”

We imagine it as a 12-minute opus recorded during the Wish sessions—a hybrid of the lush synths of Disintegration and the raw feedback of Pornography . A song where, for the first time, Robert Smith actually finds the cure rather than just diagnosing the disease. Check Discogs. Search the Cure’s official discography. Look at the Join the Dots B-side box set. You will not find “The Cure Pt. 3.”

Here’s the immediate spoiler: