Robert Smith has never been subtle about his emotions. After all, this is the guy who cried out “It doesn’t matter if we all die” on 1982’s Pornography and whose biggest hit (“Just Like Heaven”) is a lament for a love forever lost. But “This Twilight Garden,” which was released as a B-side for the “High” single from 1992’s Wish, finds Smith at his most unabashedly romantic.

The song was partially inspired by Smith and his wife Mary moving into a house with a garden and was his attempt to “capture that feeling of late summer dusk, the colour of the sky, the smell of the grass, the sound of the last bird singing.” Subsequently, “This Twilight Garden” is the dreamiest song in The Cure’s catalog. Lush, otherworldly guitar and synth arrangements swirl around Smith as he sings “I lift my eyes from watching you/To watch the star rise shine onto/Your dreaming face and dreaming smile/You’re dreaming worlds for me.” Smith’s lyrics are often filled with angst, darkness, and broken hearts, but here, he sings from a place of pure and contented delight, declaring “No one will ever take your place/I am lost in you.”

“This Twilight Garden” is as strong as any song on Wish, but in a way, I’m glad that it’s a B-side; that makes it seem all the more mysterious and special. Indeed, this is my favorite Cure song of all time, without question. Every time I listen to it, I’m swept off to an exotic world that only Robert Smith could conjure.