![]() ![]() The Cure later released another song based on the novel, "The Empty World", from their 1984 album The Top. The title of the single's B-side, "Splintered in Her Head", was also taken from a line in the novel. The light seemed too bright for them, glaring on white walls". The song continues: "Prepare yourself for bed/The light seems bright/And glares on white walls", and the book continues, "She prepared herself for bed. According to Cure frontman Robert Smith: "There have been a lot of literary influences through the years 'Charlotte Sometimes' was a very straight lift." Many lines in the song reflect lines directly from the book, such as "All the faces/All the voices blur/Change to one face/Change to one voice" from the song, compared to the first sentence of the book, "By bedtime all the faces, the voices, had blurred for Charlotte to one face, one voice". The song "Charlotte Sometimes" was based on Charlotte Sometimes, a children's novel by English writer Penelope Farmer, published in 1969. ![]() The titles and lyrics to both sides were based on the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. ![]() " Charlotte Sometimes" is a song by English rock band the Cure, recorded at producer Mike Hedges' Playground Studios and released as a non-album single on 9 October 1981 by Polydor Records, following the band's third studio album Faith. Robert Smith, Simon Gallup and Lol Tolhurst ![]()
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