“Last Dance” by The Cure

Tucked fifth on Disintegration, the Cure's eighth studio album, in 1989, "Last Dance" didn't make it onto every copy. The original vinyl dropped it, along with "Homesick", because the sides ran out of room, and Elektra's CDs labelled both bonus tracks; only with the 2010 reissue, spread over two records, did vinyl buyers get it as standard.

Robert Smith wrote the words, while the music is credited to the whole band: Smith, Simon Gallup, Roger O'Donnell, Porl Thompson, Lol Tolhurst and Boris Williams. The Cure produced it, and Smith mixed it with Bryan "Chuck" New. Smith has described it as a song about running into someone you haven't seen in ages, and critics hear a childhood love that couldn't survive growing up, part of the preoccupation with ageing that runs through the whole album.

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