Lyrics for Charlotte Sometimes as interpreted by oofus

Charlotte Sometimes Lyrics
All the faces
All the voices blur
Change to one face
Change to one voice
Prepare yourself for bed
The light seems bright
And glares on white walls
All the sounds of
Charlotte sometimes
Into the night with
Charlotte sometimes

Night after night she lay alone in bed
Her eyes so open to the dark
The streets all looked so strange
They seemed so far away
But Charlotte did not cry

The people seemed so close
Playing expressionless games
The people seemed
So close
So many
Other names...

Sometimes I'm dreaming
Where all the other people dance
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Charlotte sometimes
Sometimes I'm dreaming
Expressionless the trance
Sometimes I'm dreaming
So many different names
Sometimes I'm dreaming
The sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
She hopes to open shadowed eyes
On a different world
Come to me
Scared princess
Charlotte sometimes

On that bleak track
(See the sun is gone again)
The tears were pouring down her face
She was crying and crying for a girl
Who died so many years before...

Sometimes I dream
Where all the other people dance
Sometimes I dream
Charlotte sometimes
Sometimes I dream
The sounds all stay the same
Sometimes I'm dreaming
There are so many different names
Sometimes I dream
Sometimes I dream...

Charlotte sometimes crying for herself
Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself
But it's always with love
With so much love it looks like
Everything else
Of Charlotte sometimes
So far away
Glass sealed and pretty
Charlotte sometimes

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ltjpezgirl
04-14-2002

Rated +1 
this is one of my favorite cure songs. the live version on "paris" is better than the original. everyone needs to respect robert smith.

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MDMaster
06-10-2002

Rated 0 
Gothic in it's full glory... amazing.

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Charlotte-Molko
07-07-2002

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I'm guessin' it's about a girl called Charlotte who is all depressed, like :' Night after night she lay alone in bed
Her eyes so open to the dark ' and she cries over the girl who she used to be and mourns her old self: 'She was crying and crying for a girl
Who died so many years before... ' but had not literally died.

I'm not sure tho. But I like it anyway.

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Charlotte-Molko
07-07-2002

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I'm guessin' it's about a girl called Charlotte who is all depressed, like :' Night after night she lay alone in bed
Her eyes so open to the dark ' and she cries over the gkrl who she used to be and mourns her old self: 'She was crying and crying for a girl
Who died so many years before... ' but had not literally died.

I'm not sure tho. But I like it anyway.

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Chloe le Fay
07-11-2002

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It's based on the book "Charlotte Sometimes" by Penelope Farmer, the songs makes a lot more sense if you've read it. In the book, a girl goes to a boarding school, and every other day, when she wakes up, she's many years before, in the body of a different girl, who switches places with her, which is why she's crying for a girl who died so many years before.

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ladyboygrrl
03-30-2003

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this my favourite cure song, apart from 'homesick' (which NO ONE has commented on). i adore the guitars in this song and mr smith's voice is, as usual, amazing.

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TinyBlackRose
04-09-2003

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this song always tends to remind myself of me in parts. 'Charlotte sometimes crying for herself
Charlotte sometimes dreams a wall around herself
But it's always with love '
seems like me in my *not doing so good* moods. and the part where it says 'crying for a girl who died so many years ago.' it reminds me of my childhood and when i was so happy, but ive grown and changed so much now so that i'll never have it again.

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Kittypaw
05-01-2003

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Oh My God, what a wonderful song.. and what a awesome Video too.. Hmm Robert Smith was looking hot, as usual...

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bottledinspiration
04-11-2004

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This song is the perfect depiction of myself...like I can cite lyrics in this song that mimic instances in my life. This is one of my all time favorite cure songs. I love robert.

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bradleyb
10-21-2004

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it's about the pyschologial effects of a girl who had been raped.

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geradeaus
12-12-2004

Rated 0 
Thank you Chloe le Fay, I knew it was based on a story, but I wasn't sure which. So;
is the song about how it's pointless to lament for the tragedies of others? Is it better to leave others to suffer their own tragedies alone, do our tears do anything for them? Reading the lyrics again, especially with the "wall around herself" in mind, I think that the song is saying we all have to share in someone's tragedy, otherwise it isolates and hurts us more.

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xxTheNephilimxx
01-16-2005

Rated 0 
i was wondering about the video...but Chloe le Fay cleared that up...i love this song

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Hetfield
01-28-2005

Rated 0 
Chloe is Correct. This song is written about an incredible book called Charlotte Sometimes By penelope farmer, An amazing book and incredible song Bradleyb are you a complete fuckwit or what?!

Some of the lyrics are direct quotes from the book such as, "The light is bright and glares on white walls"

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bradleyb
02-18-2005

Rated +1 
Hetfield, no need to be rude.

Robert often uses literature and film as a BASIS for a song. Would you say that the song "Burn" is about a guy who dies, but comes back to life as a character called "The Crow" to avenge his death? No, certainly not. The movie is just an inspiration for the song. Charlotte Sometimes is the same way.
Yes, this song is inspired by the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. But there's MUCH MORE going on in the lyrics than just a re-hashed synopsis of the book -- which I too have read.

It is one thing to disagree with someone's interpretation, but it's another to name-call. Especially when you haven't even heard the other person's side of the story.

And to answer your question: No, I am not a complete fuckwit. Maybe a half fuckwit, but certainly not a complete one.

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zeppelinfreak
02-28-2005

Rated 0 
Erm, I'd like to point something out...when you type out a comment it says "What does this song mean to you?" there really is no right or wrong answer...therefore no need to name call or shoot down other people's interpretations of the song. It's unnecessary and rude...and quite childish. Let's all just get along, eh?

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keli_1989
03-20-2005

Rated 0 
şiğ eruğ öll fíbl og şiğ munuğ öll deyja

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_Mandy_
08-17-2005

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I love this song. It`s older than me. Anyway, now that I know it`s based on the book it makes much more sense. I think that`s it.

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charlotte_sometimes
09-13-2006

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I read the book "Charlotte Sometimes" before the band had even formed! I was only a child at the time. Many years later I started to get into the band and was pleasantly surprised to discover the song. Chloe is correct - some days, when Charlotte wakes up she is Claire and it's 100 years earlier - great story.

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idoubtthat
10-09-2006

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I knew it was based on the book... And I almost named my first daughter "Charlotte Sometimes". My husband used a veto on that one though.

I can understand though, why many people didnt know it was about the story... Here in much of the USA, it is not hugely popular and you likely wont end up having even heard of it unless a friend tells you about it or lends you a copy. The bookstores here rarely have it and none of the new libraries have it. It is not in the reading ciriculum of almost any schools. It isnt somthing everyone would know so I cant see why the name calling is necassary...

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~girlbruise07~
10-13-2006

Rated 0 
best cure song

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indigo_blu
03-11-2007

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I just read the book which was ...i heard the song first so when i came across the book i just had to read it...the words kinda have more meaning to me now after reading it!! Great song too...

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sbfisher
03-26-2007

Rated 0 
Yeah, it's based on the book which is sort of disorienting in it's own way. I can see why Robert Smith liked it. I didn't know the book, either, but ran across it in a book store for cheap and had to buy it.

In the book she's crying for a girl from so many years before because she was alternately back in time 100 years before living that life.

Of course it could be metaphorical if you want it to be, also.

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the_abyss
09-23-2007

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there is an interesting and informative insight into the cure and the song, written by and posted on penelope farmer's blog:

http://grannyp.blogspot.com/2007/06/cured.html

http://grannyp.blogspot.com/2007/06/cured-climaxed.html

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pas
10-14-2007

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Cute story, but too bad PF has such residual bitterness about it, after she pretty much implied consent for them to continue the international promotion of her book. She should just sue instead of passive-aggressively blogging about it.

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laurelinwyntre
04-25-2008

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All the faces
All the voices blur
Change to one face
Change to one voice

"By bedtime all the faces, the voices had blurred for Charlotte to one face, one voice."
-the first line of Charlotte Sometimes

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