Smith told a fanzine in 1989 that the inspiration behind the title track to Faith is:
self explanatory, as optimistic as I could get, it does, or should, offer a note of HOPE.
In 2016, a Rolling Stone reader’s poll placed “Faith” as the #6 best Cure song of all time, above many better-known hits l...
[Verse 1]
Catch me if I fall, I'm losing hold
I can't just carry on this way
And every time I turn away
I lose another blind game
The idea of perfection holds me
[Verse 2]
Suddenly, I see you change
Everything at once the same
But the mountain never moves
Rape me like a child, christened in blood
Painted like an unknown saint
There's nothing left but hope
[Verse 3]
Your voice is dead and old and always empty
Trust in me through closing years
Perfect moments wait
If only we could stay
[Verse 4]
Please say the right words
We cry like the stone white clown and stand
Lost forever in a happy crowd
No one lifts their hands, no one lifts their eyes
Justified with empty words
The party just gets better and better
[Chorus]
I went away alone
With nothing left but faith
I went away alone
With nothing left but faith
[Outro]
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith, with nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith, with nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
With nothing left but faith
Faith was written by Robert Smith & Simon Gallup & Lol Tolhurst.
Faith was produced by The Cure & Mike Hedges.
In 1992, Robert Smith told the Chicago Tribune,
I don’t think I’ll ever write a song that’ll ever move me as much as Faith, that’ll change my life as much as that song did, or encapsulates a period of my life as well as that one does.
He shared similar in 2004:
I think “Faith” probably will never...