Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
June bug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all

And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues, down to see

That we don't even care, as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it, to see

That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around


Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by Luckyy777, Wylow2001, ravecl, ccamswede

1979 Lyrics as written by William Patrick Corgan

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    ROUS, you are very, very wrong. What Billy said was that lots of people were telling him that "Perfect" had a "1979" feeling, so for the VIDEO for perfect, he got together almost all of the kids from the 1979 video, and the VIDEO was supposed to be of the kids 10 years later. The song itself, 1979 is just about what everyone has said, reminiscing on billy's part of being a teenager and being restless and bored. Perfect I think is about just... meeting a special girl or something, I'm not really sure, whatever though, Billy is a god.

    ezekiel856on May 11, 2002   Link

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