The Cure- Charlotte Sometimes 1981➕InfoHQ/HD

Allrights reserved to The Cure and WMG. Thanks for watching and sub. Lyrics ♥♥♥ 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 Night after night she lay alone in bed Her eyes so open to the dark The streets all looked so strange They seemed so far away But Charlotte did not cry The people seemed so close Playing expressionless games The people seemed So close So many Other names Sometimes I’m dreaming Where all the other people dance Sometimes I’m dreaming Charlotte sometimes Sometimes I’m dreaming Expressionless the trance Sometimes I’m dreaming 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 On that bleak track (See the sun is gone again) The tears were pouring down her face She was crying and crying for a girl Who died so many years before 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 Charlotte sometimes crying for herself Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself But it’s always with love With so much love it looks like Everything else Of Charlotte sometimes So far away Glass sealed and pretty Charlotte sometimes Compositores: Laurence Andrew Tolhurst / Robert James Smith / Simon Gallup Letra de Charlotte Sometimes © Universal Music Publishing Group. Charlotte Sometimes“ is a song by English rock band the Cure, recorded at producer Mike Hedges’ Playground Studios and released as a non-album single on 5 October 1981 by Polydor Records, following the band’s third studio album Faith. The titles and lyrics to both sides were based on the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. A-side“Charlotte Sometimes“B-side“Splintered in Her Head“ Released: 5 October 1981. Format: 7“ and 12“ vinyl. Recorded: 16–17 July 1981 at Playground Studio, England. Genre: Post-punk , Gothic Rock , Dark Wave. Label: Fiction. Songwriter(s): Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst. Producer(s): Mike Hedges, The Cure. Content The song “Charlotte Sometimes“ was based on Charlotte Sometimes,a children’s novel by English writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969. According to Cure frontman Robert Smith: “There have been a lot of literary influences through the years; ’Charlotte Sometimes’ was a very straight lift.“Many lines in the song reflect lines directly from the book, such as “All the faces/All the voices blur/Change to one face/Change to one voice“ from the song, compared to the first sentence of the book, “By bedtime all the faces, the voices, had blurred for Charlotte to one face, one voice“. The song continues: “Prepare yourself for bed/The light seems bright/And glares on white walls“, and the book continues, “She prepared herself for bed... The light seemed too bright for them, glaring on white walls“. The title of the single’s B-side, “Splintered in Her Head“, was also taken from a line in the Cure later released another song based on the novel, “The Empty World“, from their 1984 album The Top. The mood of B-side “Splintered in Her Head“ is overall more disquieting, with metallic, distorted vocals and heavy percussion, foreshadowing the sound and feel of the band’s next studio album,  10-minute live version of “Faith“ on the B-side of the 12“ version of the single was recorded at the Sydney Capitol Theatre in August 1981 by the then-Australian Broadcasting Commission’s youth radio station 2JJJ. This version was also included on the second disc of the deluxe reissue of the album Faith. The cover of the single is a distorted picture of Mary Poole,Smith’s then-girlfriend and later wife. The same picture was used again as the cover of the Cure’s 1990 single “Pictures of You“, but with the picture clear and undistorted. Music video On advice by Fiction label owner Chris Parry, the music video for “Charlotte Sometimes“ was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium. It features the character of Charlotte recreating scenes from the story in the presence of the band, while Smith mimes the words of the song. The video has been called “a major mistake“ by biographer Jeff Apter, denouncing it as “ranking among the worst of the band’s small-screen career“. Reception The book The Rough Guide to Cult Pop called the song “a GOTH masterpiece of doomed beauty and ruined elegance“. Personnel The Cure 1981 Robert Smith – guitar, keyboard, vocals, harmonica on “Splintered in Her Head“, production. Simon Gallup – bass guitar, production. Lol Tolhurst – drums, production Technical. Mike Hedges – production . Arun Chakraverty – mastering.