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• Zeitgeist
  •  1 . Doomsday Clock

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    Length: 3:44

    Written By: Billy Corgan

    Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “I had this mellow guitar riff that was very simple--almost a ballad-- and we kept messing around with it. And one day, we thought, ‘What if we played it really loud.’ And that was it. Suddenly it transformed into this beastly thing.” Billy Corgan “We’ve learned a lot of lessons over the years about not taking songs at face value when they emerge. I think that’s something Flood taught us along the way. ‘Doomsday Clock’ started off almost a folk calypso number and it turned into this . . . Apocalypso. We’re believers that a good song is a good song whether it’s played on an electric guitar or a zither.” Jimmy Chamberlin

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    Lyrics

    Is everyone afraid?
    Is everyone ashamed?
    They’re running towards their holes, to find out
    Apocalyptic means are lost among our dead
    A message to our friends to get out
    There’s wages on this fear
    Oh so clear
    Depends on what you’ll pay to hear
    They’re bound to kill us all
    In whitewashed halls
    Their jackals lick their paws
    Please don’t stop
    It’s lonely at the top
    These lonely days
    When will they ever stop?
    This doomsday clock ticking in my heart
    Not broken
    I love life every day
    In each and every way
    Kafka would be proud, to find out
    I’m certain of the end
    It’s the means that has me spooked
    It takes an unknown truth to get out
    I’m guessing I’m born free, silly me
    I was meant to beg from my knees
    Please don’t stop
    It’s lonely at the top
    These lonely days
    When will they ever stop?
    This doomsday clock ticking in my heart
    These lonely days when will they ever stop?
    We gotta dig in, gas masks on
    Wait in the sunshine, all bug-eyed
    If this is living?
    Sakes alive!
    Well then they can’t win
    No one survives
    Is everyone afraid?
    You should be ashamed
    Apocalyptic screams
    Mean nothing to the dead
    Kissing that ‘ol sun
    To know all there is
    Come on, last call
    You should want it all
    Ah, it’s lonely at the top
    These lonely days
    When will they ever stop
    This doomsday clock ticking in my heart
    These lonely days
    When will they ever stop
    This ticking in my heart
    Is everyone afraid?

  •  2 . 7 Shades Of Black

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    Length: 3:17

    Written By: Billy Corgan

    Additional Info: It's working title was Shades Of Doom. From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “That song’s very much in our old kind of Pumpkins wheelhouse. It was kind of like getting reacquainted with an old friend at a high school reunion.” Jimmy Chamberlin “This song reminds me of when they would bring back Vincent Price in the Eighties to do Vincent Price again. I feel like I brought out the mid-Nineties guy to have a stroll through his narcissistic, nihilistic landscape.” Billy Corgan

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    Lyrics

    I’m on the street yeah
    I want you
    I’m looking for myself
    I’m gonna make it
    I’ll take it
    Like everybody else
    Belle of the fawning
    I’m yawning
    Sister can’t you spell
    Above suspicion
    Hey listen!
    I’m digging my own hell
    ‘Cause I want you bad
    ‘Cause I want you bad
    And without peer
    And without fear
    I’m without anyone at all
    I’m torn apart, decrying
    How unjust you are
    For bursting
    My black heart
    ‘Cause you don’t want me no more
    But just you worry
    ‘Cause when they scratch-scratch my door
    You’ll hurry
    Ah 1, 2, 3
    This gun is loaded, devoted
    You postulate the rest
    Riding the seesaw
    There’s no law
    That I have ever met
    I’m just a flat punk
    On dead junk
    Riding a vanguard
    Cut from the vaunted
    I’m haunted, till death do us part
    ‘Cause I want you bad
    ‘Cause I want you bad
    Fall in hate with me
    With one trick
    You will want it all
    The yeah-yeah tears
    The now and here
    The without anyone at all
    I’m torn without
    I’m crying out for doom
    ‘Cause you don’t want me no more
    But babe don’t worry
    ‘Cause when you scratch-scratch my door
    I’ll show you, either or ?
    We are the lurking
    The panzers
    The black as coal as night
    Stealing what stealthy
    And stellar
    Until we get it right
    Notice the yearlings
    The dead things
    The pretty as you please
    I am the regent, the marquis
    Sowing my bad seeds
    ‘Cause I want you bad
    ‘Cause I want you bad
    Fall in hate with me
    With one trick
    You will want it all
    As St. Patrick pipes on!

  •  3 . Bleeding The Orchid

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    Length: 4:03

    Additional Info: Also known as Orchid. From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “I realized listening to ‘Orchid’ that it’s a distant commentary on what happened to the bands of the Nineties. The song even has a bit of an homage to Alice in Chains in the harmonies. Alice in Chains is one band that I appreciate so much more now than when we were all in the same competitive streak. I also thought a lot about Kurt Cobain and what we’d all been through as a collective unit and the battle-scarred feeling of that. I wondered about what our contribution was as a generation. I’m close to Courtney Love. I know the negative ramifications of that time. I see what she goes through, and the ramifications on Francis Bean. Everybody can talk about the Kurt on a t-shirt, but they’re still real people . So in a way, that song is a cost assessment.” Billy Corgan “We’re great believers in continuing the search musically until the last possible minute looking for something better than what you have, and that song is one that benefited.” Jimmy Chamberlin

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    Lyrics

    If life is my witness
    Love is my song
    If nothing means no one
    Then blank, I belong
    If fear conquers easy
    I can lead on
    Milk from the flower
    Blood from the dawn
    So here we are
    Upon your stage
    The laughs we shared
    The dreams we saved
    Bleeding the orchid
    We’re bleeding the orchid
    Bleeding the orchid
    Blessed my weakness
    Blessed my wrongs
    As hate forms the sequence
    Of one by one
    As freedoms die easy
    We suffrage the want
    There’s clouds in my shower
    Ghosts in my arms
    Youth is where you are
    Faith some sinner’s child
    We’re bleeding the orchid
    We’re bleeding the orchid
    Bleeding the orchid
    Gilded art this silent march past triumph thru alarm
    So thus charmed
    Does this will stand for much?
    But heart’s untouched by heart’s unloved
    Bleeding the orchid
    Here we are
    Upon your stage
    The love we share
    The dreams we’ll save
    They’re bleeding the orchid
    They’re bleeding the orchid
    They’re bleeding the orchid
    They’re bleeding the orchid

  •  4 . That’s The Way

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    Title extra: (My Love Is)

    Length: 3:48

    Written By: Billy Corgan

    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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    Lyrics

    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

  •  5 . Tarantula

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    Length: 3:49

    Written By: Billy Corgan

    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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    Lyrics

    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

  •  6 . Starz

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    Length: 3:41

    Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “I originally wanted this song to sound sort of as if it were from that weird period from 1972-1974 when bands started going metal like Judas Priest but a lot of it still sounded poppy like the Sweet. I wanted ‘Starz’ to sound like that, but of course then Roy blew it up into some other thing. Yes, I am aware that there was a band Starz back then. Now I’m going to have to buy their stuff.” Billy Corgan “That’s Roy being Roy--as only he can.” Jimmy Chamberlin

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    Lyrics

    Born of love and cast in light

    Don’t you know we cannot die

    We are stars

    We are

    We are stars

    We are

    We are stars

    We are

    The stars above, stars of grace

    Shining down what’s left of face

    You hurt so bad

    This knowing, this fallacy

    I want so much

    To follow as I lead

    For love I keep

    Silent I weep

    Dead suns rule dead air

    But heaven is everywhere

    Stars…

    Torn from god and flung towards night

    Don’t you want what I can’t fight

    We are stars

    We are

    We are stars

    We are

    We are stars

    We are

    The stars that shine, stars that bleed

    Silver seeking destiny

    So follow please

    This hurts so much

    This knowing carries me

    We want so bad

    We forget we are free

    Spirit smile on

    Deep black diamond

    So rise the lost toys

    Island of white noise

    And purple haze

    We are starz

    We are starz

    We are starz

    What hurts so much

    Is knowing we are free!

  •  7 . United States

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    Length: 9:50

    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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    Lyrics

    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

  •  8 . Neverlost

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    Length: 4:13

    Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “We were about to break for Christmas at the end of ‘05, and it was sort of the last day at school, musically. We were about to pack up and I said, ‘Let’s try to write one more song,’ and Jimmy said ‘Okay.’ So that song comes from that little bit of extra effort. I’ve heard Dylan talk about writing songs like being a gamble and a hot streak. Once you’re on the roll, you have to keep going.” Billy Corgan “We always say it’s the extra ten percent that makes a hundred percent difference in what we do. And that song is one of my favorites.” Jimmy Chamberlin

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    Lyrics

    All hands on deck

    Setting sail to get wrecked off course

    You make what you want of me

    I will keep you anyway

    Let’s fill these hours and kill desire

    Let’s fill these hours and kill desire

    I’m in touch with you

    Let’s kill these hours and fill desire

    Every turn is torture thought

    Every kicking of the drum

    I’ve seen the film

    I know the place

    I’m never lost

    There’s just one way across

    I’m never lost

    Headlights shoot north

    The ends of earth off course

    Of course

    If you think just right

    If you’ll love you’ll find

    Certain truths left behind

    All this is that once forgot

    A closing down of the gate

    But oh these hours

    I lost my place

    I’m never lost

    There’s just one way

    There’s no disgrace in failing me

    Let’s kill these hours and fill desire

    I’m in touch with you

    Let’s kill these hours and fill desire

    I’m in touch with you

    I’m in touch with you

  •  9 . Bring The Light

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    Length: 3:35

    Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “This was one of the songs we had earmarked for Roy Thomas Baker to produce. As we later told Roy, we had heard all these stories about him being completely insane which turned out not to be true. He’s one of the most hard-working, aware and brilliant people we’ve ever worked with and we couldn’t wait to hear what he did with that song.” Billy Corgan “For me that track is all about Roy–the way he produced, that drum sound. Roy doesn’t produce songs; he produces moments. We were constantly trying our best to put a smile on Roy’s face.” Jimmy Chamberlin

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    Lyrics

    Shot down I stood
    Withstood my neighborhood
    I got it wrong
    But I could
    Follow love lest I learn
    It’s light
    To bring the light
    I fought with all my might, with light
    Oh bring the light
    Light, bring the light
    I never felt so good and right
    But tonight you’ll never need another sound
    Oh, bring the light
    Bring the light to me
    Here and gone oh I trust
    You’d spit upon my dust
    And mix my ash with your blood
    A son of god you know you must arrive
    In the light
    Bring the light, let’s bring the light
    Light, oh bring the light
    Light, bring the light
    It’s yours not mine
    If you just want to survive
    Go grab a glimpse of any star in heaven’s high
    I never felt so real and loved and alive
    No shadows follow me unsung
    In the light, bring the light to me
    A flower song, clear and bright
    Is it wrong, in neon white?
    To insist you are mine
    Standing dumb in the light
    Bring the light
    Oh, bring the light
    Bring the light!
    Light, bring the light
    I never felt so real and right and alive
    Don’t let them steal from you what’s yours by right
    Light, bring the light
    You know there comes a place and time
    You can’t deny
    With every movement shadows cast and align
    Bring the light, bring the light
    Bring the light let’s bring the light
    Light, bring the light

  • 10 . Let’s Go!

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    Title extra: (Come On)

    Length: 3:15

    Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “That was one of the original riffs that I brought from Chicago when we went to Scottsdale. The problem with a song like that is you’ve got this great riff and then that’s all you’ve got. The riff comes in two minutes. Then you take weeks out of your life being a slave to that riff. We really have a love-hate relationship with the riff songs.” Billy Corgan “The real problem is after that great riff, you need another great riff.” Jimmy Chamberlin

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    Lyrics

    C’mon let’s go

    I’ll find you waiting there

    Beyond their violence dared

    A light around your soul

    You could be my friend

    Lovely and different

    Crushing up the stars above us

    A guarantee to spoil our rot

    Tears were once my only way back home

    Someone speaks and instantly I’m cold

    C’mon let’s go

    C’mon let’s go

    Beyond the great unknown

    Beyond their punched-up skulls

    To die upon this road

    C’mon let’s go

    C’mon let’s go

    Anesthetized I’m hollow

    Playing to the dark back row

    C’mon let’s go

    Go

    C’mon let’s go

    Assimilate, it’s all been staged

    I’ve made mistakes, they penetrate

    They’re gonna take, it’s all the same

    They cannot wait, their love spells hate

    I wanna love

    I wanna love

    I’m pushing back

    I’m serpentine

    I’m pushing back

    Lord save me

    With need

    Lord walk me home

    C’mon let’s go

    C’mon, c’mon let’s go

    Tears were once my only way back home

    Someone weeps and instantly I’m thrown

    C’mon let’s go

    C’mon let’s go

    Go

    C’mon let’s go

  • 11 . For God And Country

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    Length: 4:51

    Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: “In the beginning, before it went disco, that one was very Morricone and kinda bad.” Jimmy Chamberlin “I started the song on an acoustic guitar, and I just loved something about hearing the words ‘God and Country’ coming out of my mouth because I’m just not that patriotic. It was like our ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic.’ So I have this cheap synthesizer that is our go-to instrument when we don’t know what to do, and I started playing the chords and pushing different buttons and ultimately settled on a dance rhythm. What makes the song even more bizarre is that you have a sort of political message to a disco beat--thanks to Roy who mixed it like an old Donna Summer dance track. I told him the bass was just too loud and he gave me a face like I was taking away his toy. Of course, Roy was right.” Billy Corgan

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    Lyrics

    I want to live for god and country
    I want to give for god and country
    It’s too late for some
    It’s too late for what you’ve done
    I can’t help what I divide in you
    For god and country I’ll fight
    For god and country I’ll die
    For god and country my soul is so alive
    My soul is so alive
    Lay down your arms to me
    Lay down your arms for god and country
    I want to live where no one’s watching my way home
    I want to give until I’m bursting with unknown
    It’s too late for some
    It’s too late for everyone
    I can’t help what I destroy in you
    Well who needs this anymore?
    C’mon make it so
    That’s when they build their cross of death
    You won’t build your own
    It’s time to wake up!
    It’s time to wake up for good
    I can’t help you though I should
    For god and country we’ll fight
    For god and country we’ll die
    For god and country my soul is so alive
    My soul is so alive
    Lay down your arms to me
    Lay down your arms For god and country
    You can’t deny god and country
    We’re fighting for our lives
    You can’t deny god and country
    Our souls are so aligned
    In this time of god and country
    We’ll take you on our side
    It’s alright
    My soul is so alive
    With god and night
    With god and country
    My soul is so alive

  • 12 . Pomp And Circumstances

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    Length: 4:18

    Additional Info: From Zeitgeist track by track interview: "Billy had a sketch of that one that was just him at the organ at first. And I think I was the first cheerleader for that song. I thought the melody and the use of space was so compelling. Even though I play busily myself, I’m a sucker for a lot of space in songs.” Jimmy Chamberlin “I played it for Jimmy and he’s usually my BS meter, and he loved it. Then I played it for an ex-girlfriend, and she started crying, and it didn’t even have lyrics yet. So then we talked about getting an orchestra, but instead we got an old Emulator--the Art of Noise keyboard--and built the track around that.” Billy Corgan

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    Lyrics

    When I was born I lost

    When I was freed I fought

    Now that I’m loved I’m caught

    Between the rest and this tragic mess

    An invited guest

    Torn, broken and frayed

    Oh don’t we face

    War, sunshine and grace

    Oh won’t you stay

    For a while

    We can fail in style

    I can hold your smile

    For a while

    What was once new now gone

    What was once praised now wrong

    As they go, we can say we know

    But what do we know

    But warm sunshine and graves

    Don’t we see

    What’s bitter to taste

    Torn, broken and frayed

    Don’t we face

    War, sunshine and graves

    Won’t you stay

    ‘Cause I won’t tell

    I won’t tell a soul

    That I’m mad as hell

    Torn, broken and frayed

    I’m torn, broken and frayed

    No, I’m cold, worn out and shamed