The Last Beat of My Heart

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"The Last Beat of My Heart"
"The Last Beat of My Heart" cover
Single by Siouxsie & the Banshees
from the album Peepshow
B-side(s) "El Dia de Los Muertos", "Sunless"
Released December 1988
Format 7" single, 12" single
Recorded 1988
Genre Gothic rock / Alternative rock
Label Polydor (UK)
Writer(s) Siouxsie & the Banshees
Producer(s) Siouxsie & the Banshees
Chart positions
  • #44 (UK)
Siouxsie & the Banshees singles chronology
"The Killing Jar"
(1988)
"The Last Beat of My Heart"
(1988)
"Kiss Them for Me"
(1991)

"The Last Beat of My Heart" is a song written, produced and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees. It was released in late 1988 as the third and final single from the band's ninth studio album Peepshow.

The song is a ballad with minimal instrumentation, mainly driven by drumming from Banshees member Budgie. Sioux's vocals address a lover who is leaving a relationship, as she asks for him to return to her. She declares her desire to be "close to you til the last beat of my heart".

"The Last Beat of My Heart" reached number forty-four in the UK singles chart. Upon its inclusion on the 1992 compilation album Twice Upon a Time: The Singles, a live recording of the song from 1991 replaced the single version.

DeVotchKa released their own version of "The Last Beat of My Heart" on their 2006 EP Curse Your Little Heart.

Siouxsie & the Banshees
Siouxsie Sioux | Steven Severin | Budgie
Knox Chandler | John Valentine Carruthers | Peter Fenton | Jon Klein | Martin McCarrick | John McGeoch | John McKay | Kenny Morris | Marco Pirroni | Robert Smith | Sid Vicious
Siouxsie & the Banshees discography
Studio albums and extended plays: The Scream | Join Hands | Kaleidoscope | Juju | A Kiss in the Dreamhouse | Hyæna | The Thorn EP | Tinderbox | Through the Looking Glass | Peepshow | Superstition | The Rapture
Compilations: Once Upon a Time: The Singles | Twice Upon a Time: The Singles | The Best of Siouxsie & the Banshees | Downside Up
Live Albums: Nocturne | Seven Year Itch
Peel Sessions: Voices on the Air: The Peel Sessions
Singles: Hong Kong Garden | The Staircase (Mystery) | Playground Twist | Mittageisen / Love in a Void | Happy House | Christine | Israel | Spellbound | Arabian Knights | Fireworks | Slowdive | Melt! | Dear Prudence | Swimming Horses | Dazzle | Overground | Cities in Dust | Candyman | This Wheel's on Fire | The Passenger | Song from the Edge of the World | Peek-a-Boo | The Killing Jar | The Last Beat of My Heart | Kiss Them for Me | Shadowtime | Fear (of the Unknown) | Face to Face | O Baby | Stargazer
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