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The Smashing Pumpkins – Daphne Descends
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A warning aimed at one who is falling in love, “Daphne Descends” is a song that presents the idea of romance with heavy trepidation.
The track moves along eerily with a novel
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Daphne Descends (Kerry B. Mix)
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With the sugar sickness / You spy the kidnap kid / Who kids you to oblivion / It's the perfect hassle / For the perfumed kiss / He makes you miss him more than home / You love him
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Daphne Descends (Adore Presentation)
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With the sugar / Sickness / You spy the kidnap kid / Who kids you to oblivion / It’s the perfect hassle / For the perfumed kiss / He makes you miss him more than home / [Chorus
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore Album Presentation
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Setlist: / 1. Once Upon a Time / 2. Crestfallen / 3. Ava Adore / 4. Daphne Descends / 5. Perfect / 6. Pug / 7. Tonight, Tonight / 8. Stumbleine / 9. Shame / 10. 1979
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect (Nellee Hooper Instrumental)
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[Instrumental]
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect (Perfecto Dub)
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Perfect / Perfect / I know we're just like old friends / We just can't pretend / That lovers make amends / We are the reason so unreal / We can't help but feel that something has
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect (Nellee Hooper Mix)
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[Intro] / Perfect / Perfect / Perfect / [Verse 1] / I know we're just like old friends / We just can't pretend / That lovers make amends / [Verse 2] / We are the reason so unreal
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Summer
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In the summer i can breathe / I don't need a single thing / And all the love you give / Is so sweet / In the winter i can read / All those books you gave to me / And all the words
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Cross
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Climb across a sea-filled cross / See your mind as it's falling / Do you know where you've been / When you hide your old feelings / I let down, and I am falling / Time lives on
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Other Side
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“The Other Side” is essentially an instrumental version of “For Martha”, a song Corgan wrote as a tribute to his mother shortly after her death. “The Other Side” shows the stark
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect (Electro Breakbeat Mix)
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[Verse 1] / I know we’re just like / Old friends / We just can’t pretend / That lovers make amends / We are reasons so unreal / We can’t help but feel that something has been lost
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The Smashing Pumpkins – What If?
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What if the sun refused to shine? / What if the clouds refused to rain? / What if the trees grew straight on down? / What if the wind refused to blow? / What if the world refused
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The Smashing Pumpkins – To Sheila
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The opening track on the Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio LP, Adore, prepares listeners for a dramatic break from the past. “To Sheila” greets fans with nothing but a quietly
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Chewing Gum
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Chewing gum / Wondering where i've been and what i've done / Wondering where i'll go and where i'll run / Hide myself away from everyone / Chewing gum / Doesn't ['does it'] bother
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Do You Close Your Eyes?
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“Do You Close Your Eyes” is an outtake from the Adore recording session in February of 1997. The song never made it as a B-side nor has it ever been played live. It was released
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Once Upon a Time
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Mother, I’m tired / Come surrender, my son / Time has ravaged on my soul / No plans to leave but still, I go / Fallin’ with the leaves / Fallin’ out of sleep / To the last goodbyes
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Valentine
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Let the horses run / Your deserted mind / Catch the thread-bare strains / Of departing trains / Bound for their last goodbyes / You thought you'd think you'd know / You're sure you
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The Smashing Pumpkins – 17
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“17,” a 17 second instrumental, closes the album much like it began: soft, subdued, and subtle. The back of the album pamphlet contains a poem written by Billy Corgan also entitled
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Annie-Dog
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Amphetamine Annie-Dog / Has her leash and a face / Her velvet spleen / Her shackle spine / Her diamond curse / It comes with mine / A vessel she for violent I / Confession arms a
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Pug
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[Verse 1] / Kiss and kill me sweetly / Come and drive me home / Drag the miles in me / I am yours alone / [Chorus] / Inside, where it’s warm / Wrap myself in you / Outside, where I
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Appels + Oranjes
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“Appels + Oranjes” touches on the age-old subject of metaphysics; a branch of philosophy that explores reality. Is reality what we perceive in our day-to-day experiences or is
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Behold! The Night Mare
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[Verse 1] / I’ve faced the fathoms in your deep / Withstood the suitors' quiet siege / Pulled down the heavens just to please you / [Refrain 1] / Appease you / The wind blows and I
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The Smashing Pumpkins – 2014 Adore Reissue Liner Notes
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Part 1: 'Adore' of Perceptions / By David Wild / Adore is the surprisingly beautiful sound of a great band falling apart. / Just about a decade and a half ago-shortly after the
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Shame
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[Verse 1] / You’re gonna walk on home / You’re gonna walk alone / You’re gonna see this through / Don’t let them get to you / [Chorus] / Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame / Sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-shame
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect
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The second and final commercial single off the Pumpkins' 1998 album Adore.
“Perfect” is in many ways a “sister song” to the band’s biggest hit, “1979” – from Rolling Stone
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