Smashing Pumpkins - Age Of Innocence

We dismiss the back roads
To ride these streets unafraid
Resigned to scraping paint
From our bones unashamed

No more the eye upon you
No more the simple man

Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no
Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no
As you might have guessed all is never shown
Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no

And in my prayers I dream alone
A silent speech to deaf ear
If you want love you must be love
But if you bleed love you will die loved

No more the lie upon you
Cast into stone and autumn shade

Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no
Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no
As you might have sensed we won't make it home
Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no

Before the rites of spring
Come to mean all things
A little taste of what may come
A mere glimpse of what has gone
'Cause for the moment we are free
We seek to bind our release
Too young to die, too rich to care
Too fucked to swear that I was there

Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no
Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no
As you might have guessed we won't make it home
Desolation, yes
Hesitation, no

Smashing Pumpkins - The Everlasting Gaze

You know I'm not dead

Now you know where I've been

As you sleep

Torn I am

Weighted down

Patiently

Born of love

You know I'm not dead

I'm just living in my head

Forever waiting

On the ways of your desire

You always find a way

And thru it all

Into us all you move

Forgotten touch

Forbidden thought

We can never have enough

You know I'm not dead

Found below

The creatures scream

Stranglehold

A god machine

Begging to

Tear us out

Worn as hope

You know I'm not dead I'm just the tears inside your head

Forever waiting

On the ways of your desire

You always find a way

And thru it all into us all you move

Forgotten touch

Forbidden thought

We can never have enough

You know I'm not dead

We all want to hold in the everlasting gaze

Enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway

But underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every c.o.g.

The fickle fascination of an everlasting god

You know I'm not dead

I'm just living in my head

Forever waiting

Forever waiting on cruel death

You know I'm not dead

I'm just living for myself

Forever waiting

You know I'm not dead

Smashing Pumpkins - Glass And Ghost Children

To the center of the earth
Or anywhere God decides
Full of fever pulling forth
We hear our call as all
To the center of the earth
As if written in
DNA is reaching out
To your frequency

I want to live
Don't want to die
I want to live
I want to try
All in prayer
Prayer in all
All are scared
Scared of all

Black rooms are calling
To men in leather coats
White labs are cooking
Up the silver ghost
The glass migrates under
Her translucent skin
And all are spiders
Wonder what we've got us in

All is you
You are all
All with you
You in all
I want to live
I don't want to die
I want to live
I want to try

"So it's all very obtuse, because it's all, like, I don't know. So, like, I started thinking that everything I operate on is based on what I believe God was telling me to do. God could be my intuition or whatever, but I always assume, I always assume that the voice I hear is the voice of God. Then I started thinking, what if I'm insane? So I'm operating on the premise that I'm hearing the voice of God or what I perceive to be God speaking to me or through me, but maybe I'm completely in...so all my...demagoguery in my life about me thinking that my life has importance, my, my...thinking that my life has importance. My--my--my thought of it and the fact that I believe I'm following my intuition which in and of itself may be completely false. So then I started freaking out, thinking--of itself may be completely false. And again this creature that believes he's acting upon heavenly intuition but meanwhile he's totally rampant. And I started thinking maybe this is the cause of all the negativity against--and I started thinking maybe this is the cause of all the negativity against--and I started thinking maybe this is the cause of all the negativity against..."

So meets the final coda of a vinyl storm
One more cherry cola to lift up her dead arms
A dream of soft focus, sunsets filters through the din
We are losing contact as she dials it in
She can hear glass calling, or is it someone that looks like him?
She eyes TV reflection, and nods a knowing look
She says it doesn't matter, she never liked her looks
I have seen a thousand fractures, I have seen everything
'Cause knowing is its own answer, love something in a book
There's not much left to ponder, not much left to cook

As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her
As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her
As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her
As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her
As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her
As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her
As she counted the spiders, as they crawled up inside her

Smashing Pumpkins - Wound

There you are
As you always were
In bathing light
And naked blur
You're a part of me
Eternal one
By grand design
And setting sun

If you wait I will wait
Taste I will taste
If you love I will love
Run I will run
To my last breath

Last night I turned around
And thought I saw myself turning
Inside the strangest dream of life
Unloved and cities burning
Awake in my arms
You cry unharmed
Our age of the hours
While they still devour all

So take it all
I doubt if we
Will know it's gone
'Cause we've been here
Since time began
Begged God awake and make these plans

Wound opens
Reveal this broken man
And soon there's notions of blood on his hands

If you wait I will wait
Taste I will taste
If you love I will love
Run I will run
To my last breath

Last night I turned around
I thought I saw myself turning
Last night I turned around
And thought I watched the world ending
Inside the crushing down
I felt a pang the tide was turning

Destroyed in the wake
The jealous ingrates
Who'll tear this world down
To spite God above
With his own love
With his own love
If you wait
If you wait

If you wait I will wait
Taste I will taste
If you love I will love
Run I will run
To my last breath

Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love

You and me, meant to be
Immutable, impossible
It's destiny, pure lunacy
Incalculable, insufferable

But for the last time you're everything
That I want and ask for you're all that I'd dreamed

Who wouldn't be the one you love
Who wouldn't stand inside your love
Protected and the lover of

A pure soul and beautiful you, don't understand
Don't feel me now, I will breathe for the both of us
Travel the world, traverse the skies
Your home is here, within my heart

And for the first time, I feel as though I am reborn
In my mind recast as child and mystic sage

Who wouldn't be the one you love
Who wouldn't stand inside your love

And for the first time I'm telling you
How much I need and bleed for
Your every move and waking sound
In my time I'll wrap my wire around your heart
And your mind, you're mine forever now

Who wouldn't be the one you love and live for
Who wouldn't stand inside your love and die for
Who wouldn't be the one you love