Lyric discussion by brieflives04 

Cover art for Tales of a Scorched Earth lyrics by Smashing Pumpkins, The

when I listen to the verse Wurby Tictoc posted, I hear the last line as "And time is everything and I have no hope"

the song is about that point when you're incredibly angry and unhappy and just want to be left alone, and how the things you've done in the past don't stop affecting you...

for a long time I hated this song, but as I got into the whole Gothenburg scene, I started to love it. It's one of my favorite of the pumpkins "metal" songs, next to Zero, and maybe geek usa.