Disintegration is a mammoth record filled with wide-screen emotions and some of the richest and most bombastic sounds in The Cure’s oeuvre. (Just listen to the opening moments of “Plainsong” if you doubt me.) When discussing Disintegration, most of the attention is focused on “Pictures of You,” “Lovesong,” and “Fascination Street,” which have understandably become some of the band’s most beloved songs and feature routinely in their epic, three-hour-long concerts. But one song that sadly feels overlooked is “Last Dance.”

That’s probably because it falls between “Lovesong” and “Lullaby” on the tracklist. That, and it wasn’t included on Disintegration’s original vinyl release. But the song is a dreamy delight highlighted by Boris Williams’ staggered beat, Simon Gallup’s keening bass line, and Roger O’Donnell’s sweeping synths. Clocking in at just under five minutes, making it one of Disintegration’s shorter songs, “Last Dance” nevertheless drips with heartbreak as Robert Smith reunites with a former lover, only to discover that the intense emotions are no longer there. “But Christmas falls late now, flatter and colder/And never as bright as when we used to fall,” Smith laments: “And even if we drink, I don’t think we will kiss/In the way that we did when the woman was only a girl.”

Smith and Porl Thompson’s spectral guitars imbue the song with an eerily wintry cast, creating the sense you’re watching the tragic scene unfold like some melancholy fairy tale in the midst of a deep December snowfall.