Let's Go to Bed

Released as a stand-alone single in November 1982, it reached number 44 in Britain and number 15 in Australia. Smith wrote it after a month-long detox in the Lake District, as the antithesis of what the Cure had become. He recalled that when he played it to Fiction there was silence, and that they told him the fans would hate it. He expected to go from goth idol to pop star in three easy lessons, and he said he enjoyed the transition. The Walk and The Love Cats followed, and he felt totally liberated.

It was the band's first collaboration with the director Tim Pope. For the video Smith and Tolhurst were the only two members of the band, the one time it officially had a two-person line-up. AllMusic's Chris True called it antic, herky-jerky new wave pop, and Pitchfork called it bratty, funky synthpop. Rolling Stone ranked it 19th among the best songs of 1982 in a 2022 list. It appears on the compilation Japanese Whispers.