 Genius Lyrics
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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 – Once Upon a Time (Adore Presentation)
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Mother I’m tired / Come surrender my son / Time has ravaged on my soul / To wipe a mothers tears grown cold / Fallin’ with the / Leaves / Fallin’ out of sleep / To the last
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Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
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In this song, producer Brian Eno and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne are at the apogee of whatever it is they do (Byrne claims he was just riffing on some Southern preacher).
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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 – Indecision
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Cannot make it, so complete / To another, can't be sweet / To ourself, pale young girl [?] / Cannot make it, oh, you'll be all / Indecision held her there / Imprecision, your cruel
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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 – O Rio
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[Instrumental]
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Blissed and Gone (CRC Demo)
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The sun has blessed, the rays are gone / And all the kids have left their tears and gone home / Sweet 17, sour 29 / And i can't explain myself what i hope to find / You're all so
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Annie-Dog (Take 10)
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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 awake
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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 – 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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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 – 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 – Crestfallen
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Crestfallen was to be the third single from Adore but was only released as a promotional single due to a strained relationship with the band’s label, Virgin Records. While it did
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
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The lyrics of “Disarm” touch upon the subject of child abuse as Billy Corgan directly addresses his parents in the first person as an abused son. However, during a performance in
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Blank Page
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Originally named “48 Chords” as a commentary on the unusual high number of piano chords played, “Blank Page” is about Corgans marriage ending. According to himself, he felt it was
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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 – Tear
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[Instrumental Intro] / The lights came on fast / Lost in motor crash / Gone in a flash, unreal / But you knew all along / You laugh the light / I sing the songs / To watch you numb
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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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