Smashing Pumkins - 1979
from the album "Meloncollie And The Infinate Sadness"
from the "1979" single
from the "The Aeroplane Flies High" box
from the "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" single
from the album "Grammy Nominees 1997" (live)
from the "1979" single (instrumental mix)
from the "1979" single (moby mix)
from the "1979" single (cement mix)
from the "1979" single (vocal mix)

Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet

Junebug 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 to 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 as 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 the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made,
I you better than you fake it, to see

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

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

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