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1981 single by The Cure
the song

"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. The titles and lyrics to both sides were based on the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. The single reached No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart.

The song "Charlotte Sometimes" was based on Charlotte Sometimes, 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 continues: "Prepare yourself for bed/The light seems bright/And glares on white walls", and the book continues, "She prepared herself for bed The light seemed too bright for them, glaring on white walls". The title of the single's B side, "Splintered in Her Head", was also taken from a line in the novel. Production was overseen by Hedges and the band themselves.

On advice by Fiction label owner Chris Parry, the music video for "Charlotte Sometimes" was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium. It features the character of Charlotte recreating scenes from the story in the presence of the band, while Smith mimes the words of the song.

The song reached No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart. Live takes were included on the Concert and Paris albums.

The book The Rough Guide to Cult Pop called the song "a goth masterpiece of doomed beauty and ruined elegance".