How special that this came out at a time when I really needed some music to lean into? “Alone” is my favorite track after a month or so of listening. Robert Smith’s voice has been with me for decades and has always soothed me and accompanied rage, and trips and stumbles and suicidal ideation and love and pain and everything in between.
In 2024, I often feel very alone, like I am the only one who looks around and sees the disintegration happening all around me. Robert convinces me with “Alone” that I am not, indeed, alone after all.
ALONE
[Verse 1]
This is the end of every song we sing
The fire burned out to ash and the stars grown dim with tears
Cold and afraid, the ghosts of all that we’ve been
We toast with bitter dregs, to our emptiness
[Verse 2]
And the birds falling out of our skies
And the words falling out of our minds
And here is to love, to all the love
Falling out of our lives
Hopes and dreams are gone
The end of every song
[Chorus]
And it all stops
We were always sure that we would never changе
And it all stops
We were always surе that we would stay the same
But it all stops
And we close our eyes to sleep
To dream a boy and a girl
Who dream the world is nothing but a dream
[Outro]
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Broken voiced lament to call us home
This is this end of every song we sing
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Where did it go?
Broken voiced lament to call us home
This is the end of every song we sing, alone
WMR Winter 2024
MISTER WILLIAM REILLY 