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The Smashing Pumpkins – Quiet Lyrics 16 years ago
you're right. corgan's dad worked at night and his stepmother was a severe enforcer. "Be ashamed of the mess you made" = bedwetting and is often a symptom that children with emotional problems have (esp. ones that come from abusive homes).

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The Smashing Pumpkins – Gossamer Lyrics 16 years ago
totally picked up on icarus and war themes. great insight.

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The Smashing Pumpkins – Gossamer Lyrics 16 years ago
there still isnt a proper recording out there and so the lyrics are in flux. (personally, i think "Gossamer" is the best song of the last decade."

quick example-i have heard:
we'll buy you another sun
we'll buy you another sun to love
we'll buy you another sun

as:
Go find you another son
Go buy you another son to gun down
Go find you another son

and also as:
Go find you another son
Go buy you another son to kill
Go find you another son

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The Smashing Pumpkins – To Forgive Lyrics 16 years ago
favorite song, but i usually say thirty-three and keep this one to myself.

the heart of this song is a specific memory of billy corgan being beaten/physically abused as kid and then having to go out an act normal at a (his?) birthday party. i remember reading a series of online posts he did around 2005 and most of them seemed to totally give away a song's origin. "writing is therapy" as one of my creative writing high school teacher would say. i think it was on myspace, but the posts aren't there anymore, sadly. peace to all that can relate to this powerful-beautiful song.

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