Love

This song has to be sarcastic - just listen to the sneering tone that Corgan delivers pretty much throughout the song (the chorus in particular - "Love: it's who you know"). Plus, the music is distorted: it's not natural - like the lyrical sentiment, it's warped and been perverted. Alot of Mellon Collie seems to be about expressing the contradictions of human thought (and emotions); although being able to acknowledge them, one is still subject to their whims. PS The final lyric is missing: "Love solves everything!!!!! - LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEE"

I think this song runs a lot deeper than the lack of love. For my the song is about that people try to find people that can match them, you know, that you don't try to get someone outta your league. And that Billy or the character in the song, is stuck with someone that he isn't really attracted to but can't get any better. And in this song he's in denial but also trying to convince himself to love her. Because THAT would solve evrything.

There is a point ina relationship.... Whene you realize love is not the perfect insitution you believe it to be.. You put down the book of fairytales... And say screw it... Sometimes lust...infatuation...is enough. Most people are not really in love.. But in love with the idea of being in love.

gee, maybe he's in lust?

it seems like it's about is that although he loves her, there's a lot of deception, misunderstanding, regret, and maybe embarassment. another one of my favourites and it has a totally kickin beginning.

lady picture show, i hope u r the one joking...this is clearly a song about empty sex as a replacement for real love...a lot like "Young Lust" by Pink Floyd...i mean, seriously, "her vacant rush" --it's powerful, but empty and meaningless-- "the airs of madness do declare that it's ok" --he's goin crazy, and since the sex makes him feel better, it's justified-- and of course, "love, it's who you know" --i think(hope) most people don't think of love as the person but as the relationship w/ the person...this line could go as far as to reveal she's a hooker!!! (ex: weed, it's who u know...i'd say that's true!)

Hm I'm not positive on the meaning of this song either.. I think he's mocking people's views of love, "love, it's who you know". Maybe he feels people "love" each other by association, for who they are acquainted with.

"my airs of madness do declare that it's ok, it's love it's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be for what you needed to need, she'll make it up" Maybe he feels people put up with certain things in relationships that they shouldn't. They let the negative aspects go because "it's love" and it's "worth it". Love is something people strongly desire and they tell themselves they NEED it, when in actuality, they don't. "She'll make it up" makes it seem like their lover doesn't feel the same, but it is okay because they will "make it up" and pretend to have feelings they don't. "can i look up to you as you look down on me can i feel in to you as you felt in to me i can't help what you see" Although he's mocking other people's relationships, he admits he is stuck in a similar situation. It seems like he loves someone who may have had feelings for him in the past, but not anymore, and he is helpless.

The thing you have to see in the smashing pumpkins is that they do have a mocking view to alot of things, and alot of these things still stay serious except with a darker tint sometimes. Take a song like "Bodies", it's talking about love but it's also talking about it in a negative way, but that doesn't mean he's not touching upon the subject of love in the song, just because there is also a negative tint to it.

This song I think is talking about love, yes, in a mocking way to some degree but it's can still be talking about love, not neccessarily meaningless sex.

The lyrics are in past tense: "When I lost my mind, I knew I was in for a long ride down...", meaning he's writing the song about something in his past, or thinking of love in a past tense and not neccessarily in the new and fresh atmosphere that it can often pop up in, but this song can also be thought of in the present tense, taking from past experiences. There is alot of emptiness and bitterness in this song, and I think it stems from the fact that he had a bit of a negative experience and hence the song surrounds that.

Love has a dark and light side, and this song kind of tints it in the darker side.

I think this song is awesome. It takes me right back to that good 90's vibe. Awesome dance/trance type song, it's really meaningful to me.

my ex says this song reminds him of us at the moment, we still sleep together, I think we still feel love for each other but our relationship has deteriorated. Basically the sex is what makes the whole sorry situation bearable. So yeah, I think its about a sexual relationship to ease the pain of a lack of a emotional one