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 ghost 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
But it all stops we're always sure that we would never change
But it all stops we're always sure that we would stay the same
But it all stops and because our eyes could dream
To dream of boy and girl who dream
The world is nothing but a dream
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Broken voice will mend to call us home
This is this end of every song we sing
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Hope a voice will mend to call us home
This is the end of every song we sing
Alone
The fire burned out to ash
And the stars grown dim with tears
Cold and afraid the ghost 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
But it all stops we're always sure that we would never change
But it all stops we're always sure that we would stay the same
But it all stops and because our eyes could dream
To dream of boy and girl who dream
The world is nothing but a dream
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Broken voice will mend to call us home
This is this end of every song we sing
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Hope a voice will mend to call us home
This is the end of every song we sing
Alone
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This is a song which was first played live in Riga, Latvia on 6 October 2022. It is scheduled to be part of their 'Songs of a Lost World' album which is due out in 2023.
Robert Smith has stated that the album will be very dark and gloomy and the lyrics to the songs played so far from the album- Alone, Endsong and And Nothing is Forever- certainly seem to bear this out.
The lyrics seem to reflect a lot of dark moments in the life of bandmembers. Since 2016, Robert's Mother, Father and Brother have all died. In addition, he has stated in interviews that he lost a generation of Aunts and Uncles to the Covid pandemic of 2020-2022. Bassist Simon Gallup's second wife also died in 2019.
This reminds us of the context of an earlier album: Faith. In the run-up to that album at least one of Robert's Grandparents died and Lol Tolhurst's mother Daphne was dying of lung cancer. The Faith album made many references to death.
This song, Alone, links lyrically to one of the other new songs 'Endsong'. Endsong ends with the line: 'Left alone with nothing, at the end of every song. Left alone with nothing'. Alone ends with 'This is the end of every song we sing. Alone'.
But which song precisely are they referencing? The answer seems to be the 1981 song Faith which ends with the lines: 'We went away ALONE, with NOTHING LEFT but Faith'. If we compare the lyrics of Alone to Faith we notice that both mention hope, voice, empty.
Robert mentioned "Dregs" by poet Ernest Dowson as an inspiration for the lyrics.
[Edit: misspell]