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The song is based off of a book of the same name, Charlotte Sometimes is one of Robert Smith’s favourite books.
Robert Smith also says that it is the best single ever made by The Cure.
[Verse 1]
All the faces, all the voices blur
Change to one face, change to one voice
Prepare yourself for bed
The light seems bright and glares on white walls
All the sounds of Charlotte Sometimes
Into the night with Charlotte Sometimes
[Verse 2]
Night after night, she lay alone in bed
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
Her eyes so open to the dark, the streets all looked so strange
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
They seemed so far away, but Charlotte did not cry
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
[Pre-Chorus]
The people seemed so close to playing expressionless games
The people seemed so close, so many other names
[Chorus 1]
Sometimes I'm dreaming, where all the other people dance
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
Sometimes I'm dreaming, Charlotte Sometimes
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
Sometimes I'm dreaming
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
Expressionless the trance, sometimes I'm dreaming
[Bridge]
So many different names
Sometimes I'm dreaming, the sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
She hopes to open shadowed eyes on a different world
Come to me scared princess, Charlotte sometimes
[Verse 3]
On that bleak track, see the sun has gone again
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
The tears were pouring down her face
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
She was crying and crying for a girl
Who died so many years before
(Something's strange with Charlotte Sometimes)
[Chorus 2]
Sometimes I dream where all the other people dance
Sometimes I dream
Charlotte sometimes
Sometimes I dream, the sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
There are so many different names
Sometimes I dream, sometimes I dream
[Outro]
Charlotte Sometimes, crying for herself (Charlotte Sometimes)
(Charlotte Sometimes)
Charlotte Sometimes dreams a wall around herself
(Charlotte Sometimes, Charlotte Sometimes)
But it's always with love, with so much love (Charlotte Sometimes)
It looks like everything else (Charlotte Sometimes)
Of Charlotte Sometimes, so far away (Charlotte Sometimes)
Glass sealed and pretty, Charlotte Sometimes
(Charlotte Sometimes)
Charlotte Sometimes was written by Robert Smith.
Charlotte Sometimes was produced by The Cure & Mike Hedges.
The Cure released Charlotte Sometimes on Mon Oct 05 1981.
In a fanzine, Robert Smith shared that “Charlotte Sometimes” was inspired by:
the eponymous book by Penelope Farmer.
In 1984, an interviewer told Smith he felt this song had been forgotten. Smith replied:
That song is the best single the Cure ever wrote and indeed, apart from performing it live,...