Best of: Songs of a Lost World

[dsanchez]

Best song on this album?

If you asked me in November, I would say 'Endsong', such a powerful song, and perhaps the best Cure closing song in history? But as I listened more and more the album, I just couldn't but decide for 'All I Ever Am'. It's like if Robert was writing about me. Best lyrics in the album and that great sad melody, the best song on SOALW for me.

I lose all my life like this
Reflecting time and memories
And all for fear of what I'll find
If I just stop and empty out my mind
Of all the ghosts and all the dreams
All I hold to in belief
But all I ever am
Is somehow never quite all I am now

[Sacha8]

I've chosen Alone, despite my favourite song in the album originally being Warsong. The more I listen to it, the more Alone seems to transcend the album and the band. It feels like talking about current trends in politics and social media turning everything we've known into a nightmare, how horrible humanity has become and how fragile and ultimately doomed the present (and the future) have turned out to be. To me, the sense of loneliness described is not simply personal, but it resonates with us as species getting older but not wiser at all, quite the opposite.