Civic Arena, Pittsburgh (PA)

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1996.09.06
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Civic Arena, Pittsburgh (PA),
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  • Civic Arena, Pittsburgh (PA)
    •  1 . Where Boys Fear To Tread
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:22

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 2107463

      Additional Info: The studiotrack samples the rocket launcher explosion from an id Software's game called Doom. This sound effect points to the relationship between Doom and the Smashing Pumpkins in the "SPISPOPD" (an abbreviation for Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris) joke, dating from December 1993. The Doom explosion, mentioned in the liner notes of MCIS, can be heard at the following times: 1:20 / 1:55 / 2:29 / 3:01 / 3:44.

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      Candy cane walks down

      To build a bonfire, to break my fall

      My baby, my sweet thing

      Just maybe we could lose ourselves this time

      King of the horseflies, dark prince of death

      His tragic forces are heaven sent

      In sweet things, in a lovers breath

      In knowing this was meant to be the last

      A go-go-kids, a go-go-style

      A suck suck kiss, a suck suck smile

      As always, in young need

      A veiled promise to never die

      On dead highways, her black beauties roam

      For june angels, so far from home

      For a love lost, a faded picture

      To tread lightning, to ink the lavender skies

      So get on the bomb

    •  2 . Zero
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 2:40

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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

    •  3 . Cherub Rock
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:57

      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

    •  4 . To Forgive
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:16

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 1995911

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      Ten times removed

      I forget about where it all began

      Bastard son of a bastard son of

      A wild eyed child of the sun

      And right as rain, I'm not the same but

      I feel the same, I feel nothing

      Holding back the fool again

      Holding back the fool pretends

      I forget to forget nothing is important

      Holding back the fool again

      I sensed my loss

      Before I even learned to talk

      And I remember my birthdays

      Empty party afternoons won't come back

      Holding back the fool again

      Holding back the fool pretends

      I forget to forget nothing is important

      Holding back the fool again

      I forget to forget me

      I forget to forget you see

      Nothing is important to me

      I knew my loss

      Before I even learned to speak

      And all along, I knew it was wrong

      But I played along, with my birthday song

      Holding back the fool again

      Holding back the fool pretends

      I forget to forget nothing is important

      Holding back the fool again

    •  5 . Tonight, Tonight
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:15

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      BMI Number: 2035564

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      Time is never time at all

      You can never ever leave without leaving a piece 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 you're not stuck in vain

      We're not the same, we're different tonight

      Tonight, so bright

      Tonight

      And you know you're never sure

      But you're sure you could be right

      If you held yourself up to the light

      And the embers never fade in your city by the lake

      The place where you were born

      Believe, believe in me, believe

      In the resolute urgency of now

      And if you believe there's not a tonight

      Tonight, so bright

      Tonight

      We'll crucify the insincere tonight

      We'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight

      We'll find a way to offer up the night tonight

      The indescribable moments of your life tonight

      The impossible is possible tonight

      Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight

    •  6 . Today
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 3:19

      BMI Number: 1776114

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      Today is the greatest

      Day I've ever known

      Can't live for tomorrow,

      Tomorrow's much too long

      I'll burn my eyes out

      Before I get out

      I wanted more

      Than life could ever grant me

      Bored by the chore

      Of saving face

      Today is the greatest

      Day I've ever known

      Can't wait for tomorrow

      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 on

      I want to turn you on

      I want to turn you

      Today is the greatest

      Today is the greatest day

      Today is the greatest day

      That I have ever really known

    •  7 . Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 7:38

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 2107451

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      Wrap me up in always, and drag me in with maybes

      Your innocence is treasure, your innocence is death

      Your innocence is all I have

      Breathing underwater, and living under glass

      And if you spin your love around

      The secrets of your dreams

      You may find your love is gone

      And is not quite what it seemed

      To appear to disappear

      Beneath all your darkest fears

      I believe in never, I believe in all the way

      But belief is not to notice, believe is just some faith

      And faith can't help you to escape

      And with this ring I wed thee true

      And with this ring I wed thee now

      And with this ring I play so dead

      But no one's asking for the truth, so let me tell you

      If you spin your love around

      The secrets of your dreams

      You may find your love is gone

      And is not quite what it seemed

      To appear to disappear

      Beneath all your darkest fears

      To the revelations of fresh faced youth

      No one will come to save you

      So speak your peace in the murmurs drawn

      But youth is wasted on the young

      Your strength is my weakness, your weakness my hate

      My love for you just can't explain

      Why we're forever frozen, forever beautiful,

      Forever lost inside ourselves

      The night has come to hold us young

    •  8 . Disarm
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 3:17

      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

    •  9 . Bullet With Butterfly Wings
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:16

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 1995912

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      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

      Tell me there's no other one

      Jesus was an only son

      Tell me I'm the chosen one

      Jesus was an only son for you

      Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

      And I still believe that I cannot be saved

    • 10 . Fuck You
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      Title extra: (An Ode To No One) live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:50

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 2035606

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      I'm never coming back

      I'm never giving in

      I'll never be the shine in your spit

      I disconnect the act

      I disconnect the dots

      I disconnect the me in me

      And you're mistaken, it's you that's faking

      Living and breathing and dying too

      This message is for anyone who dares to hear a fool

      You can't bring me back, you can't bring me back

      Cause I give it all back to you

      Thru sacred alleys, the living wrecks

      Wreak their havoc upon this world

      The disenchanted, the romantics,

      The body and face and soul of you is gone down that deep black hole

      Destroy the mind-destroy the body-but you cannot destroy the heart

      And you, you make me so I need to disconnect

      And you make it so real

      I don't need you love to disconnect

      To runaround kids in get-go cars

      With vaseline afterbirths and neon coughs

      Galaxies full of nobodies

      Giving us the farewell runarounds

      I took a virgin mary axe to his sweet baby jane,

      Lost my innocence to a no good girl,

      Scratch my face with anvil hands,

      And coil my tongue around a bumblebee mouth

      And I give it all back to you

      No way, I don't need it, I don't need your love to disconnect

      And you make it, so real, I don't need your love to disconnect

      No way to disconnect

      And you make it so real

      I don't need your love to disconnect

      No way to disconnect

    • 11 . Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 9:21

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      BMI Number: 2035566

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      As far as you take me, that's where I believe

      The realm of soft delusions, floating on the leaves

      On a distant shoreline, she waves her arms to me

      As all the thought police, are closing in for sleep

      The dilly dally, of my bright lit stay

      The steam of my misfortunes

      Has given me the power to be afraid

      And in my mind I'm everyone

      And in my mind

      Without a care in this whole world

      Without a care in this life

      It's what you take that makes it right

      Porcelina of the oceans blue

      In the slipstream, of thoughtless thoughts

      The light of all that's good, the light of all that's true

      To the fringes gladly, I walk unadorned

      With gods and their creations

      With filth and disease

      Porcelina, she waits for me there

      With seashell hissing lullabyes

      And whispers fathomed deep inside my own

      Hidden thoughts and alibis

      My secret thoughts come alive

      Without a care in this whole world

      Without a care in this life

      It's what you take that makes it right

      And in my mind I'm everyone

      In my mind I'm everyone of you

      You make it right

      It's all allright

      You make it right

      Porcelina of the oceans blue

    • 12 . Muzzle
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 3:44

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      BMI Number: 2035605

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      I fear that I am ordinary, just like everyone

      To lie here and die among the sorrows

      Adrift among the days

      For everything I ever said

      And everything I've ever done is gone and dead

      As all things must surely have to end

      And great loves will one day have to part

      I know that I am meant for this world

      My life has been extraordinary

      Blessed and cursed and won

      Time heals but I'm forever broken

      By and by the way...

      Have you ever heard the words

      I'm singing in these song?

      It's for the girl I've loved all along

      Can a taste of love be so wrong

      As all things must surely have to end

      And great loves will one day have to part

      I know that I am meant for this world

      And in my mind as I was floating

      Far above the clouds

      Some children laughed I'd fall for certain

      For thinking that I'd last forever

      But I knew exactly where I was

      And I knew the meaning of it all

      And I knew the the distance to the sun

      And I knew the echo that is love

      And I knew the secrets in your spires

      And I knew the emptiness of youth

      And I knew the solitude of heart

      And I knew the murmurs of the soul

      And the world is drawn into your hands

      And the world is etched upon your heart

      And the world so hard to understand

      Is world you can't live without

      And I knew the silence of the world

    • 13 . Bury Me
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:46

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 161297

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      (Over you, like an angel)

      Bury me in love

      Bury me in love

      Shared your kisses

      Shame your heart

      Buried me and it hurts

      I love my sister so (chain, unchain)

      She don't smother me (chain, unchain, unchain)

      I played the spades I know (unchain)

      I'm a jack of all trades

      Would you bury me

      Want to see her born inside (hide, hide)

      Some of the things you just can't hide

      If you see her tell me why (hide, hide)

      Why won't she come outside

      If you see her tell me why (hide, hide)

      Why won't she come outside

      Want to see her born inside (hide, hide)

      Some of the things you just can't hide

      She waits, bury me

      She waits, bury me

    • 14 . Tristessa
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 3:32

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      BMI Number: 1545694

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      Pledge your faith

      I hardly breathe

      Struggle to return

      Blurry mind

      So hypnotized

      Fast enough to move

      Wonder where you are

      Tristessa

      Soul takes soul as eye take eye

      I will wait for you

      What you believe you'll wish to receive

      Won't believe in who, you

      Hang on to your life

      Tristessa

      I love you too

      Surely I do

      I love you too

      Surely I do

      Surely I do

      Surely I do

      No, no, no

      Did you ever wake up

      And find yourself alone

      Did you ever wake up far from home

      What you believe you'll wish to receive

      Won't believe in who

      Tristessa

      Tristessa

      Tristessa

    • 15 . Crush
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 3:34

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      BMI Number: 260908

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      You wrap your arms around

      A feeling that surrounds

      Like a liquid peppermint

      Just taste the drinks that she served

      And this feeling shivers down your spine

      Love comes in colors I can't deny

      All that matters is love, love, your love

      You're sleeping in your bed

      Just rest your weary head

      Maybe you shouldn't care

      Throw away those dreams and dare

      And I wonder if it matters to me

      Love comes in colors I can't deny

      All that shimmers is love, love, your love

      Your love

      Your love

    • 16 . Snail
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 5:09

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 1361218

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      All your seven dreams

      Are closer than you believe

      As your things come undone

      See you are the only one

      Flower, seize the hour, the day away

      Waiting, waiting for your way, away

      When you wake up you're away

      Throwing your life away

      Someday, sorry coming home

      Sorry, snail

      What you wait for

      Flower, the pain will wash away, away

      When the sunshine climbs through your window

      Into your bed

      When you wake up you're away

      Throwing your life away

      Someday, sorry coming home

      Sorry, snail

      Yeah, live in my home

      Flower, seize the hour

      Flower, away

      What you wait for

      Flower, taste the sunshine

      Flower, taste the sunshine

      Flower

    • 17 . Drown
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 8:17

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      BMI Number: 346740

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      No matter where you are

      I can still hear you when you drown

      You've traveled 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 (on some versions, "scream")

      You traveled very far

      You traveled 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 will, I will try

      I will, I will

      Goodbye

    • 18 . Starla
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 11:01

      BMI Number: 1995924

      Additional Info: From 5:27-30, "listen for the police car go by" (Billy Corgan on Pisces Iscariot liner notes). "I met this girl in Dallas when we were on tour with the chili peppa's and that was where I got the idea for the name for the song because when she said her name I thought wow, what a great title for a song. 2 1/4 years later I run into this same girl at a party and I say did you hear that song we recorded using your name, Starla? And she said, no my name is Darla but hey Starla, Darla whatever it doesn't matter, so there you go. Never trust a girl who ends up with well I can't say." (Billy Corgan on Pisces Iscariot liner notes).

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      I'm in here

      Please take me home

      Starla dear, I'm all alone

      When you can't decide what's on your mind, it's clear

      I'm near

      Starla dear

      To disappear takes some more time

      Starla dear, you're on my mind

      Soon, soon I'll be leaving

      Soon, soon I'll be leaving

      I hear all you're saying

      I hear all you're failing

      I'm in here

      Please take me home

      Starla dear, I'm all alone

      When you can't decide what's on your mind, it's clear

      I'm here

      Starla dear

      Serve yourself

      No one else can do for you like you

      No one else fails like me

      In my eyes I burn alive

      Fly like a bird

      No more words just you and I

      High in the sky

    • 19 . Siva
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06 #1

      Track Length: 4:20

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      BMI Number: 1351044

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      I spin off and lose my head

      Throwing stray a spark instead

      Gather strength down in my heel

      And dig it in the world I peel

      Way down deep within my heart

      Lies a soul that's torn apart

      Tell me, tell me what your after

      I just want to get there faster

      I don't live - I inhale

      I don't give - I unveil

      Don't want to live in your misery

      I don't live - I inhale

      Sprinkle all my kisses on your head

      Stars full of wishes fill our beds

      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 inhale

      I don't give - I unveil

      I don't live - I inhale

      I don't live

    • 20 . In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Additional Info: Iron Butterfly cover.

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    • 21 . X.Y.U.
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 7:07

      Written By:

      BMI Number: 2035579

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      She didn't wanna be, she didn't wanna know

      She couldn't run away cause 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 wanna fill you up, I wanna break you, I wanna give you up

      From one another, another one should come to one another

      No one should come between us

      Still 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 boom, now take that, and just a bit of this

      Cause I'm a watcher, and I'm a doer of none

      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, a rat-tat-tat, and some good ole bliss

      Cause I'm a sister, and I'm a motherfuck

      I am made of shamrocks, I am made of stern stuff

      I am never enough, I am the forgotten child

      And I said I wanna fill you up, I wanna break you, I wanna give you up

      From one another, no one should ever come

      In between us, between us and our love

      Mary had a little lamb, her face was white as snow

      And everywhere that mary went I was sure to go

      Now mary's got a problem, and mary's not a stupid girl

      Mary's got some deep shit, and 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 jackyl I say 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 are meant to serve

      And she will never learn

      Bye bye, baby goodbye

    • 22 . 1979
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:28

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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

    • 23 . Bodies
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 4:12

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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

      Nobodys

      No bodies felt like you

      Nobodys

      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

      Nobodys

      No bodies felt like you

      Nobodys

      Love is suicide

    • 24 . Silverfuck
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      Title extra: live 1996.09.06

      Track Length: 9:12

      BMI Number: 1810465

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      I hear your winter

      I hear you rain

      I've failed your summer ways

      And I feel no pain

      I hear what you want

      And I feel that way

      I hear what you want

      And I feel that way

      I hear you fade away

      And I hear you crawl

      I gave my life away

      And I feel no pain

      And I feel no pain

      And I feel no pain

      And I feel your pain

      And she was my lover so sweet

      And she was my angel

      And what I've recovered of me

      I put into a box underneath my bed

      When you lie in your bed

      And you lie to yourself

      When you lie in your bed

      And you lie to yourself

      Lie

      Lie

      Bang bang you're dead hole in your head

      Bang bang you're dead hole in your head

      Bang bang you're dead hole in your head

      Bang bang you're dead hole in your head

      I hear what you want

      And I feel that way

      I hear what you want

      And I feel that way

      (Alright, this take, don't give a fuck.)

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