| The Smashing Pumpkins – Today Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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Today was the first song, Billy Corgan wrote after the 18 month long Gish tour. Before Today was written, Billy was depressed and suicidal. Today was a "things-can't-get any worse" song. Today made Billy realize he should give up trying to be what everyone else wanted him to be. "I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character," he(Billy) says. "It's like you assume some character and you take that as far as it can go and then it doesn't work anymore, so you shed your skin-and that's kind of what happened to me. I had become something that I probably am not in order to succeed and at some point I realized that, whatever I was, was hurting me, so I needed to go through the process of getting rid of that person. I had to kill off one part of me so that I could go on, and some of that started in the writing of the songs." |
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