| With Every Light | ||
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Billy: The next song we would like to play for you is called "With Every
Light" and there's uh...um, for a while me and James and D'arcy at the time were
working out with a friend of ours, a trainer in Chicago. We were building up our
muscles to once again tour the world with rock and roll. And uh, I think Jimmy was
working out too. [Jimmy playfully shakes his head "no"] He was working out
something. [laughs] So um, one day I was having a conversation with our friend and
she was talking about how her mother passed away at roughly the same time as
my mother. And she said "I have a friend who's a psychic," um, although the friend
doesn't like the use of that word so we'll call her an intuitive. "She's an intuitive and
she can possibly communicate with your mother." So I became intrigued with the
idea that maybe I would talk with my mother um, somewhere on the other side, as
they say. For those of you that don't know, my mother passed away about [pauses
to think] 4 years ago. So um, and actually there's a whole other story, but my
mother did actually try to contact somebody and left messages through this other
sort of intuitive woman so it wasn't sort of out of my frame of reference that my
mother would be able to communicate from the dead, so to speak. [chuckles] It
gets stranger. So I went to see this person who's become a very close friend of
mine, and really in that particular afternoon so many things about life and um, the
thing that I believed in were sort of confirmed for me in general way. And I became
sort of in a rare moment of happiness, really content with the world, and the first
thing I did when I got home was I picked up a guitar and I wrote this song. And the
meaning of the idea "With Every Light" is that we basically are everybody that we
meet and the energy that sort of comes into our body becomes part of who we are,
and in some ways, it's not just an acknowledgement of my mother somewhere and
um, everything that goes on in my life, but an acknowledgement of the fact that
everything that i've become in my life is you know, both from enemies and from
friends has become a part of me. And um, also you as well, so I give you that. - Transcript from VH1 Storytellers, 2000 |
Written by Billy Corgan
You and me
But for the last time
Who wouldn't be the one you love A pure soul and beautiful you
Don't understand
And for the first time
Who wouldn't be the one you love
and for the first time | |
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