Item Details
- Item Category:
- Compilation
- Artist:
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Format:
- CD
- Release Type:
- Promotional
- Release Date:
- 1996.11.??
- Release Country:
- United States
- Manufacture Country:
- United States
- Package:
- Jewel Case
- Label:
- Inc., Virgin Records America
- Release Code:
- DPRO-11590 (12 tracks)
- UPC:
- 7087 6 11590 2 8
- Matrix Code:
- 708761159028AV 1-1-2 MASTERED BY EMI MFG. IFPI L043 ifpi 163B
- Other Code:
- RPM:
- Amount Pressed:
- Unknown
- Misc Tags:
- Sampler
Additional Information
Track List
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The Aeroplane Flies High Sampler
- 1 . The Last Song
Details
Length: 3:55
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 3875762
Additional Info: Billy Corgan's father is also playing guitar.
Lyrics
This is the last song
This is the last song I’ll sing for you
This is the last song
This is the last song I can give you
The roaring city sleeps
Metal fingers clutching dirty sheets
And no one comes for free
In this place where the angels sleep
This is the last song
My eyes are open wonder to this
As you hold the secrets
I count the minutes off so perfectly
The shards of broken glass
Sing the strains of a sad old tune
We’ve made it at last
But what we had is lost inside our past
This is the last song
Could you find away across me
To forgive and forget me
To appease and relent me
To deceive and detect me
To understand and release me
To the dawn
This is the last song
- 2 . The Aeroplane Flies High
Details
Title extra: (Turns Left, Looks Right)
Length: 8:31
Written By: Billy Corgan
BMI Number: 3875763
Additional Info: Actually the same song as The Aeroplane Flies High (Looks Left, Turns Right), but spelled as Billy sings it. This is also the commonly used spelling on all releases worldwide. Also known as The Aeroplane Flies High (to avoid the left-right discussion?).
Lyrics
Love is a sentimental heart
Life is a sentimental way
Spy the fragile heart so cursed
As he walks across this earth
I’m disconnected by your smile
Disconnect a million miles
And what you promised me
I hope will set you free
I’m disconnected by your smile
And all I gave to you is lost
And all you took from me is lost
Black wings carry me so high
Up to meet you in the sky
I’m disconnected by your smile
Disconnect a million miles
And what you promised me
I hope will set you free
I’m disconnected by your smile
Wishing you were real to me
Wishing I could make believe
I’ll take my secrets to the grave
Safely held beneath the waves
Always knew I couldn’t save
Always knew I couldn’t save you
- 3 . Medellia Of The Gray Skies
Lyrics
You’re an empty promise
You’re an easy chair
You’re the gods forces
Struck down somewhere
You’re a secret noticed
You’re a mystery sky
You’re a wish floating
Up to the night
Medellia of my eyes
You’re the emptiness of I
You’re the reason that I write
And if you say you will
I would love you still
And if I could
I’d throw away this world
I’d dress you all in pearls
I’d give you what you wanted
You’re all I notice
In a crowded room
Your vacant motives
Unmoved, revealed
Medellia of my eyes
You’re the emptiness of I
You’re the reason that I drive
And if you say you will
I would love you still
And if I just could
Be anything for you
Just anyone at all
Anything that mattered, washed out
You’re the silly reasons
In a goldfish laugh
You’re the ageless seasons
At rest, at last
- 4 . …Said Sadly
Lyrics
(JI=James Iha, NG=Nina Gordon (of Veruca Salt), J+N=both)
JI: You should know that I love you
We should love like lovers do
And I can’t help but fall for you
Ah honey I’m just a fool
Now you know
NG: Darling, I’ll never be true
You see, for so long I was blue
JI: (I’m not the only one)
NG: And if I hurt, then you will, too
Ah honey I always lose
Now you know
J+N: Lover, when will you?
JI: I’m so afraid that no one cares
J+N: Lover, can’t find you
JI: I swear to God don’t leave me here
J+N: Now you know
J+N: Oh, you know that it can’t be
But no one else here really means
JI: (Anything to me)
J+N: If you hurt inside
If you confide in me again
NG: Since you ran away
JI: Hold me now, tell me how
Love is ours
J+N: Lover, when will you?
I’m so afraid that no one cares
Lover, can’t find you
And no one knows what brings us here
Lover
JI: Hold me now
NG: Hold me now
JI: Tell me how
J+N: Love is ours - 5 . Mouths Of Babes
Lyrics
So here we are
True superstars
We’re so real from afar and now
Now you’re with us now
And the mouths of babes sing revolution
And the mouths of babes scream disillusion
You can’t break what’s already broken
Cause from the mouths of babes comes nothing
The “dream” was a sham
For saving what you can’t
And now they’re me but I’m not them
I am you and you are me
It’s in the ways I walk thru fire
It’s in the ways of my desire
And when I said that you’re no good
What I meant was I wish you could
Be there forever
Be young forever
I wish you were there
So now I bid farewell
Beyond the bounds of hell
And now you’ll swear you knew us well
Well you can never tell
And the mouths of babes sing revolution
And the mouths of babes scream disillusion
You can’t break what’s already broken
Cause from the mouths of babes comes nothing
- 6 . Transformer
Lyrics
A livewire moves slow
A transformer always knows
The score is four
Leaves you hanging on the floor
For more and less and more of the blame
And she’s tired
And she’s sick of the same old shit
It’s just more of the same old same
I know she wants more and more and more to witness
To lay down and bear true
A cherry onion firefly
Tastes sweet and white
As you are blue
Knows just what she wants to do
With you below the silver skies
Don’t hate her because she’s undecided
And she’s tired
And she’s sick of the same old shit
It’s just more of the same old same
I know she wants more and more and more to stomach
In honor of her youth
She’s not sorry she’s happy
Sorry she’s happy
She’s not sorry she’s happy
Sorry she’s happy as a turtle
She’s a real live transformer
- 7 . Ugly
Details
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)
Lyrics
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
- 8 . Cherry
Lyrics
(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….. - 9 . Destination Unknown
Details
Length: 4:15
Written By: Dale Bozzio + Terry Bozzio + Warren Cuccurullo
Additional Info: Cover of Missing Persons.
Lyrics
Life is so strange when you don’t know
How can you tell where yore’ going to
You can’t be sure of any situation
Something could change and then you won’t know
Ask yourself
Where do we go from here
It seems so all to near
Just as far beyond as I can see
I still don’t know what this all means to me
Tell yourself
I have nowhere to go
I don’t know what to do
And I don’t even know the time of day
I guess it doesn’t matter any way
Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don’t know
Your destination
Something could change
It’s unknown
And then you won’t know
Destination unknown
Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don’t know
Your destination
Something could change
It’s unknown
And then you won’t know
Destination unknown
You ask yourself
When will my time come
Has it all been said and done
I know I’ll leave when it’s my time to go
Till then I’ll carry on with what I know
Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don’t know
Your destination
Something could change
It’s unknown
And then you won’t know
Destination unknown
Life is so strange
Destination unknown
When you don’t know
Your destination
And something could change
It’s unknown
And then you won’t know
Destination unknown
Life is so strange - 10 . Dreaming
Details
Title extra: (edit)
Length: 3:31
Written By: Deborah Harry + Chris Stein
Additional Info: Cover of Blondie.
Lyrics
When I met you in the restaurant you could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure, "A movie or a measure"?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
Dreaming is free
I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living rarity
People stop and stare at me, we just walk on by; we just keep on dreaming
Feet feet: walking a two mile
Meet meet: meet me at the turnstile
I never met him, I'll never forget him
Dream dream: even for a little while
Dream dream: filling up an idle hour
Fade away, radiate
I sit by and watch the river flow
I sit by and watch the traffic go
Imagine something of your very own; something you can have and hold
I'd build a road in gold just to have some dreaming
Dreaming is free
- 11 . Believe
Lyrics
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 - 12 . Pennies
Lyrics
And I stumbled onto you
As you stumbled over me
And you say the fates were cruel
For throwing us together
I always loved you so
Especially when you’d go
All the world must know
All the world must know
That I loved you so
It’s a pity we’re apart
It’s a shame you broke my heart
But I’ve got a new girlfriend
She looks a lot like you dear
No one could ever do dear
All the world must know
That I loved you so
Especially when you’d go
Especially when you’d go
Especially when you’d go
Away and leave me here
All the world must know
Pennies for sale
Pennies for sale
Pennies for sale
Pennies for sale
- 1 . The Last Song
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