Lyric discussion by Cam-win 

Cover art for Heavy Metal Machine lyrics by Smashing Pumpkins, The

Well, duh. The album was based off of Billy's story, Glass and the Machines Of God. Don't you know? Billy wanted to make Machina a double album, but the Pumpkins' record company kind of sucked. So the Pumpkins had about twenty-five unreleased songs just floating around. Billy wanted to get those songs released before the Smashing Pumpkins broke up, but the record company said that it would be too close to Machina to release another album. So, Billy released the songs on the internet, as "Machina 2".