The Cure: I Can Never Say Goodbye (Mental Overdrive Remix / Visualiser) [Polydor] 2025

Thunder rolling in to drown
November moon in cold black rain
As lightning splits the sky apart
I’m whispering his name
He has to wake up
Love’s slipping away
Hear the bells beyond the sea
It’s almost too late

Shadows growing closer now
There is nowhere left to hide
And I can’t break this dreamless sleep
However hard I try
I’m down on my knees
And empty inside

Something wicked this way comes
From out the cruel and treacherous night
Something wicked this way comes
To steal away my brother’s life
Something wicked this way comes
I can never say goodbye
I can never say goodbye

Something wicked this way comes
From out the cruel and treacherous night
Something wicked this way comes
To steal away my brother’s life
Something wicked this way comes

Mixes of a Lost World is the third remix album by English rock band the Cure, released on 13 June 2025 by Fiction, and Polydor.^[1][2] The album features 24 remixes of songs from the band’s 2024 album Songs of a Lost World.^[3]

Background

The origins of Mixes of a Lost World come from a collection of unsolicited remixes of Songs of a Lost World tracks sent to Robert Smith who fancied them and was curious of how the whole album would sound entirely reinterpreted by others.^[4] In December, Smith confirmed the “companion release” was to be released,^[5] adding that there was yet a “third one which is completely different. It’s really kind of random stuff, it’s like late-night studio stuff.”^[6]

On 21 April 2025, the band announced a remix album, featuring reworks by artists including Four Tet, Paul Oakenfold, and Orbital.^[1][2] It is the third collection of remixes of the Cure songs, after Mixed Up (1990), and Torn Down (2018).^[6]

The band announced that all of its recording royalties of Mixes of a Lost World will benefit the charity War Child UK, that supports children living with the effects of war and conflict,^[1] similarly to the case of the live album Songs of a Live World Troxy London MMXXlV, recorded at The Cure’s album launch show at the Troxy in East London.^[7]

When inviting the Danish electronic musician Trentemøller to the project, Smith wrote him a direct email, asking “if [he]’d be up for remixing a track from the Cure album.” He could choose whichever song.^[8] Around the time of announcement of the project, the English electronic musician and DJ Four Tet has been closing his recent shows with his own remix of “Alone”.^[9]

Release

The two-disc edition feature all eight tracks from the album in remixed form. A three-disc deluxe set includes additional eight remixes and reworks of each tracks from the original album, by artists including Chino Moreno of Deftones, Mogwai, and 65daysofstatic. Therefore, the three-disc version of Mixes of a Lost World features three versions of each original song in a remixed form.^[10]

All editions of the remix album feature alternative artwork by the band’s longtime collaborator Andy Vella.^[7]

On 21 June 2025, an additional remix of “A Fragile Thing” by record producer Mark Saunders, was digitally released post-album, namely “A Fragile Thing (Mark Saunders Heartbroken Remix)”.

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