THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS (1995)

TWILIGHT TO STARLIGHT

  1. Where Boys Fear To Tread
  2. Bodies
  3. Thirty-Three
  4. In The Arms Of Sleep
  5. 1979
  6. Tales Of A Scorched Earth
  7. Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
  8. Stumbleine
  9. X.Y.U.
10. We Only Come Out At Night
11. Beautiful
12. Lily (My One And Only)
13. By Starlight
14. Farewell And Goodnight

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS

MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS

TWILIGHT TO STARLIGHT

1. WHERE BOYS FEAR TO TREAD

Candy cane walks down
To build a bonfire, to break my fall
My baby, my sweet thing
Just maybe we could lose ourselves this time
King of the horseflies, dark prince of death
His tragic forces are heaven sent
In sweet things, in a lovers breath
In knowing this was meant to be the last
A go-go-kids, a go-go-style
A suck suck kiss, a suck suck smile
As always, in young need
A veiled promise to never die
On dead highways, her black beauties roam
For june angels, so far from home
For a love lost, a faded picture
To tread lightning, to ink the lavender skies
So get on the bomb
Get back where you belong.

2. BODIES

Cast the pearls aside, of a simple life of need
Come into my life forever
The crumbled cities stand as known
Of the sights you have been shown
Of the hurt you call your own
Love is suicide

The empty bodies stand at rest
Casualties of their own flesh
Afflicted by their disposession
But no bodies ever knew
Nobodys
No bodies felt like you
Nobodys
Love is suicide

Now we drive the night, to the ironies of peace
You can't help deny forever
The tragedies reside in you
The secret sights hide in you
The lonely nights divide you in two
All my blisters now revealed
In the darkness of my dreams
In the saces in between us
But no bodies ever knew
Nobodys
No bodies felt like you
Nobodys
Love is suicide.

3. THIRTY-THREE

Speak to me in a language I can hear
humour me before I have to go
Deep in thought I forgive everyone
As the cluttered streets greet me once again
I know I can't be late, supper's waiting
On the table
Tomorrow's just an excuse away
So I pull my collar up and face the cold,
On my onw
The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet
At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk
Steeple guide me to my heart and home
The sun is out and up and down again
I know I'll make it, love can last forever
Graceful swans of never topple to the earth
And you can make it last, forever you
And for a moment I lose myself
Wrapped up in the pleasures of the world
I've journeyed here and there and back again
But in the same old haunts I still find my friends
Mysteries not ready to reveal
Sympathies I'm ready to return
I'll make the effort, love can last forever
Graceful swans of never topple to the earth
Tomorrow's just an excuse
And you can make it last, forever you
You can make it last, forever you.

4. IN THE ARMS OF SLEEP

Sleep will not come to this tired body now
Peace will not come to this lonely heart
There are some things I'll live without
But I want you to know that I need you right now
I need you tonite
I steal a kiss from her sleeping shadow moves
Cause I'll always miss her wherever she goes
And I'll always need her more than she could ever need me
I need someone to ease my mind
But sometimes a someone is so hard to find
And I'll do anything to keep her here tonite
And I'll say anything to make her feel alright
And I'll be anything to keep her here tonite
Cause I want you to stay, with me
I need you tonite
She comes to me like an angel out of time
As I play the part of a saint on my knees
There are some things I'll live without
But I want you to know that I need you
Right now
Suffer my desire
Suffer my desire
Suffer my desire for you.

5. 1979

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 and end to it all
And I don't even care to shake there
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 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 earth below
The street heats the urgency of sound
As you can see there's no one around.

6. TALES OF A SCORCHED EARTH

Farewell goodnight last one out turn out
The lights
And let me be, let me die inside
Let me know the way from of this world of
Hate in you
Cause the dye is cast, and the bitch is back
And we're all dead yeah we're all dead
Inside the future of a shattered past
I lie just to be real, and I'd die just to feel
Why do the same old things keep on happening?
Because beyond my hopes there are no feelings
Bless the martyrs and kiss the kids
For knowing better, for knowing this
Cause you're all whores and I'm a fag
And I've got no mother and I've got no dad
To save me the wasted, save me from muself
I lie just to be real, and I'd die just to feel
Why do the same old things keep on happening?
Because beyond my hopes there are no feelings
Everybody's lost just waiting to be found
Everyone's a thought just waiting to fade
So fuck it all cause I don't care
So what somehow somewhere we dared
To try to dare to dare for a little more
I lie just to be real, and I'd die just to feel
Why do the same old things keep on happening?
Because beyond my hopes there are no reasons.

7. THRU THE EYES OF RUBY

Wrap me up in always, and drag me in
With maybes
Your innocence is treasure, your innocence
Is death
Your innocence is all I have
Breathing underwater, and living under glass
And if you spin your love around
The secrets of your dreams
You may find your love is gone
And is not quite what it seemed
To appear to diappear
Beneath all your darkest fears
I believe in never, I believe in all the way
But belief is no to notice, belief is just
Some faith
And faith can't help you to escape
And with this ring I wed thee true
And with this ring I wed dthee now
And with this ring I play so dead
But no one's asking for the truth,
So let me tell you
If you spin your love around
The secrets of your dreams
You may find your love is gone
And is not quite what it seemed
To appear to disappear
Beneath all your darkest fears
To the reveations of fresh faced youth
No one will come to save you
So speak your peace in the murmurs drawn
But youth is wasted on the young
Your strength is my weakness, your weakness
My hate
My love for you just can't explain
Why we're forever frozen, forever beautiful,
Forever lost
Inside ourselves
The night has come to hold us young.

8. STUMBLEINE

Boredoms in the bathroom shaking out the
Loose teeth
Sally's in the stirrups claiming her destiny
And nobody nowhere understands anything
About me and all my dreams
Lost at sea
Jack it up Judy set your heart alight
Mayfair mistress of the satellites
Misspent youth- faking up a rampage
To hold off the real slaves
Paid off and staid
And what you never knew
Can never get to you
So fake it
I'll be your stumbleine
I'll be your super queen
And make you
Jukebox fuckup hanging round the drugstore
No matter what you say he'll be back for more
Mommy's in the manger with the little kids
She's got her reasons, got my forgets
Or tears and idle threats
Misplaced
And no matter what they do
They can't get to you
So fake it
I'll be your stumbleine
I'll be your super queen
And make you me
Come around Ruby I could never sleep alone.

9. X.Y.U.

She didn't wanna be, she didn't wanna know
She couldn't run away cause she was crazy
She gave it all away, she saw her baby break
And in the air it hung that she was dull razors
And I said, I wanna fill you up, I wanna break
You, I wanna give you up, from one another
Another one should come to one another
No one should come between us
Still I was lonely, and she was by my side, my
One and only, knows that she could never hide
I couldn't feel he, and it was just a game
Cause I was lonely and she was crazy
Rat-tat-tat, ka boom boom
Now take that, and just a bit of this
Cause I'm a watchr, and I'm a doer of none
Come to save you, cause you're all mine
I hurt where I can't feel, I feel where I can't hurt
I know where I can't know, I bleed for me
And mine
Ka-boom, a rat-tat-tat, and some good ole bliss
Cause I'm a sister, and I'm a motherfuck
I am made of shamrocks, I am made of stern stuff
I am never enough, I am the forgotten child
And I said I wanna give you up, from one another
No one should ever come
In between us, between us and our love
Mary had a little lamb, her face was white as snow
And everywhere that Mary went I was sure to go
Now Mary's got a problem
And Mary's not a stupid girl
Mary's got some deep shit
And Mary does not forget
And this is how Mary's garden grows
And this is how Mary has her ghosts
And inot the eyes of the jackyl I say ka-boom
Now we begin descent, to where we've
Never been
There is no going back, this wasn't meant to last
This is a hell one earth, we are meant to serve
And she will never learn
Bye bye, baby goodbye.

10. WE ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT

We only come out at night, the days are much
Too bright we only come out at night
And once again, you'll pretend to know me
Well, my friends
And once again, I'll pretend to know the way
Thru the empty space
Thru the secret places of the heart
We only come out at night, the days are much
Too bright we only come out at night
And once agian, you'll pretend to know that
There's an end, that there's an end to this begin
It will help you sleep at night
It will make it seem that right is always right
Alright?
We only come out at night.

11. BEAUTIFUL

Beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as
The sun
Wonderful, you're wonderful, as wonderful as
They come
And I can't help but feel attached
To the feelings I can't even match
With my face pressed up to the glass,
Wanting you
Beautiful, you're beautiful, as beautiful as
The sky
Wonderful, it's wonderful, to know that you're
Just like I
And I'm sure you know me well, as I'm sure
You don't
But you just can't tell
Who'll you love and who you won't
And I love you, as you love me
So let the clouds roll by your face
We'll let the world spin on to another place
We'll climb the tallest tree above it all
To look down on you and me and them
And I'm sure you know me well, as I'm sure
You don't
But you just can't tell, who you'll love and who
You won't
Don't let your life wrap up around you
Don't forget to call, whenever
I'll be here just waiting for you
I'll be under your stars forever
Neither here nor there just right beside you
I'll be under the stairs forever
Neither here nor there jsut right beside you.

12. LILY (My One And Only)

Lily, my one and only
I can hardly wait till I see her
Silly, I know I'm silly
Cause I'm hanging in this tree
In the hopes that she will catch a
Glimpse of me
And thru her window shade
I watch her shadow move
I wonder if she.....?
Lily, my one and only
Love is in my heart and in your eyes
Will she or won't she want him
No one knows for sure
But an officer is knocking at my door
And thru her window shade
I watch her shadow move
I wonder if she could only see me?
And when I'm with her I feel fine
If I could kiss her I wouldn't mind the time it
Took to find
My Lily, my one and only
I can hardly wait till I see her
Oh Lily, I know you love me
Cause as they're draggin me away
I swear I saw her raise
Her hand and wave
(Goodbye).

13. BY STARLIGHT

By starlight I'll kiss you
And promise to be your
One and only
I'll make you feel happy
And leave you to be lost in mine
And where will we go, what will we do?
Soon said I, will know
Dead eyes, are you just like me?
Cause her eyes were as vacant as the seas
Dead eyes, are you just like me?
And all along, we knew we'd carry on
Just to belong
By starlight I know you
As lovely as a wish granted true
My life has been empty, my life has been untrue
And does she really know, who I really am
Does she really know me at last
Dead eyes, are you just like me?

14. FAREWELL AND GOODNIGHT

Goodnight, to every little hour that you sleep tite
May it hold you through the winter of a long night
And keep you from the loneliness of yourself
Heart strung is your heart frayed and empty
Cause it's hard luck, when no one understands your love
It's unsung, and I say
Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day
Goodnight, always, to all that's pure that's in your heart

Goodnight, may your dreams be so happy and your
Head lite with the wishes of a sandman and a night light
Be careful not to let the bedbugs sleep tight nestled in your covers
The sun shines but I don't
A silver rain will wash away
And you can tell, it's just as well
Goodnight, my love, to every hour in every day
Goodnight, always, to all that's pure that's in your heart.

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