| The Smashing Pumpkins – A Girl Named Sandoz Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Sorry but i believe you are both mistaken. This song is a cover of the Eric Burdon and the Animals song 'Girl named Sandoz'. The lyrics are drug lyrics, whether they were wriiten while on drugs or just about the effects of drugs. Sandoz was the name of the laboratory in which Albert Hoffman discovered LSD in 1938. The lyrics are very pro-drugs because they are saying that meeting Sandoz (LSD) was beneficial- 'And she taught me many many things Good things Very good things Sweet things' I think the lyrics do refer to an acid trip, but from the way they describe it I don't think it was a bad trip. 'It was hot though the snow lay on the ground' -This paradox is something that may be very apparent to somebody on an acid trip. 'We could all learn something from your mind' -This again hints at the belief that LSD is a good, beneficial thing and suggesting everyone could benefit from it. This man really chooses good songs to cover, 'A night like this', 'Landslide', 'Girl named Sandoz', 'Dancing in the moonlight'..... |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This is song is basically angst at its best. I think Billy Corgan wrote it about a girl he was with and why she is no longer with him. 'i fear that i am ordinary, just like everyone' - i think he means he is scared that he does not stand out to the girl and that he means no more to her than anyone else. 'and everything i've ever done is gone and dead as all things must surely have to end and great loves will one day have to part' - i think this part saying how he believes that now the girl is gone everything he's ever done is meaningless, perhaps because he did it all for her. Also, there is an air of acceptance that 'great loves will one day have to part'. 'time heals but i'm forever broken' -I like this line especially. He means that although in time he will recover from this loss and move on, he will always remember it and it will always scar him 'have you ever heard the words i'm singing in these songs?' -Here he is as though speaking in an aside but to the girl, saying "Don't you realise what you mean to me? Don't you realise what I'm going through?" 'it's for the girl i've loved all along can a taste of love be so wrong' -Here i think he is saying that he loved the girl before they were together, while they were together and still, now they are apart. 'Can a taste of love be so wrong?' is a rhetorical question, asking what has he done that was so wrong to deserve what he is going through now. 'some children laughed i'd fall for certain for thinking that i'd last forever' -Here i think he is using 'I' as a metaphor for the relationship between him and the girl. I Think it means that he understands that he was too eager and optimistic about the relationship before. But while they were together.... 'but i knew exactly where i was and i knew the meaning of it all and i knew the distance to the sun and i knew the echo that is love and i knew the secrets in your spires and i knew the emptiness of youth and i knew the solitude of heart and i knew the murmurs of the soul' -I think all this means that while he was with the girl, everything was OK, everything made sense, as he repeats, he 'knew' everything. 'and the world is drawn into your hands and the world is etched upon your heart and the world so hard to understand' - Here I agree with lahdeefrigginda, he is saying how the love changed him and his perspective on life. 'is the world your can't live without and i knew the silence of the world' -The final two lines are to sum up his previous perspective given to him by the love between him and the girl that has now been changed by the loss of her - he cannot live without the world. The final line is an expression of how empty everything is now, 'silence' symbolising nothing and 'the world' symbolising that it is on a very large scale, at least to him. Billy Corgan is an amazing poet, lyricist and songwriter and this is without doubt one of the best songs ever written. |
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