X.Y.U.

Written by: Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)

Recordings: Original demo tape -- 5/2/98

Availability: Early '98 Demos

Instruments: Vocals - Chris Hill, Guitar - Jason Wyrick, Bass - Brandon Lenfest, Drums - Geoff Uhal

Performed Live: Talent Show: Mount Zion Methodist Church, Marietta, GA 5/10/98
Battle of the Bands: The Walker School, Marietta, GA 5/29/98

Lyrics:

She didn't want to be
She didn't want to know
She couldn't run away, cuz she was crazy

She gave it all away
She saw her baby break
And in the air it hung that she was dull razors

And I said I want to build you up
I want to break you
I want to give you up

And for another
Another one should come
To another
No one should come between us

And I was lonely
And she was by my side
My one and only
Knows that she could never hide

I couldn't feel her
And it was just a game
'Cause I was lonely
And she was crazy

Rat-tat-tat
Ka-boom
Now take that
And just a little of this
I'm a watcher
And a doer of none
I've come to save you
'Cause you're all mine

I hurt where I can't feel
I feel where I can't hurt
I know where I can't know
I bleed for me and mine

Ka-boom, (scream), Rat-tat-tat and a little bliss
Sister, and a mother too

I am made of shamrocks
I am made of strong stuff
I am never enough
I am the forgotten child

And I said I want to build you up
I want to break you
I want to give you up

And for another
Another one should come
To another
No one should come between us

Mary had a little lamb
It's fleece was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went
I was sure to go

Now Mary's got a problem
Marys' not a stupid girl
Mary's got a problem
Mary does not forget

And this is how
Mary's garden grows
And this is how
Mary has her ghosts

And into the eyes of the jackal I said......... ka-boom

Now we begin descent
To where we've never been
There is no going back
This wasn't meant to last
This is a hell on Earth
We were meant to serve
She will never learn
She will never learn

Stop

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