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• 1979
  •  1 . 1979

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    Length: 4:28

    Written By: Billy Corgan

    BMI Number: 2107458

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    Lyrics

    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

  •  2 . Ugly

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    Length: 2:52

    BMI Number: 3649475

    Additional Info: "Started as an album song until the very last moment, when Mellon Collies was cut from 31 to 28 songs, this is an interesting interpretation of what had essentially been an acoustic song. Flood and I tried about four different versions before settling on this one [see Queen's Hot Space album]. One version that I liked was just me and a distorted guitar. But in the end this version won, only to be mixed into eternal obscurity as a B-side." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)

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    I don’t look in the mirror

    I don’t like what I see staring back at me

    Everything is clearer

    I’ll never see what you see

    It’s not me

    So beautiful and free

    I’ll never be what you need

    I can’t help it at all

    I was born so beautiful

    But now I’m ugly

    And I rot in my skin

    As a piece of me dies everyday

    I know I’m nothing

    I know there’s nothing I can say

    To change

    The judgement in their ways

    I’ll never be what you need

    I can’t help it at all

    My love was so beautiful

    But now I’m ugly

    Yeah…

    I’m good enough, but I don’t care

    I’m good enough, but I’m not there

    I’m good enough, but I don’t care

    The sun is out, but I’m not there

    (I can go anywhere) I’m good enough, but I don’t care (…somewhere)

    (I can go anywhere) The sun is out, but I’m not there (…somewhere)

    (I can go anywhere) I’m good enough (…somewhere)

    (I can go anywhere) I’m good enough (…somewhere)

    I don’t look in the mirror

    I don’t like what I see staring back at me

    Everything is clearer

    I’ll never see what you see

    And I rot in my skin

    As a piece of me dies everyday

    I know I’m nothing

    Because I’m ugly

  •  3 . The Boy

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    Length: 3:04

    BMI Number: 3871423

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    I can’t stop, I can’t breathe, I can’t think

    I’m in love again

    I don’t need, I don’t eat, I don’t sleep

    I’m in love again

    Ooh, and every time I heard you breathe

    Well I sighed

    Ooh, and every time I saw you bleed

    Well I cried

    Love is like a song

    And if you sing

    If you ever need me

    I’ll be there in a while

    I can’t stop, I can’t breathe, I can’t think

    I’m in love again

    I don’t need, I don’t eat, I don’t sleep

    I’m in love again

    Ooh, and everytime that I’m with you

    I’m alive

    Ooh, and everytime I think of you

    There’s a light

    And I felt it, too

    In my heart is a spring

    Is a well, if you need

    If you drink, if you heal

    If you believe in

    Every little part of me is a part of you

    I can’t stop, I can’t breathe, I can’t think

    I’m in love again

    I don’t need, I don’t eat, I don’t sleep

    I’m in love again

    I can’t stop, I can’t breathe, I can’t think

    I’m in love again

    I don’t need, I don’t eat, I don’t sleep

    I’m in love again

    The boy, the boy’s in love

    The boy, the boy’s in love

    The boy, the boy’s in love

    The boy, the boy’s in love

  •  4 . Cherry

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    Length: 4:02

    BMI Number: 3649474

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    (Listen- Wanna just start it?…Ready, Flood?
    Yeah……1,2,3,4)
    Stay with me, I’ll set you free
    ‘Cause I can tell you once were pretty
    Rose so sad you’ve lost your petals
    Lost the luster off your tattle tales
    I need a love to help me find my way
    I need a strength that I can not betray
    I need a word to say what I can’t say
    I need a lover, lover
    I need a lover, lover
    What are we waiting for?
    What are we waiting for?
    Time has lost its hold on me
    Hatred sleeps inside my bones
    In the stillness of cool air
    All the boys have been left for dead
    ‘Cause we go where they fear to tread
    The beautiful one’s the one’s we’ll remember
    The precious one’s our greatest pretenders
    I need a love to help me find my way
    I need a strength that I cannot betray
    I need a word to say what I can’t say
    I need a lover, lover
    I need a lover, lover
    And if you lose yourself
    Could you take me, too?
    Could you rest inside the sleep?
    Stay with me, I’ll set you free from you…..
    Stay with me, I’ll set you free from you…..
    Stay with me, I’ll set you free from you…..
    Stay with me, I’ll set you free from you…..
    I need a love…..

  •  5 . Believe

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    Length: 3:15

    BMI Number: 3649468

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    Close your eyes
    Until the sunlight dies
    In your head a thousand stars
    Through the darkness you can see a light
    And if they steal your life
    Your heart is still mine
    I want to believe in you and I heard you
    Your song, you sing, a truth, there’s no other
    I want to believe in you, dear
    On Sunday…
    There’s a life I hide
    Well I tried to disguise
    And I can take you a million miles away
    I want to believe in you and I heard you
    Your song, you sing, a truth, there’s no other
    I want to believe in you, dear
    On Sunday I made amends
    For all my mistakes
    May God speed be with you
    Oooh…oooh…oooh…oooh
    And I…
    I want to believe in you and I heard you
    Your song, you sing a truth, there’s no other
    I want to believe in you and I heard you
    Your song, you sing a truth, there’s no other
    I want to believe in you and I heard you
    Your song, (soft) you sing, a truth, a lover
    I want to believe in you and I heard you
    Your song, you sing a truth, there’s no other
    I want to believe in you, dear
    Sunday
    Sunday
    I want to make amends
    For all my mistakes
    May God speed be with you

  •  6 . Set The Ray To Jerry

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    Length: 4:10

    BMI Number: 1776130

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    Born to please, every simple need

    I stand alone in my thoughts indeed

    Hate you

    For ever making me

    I’m in you, I’m your anything

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you

    Come to me, let me hold you still

    I’m so tired, just as tired as you

    Take me for anyone but me

    All that you feel is never true

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you

    When you say that you are

    Forever my star

    Could never let you go, no, no

    And never let you know

    Let roar these fears

    To the whore of my tears

    Pure as a lie, I pour to your eyes

    Suck you like the sap from a tree

    Honey from the dew, from the bumblebees, yeah yeah

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you

    When you say that you are

    Forever my star

    Could never let you go, no, no

    Never let you know

    And I- want you

    And I- need you

    And all you are is brand new

    And I- need you