| The Smashing Pumpkins – Snail Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I preferably like the taste the sunshine lyric myself. Not sure if its chase the sunshine though. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Snail Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I actually believe the lyric goes When you wake up your own way Throwing your life away Someday, siren coming home Siren Snail Yeah, with my hope I could be wrong but thats what that part has always sounded like to me |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Here's to the Atom Bomb (Judas O) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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First off... I couldn't agree more with missworld, but I can't resist on this one. I think I have it on this song. It definitely goes along with the alt. HTTAB(I did an interpretation on that too). This is Billy the real person, rock star and all and the effect that this woman had on him. In the other song I think he was putting together a history and story for why she left giving her the benefit of the doubt. It was his way of coping. This is the song of raw break-up emotion, anger, confusion, hate, bitterness, disgust with things once pleasant. I bet both these songs are a message from him to her. One he gave her the benefit of the doubt, here he tears her to pieces. (The song is even produced raw) Away to the side you move your hand (He knows she let down her guard for him) Gravity fingers dig in your back (She's regretting letting him in) The strangest man won't let you breathe (Billy speaking of himself, he believes he held her close but too far with his paranoia) Rocking on you in a movie scene (Saying his life and situation are not normal) His words fill your mouth, (I think this is his ego thinking she was so lost she was asuming his personality.) his guests bleed sick (his friends see whats happening to him and her as a couple and individually) Devoid of touch (they don't dare interfere with Billy and his woman) He lets out to the streets where you were raised (This is when he went looking for her in the last song. "to the night of the dead...") Sittin' home waiting for the coming age (he sits in his mansion tearing himself apart hoping she'll come back) You had to wait your turn (he's speaking to himself here, saying it took so long to let her let him in) You had to wait your turn Wake up early, wash up late (He's depressed, he sits around the house feeling sorry for himself) Satellites connect you to your hate (Media. He's probably blaming his life/band on why this went wrong) Your patience grows but your skin is thin (He bets she'll come back but its tearing him apart in the mean time) The pager signals they're coming in (His responsibilities are becoming more demanding) Through the hole in the wall You left a hole in the wall (This is his wall, she's under his skin) Here's to the atom bomb May everyone find a way to get on (Love is suicide ring familiar? You know its going to end badly but the ride is too fun to pass up) A little piece of heaven is all you seek (He wants a glimmer of hope he'll get over her) In the same old re-run week after week (his life is stuck on repeat, same routines) Their faces make you want to kill (I bet he's referring to happy people in love, maybe friends of his) Their little piece of heaven singin' on the windowsill (taunting him with their happiness. Probably a married couple trying to cheer him up) No lights can turn you on (nothing can get him out of this funk) Pixelate the night, reading the words Of your eyes on the streets where you were born (he's looking at computer pictures and poems of hers) (Maybe Yelena... she was a photog and poet) Sittin' home waiting for the coming dawn (waiting for the day when the pain passes, whenever that is) Near the hole in the wall (Waiting in the place he can always be found) You left a hole in the wall (She broke his heart and he broke hers but he's blaming her now) It's not perfect but I gave it a crack. If you read it with the alt. interpretation it comes together better. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Behold! The Night Mare Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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WOW, when I began reading this I was like pssshh... yeah right no way. I put it at his usual M.O. of loving someone he couldn't fully have and to have her tease him with being the one to pin her down. BUT DAMN... nice going. If I may make one addition... December black psalm... you forget to mention it is the commonly celebrated month of Jesus' birth. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Here's to the Atom Bomb (Machina II) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I have to totally but respectfully disagree with Gandhidog I think this is a problematic, headstrong woman in this song. She's the girl that we all look at ala say Megan Fox and go, "how do I get next to that, and if I could, could I handle her?" Well what if she's protecting you by not loving you. I think the story plays out of someone Billy tried to love and help but in the end realized he couldn't. I don't think its misogynistic at all. He realized he was up against her entire life and didn't stand a chance so he tells the story of the life he thinks she had and what his role in it was. I'll break it down in my way... Clung to the sweater from the day you were born (I think she had a privileged maybe strict religious, attentive childhood) Never knew better, that's what you swore (She did the bad things girls do but knew it wasn't who she was plus it was against her upbringing. Rebellious phase) Mother heard you cause the walls were thin (could be sex? could be cuz of strict, attentive parents, maybe abuse) In saturnine, sweetness, and horatio fin (she was a sad sheltered child waiting to break free) No boy could spell you out (Guys loved her but she never loved them back) In the grass at night Beneath the stars You grew right past the streets where you were raised (She was too big for her town, she knew she had to be somewhere else) Sneakin' out early to a secret place (This is the place where she got her influence to become who she becomes later in the song) Like a hole in the wall Like a hole in the wall (just a voyeur to a life she didn't have access to yet) (She grows up, adult now, in a bad relationship and probably doing drugs) Into the bed you hang your sling To watch your man as he seeks relief (he's doing heroin, she loves him so she does it too) You cut out his heart and watch him die (she decides to leave him and his junkie ways) So we can know you, and that you're alive (she keeps up the facade that she knows better and deserve more from life) As the hole in the wall You are the hole in the wall (She's still not participating fully in life, dabbling here and there but never committing to anything or anyone. No one can know your song In kisses and noise (Friends and family are concerned but she'll never let on) Now you belong to them all (Because she will probably fail in there eyes, much like they expect) Awake to the dawn and scratch your eyes (time goes by) Light the prayer candles that you remind to (She still prays for a normal life and someone who can take her away from all of her problems) Send you a boy that you could waste (Billy) A little piece of heaven to set you straight (A man (Billy) enters and thinks he can change her and help her) Through the hole in the wall You are the hole in the wall No one could tell you why (She feels she doesn't deserve this love because of her problems and decides to leave him) the tape's full of hiss (Tape machine with no good-bye, no nothing) and sons that cry (Billy) to the night of the dead and the wishing ghost (he looks for her but its useless,finds nothing) beating on you to drain morose (he knows he failed and his love couldn't help her past her sadness) through the hole in the wall we are the holes in the wall (I believe he's speaking on behalf of everyone in the story now and turns the tables saying that they were looking through a hole in the wall at her the whole time because no one ever knew who she was, they just got glimpses of something amazing and unconquerable) we are the |
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