"Faith" is the title track from The Cure's third album and is often said to be Robert Smith's most personal song. Famous for having new lyrics performed in it at nearly every live performance, some range into being nearly twenty minutes long. The Cure are a successful British rock band, widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock scene of the 1980s. ... Faith is the fourth album by British alternative rock band The Cure, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). ... Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959 in Blackpool, England), a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, has been the lead singer and driving force behind British post-punk band The Cure since its founding in 1976. ...

The most famous version of which is the so-called Tiananmen Square version performed on June 4, 1989. During the performance, Smith apparently got very upset about what had happened in China that day and started screaming in the middle of the song. The new lyrics he improvised were particularly disturbing. Tiananmen Square (Simplified Chinese: 天安门广场; Traditional Chinese: 天安門廣場; Pinyin: Tiānānmén Guǎngchǎng) is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen (literally, Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

It was also re-recorded by The Cure for iTunes in Summer 2005. The French iTunes law is the nickname given by some Anglo-American news sources to the DADVSI act. ...

http://www.musicfanclubs.org/cure/lyrics/faithtianneman.html Lyrics to Faith (Tiananmen Square Version)