Charlotte Sometimes is a chilly non-album single by English alternative rock band The Cure. The song is based on Charlotte Sometimes, a childrens novel by English writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969. According to 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 singles B-side, Splintered in Her Head, is also taken from a line in the novel. The Cure would later release another song based on the novel, The Empty World, from their 1984 album The Top. https://youtube/watch?v=4KeII31qyck
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 03:54:08 +0000
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