Artist: The Cure
Album: Single version
Song: Charlotte Sometimes
Year Released: 1981
Book: Charlotte Sometimes
Author: Penelope Farmer
Year Published: 1969
The Cure’s song “Charlotte Sometimes” is influenced by Penelope Farmer’s children’s book of the same title. Lyrics in the song are influenced by the book’s passages.
Lyrics/Passages:
The Cure: “All the faces/All the voices blur/Change to one face/Change to one voice”
Penelope Farmer: “By bedtime all the faces, the voices, had blurred for Charlotte to one face, one voice.”
The Cure: “Prepare yourself for bed/The light seems bright/And glares on white walls”
Penelope Farmer: “She prepared herself for bed… The light seemed too bright for them, glaring on white walls.”
