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The Smashing Pumpkins – Sweet Sweet
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Coming in right after the heavy nine minute “Silverfuck”, the song begins with a clean chorus-set guitar, then followed by a slightly distorted guitar in the same tune as the clean
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Luna
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[Verse 1] / What moonsongs / Do you sing your babies? / What sunshine do you bring? / Who belongs? / Who decides who's crazy? / Who rights wrongs where others cling? / [Chorus 1
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Telegenix
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[Verse 1] / She takes the sweet outside / She takes the sweet outside / The sooner I fight, the sooner I mind, the sooner I mind / A cradle to the tears / The sooner I fight, the
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Where Boys Fear to Tread
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While Courtney Love does indeed claim “Where Boys Fear to Tread” was inspired by her, Corgan hasn’t commented on the issue. This isn’t unusual however, as Corgan rarely explains
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Black Forest, Black Hills
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With the noise that brought you / Paladin and dare / To gouge, bellwether / That which can't be shared / Crow by crow / And stone by stone, we flowed / From hidden spring to cold
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Silverfuck
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The heavily ambitious nine-minute “Silverfuck” was, at the time, the longest song put out by the band. Looking back, it seems to mark the beginning of a tradition which would be
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Fruit Bats – Sweet Sweet
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[Verse 1] / Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet little agony / I don’t know just where you’ve been / But I’ll take, take, take all that you have for me in sin / Where are we going? / [
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Blissed and Gone
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“Blissed and Gone” has a long and somewhat complicated history. It falls into the Adore era and nearly ended up being the final track off that album. Corgan pulled it from the
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The Smashing Pumpkins – The Hidden Sun
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I need a one-way / A one-way sign / Fagin's prophets on Aesop's ride / Like templar thieves / Well, you've had me / A buck so sweet / You've spoilt the fray / Which of these
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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 – Pisces Iscariot Liner Notes
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Subtract. multiply. a message from above and below. my moleasskiss to your precious lips. don't think. just be my sweet sweet. two albums and some 27 other songs later-b-slices-
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Marchin' On
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[Verse 1] / She kills the empty clock / She kills the empty clock / She haunts you where you're not / She haunts you where you're not / She screams the ailing arks are spirals full
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Freak
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“Freak”, the first single sprouting from the Pumpkins' massive project called Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, is often regarded as the best song to come out of the project.
The
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Laugh
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Corgan has said he spends 22 hours a day pursuing his musical mission. The lyrics “You will grow to love me even if it kills me” may seem to reveal something about the artist, but
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Oceania
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No one can love you, 'cause no one can free you / Lovers can’t touch you, 'cause lovers might reach you, yeah / I’m so alone, so alone / But better than a wretched world, better
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Drain
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May i walk beside your shadow, softly / Bless the ground you walk upon so easy / Innocence, come to me / Squandered in anarchy / Can i drain your body of its fever / Turn my cheek
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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 – Silverfuck / Over the Rainbow / Jackboot (Live)
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[Verse 1] / I hear your winter / And I hear your rain / And I've failed your summer ways / And I feel no pain / [Chorus] / I hear what you want / And I feel that way / I hear what
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Girl Named Sandoz (Peel Sessions)
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[Verse 1] / Well, I met a girl called Sandoz / And she taught me many, many things / Good things, very good things / Sweet things / [Verse 2] / I met her on a Sunday morning / It
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Make It Happen
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I have no patience / For the sweetest things / Take their sweet time / I'm countin' blessings / For steppin' backwards / Along my many fault lines / So make it happen / Just make
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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 – Transformer
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A livewire moves slow / A transformer always knows / The score is four / Leaves you hanging on the floor / For more and less and more of the blame / And she's tired / And she's
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The Smashing Pumpkins – La Dolly Vita
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From the Pisces Iscariot liner notes:
“so old yet it is kinda timeless in a strange way. i think it is because it has a dignity all it’s own. we also tried to re-record this for
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Frail and Bedazzled
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A high energy rock song charged with the same electricity heard in the now-classics such as “Rocket” and “Cherub Rock”. The song is now a fan-favorite, and was performed live over
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Cenotaph
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If from one comes one and only one / How is it I tick here so woebegone? / And though I cannot feel, I note my sums / Two ohms from null / And though but half of you and a mess of
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Girl Named Sandoz
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“A Girl Named Sandoz” is one of the first covers (originally recorded by The Animals) to be released by the Pumpkins, first appearing in 1992’s Peel Sessions and then later
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Saffron
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In the middle of a tree / From the middle of a dream, unsent / She relented some [?] / In the middle of a dream I left / With honey / Honey [ooh la la laaaa] / With honey / Honey [
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The Smashing Pumpkins – One Diamond, One Heart
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I’m not here to hold your hand / I’m just here to understand / If you’re feeling low, I can help / I’m always on your side / Forever near your light / I’m always on your side
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Tallulah
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Tallulah lu / Of lavender and blue / Your pachyderm waits in the rain / Hey butterfly / How you'll pry and you'll pry / But fail to roust isis / I'm out there / I'm out there / So
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The Smashing Pumpkins – One and All (We Are)
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“One And All” is the second single and fourth track off Smashing Pumpkin’s 2014 album, Monuments To An Elegy.
More than a few fans have observed a marked similarity in the primary
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Seek and You Shall Destroy
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[Verse 1] / If gods are strong / And cities fraught / Then how am I still here? / In fits and starts / Speak underground / Let's kid with hidden mirrors / [Pre-Chorus] / Yes, I'm
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The Smashing Pumpkins (Ft. Red Red Meat) – Sad Peter Pan
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It's the plan of most / To discover that magnificent ghost / When did I get perverted / And my innocent eyes diverted from the view so grand / Imbued with distractions / Sad Peter
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Rhinoceros
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“Rhinoceros” is the second single from the Pumpkins' debut album, Gish. The song introduces listeners to that now familiar contrast, seesawing between soft and sweet to loud and
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Fuck You (An Ode to No One)
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This song was referred to as “An Ode to No One” on the original packaging, but recent reissues have reverted back to the song’s original title, “Fuck You (An Ode to No One).”
When
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Soma
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Loosely connected to the drug found in Huxley’s Brave New World, the song describes numbness as a defense mechanism to deal with life’s stresses.
Billy Corgan has commented that
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Jersey Shore
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“Jersey Shore” is an acoustic demo recorded in Billy Corgan’s home studio after the Melon Collie tour. The song was most likely intended to make it on 1998’s Adore album but
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Hummer
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One of the things that have defined the Smashing Pumpkins from the start was the way many of their songs will dynamically change from verse to verse, ending up almost like
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream Liner Notes
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Siamese Dream was a rock dream come true — and a bit of a nightmare too. / Far from any dreaded sophomore slump, Siamese Dream would represent The Smashing Pumpkins' wildly
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The Smashing Pumpkins – Question Mark
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[Verse 1] / What is this frightened air between us? / What is the question posed? / Where is this violence I sense creeping? / What is your secret code? / I want to know / Why are
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