Smashing Pumpkins

to shelia
twilight fades through blistered avalon
the sky's cruel torch on aching autobahn
into the uncertain divine we scream into the last divide
you make me real, you make me real
you make me real strong as I feel
you make me real
sheila rides on crashing nightingale
intake eyes leave passing vapor trails
with blushing brilliance alive
because it's time to arrive
you make me real
you make me real
strong as I feel
you make me real
lately I just can't seem to believe
discard my friends to change the scenery
it meant the world to hold a bruising faith
but not it's just a matter of grace
a summer storm graces all of me
highway warm sing silent poetry
I could bring you the light and take you home
into the night
you make me real
lately I just can't seem to believe
you make me real
discard my friends to change the scenery
strong as I feel
it meant the world to bold a bruising faith
you make me real
but now it's just a matter of grace

ava adore
it's you that I adore
you will always be my whore
you'll be a mother to my child
and a child to my heart
we must never be apart
we must never be apart
lovely girl you're the beauty in my world
without you there aren't reasons left to find
and I'll pull your crooked teeth
you'll be perfect just like me
you'll be a lover in my bed
and a gun to my head
we must never be apart
we must never be apart
lovely girl you're the murder in my world
dressing coffins for the souls
I've left to die drinking mercury
to the mystery of all that you should ever leave behind in time
in you I see dirty
in you I count stars
in you I feel so pretty
in you I taste god
in you I feel so hungry
in you I crash cars
we must never be apart
drinking mercury to the mystery
of all that you should ever seek
to find lovely girl
you're the murder in my world
dressing coffins for the souls
I've left behind in time
we must never be apart
and you'll always be my whore
cause you're the one that I adore
and I'll pull your crooked teeth
you'll be perfect just like me
in you I feel so dirty
in you I crash cars
in you I feel so pretty
in you I taste god
we must never be apart

perfect
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
but please you know you're just like me
next time I promise we'll be perfect
perfect
perfect strangers down the line
lovers out of time
memories unwind
so far I still know who you are
but now I wonder who I was
angel you know it's not the end
we'll always be good friends
but the letters have been sent on
so please you always were so free
you'll see I promise we'll be perfect
perfect strangers when we meet
strangers on the street
lovers while we sleep
perfect
you know this has to be
we always we're so free
we promised that we'd be perfect

daphne descneds
with the sugar sickness you say 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
you love him more than this
you love him and you cannot
you can't resist
you love him for yourself
you love him and no one else
past sidewalk ashes a past lovers arc
you come apart to intertwine
it was all so simple
as you watched him move across the darkness in your room
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him and no one
no one else
and to the winding vines
the pretty boys dive and tru the pinhole stars
into the shadow mind
will you lose him then
on some gentle dawn
this boy is here and gone
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him and no one
no one else
you love him more than this
you love him and you cannot
you can't resist
you love him

once upon a time
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
who cares why?
mother I've tried
wasting my life
I haven't given up, I lie
to make you so proud in my eyes
fallin' out of sleep
crawlin' over me
to the last goodbye
who cares why?
tuesdays come and gone
restless still I drive
try to leave it all behind
fallin', fallin' out of sleep
fallin', fallin' with the leaves
I go crawlin', crawlin' in my life...
I went falling
mother I hope you know
that I miss you so
time has ravaged on my soul
to wipe a mothers tears grown cold

tear
the lights come on fast lost in
motorcrash gone in a flash unreal but you
knew it all along
you laugh the light I sing the songs to
watch you numb
I saw you there you were on your way
you held the rain and for the first time
heaven seemed insane cause heaven is to
blame for taking you away
do you know the way that I can?
do you know the way that I can't lose?
do you know the things that I can?
do you know the things I that I can't do?
where is your heart?
where is your heart gone to?
tear me apart tear me apart from you
you laugh the light I cry the wound in grey
afternoons
I saw you there you were on your way
you kissed me cold and for the first time
heaven seemed insane
for taking you away cause heaven is to
blame for taking you away
the lights came to pass dead opera
motorcrash
gone in a flash unreal in nitrous overcast
do you know the way tht I can'?
do you know the way that I can't choose?
do you know the things that I can?
do you know the things that I can't lose?
tear me apart tear me apart from you
where is your heart?
where has your heart run to?

crestfallen
who am I to need you when I'm down
and where are you when I need you around
you life is not your own
and all I ask you is for another chance
another way around you
to live by circumstance once again
who am I to need you now
to ask you why
to tell you no
to deserve your love and sympathy
you were never meant to beling to me
and you may go
but I know you won't leave
too many years built into memories
your life is not your own
who am I to need you now
to ask you why
to tell you no
to deserve your love and sympathy
you were never meant to belong to me
who am I to you?
along the way I lost my faith
and as you were you'll be again
to mold like clay
to break like dirt
to tear me up in your sympathy
you were never meant to belong to me
you were never meant to belong to me
you were never meant to belong to me

appels + oranjes
what if the sun refused to shine?
what if the clouds refused to rain?
what if the wind refused to blow?
what if the seas refused to wave?
what if the world refused to turn?
what if the stars would hesitate?
what if what is isn't true?
what are you going to do?
what if what is isn't you?
does that mean you've got to lose?
digging for the feel of something new
what if the silence let you dream?
what if the air could let you breathe?
what if the words would bring you here?
what if this sound could bring you peace?
what if what is isn't true?
what are you gonna do?
digging for the feel of something new
what if what is isn't you?
wha are you gonna do?
it came from your thoughts your dreams and visions
ripped up from your weeks and indecisions
what if the sun refused to shine?
what if the clouds refused to rain?
what if the world refused to turn?
what if the clocks would hesitate?
what if what is isn't true?
what are you gonna do?
what if what is isn't you?
does that mean you've got to lose?
digging for the feel of something new
does that mean you've got to choose?
the feel of something new
does that mean you've got to lose?
the thoughts you cannot use
what are you gonna do?

pug
kiss and kiss me sweetly
come and drive me home
drag the miles in me
I am yours alone
inside where it's warm
wrap myself in you
outside where I'm torn
fight myself in two
in two
into you
desire me so deeply
drain and kick me hard
whisper secrets for me
try to go too far
inside where it's warm
wrap myself in you
outside where I'm torn
fight myself in two
in two
into...
please don't change
please don't change at all
bring your rain
bring your rain to fall
inside where it's warm
wrap myself in you
outside where I'm torn
fight myself in two
in two
into you
come and kiss me sweetly
ride the telephone
drag the miles to me
I am yours alone
yours alone
on the telephone
yours alone looking for a kiss kiss
yours alone

the tale of dusty and pistol pete
dusty screams through the doors and imaginary floors
"why can't you miss me?"
pistol pete removes the final breaths from her unkind
and she is shaken
what does this mean in love or in peace?
with you lying next to me
so faithless serene
and she calls to him
let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
far out beneath the sorrow clouds
let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
let them cry out through your rusted scars
alone he roams
inside the ordinary catacombs of her
waiting with raven hands
she steals and staggers towards her man
still scorned by his demon
because he's undone
become the language of disaster and love
vengence and dust
and she calls to him
let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
far out beneath the sorrow clouds
let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
let them cry out through your rusted scars
dusty screams through dorrs and imaginary scenes of hurt and teardrop
as he holds her down in the cold lonely winds
together again
her inside him
and she calls to him
let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
far out beneath the sorrow clouds
let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
let them cry out through your rusted scars

annie-dog
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
mine mine you were always mine
possessed by my tears
and below the angel dog combs her hair and sings her psalms
the bombs go off
she doesn't notice
it all goes wrong
she sets things tragic
she is venus
she is mars
she's electric and the struggle of
upon her face we leave no trace
but in her stomach mercury aged
she holds the blood
she carves the knives
she digs the wires in our babies
amphetamine
annie-dog pulls her trash
and her stories from place to place
and bed to bed
gives of herself and the magnet head
another floor
another ceiling
counting stars with double meanings
is it wrong to be swallowed whole
to disappear in her
to give to her the priceless peace
of giving up control
we tumble out into the streets
and annie-dog she drags her leash
pretty face
ugly mouth
bitter bred and so released
and by the no
and in the yes
annie goes if you couldn't guess
a simple man
a sycophan
her elephant wi0th the laughing cough
she wants clean sheets
and fresh flowers
her dental shots
and the hong kong glue
amphetamine
annie-dog
her her leash and a face

shame
you're gonna walk on home
you're gonna walk alone
you're gonna see this through
don't let them get to you
shame
love is good and love is kind
love is drunk and love is blind
love is good and love is mine
love is drunk all the time
shame
you're gonna walk on home
you're gonna walk alone
you're gonna walk so far
you're gonna wonder who you are
shame
love is good and love is kind
love is good and love is blind
love is good and love is mine
hello goodbye
you know you made us cry

behold! the night mare
I've faced the fathoms in your deep
withstood the suitors quiet seige
pulled down the heavens just to please you
appease you
the wind blows and I know
I can't go on digging roses from your grave
to linger on beyond the beyond
where the willows weep and the whilpools sleep
you'll find me
the coarse tide reflects sky
and the night mare rides on
and the night mare rides on
with a december black psalm
and the night mare rides on
what I fear is lost here
the wind blows and I know
all you have to do is run away
and steal yourself from me
become a mystery to gaze into
you're so cruel in all you do
but still I believe
I believe you
so may you come with your own knives
you'll never take me alive
with all the force of what is true
is there nothing I can do?
I can't go on digging roses from your grave
to linger on beyond the beyond
where the willows weep and the whirlpools sleep
you'll find me
and the night mare rides on
and the night mare rides on
with a december black psalm
and the night mare rides on
I've faced the fathoms in your deep
withstood the suitors quiet seige
pulled down the heavens just to please you
to hold the flower I can't keep

for martha
whenever I run
wherever I run to
you lost one it's never done
just hanging on
the past has let me be returning
as if dream shattered
as belief
if you have to go don't say goodbye
if you have to go don't you cry
if you have to go
I will get someday
I'll follow you and see you on the other side
but for the grace of love
I'd will the meaning of heaven from above
your picture out of time
left aching in my mind
shadows kept alive
if you have to go don't say goodbye
if you have to go don't you cry
if you have to go I will get by
I will follow you and see you on the other side
but for the grace of love
who'd will the meaning of heaven from above
long horses we are born creatures
more than torn
mourning our way home

blank page
was all the rage never meant to say anything
in bed I was half dead
tired of dreaming of rest
got dressed drove the state line looking for you
at the five and dime stop sign told me stay at home
told me you were not alone
blank page
was all the rage never meant to hurt anyone
in bed I was half dead
tired of dreaming of rest
you haven't changed
you're still the same
may you rise as you fall
you were easy
you are forgotten
you are the ways of my mistakes
I catch the rainfall through the leaking roof that you had left behind
you remind me of that leak in my soul
th rain falls
my friends call
leaking rain on the phone
take a day
plant some trees
may they shade you from me
may your children play beneath
blank page
was all the rage never meant to say anything
in bed I was half dead
tired of dreaming of rest
got dressed drove the state line
looking for you at the five and dime
but there I was picking pieces up
you are a ghost of my indecision
no more little girl

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

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 pionted at the dawn
We sure we'd never seen an end to it all
And we 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 to the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in 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 on the towns below
Faster then the speed of sound
Faster then we thought we'd go,beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made,I know you better then 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 see there's no one around

VOLTAR