Charlotte Sometimes, Always

Scenturies ago, lifelines ago, lovetimes ago, I read "Charlotte Sometimes". I must have written it as The Cure. You adorned it with golden tears. My soul added all the wailing. You are Charlotte.

You make me leave as still appealingly melowdrymatic The Cure with your heart on my melancholic sleeve …

Our collided hearts in the traumatically romantic process of losing cohesion and strength created the ethereal sound, spawned the tremendous feel, gave us the chilling goosebumps, took our gasping breaths away … me ditating you, me dicating you, me dictating you, me diating you, me decaying you …

D I SIN TEG RATION happens to happen when we split into parts or just cease to exist. When anything between me and you is destroyed, broken up into pieces, or falls apart on its own, that is D I SIN TEG RATION. If you know that integration brings us or things together, you won't be surprised that D I SIN TEG RATION spells we are coming apart. It is what it is.

This is the end of every song that we sing. The fire burned out to ash. And the stars grown dim with tears are cold and afraid of the ghosts of all that we have been. We toast with bitter dregs to our emptiness as we are left alone with nothing at the end of every song. And you know that dregs are the most worthless parts of us, the worst and lowest art of our love, a sediment of lament at the bottom or bottle of life. Like Charlotte Sometimes, Always, The Cure, Cut.

Have we been experiencing a blurring of identity and reality? The "Glass sealed" is at the end "When Charlotte, back in her own time, places the marbles from the solitaire set sent in a jar of water, she notes how big they look in the water, yet ordinary when taken out."

WANNA CRY SOME COLOUR MORE, BABY, FEEL FREE TO GO AHEAD, BE MY GUEST, MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME WITH MY SOUL, JUST AS MUCH AS I AM HOME WITH YOUR HEART, OR LESS?

The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes

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

Charlotte Sometimes - How I Could Just Kill A Man

Go get your ribbon box
Go get your wounded heart
Seeing spiders, I'm told they never lie.

Go get your brother love
Go get your losing head
Seeing fire, I'm told it never burns.

I want it all, I pull you back.
I want it all.

Cry baby, cry baby, cry.
Soaking down your face.
Cry baby, cry baby, and you can't understand how I could just kill a man.

No to your letters love
No to unsturdy hands
Sleeping eyes, I'm told they never lie.

No to your key of rust
No to your raging words
Sleeping tires, I'm told they never drive.

I want it all, I pull you back.
I want it all.

Cry baby, cry baby, cry.
Soaking down your face.
Cry baby, cry baby, and you can't understand how I could just kill a man.

If I wanted to stay, you won't stand in my way
But I'm choosing to leave with your heart on my sleeve
It feels too good without you

Cry baby, cry baby, cry.
Soaking down your face.
Cry baby, cry baby, and you can't understand how I could just kill a man.

THE CURE - ENDSONG @thecure

And I'm outside in the dark
Staring at the blood red moon
Remembering the hopes and dreams I had
And all I had to do
And wondering what became of that boy
And the world he called his own
I'm outside in the dark
Wondering how I got so old

It's all gone, it's all gone
Nothing left of all I loved
It all feels wrong
It's all gone, it's all gone, it's all gone
No hopes, no dreams, no world
No, I, I don't belong
No, I don't belong here

It's all gone, it's all gone
I will lose myself in time
It won't be long
It's all gone, it's all gone, it's all gone

Left alone with nothing at the end of every song
Left alone with nothing at the end of every song
Left alone with nothing
Nothing
Nothing
Nothing

M

Hello image
Sing me a line from your favourite song
Twist and turn
But you're trapped in the light
All the directions were wrong

You'll fall in love with somebody else
Tonight

Help yourself
But tell me the words
Before you fade away
You reveal all the secrets
To remember the end
And escape someday

You'll fall in love with somebody else
Again tonight

Take a step
You move in time
But it's always back
The reasons are clear
Your face is drawn
And ready for the next attack

And Nothing Is Forever

Promise you'll be with me in the end
Say we'll be together, that you won't forget
However far away (however far away)
You'll remember me in time
Promise you'll be with me in the end
Say we'll be together and with no regret
However far away (however far away)
You will remember me tonight

You slide down close beside me
In the silence of a heartbeat
And wrap your arms around me
With a murmured lullaby
There's a memory of the first time
In the stillness of a teardrop
That you hold me for the last time
In the dying of the light

I know, I know
That my world has grown old
And nothing is forever
I know, I know
That my world has grown old
But it really doesn't matter
If you say we'll be together
If you promise you'll be with me in the end

I know, I know
That my world has grown old
And nothing is forever
I know, I know
That my world has grown old
But it really doesn't matter
If you say we'll be together
If you promise you'll be with me in the end
If you promise you'll be with me in the end

You slide down close beside me
In the silence of a heartbeat

Circus Head

Don’t you think
I gotta be the one
To say the things you cannot say
Cause colours fade
They all fade away
And all you’re left with is grey
And the pills you take
Don’t make it better
And the drinks you drink
Don’t make it better
So hold your breath and count to 10
Like me better then
Came for a beer
You better watch your step
Cause disco balls
Go round
Dancing bears
Would you avoid your kiss?
You’d better watch
You’d better watch your step
And the pills you take
Don’t make it better
And the drinks you drink
Don’t make it better
So hold your breath and count to 10
Like me better then
Blue like gold
Yellow rainbows fall
Hello
How the hell are you?
And the pills you take
Don’t make it better
And the drinks you drink
Don’t make it better
And the love you fake
Don’t make it better
So hold your breath and count to 10
Like me better then

Disintegration (Remastered)

Yeah, I miss the kiss of treachery
The shameless kiss of vanity
The soft and the black and the velvety
Up tight against the side of me
And mouth and eyes and heart all bleed
And run in thickening streams of greed
As bit by bit, it starts the need
To just let go, my party piece

Yeah, I miss the kiss of treachery
The shameless kiss before I feed
The stench of a love for younger meat
And the sound it makes when it cuts in deep
The holding up on bended knees
The addiction of duplicities
As bit by bit, it starts the need
To just let go, my party piece

But I never said I would stay to the end
I leave you with babies and hoping for secrecy
Screaming like this in the hope of sincerity
Scream with me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and stains on the scenery
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
And we both of us knew how the ending would be

So it's all come back round to breaking apart again
Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again
Making it up behind my back again
Making it afraid for the fear of sleep again
Pushed in deep to bare bone again
Take him outside like he's all on his own again
Round and round and round, it's coming apart again
Over and over and over

Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces
I'll pull out my heart and I'll feed it to anyone
Crying for comfort, crocodiles cry
For the love of the crowd and the three cheers from everyone
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof
Through the roof of your mouth, through the mouth of your eye
Through the eye of the needle, it's easier for me
To get closer to heaven than ever feel whole again

I never said I would stay to the end
I'd leave you with babies and hoping for secrecy
Screaming like this in the hole of sincerity
Scream with me over and over and over
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery
And stains on the carpet and stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
And we both of us knew how the end always is

How the end always is

How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is
How the end always is

Always is
Always is
Always is
Always is

Always
Always
Always
Always
Always
Always is

Seventeen Seconds

Time slips away
And the light begins to fade
And everything is quiet now
Feeling is gone
And the picture disappears
And everything is cold now
The dream had to end
The wish never came true
And the girl
Starts to sing

Seventeen seconds
A measure of life
Seventeen seconds

The Cure - All I Ever Am (Lyric Video)

I think too much of all that's gone
Of how it was before my thoughts
Obsessed with choices made for sure
In ignorance of history
And consequence as more and more
I misremember hopelessly

The way love turned out every time
Was never quite enough

I lose all my life like this
Reflecting time and memories
And all for fear of what I'll find
If I just stop and empty out my mind
Of all the ghosts and all the dreams
All I hold to in belief
But all I ever am
Is somehow never quite all I am now

I think too much of all to come
Of how it will be after I give up
My weary dance with age
And resignation moves me slow
Toward a dark and empty stage
Where I can sing of all I know

The way love turns out every time
Will never be enough

I waste all my world like this
Intending time and memories
And all for fear of what I'll find
If I just stop and empty out my mind
Of all the ghosts and all the dreams
All I hold to in belief
That all I ever am
Is somehow never quite all I am now

And all for fear of what I'll find
If I just stop

Play For Today

It's not a case of doing
What's right
It's just the way i feel that matters
Tell me I'm wrong
I don't really care
It's not a case of share and share alike
I take what i require
I don't understand ...
You say it's not fair

You expect me to act
Like a lover
Consider my moves
And deserve the reward
To hold you in my arms
And wait
And wait
And wait
For something to happen

It's not a case of telling the truth
Some lines just fit the situation
Call me a liar
You would anyway

It's not a case of aiming to please
You know you're always crying
It's just your part
In the play for today

The Cure - A Fragile Thing (Official Lyric Video)

"Every time you kiss me, I could cry, " she said
"Don't tell me how you miss me, I could die tonight of a broken heart
This loneliness has changed me, and we've been too far apart
And it's too late now for me to just forget
I never thought I'd need to feel regret for all I never was
But all this time alone has left me hurt and sad and lost
Yeah, every time you kiss me, I could cry
Don't tell me how you miss me, I could die tonight of a broken heart
This loneliness has changed me, we have been too far apart"

"And there's nothing you can do to change it back, " she said
"Nothing you can do but sing, this love is a fragile thing
Nothing you can do now but pretend again"
"Nothing you can do to change it back, " she said
"Nothing you can do but sing, this love is a fragile thing
This love is my everything, but nothing you can do to change the end"
No, nothing you can do (nothing you can do, nothing you can do)

"Every time you leave me is a lie, " she said
"You make believe you need me, but you try too hard, and it feels so wrong
You promise me forever, and you say it won't be long
But it's too late now for me to just forget
I never thought I'd need to feel regret for all I never was
But all this time alone has left me hurt and sad and lost
Yeah, every time you leave me is a lie
You make believe you need me, but you try too hard, and it feels so wrong
You promise me forever, and you say it won't be long"

"And there's nothing you can do to change it back, " she said
"Nothing you can do but sing, this love is a fragile thing
Nothing you can do now but pretend again"
"Nothing you can do to change it back, " she said
"Nothing you can do but sing, this love is a fragile thing
This love is my everything, but nothing you can do to change the end"
No, nothing you can do to change the end

Charlotte Sometimes - Sideways

Oh I've been thinking past
But all I got is now
But it's all good tea, no it's not?
And he really freaks me out
Whatever that's about
But it's all good tea, no it's not?
But it's all gold tea, 'til it stops?

I always punctuate.
The words I used to hate.
But it's all good tea, yeah it's not?
But it's all good tea, 'til it stops?

Sleep. nobody sleeps.
Nobody sleeps.
That's always sideways.
They want you to.
Then inside it's true.

The books I read
They make faces
They are so mean
It's all good tea, then it's not?
It's all gold tea, 'til it stops?

Sleep. nobody sleeps.
Nobody sleeps.
That's always sideways.

Everything I ever wanted
Everything I always asked for
Just turned to dust.
I'm looking now
I'm headed in
I thought that I was built to win
But I don't
But I don't

Sleeps. nobody sleeps.
Nobody sleeps.
Well nobody...

Sleep. nobody sleeps.
Nobody sleeps.
That's always sideways.
That's always sideways.
That's always sideways.

Ba Da's

The Cure - Alone. Songs Of A Lost World

This is the end of every song that we sing
The fire burned out to ash, and the stars grown dim with tears
Cold and afraid, the ghosts of all that we've been
We toast with bitter dregs, to our emptiness

And the birds falling out of our skies
And the words falling out of our minds
And here is to love, to all the love
Falling out of our lives
Hopes and dreams are gone
The end of every song

And it all stops
We were always sure that we would never change
And it all stops
We were always sure that we would stay the same
But it all stops
And we close our eyes to sleep
To dream a boy and girl
Who dream the world is nothing but a dream

Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Broken voiced lament to call us home
This is the end of every song we sing
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Broken voiced lament to call us home
This is the end of every song we sing, alone

The Cure - "Plainsong" | Live at Sydney Opera House @thecure

"I think it's dark and it looks like rain, " you said
"And the wind is blowing
Like it's the end of the world, " you said
"And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead"
Then you smiled for a second

"I think I'm old and I'm feeling pain, " you said
"And it's all running out
Like it's the end of the world, " you said
"And it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead"
Then you smiled for a second

Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
"It's just the way I smile, " you said