| The Smashing Pumpkins – Farewell and Goodnight Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| This song is about suicide. it refers to ending the pain of loneliness by committing suicide. The pain of his loneliness is evident when he refers to his heart being "frayed and empty" because "no one understands your love". He further describes his empty, lonely feelings by saying "the sun shines but I don't." He then says "a silver rain will wash away" which is him describing his solution to end the pain. The "silver rain" refers to a hail of bullets. By shooting himself he will end the pain. The verses that say "Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day" are his way of saying goodbye to the one that he dreamed of being in love with. He's saying goodbye to all the hours they could have spent together that they won't now since he will be dead. When he says goodnight to "all that's pure that's in your heart" he's referring to his dream of a pure, innocent love that is now gone, destroyed by the cruel reality of loneliness and unfulfilled love. The other verses that say things such as "sleep tight" and "may your dreams be so happy" refer to his hope and belief that in death he will find the peace he has not found in life. The "sleep" he mentions is referring to death. When he says "may it hold you through the winter of a long night, and keep you from the loneliness of yourself" he's saying he hopes that death will end the pain of loneliness he's felt. This song is very very sad. It uses a beautiful lullaby like sound to evoke thoughts of innocence....his dream of a pure, innocent love. The sound and even the lyrics on the surface seem innocent but they are deceiving because beneath them you see his anguish and pain at being lonely and unloved which he intends to end by washing them away with a "silver rain" of bullets. | |
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