Smashing Pumpkins Lyrics

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1979

Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Eye

The End Is The Beginning Is The End

Today

Thirty-Three

Tonight, Tonight

Zero


1979

shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time

on a live wire right up off the street

you and i should meet

junebug skipping like a stone

with the headlights pointed at the dawn

we were sure we'd never see an end to it all

and i don't even care to shake these zipper blues

and we don't know

just where our bones will rest

to dust i guess

forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

double cross the vacant and the bored

they're not sure just what we have in the store

morphine city slippin dues down to see

that we don't even care as restless as we are

we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts

and poured cement, lamented and assured

to the lights and towns below

faster than the speed of sound

faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope

justine never knew the rules,

hung down with the freaks and the ghouls

no apologies ever need be made, i know you better than you fake it

to see that we don't care to shake these zipper blues

and we don't know just where our bones will rest

to dust i guess

forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

the street heats the urgency of sound

as you can see there's no one around

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Bullet With Butterfly Wings

the world is a vampire, sent to drain

secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames

and what do i get, for my pain

betrayed desires, and a piece of the game

even though i know-i suppose i'll show

all my cool and cold-like old job

despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage

then someone will say what is lost can never be saved

despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage

now i'm naked, nothing but an animal

but can you fake it, for just one more show

and what do you want, i want to change

and what have you got

when you feel the same

even though i know-i suppose i'll show

all my cool and cold-like old job

despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage

then someone will say what is lost can never be saved

despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage

tell me i'm the only one

tell me there's no other one

jesus was an only son

tell me i'm the chosen one

jesus was an only son for you

despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage

and i still believe that i cannot be saved

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Eye

I lie, I wait

I stop, I hesitate

I am, I breathe

I meant, I think of me

 

Is it any wonder I can't sleep?

All I have is all you gave to me

Is it any wonder I found peace through you?

Turn to the gates of heaven, to myself be damned

Turn away from light

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough

 

I taste, I love

I come, I bleed enough

I hate, I'm not

I was, I want too much

 

Is it any wonder I can't sleep?

All I have is all you gave to me

Is it any wonder I found peace through you?

Turn to the gates of heaven, to myself be damned

Turn away from light

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

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The End Is The Beginning Is The End

the sewers belch me up..

the heavens spit me out...

from ethers tragic I am born again...

and now i'm with you now

inside your world of wow!

to move in desires made of deadly pretends

till the end times begin...

climb my ribcage to

the replays run for you

unhook my lights to peek behind the flash

for I am crystal chrome

I am shatter dome

I am kremlin king of angels avenged

to destroy the end...

the zeppelins rain upon us the guns of love disastrous

a shadow lies amongst you to defy the future cast...

(chrous)

is it bright where you are

have the people changed?

does it make you happy you're so strange?

and in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame

you can watch the world devoured in it's pain, strange

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Thirty Three

speak to me in a language i can hear

humour me before i have to go

deep in thought i forgive everyone

as the cluttered streets greet me once again

i know i can't be late, supper's waiting on the table

tomorrow's just an excuse away

so I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own

the earth laughs beneath my heavy feet

at the blasphemy in my old jangly walk

steeple guide me to my heart and home

the sun is out and up and down again

i know i'll make it, love can last forever

graceful swans of never topple to the earth

and you can make it last, forever you

you can make it last, forever you

and for a moment i lose myself

wrapped up in the pleasures of the world

i've journeyed here and there and back again

but in the same old haunts i still find my friends

mysteries not ready to reveal

sympathies i'm ready to return

i'll make the effort, love can last forever

graceful swans of never topple to the earth

tomorrow's just an excuse

and you can make it last, forever you

you can make it last, forever you

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Today

Today is the greatest

Day I've ever known

Can't live for tomorrow,

Tomorrow's much too long

I'll burn my eyes out

Before I get out

 

I wanted more

Than life could ever grant me

Bored by the chore

Of saving face

 

Today is the greatest

Day I've ever known

Can't wait for tomorrow

I might not have that long

I'll tear my heart out

Before I get out

 

Pink ribbon scars

That never forget

I tried so hard

To cleanse these regrets

My angel wings

Were bruised and restrained

My belly stings

 

Today is

Today is

Today is

The greatest day

 

I want to turn you on

I want to turn you on

I want to turn you on

I want to turn you

 

Today is the greatest

Today is the greatest day

Today is the greatest day

That I have ever really known

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Tonight Tonight

time is never time at all

you can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth

and our lives are forever changed

we will never be the same

the more you change the less you feel

believe, believe in me, believe

that life can change, that you're not stuck in vain

we're not the same, we're different tonight

tonight, so bright

tonight

and you know you're never sure

but you're sure you could be right

if you held yourself up to the light

and the embers never fade in your city by the lake

the place where you were born

believe, believe in me, believe

in the resolute urgency of now

and if you believe there's not a chance tonight

tonight, so bright

tonight

we'll crucify the insincere tonight

we'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight

we'll find a way to offer up the night tonight

the indescribable moments of your life tonight

the impossible is possible tonight

believe in me as i believe in you, tonight

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Zero

my reflection, dirty mirror

there's no connection to myself

i'm your lover. i'm your zero

i'm the face in your dreams of glass

so save your prayers for when we're really gonna need 'em

throw out your cares and fly

wanna go for a ride?

 

she's the one for me

she's all i really need

cause she's the one for me

emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness

and cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me

intoxicated with the madness, i'm in love with my sadness

bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms

the fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth

i never let on, that i was on a sinking ship

i never let on that i was down

you blame yourself, for what you can't ignore

you blame yourself for wanting more

she's the one for me

she's all i really need

she's the one for me

she's my one and only

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