The Caterpillar (song)

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{{Infobox song

| name = The Caterpillar

| cover = Thecaterpillar.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = The Cure

| album = The Top

| B-side = {{hlist|"Happy the Man"|"Throw Your Foot"}}

| released = 26 March 1984{{cite magazine |last=Crossing |first=Gary |date=24 March 1984 |title=News |magazine=Record Mirror |page=4 |issn=0144-5804}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = *Psychedelic rock

• pop

| length = 3:40

| label = Fiction

| writer = Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst

| producer = Robert Smith, Chris Parry, Dave Allen

| prev_title = The Love Cats

| prev_year = 1983

| next_title = In Between Days

| next_year = 1985

}}

"The Caterpillar" is a song by English rock band The Cure, released as the sole single from their fifth studio album The Top (1984), on 30 March 1984. It was written by Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst. It spent seven weeks in the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 14 on 7 April of that year.{{cite web |title=Cure | Full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company |url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/20492/cure/ |accessdate=May 15, 2016 |website=Official Charts}} It spent five weeks on the Dutch charts in June 1984, reaching number 35 there on 2 June.{{cite web |title=The Cure - The Caterpillar (Nummer) |url=http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Cure&titel=The+Caterpillar&cat=s |accessdate=27 January 2013 |work=dutchcharts.nl |language=Dutch}} It reached number 51 on the Australian Kent Music Report chart.{{Cite book |last=Kent |first=David |title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |publisher=Australian Chart Book |year=1993 |isbn=0-646-11917-6 |location=St Ives, NSW |authorlink=David Kent (historian)}}