“This is the end of every song that we sing”. We knew it, because The Cure played it dozens of times between 2022 and 2023, even when they came to Italy. But now Robert Smith's band has finally released Alone.
This is the first single from the album Songs of a Lost Worldthe first of the group's unreleased songs 4:13 from 2008, which will be released on November 1st. It lasts almost seven minutes, with Smith starting to sing after three and a half minutes, ignoring every rule imposed by streaming platforms that requires the chorus to arrive within the first minute of the song.
“It’s the song that unlocked the album,” Robert Smith says in a press release. “As soon as we recorded that song I knew it had to be the opening song and I felt the whole album starting to come into focus. I’ve been trying to find the right opening line for the right song to open the project for a while, working on the concept of being alone, always with the nagging feeling that I already knew what the opening line should be…”
«As soon as we finished recording I remembered the poem Dregs by the English poet Ernest Dowson (a passage of the poem reads “This is the end of every song man sings”, ed.) and that was the moment I understood that the song – and the album – had become something concrete».
