Charlotte Sometimes Lyrics by The Cure Band Compared to Charlottle Sometimes the Book

 

As we wait for the triumphant news that (after 13 years!!), The Cure will release their new album, I wanted to revisit the analysis I did about six years ago regarding “Charlotte Sometimes” if for no other reason than to compare The Cure lyrics of their classic song Charlotte Sometimes to parts of the children’s fantasy book of the same name. This is what I learned and it’s very interesting. ***Spoiler Alter***

Cure Lyrics: All the faces, All the voices blur

Change to one face, Change to one voice

First sentence of the book: By bedtime all the faces, the voices, had blurred for Charlotte to one face, one voice.

Cure Lyrics: Prepare yourself for bed

Second sentence of the book: She prepared herself for bed . . . .

Cure Lyrics: The light seems bright, And glares on white walls

Book 2nd paragraph, 6th sentence: The light seemed to bright for them, glaring on white walls . . . .

Cure Lyrics: All the sounds of

Book 4th paragraph, 4th sentence: All the sounds about her . . . .

Cure Lyrics: Charlotte sometimes

Into the night with

Charlotte sometimes

Book 5th paragraph, 1st sentence: She must have slept at last . . . .

Cure Lyrics: Night after night she lay alone in bed

Her eyes so open to the dark

Part II of the book, chapter 4, 1st sentence: Night after night, Charlotte lay in bed with her eyes open to the dark . . . .

Cure Lyrics: The streets all looked so strange

They seemed so far away

But Charlotte did not cry

Part II of the book, chapter 4, paragraph 15, 1st sentence: The streets looked strange . . . .

Cure Lyrics: The people seemed so close

Playing expressionless games

Part II of the book, chapter 2, paragraph 24, 3rd sentence: Charlotte, on the other hand, became absorbed, concentrating wholly on her fingers’ easing . . . .

Cure Lyrics: The people seemed so close

So many other names

Part II of the book, chapter 2, paragraph 37: “Good night, Mr. Chisel Brown,” she said with almost a curtsy. “Good night, Mrs. Chisel Brown. Good night, Miss Agnes Chisel Brown. Good night, cat. Good night, dog . . ..”

Cure Lyrics: When all the other people dance - Reference to school dance

Expressionless the trance - Reference to séance

So many different names - Reference to names of Brown family

The sounds all stay the same - Reference to airplane sounds overhead

On a different world - Past that Charlotte travels to

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

Part III of the book, chapter 2, paragraph 53, 1st sentence: On that bleak track, the sun almost gone again, tears were pouring down her face. She was crying and crying for a girl for a girl who had died more than 40 years before.

Cure Lyrics: Charlotte sometimes crying for herself

Part III of the book, chapter 7, paragraph 13, last sentence: She began crying bitterly, could not stop . . .

Cure Lyrics: Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself

Part III of the book, chapter 7, paragraph 10, 1st sentence: She dreamed she stood below the picture, The Mark of the Beast, and there were soldiers all around her in red uniforms, stiff as toys but tall as men. There were dolls, too, like Miss Agnes’s doll, as tall as the soldiers . . .

Cure Lyrics: Glass sealed and pretty

Part III of the book, chapter 7, paragraph 15, 4th sentence: And when she looked at the wall at the picture glass, it looked quite empty, as if a mirror hung there, not a picture at all.

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