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.
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.