Robert Smith lost his mother, father and brother in the years 2016-2019 when the album, Songs of a Lost World (2023), was first being put together. He then lost Uncles and Aunts in the Covid Pandemic in 2020 and 2021. His bandmate, Simon Gallup, lost his wife in 2019. As with the 1981 album Faith, whose tone was dictated by the death of Robert's Grandmother and bandmate Lol Tolhurst's mother suffering terminal cancer, death became the backdrop to the album.
The lyrics 'Left alone with nothing, at the end of every song' link back to the song 'Alone' on the same album. That song starts with the lyric: 'This is the end of every song we sing' and ends with the word 'Alone'.
This song conveys Smith intense sadness at the loss of loved ones.
Here we see Robert looking back on his life and the boy he once was and mourning the loss of his parents.
The reference to the moon reminds us that Robert is heavily into astronomy as a hobby but here the moon, usually so white and pure, is stained with blood.
The song was first played in public at a Cure concert in Riga, Latvia on 6 October 2022.
Robert Smith lost his mother, father and brother in the years 2016-2019 when the album, Songs of a Lost World (2023), was first being put together. He then lost Uncles and Aunts in the Covid Pandemic in 2020 and 2021. His bandmate, Simon Gallup, lost his wife in 2019. As with the 1981 album Faith, whose tone was dictated by the death of Robert's Grandmother and bandmate Lol Tolhurst's mother suffering terminal cancer, death became the backdrop to the album.
The lyrics 'Left alone with nothing, at the end of every song' link back to the song 'Alone' on the same album. That song starts with the lyric: 'This is the end of every song we sing' and ends with the word 'Alone'.
This song conveys Smith intense sadness at the loss of loved ones.
Here we see Robert looking back on his life and the boy he once was and mourning the loss of his parents.
The reference to the moon reminds us that Robert is heavily into astronomy as a hobby but here the moon, usually so white and pure, is stained with blood.
The song was first played in public at a Cure concert in Riga, Latvia on 6 October 2022.