It started with Three off the Seventeen Seconds album, a song that the band eventually ended up playing live after two months of touring in 1980. The lyrics were improvised each night, and apart from the guitar chords, those versions weren't already very close to the one on the record. It became a fluctuating song even after it's been recorded. It also became the opportunity for Robert Smith to sing the mood of the moment : happy birthday to Simon, hating discos, the next "big thing", boring rock'n'roll... At the end of 1980, it became quite different from the original song idea and structure. Forever was born, and it's almost been played once on every tour since then. All the Cure line-ups making the versions unique with Robert generally making up the words "to relieve the tensions of the day". It usually ended the concerts, the band giving everything they had left on this last track whose versions went from 4 to 11 minutes (again depending on the tour), sometimes completely chaotic and noisy, other times lethargic...The main chords go A - A# - A - G# (the same ones as Three). The song got its definitive title when realising the Curiosity cassette late '84. Before that, people hardly refered to it other than Three on those first years. It was also introduced as "The Last Time" a few times in 1984... All Mine is another fluctuating-form song, only played in 1982 and close to Forever (a rework actually) as most of time Robert started singing and playing the guitar with the others joining after a while, always including a tempo that got faster and faster before collapsing at the end of the song. The length of the song often approched 10 minutes long. Both 'songs' shared some recurring lyrics such as "face down in the snow", "the sky goes black", "death by drowning"... The themes also refered to a face staying the same, ugly or pretty...The main tune on All Mine goes A# - C# - A# - F#. To add to the confusion, the band played similar songs that weren't Three, Forever nor All Mine at times ! Pretty close, but different chords at a very few shows (Amsterdam '82, Bournemouth '83, New York '83, Wembley '85...)