Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Singles Lyrics

bullet with butterfly wings
billy corgan
© 1995 cinderful music/chrysalis songs (bmi)

the world is a vampire, sent to drain
secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
and what do i get, for my pain
betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
even though i know-i suppose i’ll show
all my cool and cold-like old job
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
now i’m naked, nothing but an animal
but can you fake it, for just one more show
and what do you want, i want to change
and what have you got
when you feel the same
even though i know-i suppose i’ll show
all my cool and cold-like old job
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
tell me i’m the only one
tell me there’s no other one
jesus was an only son
tell me i’m the chosen one
jesus was an only son for you
despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage
and i still believe that i cannot be saved

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…said sadly
james iha
© 1995 cinderful music/chrysalis songs (bmi)

you should know that i love you
we should love like lovers do
and i can’t help but fall for you
oh honey, i’m just a fool
now you know

darling, i’ll never be true
you see, for so long i was blue
i’m not the lonely one
and if i hurt, then you will, too
oh honey, i always lose
now you know

lover, when will you?
i’m so afraid that no one cares
lover, can’t find you
i swear to god, don’t leave me here
now you know

only you know that it can’t be
when no one else here really means
anything to me
if you hurt inside
if you confide in me again

since you ran away
hold me now, tell me how
nothing’s lost

lover, when will you?
i’m so afraid that no one cares
lover, can’t find you
and no one knows what brings us here
lover
hold me now
hold me now
tell me how
nothing’s lost

 

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1979
billy corgan
© 1995 cinderful music/chrysalis songs (bmi)

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 pointed at the dawn
we were sure we’d never see an end to it all
and i 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 into the earth below
double cross the vacant and the bored
they’re not sure just what we have in the 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 and towns below
faster than the speed of sound
faster than we thought we’d go, beneath the sound of hope
justine never knew the rules,
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
no apologies ever need be made, i know you better than 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 can see there’s no one around

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ugly
billy corgan
© 1996 cinderful music/chrysalis songs (bmi)

i don’t look in the mirror
i don’t like what i see staring back at me
everything is clearer
i’ll never see what you see
it’s not me
so beautiful and free
i’ll never be what you need
can’t help at all
i was born so beautiful
but now i’m ugly

and i rot in my skin
as a piece of me dies everyday
i know i’m nothing
i know there’s nothing i can say
to change
the judgment in their ways
i’ll never be what you need
can’t help at all
my love was so beautiful
but now i’m ugly
yeah…

i’m good enough, but i don’t care
i’m good enough, but i’m not there
i’m good enough, but i don’t care
the sun is out, but i’m not there

(i can go anywhere) i’m good enough, but i don’t care (…somewhere)
(i can go anywhere) the sun is out, but i’m not there (…somewhere)
(i can go anywhere) i’m good enough (…somewhere)
(i can go anywhere) i’m good enough (…somewhere)

i don’t look in the mirror
i don’t like what i see staring back at me
everything is clearer
i’ll never see what you see
and i rot in my skin
as a piece of me dies everyday
i know i’m nothing
because i’m ugly

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believe
james iha
© 1996 chrysalis songs/cellophane star music (bmi)

close your eyes
until the sunlight dies
in your head a thousand stars
through the darkness you can see love light
and if they steal your light
your heart is still in mine

i want to believe in you and i heard you
your song, you sing, a truth is no other
i want to believe in you, dear

of someday…

there’s a life i hide
but i try to disguise
and i could take you a million miles away

i want to believe in you and i heard you
your song, you sing, a truth is no other
i want to believe in you, dear

on sunday i made amends
of all my mistakes
may godspeed be with you

and i…
i want to believe in you and i heard you
your song, you sing, a truth is no other
i want to believe in you and i heard you
your song, you sing, a truth is no other
i want to believe in you and i heard you
your song, you sing, a truth, a lover
i want to believe in you and i heard you
your song, you sing, a truth, is no other
i want to believe in you, dear
of someday…

on sunday i make amends
for all my mistakes
may godspeed be with you

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cherry
billy corgan
© 1996 cinderful music/chrysalis songs (bmi)

(listen-wanna just start it?…ready, flood?
yeah…1, 2, 3, 4)

stay with me, i’ll set you free
’cause i can tell you once were pretty
rose so sad you’ve lost your petals
and lost the luster of your tattle tales

i need a love to help me find my way
i need a strength that i cannot betray
i need a word to say what i can’t say
i need a lover, lover
i need a lover, lover

what are we waiting for?
what are we waiting for?
time has lost its hold on me

hatred sleeps inside my bones
in the stillness of cool air
all the boys have been left for dead
’cause we know where they fear to tread
the beautiful ones, the ones we’ll remember
the precious ones, our greatest pretenders

i need a love to help me find my way
i need a strength that i cannot betray
i need a word to say what i can’t say
i need a lover, lover
i need a lover, lover

and if you lose yourself
could you take me, too?
could you rest inside the sleep?

stay with me, i’ll set you free from you