| The Smashing Pumpkins – Soma Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"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" I think he feels he brought his pain onto her. He wants her to "go to sleep" and ignore his sorrows because he doesn't want to drag her down any longer. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Stumbleine Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is basically about the struggles of youth, as everyone has already posted. I agree with snafu287 about the meaning of Stumbleine.. I feel that it's someone you can lean on when you "stumble".. someone who understands the pain you are experiencing and can help you overcome it. "misspent youth- faking up a rampage to hold off the real slaves paid off and staid and what you never knew can never get to you so fake it" I think he is trying to say that many people waste their youth. They "fake up a rampage" to something that doesn't directly bother them; it is their way of venting their troubles caused by something ELSE. Teenagers are so often misunderstood and that is part of the reason why.. because they don't express their problems in the most appropriate manner. "what you never knew could never get to you".. they think that not acknowledging the problem will prevent it from "getting to you" and bothering you but that is not true. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Muzzle Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think everyone's pretty much got it.. I just want to add that the part "and the world is drawn into your hands and the world is etched upon your heart and the world so hard to understand is the world your can't live without" leads me to believes that "she" and the world are one; she meant so much to him that in a sense she became his world; "the world is etched upon your heart" and now that she has left, he feels he has lost his world. I think in a way he feels dead and that is why in the beginning of the song he is discussing his death.. how he hopes he is acknowledged after his death and how he cannot believe everything he ever said and did in his life is going to be gone forever. Although "the world" (his lover) is so difficult to understand, he cannot live without her. And earlier in the song when he says "I know I am meant for this world", maybe he means he knows that he deserves her love and is meant for her. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Love Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Hm I'm not positive on the meaning of this song either.. I think he's mocking people's views of love, "love, it's who you know". Maybe he feels people "love" each other by association, for who they are acquainted with. "my airs of madness do declare that it's ok, it's love it's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be for what you needed to need, she'll make it up" Maybe he feels people put up with certain things in relationships that they shouldn't. They let the negative aspects go because "it's love" and it's "worth it". Love is something people strongly desire and they tell themselves they NEED it, when in actuality, they don't. "She'll make it up" makes it seem like their lover doesn't feel the same, but it is okay because they will "make it up" and pretend to have feelings they don't. "can i look up to you as you look down on me can i feel in to you as you felt in to me i can't help what you see" Although he's mocking other people's relationships, he admits he is stuck in a similar situation. It seems like he loves someone who may have had feelings for him in the past, but not anymore, and he is helpless. |
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