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Title: Soma
Also known as:
Released: 1993
Running Time: 6:40 Nothing left to say
And all I've left to do
Is run away
From you
And she led me on, down
With secrets I can't keep

Close your eyes and sleep
Don't wait up for me
Hush now don't you speak
To me

Wrapped my hurt in you
And took my shelter in that pain
The opiate of blame
Is your broken heart, your heart

So now I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray my tears
To anyone caught in our ruse of fools

One last kiss for me...yeah
One last kiss good night

Didn't want to lose you once again
Didn't want to be your friend
Fulfilled a promise made of tin
And crawled back to you

I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray myself
To anyone, lost, anyone but you

So let the sadness come again
On that you can depend on me, yeah
Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah
When god sleeps in bliss

And I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
And I'll betray myself
To anyone

song type

Officially released album track

releases

Albums:
Siamese Dream Double-LP
Siamese Dream CD
Other:
Vieuphoria video

credits

Written by: Billy Corgan and James Iha
Produced by: Butch Vig and Billy Corgan
Mixed by: Alan Moulder with Butch Vig and Billy Corgan
Recorded at: Triclops Sound Studios (Altlanta, GA)

additional credits

Piano - Mike Mills
String arrangements by Billy Corgan, David Ragsdale, Eric Remschneider, and Butch Vig
Engineered by Mark Richardson, Jeff Tomei, and Butch Vig
Special technical engineering by Tim Holbrook
Mix engineers - Andy Udoff and Dick Kaneshiro

notes

soma - (SO-muh) an intoxicating plant juice of ancient India used as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshipers in Vedic ritual and worshiped as a Vedic god; the body of an organism // ends with TV evangelist clip: "and you need to resist the devil so that he will flee"

band comments

"It's about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to put all my anger in those words, even though I'm just as much to blame for the break-up. 'Soma' is based on the idea that a love relationship is almost the same as opium: it slowly puts you to sleep, it soothes you, and gives you the illusion of sureness and security. Very deceivable." - Billy Corgan on "Soma"

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