{rotten apples} THE SMASHING PUMPKINS GREATEST HITS |
1. SIVA 2. RHINOCEROS 3. DROWN 4. CHERUB ROCK 5. TODAY 6. DISARM 7. BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS 8. 1979 9. ZERO 10. TONIGHT, TONIGHT 11. EYE 12. AVA ADORE 13. PERFECT 14. THE EVERLASTING GAZE 15. STAND INSIDE YOUR LOVE 16. TRY, TRY, TRY 17. REAL LOVE* 18. UNTITLED* |
* PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED |
"siva" that's when i bend loose my head throwing straight a spark instead yellow streak down in my hair dig it in the world i heal way down deep and in my heart lies a soul thats torn apart tell me, tell me what you're after i just want to get there faster i don't live- i invade i don't- i unveil don't want to live in your misery i don't live- i invade sprinkle all my kisses on your head stars follow wishes fill your bed she said; "i'm dead" all this pain smothers me like a bomb that you can't see tell me, tell me what your after i just want to get there faster i don't live- i invade i don't give- i unveil i don't live |
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"rhinoceros" planned a show treasoned my roots ice cream snow see you in june could have known i would relive should have known i would come see you your way she knows and she knows she knows she knows colours show after long i should go see you in june open your eyes- to these must i lie?? |
"drown" no matter where you are i can still hear you when you drown you travelled very far just to see you i'll come around when i'm down all of those yesterdays coming around no matter where you are i can still hear you when you dream you travelled very far you travelled far, like a star and you are all of those yesterdays coming around is it something someone said?? was it something someone said?? yesterday the sky was you and i still feel the same nothing left for me to do and i still feel the same i wish, i wish i could fly i wish, i wish i could lie i wish, i will try i will, i will goodbye |
"cherub rock" freak out and give in doesn't matter what you believe in stay cool and be somebodys fool this year 'cause they know who is righteous what is bold so i'm told who wants honey as long as theres some money who wants that honey?? hipsters unite come align for the big fight to rock for you but beware all those angels with their wings glued on 'cause deep down we are frightened and were scared if you don't stare who wants honey as long as theres some money who wants that honey?? let me out tell me all of your secrets cannot help but believe this is true tell me all of your secrets i know, i know , i know should have listened when i was told who wants honey as long as theres some money who wants that honey?? let me out |
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"today" today is the greatest day i've ever known can't live for tommorow tommorows much too long i'll burn my eyes out before i get out i wanted more than i could ever grant me bored by the chore of saving face today is the greatest day i've ever known can't wait for tommorow i might not have that long i'll tear my heart out before i get out pink ribbon scars that never forget i tried so hard to cleanse these regrets my angel wings were bruised and restrained my belly stings today is today is today is the greatest day i want to turn you on i want to turn you today is the greatest today is the greatest day that i've ever really known |
"disarm" disarm you with a smile and cut you like you want me to cut that little child inside of me and such a part of you ooh, the years burn i used to be a little boy so old in my shoes and what i choose is my choice whats a boy supposed to do?? the killer in me is the killer in you my love send this smile over to you disarm you with a smile a leave you like they left me here to wither in denial the bitterness of one whos left alone ooh the years burn i used to be a little boy so old in my shoes what i choose is my voice whats a boy supposed to do?? the killer in me is the killer in you my love send this smile over to you the killer in me is the killer in you send this smile over to you |
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"bullet with butterfly wings" the world is a vampire sent to drain secret destroyers hold you up to the flames and what do i get for my pain betrayed desires and a piece of the game even though i know i suppose i'll show all my cool and cold like old job despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage then someone will say what is lost can never be saved despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage now i'm naked, nothing but an animal but can you fake it for just one more show and what do you want? i want to change and what have you got when you feel the same even though i know i suppose i'll show all my cool and cold like old job despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage then someone will say what is lost can never be saved despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage tell me i'm the only one tel me theres no other one jesus was an only son for you tell me im the chosen one jesus was an only sonfor you despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage and i still believe that i cannot be saved |
"1979" 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 pointing at the dawn we were sure we'd never see an end to it all and i dont even care to shake these zipper blues and we don't know just where our bones will rest to dust i guess forgotten and absored into the earth below double cross the vacant and the bored their not sure just what we have in store morphine city slippin dues down to see that we dont even care as restless as we are we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement lamented and 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 freaks and the ghouls no apologies ever need be made i know 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 absored into the earth below the street heats the urgency of now as you see theres no-one around |
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"zero" my reflection, dirty mirror theres no connection to my self im your lover im your zero im the face in your dreams of glass so save your prayers for when your really gonna need 'em throw out your cares and fly she's the one for me wanna go for a ride? she's all i really need cause shes the one for me emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness, and cleanliness is godliness and god is empty just like me. intoxicated with the madness im in love with my sadness bullshit fakers enchanted kingdoms the fashion victims chew their charcoal teeth i never let on that i was on a sinking ship i never let on that i was down you blame yourself for what you can't ignore you blame your self for wanting more she's the one for me she's all i really need shes the one for me she's my one and only. |
"tonight, tonight" time is never time at all you can never ever leave with out leaving a peace of youth. and our lives are forever changed we will never be the same the more you change the less you feel believe, believe in me, believe that life can change that your not stuck in vain we're not the same we're different tonight tonight, so bright, tonight. and you know your never sure but your sure you could be right if you held yourself up to the light and the embers never fade in the city by the lake the place where you we're born believe, believe in me, believe in the resolute urgency of now and if you believe theres not a chance tonight tonight , so bright, tonight we'll crucify the incincere tonight we'll make things right we'll feel it al tonight we'll find a way to offer up the night tonight the indescribable moments of your life tonight the impossible is possible tonight beleive in me as i believe in you tonight |
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"eye" i lie i wait i stop i hesitate i am i breathe i meant i think of me is it any wonder i can't sleep all i have is all you gave to me is it any wonder i've found peace through you turn to the gates of heaven to myself be damned turn away from life it's not enough just a touch it's not enough i taste i love i come i bleed enough i hate i'm not i was i want too much is it any wonder i can't sleep all i have is all you gave to me is it any wonder i've found peace through you turn to the gates of heaven to myself be damned turn away from life it's not enough just a touch its not enough |
"ava adore" its you that i adore you'll always be my whore you'll be the mother to my child and a child to my heart we must never be apart lovely girl your the beauty in my world without you there aren't reasons left to find and i'll pull your crooked teeth you'll be perfect just like me you'll be a lover in my bed and a gun to my head we must never be apart lovely girl you're the murder in my world dressing coffins for the souls i've left to die drinking mercury to the mystery of all you should never leave behind in time in you i see dirty in you i count stars in you i feel so pretty in you i taste god in you i feel so hungry in you i crash cars we must never be apart drinking mercury to the mystery of all that you should you ever seek to find lovely girl you're the murder in my world dressing coffins for the souls i've left behind in time we must never be apart and you'll always be my whore cause your the one that i adore and i'll pull your crooked teeth you'll be perfect just like me in you i feel so dirty in you i crash cars in you feel i feel so pretty in you i taste god we must never be apart |
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"perfect" i know we're just like old friends we just can't pretend that lovers make amends we are reasons so unreal we can't help but feel that something has been lost but please you know your just like me next time i promise we'll be perfect perfect perfect starngers down the line lovers out of time memories unwind so far i still know who you are but now i wonder who i was angel, you know its not the end we'll always be good friends the letters have been sent on so please you always were so free you'll see, i promise we'll be perfect perfect strangers when we meet strangers on the street lovers whil we meet perfect you know this has to be we always were so free we promised that we'd be perfect |
"the everlasting gaze" you know i'm not dead now you know where i've been as you sleep torn i am weighted down patiently born of love you know i'm not dead i'm just living in my head forever waiting on the ways of your desire you always find a way and thru it all in to us all you move forgotten touch forbidden thought we can never have enough you know i'm not dead found below the creatures scream stranglehold a god machine begging to tear us out worn as hope you know i'm not dead i'm just the tears inside your head forever waiting on the ways of your desire you always find a way and thru it all into us all you move forgotten touch forbidden thought we can never have enough you know i'm not dead WE ALL WANT TO HOLD IN THE EVERLASTING GAZE ENCHANTED IN THE RAPTURE OF HIS SENTIMENTAL SWAY BUT UNDERNEATH THE WHEELS LIE THE SKULLS OF EVERY C.O.G THE FICKLE FASCINATION OF AN EVERLASTING GOD i'm just living in my head forever waiting forever waiting on cruel death you know i'm not dead i'm just living for myself forever waiting you know i'm not dead |
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"stand inside your love" you and me meant to be immutable impossible it's destiny pure lunacy incalculable insufferable but for the last time your everything that i want and ask for your all that i'd dreamed who wouldn't be the one you love who wouldn't stand inside your love protected and the lover of a pure soul and beautiful, you don't understand don't feel me now i will breathe for the both of us travel the world traverse the skies your home is here within my heart and for the first time i feel as though i am re-born in my mind recast as child and mystic sage who wouldn't be the one you love who wouldn't stand inside your love and for the first time im telling you how much i need and bleed for your every movw and waking sound in my time i'll wrap my wire around your heart and your mind your mine forever now who wouldn't be the one you love and live for who wouldn't stand inside your love and die for who wouldn't be the one you love |
"try, try, try" pop tart, whats our mission?? do we know but never listen for too long they held me under but i hear its almost over in detroit on a memphis train like you said it's down in the heat and the summer rain of the automatic gauze of your memories down in the sleep at the airplane races try to hold on to this heart a little bit longer try to hold on to this love aloud try to hold on for this hearts a little bit colder try to hold on to this love paperback scrawl you hidden poems written around the dried out flowers here we are still trading places try to hold on pop tart can you envision a free world of clear division for too long they held us under but i know we're getting over in detroit with the nashville tears like you said its down in the heat with the broken numbers down in the gaze of solemnity down in the way you've held together try to hold on to this heart a little bit closer try to hold on to this love aloud try to hold on for this hearts a little bit older try to hold on to this love aloud and we are still alive try to hold on and we have survived try to hold on and no-one should deny we tried to hold onto the pulse of the feedback current into the flow of encrypted movement slapback kills the ancient remnants that try to hold on to this heart alive try to hold on to this love aloud try to hold on and we are still alive try to hold on and we have survived try to hold on pop tart you never listen skinned knees try to hold on stop start whats our mission skinned knees try to hold on |
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*"real love" fall into the century of supersonic cross blessed she in aching silence eternal loss calling out a warm surrender a locket of her hair i sympathise her pious pleasures go down the stairs into the dark again to feel alive again can't wait for real love or is it me your after is it time cause its now or never real love real love forever real love born of the ball and chain into a world sustained with sorrow real love a real touch we're speaking is it lies or is it what we're seeking real love in the eyes behold and you'll find the 21st century detonate her will and her widowed speech buried in the backyard shadow the rusty coffin tin that held her mothers first kiss of nameless dream fall down the stairs again to feel alive against tommorow real love or is it me your after is it time cause its now or never real love real love forever is it mine or just yours to treasure real love real love real love we never listen real love will listen and tell of our fortune real love is riches scratch through the changes real love is nameless so tired and hopeless real love is painless nobody mentions we never move to collect the solar questions demons scourn surround relax the laws of gravity real love |
*"untitled" should i know what i'm missing what's to stop look and listen feel love to be in love around anyone can hold a promise not everyone can feel honoured to be in love to feel love around suddenly, i'm giving speech let me be what i need if your enough for me many times while you sleep i'm dreaming of what to keep you know your wish hold it true to slay the things that trouble you suddenly i'm out of reach listen here feel me just believe just believe you'll see to feel love to be in love all around hold the truth if you want it if you don't i will flaunt it to feel love to be in love all around when you're young can you promise anything that you wanted to be in love to feel love around suddenly i've learnt to speak from my heart i will see bring happiness just happiness for you and me to feel love to be in love around to be in love to feel love around i know your wish i hold it true (feel love all around) to hide the things that trouble you (feel love all around) suddenly i'm out of reach (feel love all around) let me speak of my peace (feel love all around) draw from me what you need (feel love all around) you'll never hate or hurry me (feel love all around) (to feel love) (to be in love) (around) (to be in love) (to feel love) (around) |