The Smashing Pumpkins

thumb|Smashing Pumpkins in 2007 thumb|Billy Corgan (2008) thumb|James Iha (1995) thumb|D'arcy Wretzky (2010) thumb|Jimmy Chamberlin (2014) The Smashing Pumpkins (also simply known as Smashing Pumpkins) is an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The band has undergone several line-up changes since their reunion in 2006, with Corgan being the primary songwriter and sole constant member since its inception. The current lineup consists of Corgan, Chamberlin, and Iha. The band is known for its diverse, densely layered sound, which evolved throughout their career and has integrated elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, grunge, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, shoegaze, dream pop, and electronica. Song lyrics All tracks are written by Billy Corgan, except as noted. Gish (1991) I am one as you are three,Try to find a messiah in your trinity.Your city to burn, your city to burn,Try to look for something in your city to burn.You’ll burn.<p>Am I as I seem?I’m down.Down,So down. "I Am One", written by Corgan and Iha Way down deep and in my heartLies a soul that’s torn apart.Tell me, tell me what you’re after,I just want to get there faster. "Siva" Could have knownI would reveal.Should have knownI would conceal your way. "Rhinoceros" My daydream seems as one inside of you.Though it seems hard to reach through this life,Your blue and hopeless life.My daydream screams bitter ’til the end.The love I share, true, selfish to the heart,My heart, my sacred heart. "Daydream" Siamese Dream (1993) Freak out and give in.Doesn't matter what you believe in.Stay coolAnd be somebody's fool this year.'Cause they knowWho is righteous, what is bold.So I'm told. "Cherub Rock" I wanted moreThan life could ever grant me.Bored by the choreOf saving face.<p>Today is the greatestDay I've ever known.Can't wait for tomorrow,I might not have that long.I'll tear my heart outBefore I get out. "Today" Faith lies inThe ways of sin.I chased the charmed,But I don't want them anymore. "Hummer" Bleed in your own light,Dream of your own life.I miss me.I miss everything I’ll never be.<p>And on and on,I torch my soul to showThe world that I am pure.Deep inside my heart,No more lies. "Rocket" I used to be a little boy,So old in my shoes.And what I choose is my choice.What's a boy supposed to do?The killer in me is the killer in you, my love.I send this smile over to you. "Disarm" I'm all by myself,As I've always felt.And I'll betray my tearsTo anyone caught in our ruse of fools. "Soma", written by Corgan and Iha So let the sadness come again,On that you can depend on me, yeah.Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah,When God sleeps in bliss. "Soma" We'll try and ease the pain,But somehow, we'll feel the same.Well, no one knowsWhere our secrets go. "Mayonaise", written by Corgan and Iha Fool enough to almost be it,And cool enough to not quite see it.And old enough to always feel this.Always old, I'll always feel this.No more promise, no more sorrow,No longer will I follow.Can anybody hear me?I just want to be me. "Mayonaise" What moonsongsDo you sing your babies?What sunshine do you bring?Who belongs?Who decides who's crazy?Who rights wrongs where others cling? "Luna" Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) thumb|My life has been extraordinary,Blessed and cursed and won.Time heals but I'm forever brokenBy and by the wayHave you ever heard the wordsI'm singin' in these songs?It's for the girl I've loved all along.Can a taste of love be so wrong? thumb|Emptiness is lonelinessAnd loneliness is cleanlinessAnd cleanliness is godlinessAnd God is empty just like me. thumb|Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. thumb|And we don't knowJust where our bones will rest.To dust I guess,Forgotten and absorbed into the earthBelow. Time is never time at all.You can never ever leaveWithout leaving a piece of youth.And our lives are forever changed.We will never be the same.The more you change, the less you feel. "Tonight, Tonight" Emptiness is lonelinessAnd loneliness is cleanlinessAnd cleanliness is godlinessAnd God is empty just like me.<p>Intoxicated with the madness,I'm in love with my sadness. "Zero" The world is a vampire,Sent to drain.Secret destroyersHold you up to the flames.And what do I getFor my pain?Betrayed desiresAnd a piece of the game. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.Someone will say, "What is lost can never be saved"Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" I fear that I am ordinary,Just like everyoneTo lie here and die among the sorrowsAdrift among the daysFor everything I ever saidAnd everything I've ever done is goneAnd dead.<p>As all things must surely have to endAnd great loves will one day have to partI know that I am meant for this world. "Muzzle" My life has been extraordinary,Blessed and cursed and won.Time heals but I'm forever brokenBy and by the wayHave you ever heard the wordsI'm singin' in these songs?It's for the girl I've loved all along.Can a taste of love be so wrong? "Muzzle" Speak to me in a language I can hear,Humor 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 waitin' on the table.Tomorrow's just an excuse away,So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own. "Thirty-Three" The earth laughs beneath my heavy feetAt the blasphemy in my old jangly walk.Steeple guide me to my heart and home,The sun is out and up and down again.<p>I know I'll make it, love can last foreverGraceful swans of never topple to the earth. "Thirty-Three" And I don't even careTo shake these zipper blues.And we don't knowJust where our bones will rest.To dust I guess,Forgotten and absorbed into the earthBelow. "1979" That we don't even care,As restless as we are.We feel the pullIn the land of a thousand guiltsAnd poured cement. "1979" Adore (1998) It’s you that I adore,You’ll always be my whore.You’ll be the mother to my child,And a child to my heart. "Ava Adore" Lovely girl, you're the murder in my world,Dressing coffins for the souls I've left to die.Drinking mercury to the mysteryOf all that you should ever leave behindIn time. "Ava Adore" I know we're just like old friends.We just can't pretendThat lovers make amends.<p>We are reasons so unreal,We can't help but feelThat something has been lost. "Perfect" But please, you know you're just like me.Next time (Time), I promise we'll be<p>Perfect,Perfect,Perfect strangers down the line,Lovers out of time.Memories unwind.<p>So far, I still know who you are,But now (Now), I wonder who I was. "Perfect" Who am I to need you now?To ask you why?To tell you no?To deserve your love and sympathy?You were never meant to belong to me.<p>And you may go, but I know you won’t leave.Too many years built into memories.Your life is not your own. "Crestfallen" Machina/The Machines of God (2000) You know I’m, you know I’m not dead,I’m just living in my head.Forever waitingOn the ways of your desire.You always find a wayAnd through it allInto us all you move,Forgotten touch,Forbidden thought.We can never have enough. "The Everlasting Gaze" You and meMeant to be.Immutable,Impossible.It’s destiny,Pure lunacy.Incalculable,Inseparable.<p>But for the last time,You’re everythingThat I want and asked for.You’re all that I dream. "Stand Inside Your Love" Try to hold on to this heart a little bit longer.Try to hold on to this love aloud.Try to hold on, for this heart’s a little bit colder.Try to hold on to this love. "Try, Try, Try" Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000) Last chance to make believe in always and all it seems.Train wrecks hide underneath your umbrella,Set the frame destiny on this first name soliloquy.Tired symphonies play downward.<p>Let me give the world to you my love.Let me give the world to you my love.Let me show you what I'm thinking of.Let me give the world to you my love. "Let Me Give the World to You" Zeitgeist (2007) 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.<p>I love life every day,In each and every way.Kafka would be proud, to find outI’m certain of the end.It’s the means that has me spookedIt takes an unknown truth to get out. "Doomsday Clock" We are the real,If real ever was.And just becauseWe are the ruinOf every living soul,We are surreal'Cause someone gave us up.<p>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 you're sad.Freeze-frame the pouring rain. "Tarantula" Oceania (2012) Rise! Love is hereOh don’t make me wonder.Life’s never clear where choice is a giftTo use and abuse,To build on proof.Oh don’t make me suffer.Birds find the wind and wing,Rest in the shells I’ve designed,Run through the fields I’ve denied,And stroll upon the years I’m alive.<p>There’s a sun that shines in,There’s a world that stares out at meAnd all I refuse to please. "Panopticon" Never let the summer catch you down.Never let your thoughts run free.Even when their numbers draw you out.Everything I want is free.‘Til the end‘Til the end‘Til the endI’m gonna love you 101 percent.I’m gonna love you ‘til this ends. "The Celestials" Monuments to an Elegy (2014) When they sayWhat it's worth,The world tells you first.And you knowWhere to hurt.<p>The world's on fire soThe world's on fire soThe world's on fire soHave you heard? "Being Beige" I don't mind what you're running'Cause you and me we're just something.Don't just hang what you're running onI don't mind we're so alone. "One and All (We Are)" Find first obsessions before yourselfA candlesong for where you are.You can't escape this, like someone else.Your love remains. "Run2me" Away, away foul dreams,You're gonna listen now to me.No rules, or in-betweens,You're gonna listen now to me.Waste all your time,Find another kind of boy.A feint up on the line,A phantom I don't care to hold. "Drum + Fife" Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. (2018) Stumbling before you speak,Stunning and stunning and stunning the black.You turn turncoat,Inward to seek out all your hopes.It's your signalsThat hurt me most.<p>We’re in the middle,We’re in the middle:Ghosts. "Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)" I feel that something ain’t right;No fear but reasons that I can’t cite.<p>Tear down the sun,Bring down the sun.I’m not everyone.I’m not everyone.I’m not everyone. "Solara" Cyr (2020) Whomever wants you alone,Whomever wants you atoned,It's with this prayer, I disownWhomever wants you alone. "The Colour of Love" Fragments form the mind,Shadows hold the mist.Fractured as this wish,Shattered I resign.We're on the verge, we're on the vergeOf sacred dawning and sloe-sloe eyes<p>Say, I done told youSay how I tried too.Where you've wroughtFrom creation's crownSay, dire warningStare down your mastersWith the promise of (With the promise of)One and what you are.We're on the verge. "Cyr" Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts (2022) So swallow hard the serpentsOf many tags and faces hid in masks,Coiled 'round this lung until the last.He’ll crack your boots, young pagans'Cause like you, I was hatched to traipse on coldAnd seventeen's a long drawn way from home. "Beguiled" Take me away, I'm gonna find you.Take me away, I'm gonna find you.'Cause nobody else could ever mind you.Take me away, I'm gonna find you. "Spellbinding" Aghori Mhori Mei (2024) Nails to the quickDaddy died and liars lie.A bit more than sickA dash in bittersweetWhat's that make of me?Save a lost thing,No choice but a choice to leave.<p>Can't you make me believe?Up where the others dare.What chance have I, what chances we?Would fight in love's affair. "Sighommi" External links https://smashingpumpkins.com/ Category:American bands Category:Alternative rock bands Category:Grammy Award winners Category:MTV Europe Music Award winners