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• 1979 / Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  •  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 . Bullet With Butterfly Wings

    Details

    Title extra: 1995 MCIS version

    Length: 4:16

    Written By: Billy Corgan

    BMI Number: 1995912

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    Lyrics

    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