The Aeroplane Flies High

 

 

Smashing Pumpkins The Aeroplane Flies High 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)

(JI=James Iha, NG=Nina Gordon (of Veruca Salt), B=both)

you should know that i love you
we should love like lovers do
and i can’t help but fall for you
ah 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
ah 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

oh 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
love is ours

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
tell me how
love is ours

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you’re all i’ve got tonight
[the cars]
ric ocasek

i don’t care if you hurt me some more
i don’t care if you even the score
well you can knock me, i don’t care
and you can mock me, i don’t care
and you can lock me just about anywhere
it’s alright ’cause you’re all i’ve got tonight
i need you tonight
i don’t care if you use me again
i don’t care if you abuse me again
and you can make me, i don’t care
and you can fake me, i don’t care
and you can love me just about anywhere
it’s alright ’cause you’re all i’ve got tonight
i need you tonight
i don’t wanna feel sorry for you
you don’t have to make believe it’s you too
well you can pump me, i don’t care
and you can bump me, i don’t care
and you can love me just about anywhere
it’s alright ’cause you’re all i’ve got tonight
i need you tonight

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clones (we’re all)
[alice cooper]
david carron

i’m a clone, i know i’m fine
i’m one and more are on the way
i’m two, doctor
three’s on the line
he’ll take incubation another day

i’m all alone, so are we all
we’re all clones
all are one and one are all

we destroyed the government
we’re destroying time
no more problems on the way

i’m through doctor
we don’t need your kind
the other ones
ugly ones
stupid boys
wrong ones

i’m all alone, so are we all
we’re all clones
all are one and one are all

six is having problems
adjusting to his clone status
got to put him on a shelf
all day long we hear him crying so loud
i just wanna be myself, be myself

i’m a clone, i know i’m fine
i’m one and more are on the way
i’m two, doctor
three’s on the line
he’ll take incubation another day

i’m all alone, so are we all
we destroyed the government
we’re destroyed time
no more problems on the way

i’m through doctor
we don’t need your kind
the other ones
ugly ones
stupid boys
wrong ones

i’m all alone, so are we all
we’re all clones
all are one and one are all
i’m all alone, so are we all

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a night like this
[the cure]
robert smith

say goodbye on a night like this
if it’s the last thing we ever do
you never looked as lost as this
sometimes it doesn’t even look like you
it goes dark
it goes darker still
please stay
but i watch you like i’m made of stone
as you walk away

i’m coming to find you if it takes me all night
a witch hunt for another girl
for always and ever is always for you
your trust
the most gorgeously stupid thing i ever cut in the world
so say hello on a day like today
say it every time you move
the way that you look at me now
makes me wish i was you
it goes deep
it goes deeper still
this touch
and the smile and the shake of your head

i’m coming to find you if it takes me all night
can’t stand here like this anymore
for always and ever is always for you
i want it to be perfect
like before
oh, i want to change it all
oh, i want to change

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destination unknown
[missing persons]

life is so strange
when you don’t know
how can you tell
where you’re going to
you can’t be sure
of any situation
something could change
and then you won’t know
(you ask yourself)
where do we go from here?
it seems so all too near
just as far beyond as i can see
i still don’t know what this all means to me
i have nowhere to go
i don’t know what to do
and i don’t even know the time of day
i guess it doesn’t matter anyway
life is so strange
destination unknown
when you don’t know your destination
something could change, it’s unknown
and then you won’t know
destination unknown
(and then i ask myself)
when will my time come?
has it all been said and done?
i know i’ll leave when it’s my time to go
???? what i know
life is so strange
destination unknown
when you don’t know your destination
something could change, it’s unknown
and then you won’t know
destination unknown
life is so strange, life is so strange

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dreaming
[blondie]
deborah harry / chris stein

when i met you in the restaurant you could tell i was no debutante
you asked me what’s my pleasure, a movie or a measure
i’ll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
dreaming is free
i don’t want to live on charity
pleasure’s real, or is it fantasy?
reel to reel is living rarity
people stop and stare at me
we just walk on by
we just keep on dreaming
feet feet, walking a two mile
meet meet, meet me at the turnstile
i never met him, i’ll never forget him
dream dream, even for a little while
dream dream, filling up an idle hour
fade away, radiate
i sit by and watch the river flow
i sit by and watch the traffic go
imagine something of your very own,
something you can have and hold
i’d build a road in gold just to have some dreaming
dreaming is free

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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