The Cure - A forest live from Dresden 1990

A Forest is a song by the British rock band The Cure. It was released as a single on April 8, 1980, and was the only single from their second album Seventeen Seconds.

The lyrics tell a vague story about a man looking for a girl in a forest. He hears her calling for him, and as he chases her, he suddenly stops and realizes that he is lost and that the girl is not there. The song is fairly upbeat compared to the other material on the album, and Lol Tolhurst's machine-like steady beat together with Simon Gallup's minimalistic bassline gives this nervous chase more depth and keeps the song on the edge of a frantic groove until the end.

Concert in Dresden 1990, Festwiese am Zentralstadion.

The Cure are an English rock band that formed in Crawley, Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, guitarist and main songwriter Robert Smith — known for his iconic wild hair, pale complexion, smudged lipstick and frequently gloomy and introspective lyrics — the only constant member.

As of 2007, The Cure have released twelve studio albums and over thirty singles, with a thirteenth album in the works.