Chicago Theatre, Chicago (IL)

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concerts
Date:
2008.11.19
Location:
Chicago Theatre, Chicago (IL),
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20th Anniversary Tour (White Crosses)

Track List

  • Celebrating 20 Years Of Sadness – Smashing Pumpkins Live 11-19-2008 Chicago, IL
    •  1 . Ava Adore
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:58

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      BMI Number: 4353754

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      It’s you that I adore
      You will always be my whore
      You’ll be a mother to my child
      And a child to my heart
      We must never be apart
      We must never be apart
      Lovely girl you’re 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
      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 that you should ever 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 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 you’re 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 I feel so pretty
      In you I taste god
      We must never be apart

    •  2 . Cupid De Locke
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 2:59

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      BMI Number: 2114422

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      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

    •  3 . 1979
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:47

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      BMI Number: 2107458

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      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
      Into 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 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 know you better than you fake it
      To see that we 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
      Into the earth below
      The street heats the urgency of now (written: sound)
      As you can see there’s no one around

    •  4 . 99 Floors
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 7:05

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      Semi-acoustic, with mouth organ.


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      I used to know you
      I used to care
      I used to know you
      Are you still there?
      I won’t touch you
      I won’t feel you
      I won’t hear you
      I won’t see you
      I used to know you
      Are you still there?
      I used to know you
      I used to care
      It goes far and wide
      It’s a cruel device
      I cannot drive
      You from my mind
      I won’t reach out
      I won’t strike in
      I won’t dream about
      I won’t parse the thought
      I used to know you
      I used to care
      I used to know you
      Are you still there?
      I jumped from the top
      And fell right back and I
      Hit the ground running scared
      I swam to the bottom of the sea
      And I asked around for someone
      Who might know me
      Ain’t it sad when your choices
      Are vegas and your friends
      99 floors
      And still nowhere to go
      99 floors
      And still nowhere to roam
      A punch to the head
      I passed right out and an
      Impotent stood dumbstruck
      And stared
      Armed once again by the fist of fate
      I wait for his resurrection home
      Ain’t it sad when your choices
      Are vices or advice
      It’s eleven o’clock
      And don’t that make you bawl
      It’s eleven o’clock
      And don’t ya make it bawl
      Evil, ailing
      Feeling oh so low
      I’m slow to anger
      Wonder where I could
      Ever go
      You know I’d have to forget
      It goes far and wide
      It’s a cruel device
      I cannot drive
      You from my mind

    •  5 . Owata
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:31

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      Ride off the silverscreen
      Into a moonbeam
      To the alien side
      Catch heck with Jesus
      The stars beneath us
      Oh what a beautiful night
      Cool in your pocket
      You can’t unlock this night
      Cool in your pocket
      You can’t unlock it
      You can’t help but decide it’s alright
      Oh what a beautiful sight you are to me
      Oh what a beautiful night
      Cool in your pocket
      Rocks for your rocket ride
      Cool in your pocket
      Pleasure or prophet
      You can’t stop this night outside
      Oh what a beautiful night
      Side up the revelry
      Roll out the cavalry
      Into the waters we dive
      Shimmers of the cosmos
      Ripple the utmost
      Of the quivering tide
      Locks for your locket
      You can’t unlock his fist
      Rocks for your rocket
      You can’t unlock his shocks
      For your socket eyes that shine
      Oh what a beautiful sight you are to me
      Oh what a beautiful night
      Night, night
      What a beautiful night
      Oh California
      Look what you’ve done
      Look what you’ve done to me
      Oh Chicago
      I’m coming home
      I’m coming home to you

    •  6 . Sunkissed
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 5:07

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    •  7 . Soma
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 6:58

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      BMI Number: 1776129

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      Nothing left to say
      And all I’ve left to do
      Is run away
      From you
      And she led me on, down
      With secrets I can’t keep
      Close your eyes and sleep
      Don’t wait up for me
      Hush now don’t you speak
      To me
      Wrapped my hurt in you
      And took my shelter in that pain
      The opiate of blame
      Is your broken heart, your heart
      So now I’m all by myself
      As I’ve always felt
      I’ll betray my tears
      To anyone caught in our ruse of fools
      One last kiss for me…yeah
      One last kiss good night
      Didn’t want to lose you once again
      Didn’t want to be your friend
      Fulfilled a promise made of tin
      And crawled back to you
      I’m all by myself
      As I’ve always felt
      I’ll betray myself
      To anyone, lost, anyone but you
      So let the sadness come again
      On that you can depend on me, yeah
      Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah
      When god sleeps in bliss
      And I’m all by myself
      As I’ve always felt
      And I’ll betray myself
      To anyone
      TV clip: “…and you need to resist the devil so that he will flee”

    •  8 . Cherub Rock
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:18

      BMI Number: 1776116

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      Freak out
      And give in
      Doesn’t matter what you believe in
      Stay cool
      And be somebody’s fool this year
      ‘Cause they know
      Who is righteous, What is bold
      So I’m told
      Who wants honey
      As long as there’s 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 we’re scared
      If you don’t stare
      Who wants honey
      As long as there’s some money
      Who wants that honey?
      Let me out
      Let me out
      Let me out
      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 there is some money
      Who wants that honey?
      Let me out
      Let me out
      Let me out
      Let me out

    •  9 . Zero
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 2:13

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      BMI Number: 2035569

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      My reflection, dirty mirror

      There’s no connection to myself

      I’m your lover, I’m your zero

      I’m the face in your dreams of glass

      So save your prayers

      For when we’re really gonna need ’em

      Throw out your cares and fly

      Wanna go for a ride?

      She’s the one for me

      She’s all I really need

      Cause she’s 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, I’m 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 yourself for wanting more

      She’s the one for me

      She’s all I really need

      She’s the one for me

      She’s my one and only

    • 10 . Bodies
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:28

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      BMI Number: 2107460

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      Cast the pearls aside, of a simple life of need
      Come into my life forever
      The crumbled cities stand as known
      Of the sights you have been shown
      Of the hurt you call your own
      Love is suicide
      The empty bodies stand at rest
      Casualties of their own flesh
      Afflicted by their dispossession
      But no bodies ever knew
      Nobody’s
      No bodies felt like you
      Nobody’s
      Love is suicide
      Now we drive the night, to the ironies of peace
      You can’t help deny forever
      The tragedies reside in you
      The secret sights hide in you
      The lonely nights divide you in two
      All my blisters now revealed
      In the darkness of my dreams
      In the spaces in between us
      But no bodies ever knew
      Nobody’s
      No bodies felt like you
      Nobody’s
      Love is suicide

    • 11 . Crestfallen
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:11

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      BMI Number: 4353762

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      Who am I
      To need you when I’m down
      And where are you
      When I need you around
      Your life is not your own
      And all I ask you is for another chance
      Another way around you
      To live by circumstance
      Once again
      Who am I to need you now
      To ask you why, to tell you no
      To deserve your love and sympathy
      You were never meant to belong to me
      And you may go
      But I know you won’t leave
      Too many years
      Built into memories
      Your life is not your own
      Who am I to need you now
      To ask you why, to tell you no
      To deserve your love and sympathy
      You were never meant to belong to me
      Who am I to you?
      Along the way I lost my faith
      And as you were you’ll be again
      To mold like clay, to break like dirt
      To tear me up in your sympathy
      You were never meant to belong to me
      You were never meant to belong to me
      You were never meant to belong to me
      Who am I?

    • 12 . I Of The Mourning
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 5:49

      BMI Number: 5246448

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      Radio, play my favorite song
      Radio, radio
      Radio, I’m alone
      Radio
      Radio, please don’t go
      Radio
      I peer through curtains on empty streets
      Behind a wall of caller I.d.
      No one’s out there
      To hear if I care
      About the troubles in the air
      As I of the mourning now come
      Pick up where my thoughts left off
      Cause I’m home to die on my own
      As my radio plays my favorite song
      Radio, radio
      Radio, don’t you know
      Radio, radio
      Radio, I’m alone
      I’ve blown the dust off my guitars
      In the attic with the stars
      I read your letters to feel better
      My tears upon the fading ink
      Cause I of the mourning now come
      Pick up where my thoughts left off
      Cause I’m home to die on my own
      As my radio plays my favorite song
      Radio, radio
      Radio, I’m alone
      Radio, radio
      Radio, please don’t go
      I sit in the dark light
      To wait for ghost night
      To bring the past alive
      To make a toast to life
      Cause I have survived
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want to change
      Radio, radio, radio, radio
      Radio, radio, radio, radio
      Radio, radio, radio, radio
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want
      What is it you want to change
      What is it you want to change

    • 13 . A Song For A Son
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 7:18

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      This is a song for a son
      This is a song for a sailor
      The son I never had
      This is a song for a kid
      This is a song for a tailor
      Who stitched up my old heart
      Who stitched up my old heart
      This is a song for a dog
      This is a song for a blown-out bird
      The kind that don’t return to the nest
      This is a song for a star
      This is a song for a space invader
      Who flew into the sun
      Never to return
      Never to return
      And I am one of many
      Many more to come
      Many more to come
      I am one of many more
      Many more to come
      Many more to come
      This is a song for a son
      This is a song for a sailor
      The best I ever had
      He sailed without a map
      This is a song for that kid
      This is a song for that tailor
      Who stitched up my old heart
      Who stitched up my old heart
      And broke it all apart
      I am one of many
      Many more to come
      Many more to come
      I am one of many more
      Many more to come
      Many more to come
      You daughters of the revolution
      Carry back your sons
      Carry them back home
      You daughters of the revolution
      Carry back your sons
      Carry them back home
      And I, I am one of many
      Many more to come
      Many more to come

    • 14 . Landslide
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 9:37

      Additional Info: Cover of Stevie Nicks.

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      I took my love and took it down
      I climbed a mountain, I turned around
      And I saw my reflection in a snow covered hill
      Till the landslide brought it down
      Mirror in the sky, what is love
      Can the child within my heart rise above
      Can I sail through the changing ocean tides
      Can I handle the seasons of my life
      Well, I’ve been afraid of changing ’cause I’ve
      Built my life around you
      Time makes you bolder
      Even children get older
      And I’m getting older too
      Well, I’ve been afraid of changing ’cause I’ve
      Built my life around you
      Time makes you bolder
      Even children get older
      And I’m getting older too
      I’m getting older too
      I took my love and took it down
      I climbed a mountain, I turned around
      And if you see my reflection in a snow covered hill
      The landslide brought it down
      The landslide brought it down

    • 15 . Disarm
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 3:19

      BMI Number: 1776748

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      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
      What’s a boy supposed to do?
      The killer in me is the killer in you
      My love
      I send this smile over to you
      Disarm you with a smile
      And leave you like they left me here
      To wither in denial
      The bitterness of one who’s left alone
      Ooh, the years burn
      Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn
      I used to be a little boy
      So old in my shoes
      And what I choose is my voice
      What’s a boy supposed to do?
      The killer in me is the killer in you
      My love
      I send this smile over to you
      The killer in me is the killer in you
      Send this smile over to you
      The killer in me is the killer in you
      Send this smile over to you
      The killer in me is the killer in you
      Send this smile over to you

    • 16 . Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:22

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 2035552

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      Instrumental

    • 17 . Galapogos
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:28

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      BMI Number: 1995916

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      Ain’t it funny how we pretend we’re still a child
      Softly stolen under our blanket skies
      And rescue me from me, and all that I believe
      I won’t deny the pain
      I won’t deny the change
      And should I fall from grace here with you
      Will you leave me too?
      Carve out your heart for keeps in an old oak tree
      And hold me for goodbyes-and-whispered lullabyes
      And tell me I am still
      The man I’m supposed to be
      I won’t deny the pain
      I won’t deny the change
      And should I fall from grace here with you
      Will you leave me too?
      Too late to turn to turn back now, I’m running out of sound
      And I am changing, changing
      And if we died right now, this fool you love somehow
      Is here with you
      I won’t deny the pain
      I won’t deny the change
      And should I fall from grace here with you
      Would you leave me too?

    • 18 . Gossamer
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 16:37

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    • 19 . As Rome Burns
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 3:42

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      We are the new gods
      Same as the old gods
      We’ll take all your blood
      And turn it into mud
      As Rome burns
      One by one
      Two by two
      Together they ride
      Side by side
      Into love
      Together they die
      And still they want to weather the tide
      As Rome burns
      Forgiveness all your days
      To count what you can’t save
      We’ll take out one good eye
      And leave a world to fall behind
      As Rome burns
      I see them everywhere out shaking to the beat
      Cursing out their elements
      With chaos, chaos bleats
      And what seemed urgent then turns wicked in the heat
      As Rome burns to the motherfucking ground

    • 20 . The Sound Of Silence
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 9:16

      Additional Info: Cover of Paul Simon, contains a piece of Lil' Red Riding Hood - Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs.

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      Hello darkness, my old friend
      I’ve come to talk with you again
      Because a vision softly creeping
      Left its seeds while I was sleeping
      And the vision that was planted in my brain
      Still remains
      Within the sound of silence
      In restless dreams I walked alone
      Narrow streets of cobblestone
      ‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
      I turned my collar to the cold and damp
      When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
      That split the night
      And touched the sound of silence
      And in the naked light I saw
      Ten thousand people, maybe more
      People talking without speaking
      People hearing without listening
      People writing songs that voices never share
      And no one dared
      Disturb the sound of silence
      “Fools”, said I, “You do not know
      Silence like a cancer grows
      Hear my words that I might teach you
      Take my arms that I might reach you”
      But my words, like silent raindrops fell
      And echoed
      In the wells of silence
      And the people bowed and prayed
      To the neon god they made
      And the sign flashed out its warning
      In the words that it was forming
      And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
      And tenement halls”
      And whispered in the sounds of silence

    • 21 . The March Hare
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 13:54

      Additional Info: Contains a piece of Suffer.

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      The march hare ambles on
      Darting to and fro
      Finds his breath for free
      A silver fox breaking clocks
      Counting back from 10
      Until it ends with me
      As I’m swinging from the trees
      Can a mirror rescue me?
      The march hare blows his horn
      His 19 wives lend ear
      To a storm come clear
      A whisker here
      A scabbard there
      The march hare appears
      To understand what’s next
      And he’s pulling on my soul
      Just like an overcoat painted red
      His faith somewhere
      His faith somewhere
      His faith somewhere for (?)
      Whatever will be will be again
      Whatever will be will be again
      Whatever will be will be again
      Whatever will be will be again
      Oh swing low bandalier
      Your coins are worthless here
      For there’s no here to leave

    • 22 . Age Of Innocence
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 8:02

      BMI Number: 5246440

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      We dismiss
      The backroads
      And ride these streets
      Unafraid
      Resigned to
      Scraping paint
      From our bones
      Unashamed
      No more the eye upon you
      No more the simple man
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      As you might have guessed
      All is never shown
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      And in my prayers
      I dream alone
      A silent speech
      To deaf ear
      If you want love
      You must be love
      But if you bleed love
      You will die love
      No more the lie upon you
      Cast in stone and autumn shade
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      As you might have sensed
      We won’t make it home
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Before the rites of spring
      Come to mean all things
      A little taste of what may come
      A mere glimpse of what has gone
      Cause for the moment we are free
      We seek to bind our release
      Too young to die, too rich to care
      Too fucked to swear that I was there
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no
      As you might have guessed
      We won’t make it home
      Desolation yes
      Hesitation no

    • 23 . That’s The Way
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      Title extra: (My Love Is) live 2008.11.19

      Length: 4:27

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      Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “That’s a sexy song made by two men living in a house alone together for four or five months in Scottsdale. There needed to be some sexiness somewhere.” Jimmy Chamberlin “That song was another one that I brought to Arizona with me. And right away it sounded like ‘95 Pumpkins, like it could have been right off of the Mellon Collie record. I feel sorry for Jimmy because he has to hear me complain about such things. And we went back to what Flood taught us and tried the song some other ways. One day we just changed the beat, and it just made the song.” Billy Corgan

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      They say that life ain’t easy

      They’ll say your life’s a crime

      Destroy up all good reason

      How I’m alive

      They’ll say that nothing matters

      Not even your will to survive

      Of course I love you baby

      ‘Cause I’m alive

      Yes, I’m alive

      Whenever I call you out

      Whenever I draw you round

      Whenever is here and now

      That’s the way my love is

      That’s the way I care

      You should call on me baby

      I’m always there for you

      Yeah, I’m always there for you

      They’ll say you’ll lose your nerve soon

      To claim identity

      Disgrace our sacred promise

      With no belief

      Oh, how I believe in you

      That’s the way my love is, for you

      That’s the way my love is, for you!

      I feel a coming age now

      I feel a dawn in me

      A certain sun keeps rising

      On my belief in you

      That’s the way my love is

      That’s the way i care

      You should call on me baby

      ‘Cause I’m always there for you

      That’s the way my love is

      That’s the way I care

      You should call on me baby

      ‘Cause I’m always there for you

      Yeah, I’m always there for you

    • 24 . I Am One Part II
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.19

      Length: 14:30

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      Like the sun, yeah, I am one
      Raising forth when I’m done
      So high in the sky
      And we’d say what we’d say
      And we’d do as we please
      And we’d break every rule
      On our knees
      Like the sun, yeah, I am one
      Raising forth when I’m done
      What you wait for in the sky, high, up high
      And we’d break every rule
      And we’d do as we please
      And we’d take what we want
      On our knees

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