Cupid de Locke

Band's Comments Lyrics
Interviewer: "I thought it was kind of sweet and funny."
Billy: "I'm glad you reacted that way, because that was kind of my intention. I was reading something with these words 'doth' and 'thou,' and I thought it would be kind of cool to write a little love sonnet with that in mind. So I wrote this two-paragraph thing with this very colorful language, not really intending to put it in a song. Then a week later we started playing the music of the song, and I remembered I had this thing. And basically it's as I wrote it. I had to fix only a few little things."


Billy: "On the song "Cupid," all the percussion except the drum kit is stuff like this: [picks up a jar of vitamins and shakes it rhythmically]. And it was real freeing, sonically."

Written by Billy Corgan

cupid hath pulled back his sweetheart's bow
to cast divine arrows into her soul
to grab her attention swift and quick
or morrow the marrow of her bones be thick
with turpentine kisses and mistaken blows

see the devil may do as the devil may care
he loves none sweeter as sweeter the dare
her mouth the mischief he doth seek
her heart the captive of which he speaks
so note all ye lovers in love with the sound
your world be shattered with nary a note
of one cupids arrow under your coat

and in the land of star crossed lovers
and barren hearted wanderers
forever lost in forsaken missives and satan's pull
we seek the unseekable and we speak the unspeakable
our hopes dead gathering dust to dust
in faith, in compassion, and in love

Official Releases Listen To This Song
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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