Pearl, Las Vegas (NV)

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2008.11.29
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Pearl, Las Vegas (NV),
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20th Anniversary Tour

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  • Celebrating 20 Years Of Sadness – Smashing Pumpkins Live 11-29-2008 Las Vegas, NV
    •  1 . Superchrist
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 7:00

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      Evolution

      Dissolution

      Rise

      One solution

      One takes you beyond

      This love

      And mine

      Before I

      Leave

      Time

      Aaaah

      Love

      This day

      Love

      Love

      Love is his claim

    •  2 . As Rome Burns
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 3:24

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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

    •  3 . Bullet With Butterfly Wings
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 5:00

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      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

    •  4 . Eye
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 4:14

      BMI Number: 4038672

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      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 found peace through you?
      Turn to the gates of heaven, to myself be damned
      Turn away from light
      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 found peace through you?
      Turn to the gates of heaven, to myself be damned
      Turn away from light
      It’s not enough, just a touch
      It’s not enough, just a touch
      It’s not enough, just a touch
      It’s not enough, just a touch
      It’s not enough, just a touch
      It’s not enough, just a touch

    •  5 . Mayonaise
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 6:09

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      BMI Number: 1776131

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      Fool enough to almost be it
      Cool enough to not quite see it
      Doomed
      Pick your pockets full of sorrow
      And run away with me tomorrow
      June
      We’ll try and ease the pain
      But somehow we’ll feel the same
      Well, no one knows
      Where our secrets go
      I send a heart to all my dearies
      When your life is so, so dreary
      Dream
      I’m rumored to the straight and narrow
      While the harlots of my perils
      Scream
      And I fail
      But when I can, I will
      Try to understand
      That when I can, I will
      Mother weep the years I’m missing
      All our time can’t be given
      Back
      Shut my mouth and strike the demons
      That cursed you and your reasons
      Out of hand and out of season
      Out of love and out of feeling
      So bad
      When I can, I will
      Words defy the plans
      When I can, I will
      Fool enough to almost be it
      And cool enough to not quite see it
      And old enough to always feel this
      Always old, I’ll always feel this
      No more promise no more sorrow
      No longer will I follow
      Can anybody hear me
      I just want to be me
      When I can, I will
      Try to understand
      That when I can, I will

    •  6 . Tonight, Tonight
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 4:08

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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

    •  7 . Speed Kills
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 6:15

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      Speed kills, but beauty lives forever

      Speed thrills, but beauty knows your name

      I fell ill inside eternal winter, winter

      And stood still beside eternal flame

      And when I ride

      With you tonight

      We can move

      At the speed of light

      With all I’d asked

      And all I’d pray

      The last rose of summer would stay

      First time that I ever saw you

      Crashing hard thru days of pain

      You were one of god’s children

      Left to cry out in the rain

      Waiting to be saved again

      ‘Cause when I ride

      With you tonight

      We can move

      At the speed of light

      And all I’d ask

      And all I pray

      The last rose of summer

      The last rose of summer

      The last rose of summer is gone

      Long gone, gone

      The last rose of summer is gone

      When I ride

      With you tonight

      We can move

      At the speed of light

      Forever young

      Forever blind

      Into the stars

      We rock tonight

      Last rose of summer is gone

      The last rose of summer is gone

      The last rose of summer is gone

      The last rose of summer is gone

      The last rose of summer

      The last rose of summer

      The last rose of summer is gone

    •  8 . Cherub Rock
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 4:23

      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 . United States
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 13:49

      Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “It started off as this weird little shuffle thing. We were arguing back and forth in November of ‘05 whether we should have a shuffle on the record. Billy wanted a shuffle. So it became a search for a new way to do a shuffle. We were also listening to Fela, all these 14-minute Nigerian jams and watching documentaries about him. So we went down this road of seeing how power can come from repetition.” Jimmy Chamberlin “In Pumpkins logic, if you’re going to make people wait for six minutes for the payoff, the money shot better be good. Ultimately, this became the musical statement of the album. The drum take is one of Jimmy’s crowning achievements. It’s worth the price of admission. Lyrically, the song reflects the decision I made when we were in Scottsdale to stop watching all network or cable news. I noticed the effect that had on me–I stopped being afraid. In general, I’m not afraid of getting on the stage in front of 60,000 people, so why should I be afraid of a plane crashing into my house? I was trying to wrap my head around the way we’re being force-fed a level of paranoia. It’s a personal reflection on what it all means. The ‘revolution’ in the lyrics isn’t the revolution of picking up a gun. That’s never worked, and it never will work. Jesus was right.” Billy Corgan

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      Tired eyes

      Closed for days

      There’s no regret

      ‘Cause there’s no place

      I don’t know

      What I believe

      But if I feel safe

      What do I need

      A home

      A home

      A home

      Revolution

      Revolution

      Revolution blues

      What will they do

      Revolution

      Revolution

      Revolution blues

      What will they do to me

      What will they do to me

      What will they do to me

      What will they do to me

      Dulcet tongues

      Whisper fast

      The future yearns

      Right now’s the past

      Rouse me soon

      The end draws nigh

      Who’s side are you on?

      Your blood you cannot buy

      Revolution

      Revolution

      Revolution blues

      What will they do

      Revolution

      Revolution

      Revolution blues

      What will they do to you

      Well I

      I feel alright

      So tonight

      I got to ask you why

      Why deny it

      It’s no surprise

      I’ve got to survive

      Freedom shines the light ahead

      I’ll lead the last charge to bed

      I said my last rights

      I don’t have to run scared no more

      Fight

      I wanna fight

      I wanna fight a revolution

      Tonight

      I wanna fight

      I wanna fight a revolution

      Tonight

      At the light

      At the light

      Do you wanna watch me die

      Let me be something good

      Let me prove something real like I should

      Let me embrace every single living thing

      Let me be every single moment I ever misunderstood

    • 10 . 99 Floors
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 6:55

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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

    • 11 . Owata
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 7:37

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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

    • 12 . The Rose March
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 4:39

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    • 13 . Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 4:18

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      BMI Number: 2035552

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      Instrumental

    • 14 . Today
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 3:24

      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

    • 15 . Tarantula
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 4:30

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      Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “Billy bought this guitar from this guy from Paris (James Trussart) who makes steel guitars and he brought a couple examples of his work to our rehearsal space. Billy grabbed one and plugged in into his amp and immediately started playing the riff from ‘Tarantula’ and the song was written pretty much on the spot.” Jimmy Chamberlin “That’s our nod to the Scorpions, and UFO--a loving nod to the hard rock bands of that era.” Billy Corgan

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      I don’t want to fight

      Every single night

      Everything I want is in your eyes

      You and me go back

      To places I dont know to care

      The spoils of all I got were left for scraps

      Don’t let me say this

      But you’re no worse than me

      It’s crazy

      We are the real

      If real ever was

      And just because

      We are the real

      They feel we have enough

      We are the real

      ‘Cause someone gave us up

      I want to be there when you’re happy

      I want to love you when you’re sad

      Cant stand the morning rain?

      Get out i’ll take your place then

      Can’t stand the blazing sun?

      Then close your eyes you’ll see

      The angel dust

      I dont want to be

      Anything believed

      A million watts of sound can’t compare

      Come along you’ll see the world

      The pulse ripples, the crowd unfurls

      The current starts to flow and then you’re on

      Oh it’s white hot soul they want

      To sing for

      We are the real

      If real ever was

      And just because

      We are the ruin

      Of every living soul

      We are surreal

      Cause someone gave us up

      Don’t break the oath

      I want to love you when you’re happy

      Don’t break this oath

      I want to be there when youre sad

      Freeze-frame the pouring rain

      We are the real

      As real as any ghost

      So easy now

      We are the real

      In ever living soul

      Oh dont they know?

      Can’t stand the blazing sun?

      Can’t stand the morning rain?

      Oh get out i’ll take your place again

      I dont want to be alone

      I dont want to be alone at all

      If it’s a white hot soul they want

      Then a black heart they’ll get

    • 16 . G.L.O.W.
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 3:44

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      I’m so alone
      I’m so alone, I’m thinking
      I’m so alone, I can’t get old
      I’m so alone
      I’m so alone, I can’t get off of you
      Fool, you love yourself
      Fool, you love yourself and no one else
      The bitter root of self
      Come on, baby
      No time for maybes
      One last trip to hell
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Low in you
      Slow in you
      It’s that glow in you
      I’m so alone
      I’m so alone, I’m sinking
      I’m so alone, I can’t get lost in you
      Fool, you love yourself
      Fool, you love yourself and no one else
      The bitter root of self
      Come on, baby
      Drive me crazy
      One last trip to hell
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Low in you
      Slow in you
      It’s that glow in you
      And it’s not strange
      That you’re the same
      From me
      And it’s not strange
      That I’m so strange
      To please
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it?
      Come on, come on, come on, can you feel it glow?

    • 17 . Gossamer
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 16:10

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    • 18 . The Sound Of Silence
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 11:01

      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

    • 19 . That’s The Way
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      Title extra: (My Love Is) live 2008.11.29

      Length: 4:58

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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

    • 20 . I Am One Part II
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      Title extra: live 2008.11.29

      Length: 13:56

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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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