lyrics for
SMASHING PUMPKINS-Adore
To Sheila

                      twilight fades
                      through blistered avalon
                      the sky's cruel torch
                      on arching autobahn
                      into the uncertain divine
                      we scream into the last divine

                      you make me real
                      you make me real
                      strong as i feel
                      you make me real

                      sheila rides on crashing nightingale
                      intake eyes leave passing vapor trails
                      with blushing brilliance alive
                      because it's time to arrive

                      you make me real
                      you make me real
                      strong as i feel
                      you make me real

                      lately I just can't seem to believe
                      discard my friends to change the scenery
                      it meant the wrold to hold a bruising faith
                      but now it's just a matter of grace

                      a summer storm graces all of me
                      highway warm sing silent poetry
                      I could bring you the light
                      and take you home into the night

                      you make me real
                      lately I just can't seem to believe
                      you make me real
                      discard my friends to change the scenery
                      strong as i feel
                      it meant the world to hold a bruising faith
                      you make me real
                      but now it's just a matter of grace
 
 

                      Ava Adore

                      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
                      we must never be apart
                      we must never be apart

                      lovely girl you're the beauty in my world
                      without you there aren't reasons left to find

                      and I'll pull your crooked teeth
                      you'll be perfect just like me
                      you'll be a lover in my bed
                      and a gun to my head
                      we must never be apart
                      we must never be apart

                      in you I see dirty
                      in you I count stars
                      in you I feel so pretty
                      in you I taste god
                      in you I feel so hungry
                      in you I crash cars
                      we must never be apart

                      drinking mercury
                      to the mystery of all that you should ever seek to find
                      lovely girl you're the murder in my world
                      dressing coffins for the souls I've left behind
                      in time
                      we must never be apart

                      and you'll always be my whore
                      cause you're the one that i adore
                      and I'll pull your crooked teeth
                      you'll be perfect just like me
                      in you I feel so dirty in you I crash cars
                      in you I feel so pretty in you I taste god
                      we must never be apart
 
 

                      Perfect

                      I know we're just like old friends
                      we just can't pretend
                      that lovers make amends
                      we are reasons so unreal
                      we can't help but feel that something has been lost

                      but please you know you're just like me
                      next time I promise we'll be
                      perfect
                      perfect
                      perfect strangers down the line
                      lovers out of time
                      memories unwind

                      so far I still know who you are
                      but now I wonder who I was...

                      angel, you know it's not the end
                      we'll always be good friends
                      the letters have been sent on

                      so please, you always were so free
                      you'll see, I promise we'll be
                      perfect
                      perfect strangers when we meet
                      strangers on the street
                      lovers while we meet

                      perfect
                      you know this has to be
                      we always we're so free
                      we promised that we'd be
                      perfect
 
 

                      Daphne Descends

                      with the sugar sickness
                      you spy the kidnap kid
                      who kids you to oblivion
                      it's the perfect hassle
                      for the perfumed kiss
                      he makes you miss him more than home

                      you love him
                      you love him more than this
                      you love him and you cannot, you can't resist
                      you love him
                      you love him for yourself
                      you love him and no one, no one else

                      past sidewalk ashes a last lovers arc
                      you come apart to intertwine
                      it was all so simple
                      as you watched him move
                      across the darkness in your room

                      you love him
                      you love him for youself
                      you love him and no one, no one else

                      and the winding vines
                      the pretty boys dive
                      and thru the pinhole stars
                      into the shadow mind
                      you will lose him then
                      on some gentle dawn
                      this boy is here and gone

                      you love him
                      you love him for yourself
                      you love him and no one, no one else
                      you love him
                      you love him more than this
                      you love him and you cannot, you can't resist

                      you love him...
 
 

                      Once Upon a Time

                      Mother I'm tired
                      come surrender my son
                      time has ravaged on my soul
                      no plans to leave but still I go

                      Fallin' with the leaves
                      fallin' out of sleep
                      to the last goodbyes
                      who cares why?

                      Mother I've tried
                      wasting my life
                      I haven't given up, I lie
                      to make you so proud in my eyes

                      Fallin' out of sleep
                      crawlin' over me
                      to the last goodbyes
                      who cares why?

                      Tuesdays come and gone
                      restless i still drive
                      try to leave it all behind

                      fallin', fallin' out of sleep
                      fallin', fallin' with the leaves
                      I go crawlin', crawlin' over me

                      Once upon a time in my life...
                      I went falling...

                      Mother I hope you know
                      that I miss you so
                      time has ravaged on my soul
                      to wipe a mothers tears grown cold
 
 

                      Tear

                      the lights came on fast
                      lost in motorcrash
                      gone in a flash unreal
                      but you knew all along
                      you laugh the light
                      I sing the songs
                      to watch you numb

                      I saw you there
                      you were on your way
                      you held the rain
                      and for the first time
                      heaven seemed insane
                      cause heaven is to blame
                      for taking you away

                      do you know the way that I can?
                      do you know the way that I can't lose?
                      do you know the things that I can?
                      do you know the things that I can do?

                      where is your heart? where is your heart gone to?
                      tear me apart
                      tear me apart from you
                      you laugh the light I cry the wound
                      in gray afternoons

                      I saw you there
                      you were on your way
                      you held the rain
                      and for the first time
                      heaven seemed insane
                      cause heaven is to blame
                      for taking you away

                      the lights came to pass
                      dead opera motorcrash
                      gone in a flash unreal
                      in nitrous overcast

                      do you know the way that I can?
                      do you know the way that I can't choose?
                      do you know the things that I can?
                      do you know the things that I can't lose?

                      tear me apart
                      tear me apart from you
                      where is your heart?
                      where has your heart run to?
 
 

                      Crestfallen

                      who am I to need you when I'm down
                      where are you when I need you around
                      your life is not your own

                      and all I ask you
                      is for another chance
                      another way around you
                      to live by circumstance, once again

                      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

                      and you may go, but I know you won't leave
                      too many years built into memories
                      your life is not your own

                      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

                      who am I to you?
                      along the way
                      I lost my faith

                      and as you were, you'll be again
                      to mold like clay, to break like dirt
                      to tear me up in your sympathy
                      you were never meant to belong to me
                      you were never meant to belong to me
                      you were never meant to belong to me

                      who am I?
 
 

                      Appels + Oranjes

                      what if the sun refused to shine?
                      what if the clouds refused to rain?
                      what if the wind refused to blow?
                      what if the seas refused to wave?
                      what if the world refused to turn?
                      what if the stars would hesitate?

                      what if, what is isn't true?
                      what are you going to do?
                      what if, what is isn't you?
                      does that mean you've got to lose?
                      digging for the feel of something new

                      what if the silence let you dream?
                      what if the air could let you breathe?
                      what if the words would bring you here?
                      what if this sound could bring you peace?

                      what if, what is isn't true?
                      what are you going to do?
                      digging for the feel of something new
                      what if, what is isn't you?
                      does that mean you've got to lose?

                      it came from your thoughts, your dreams and visions
                      ripped up from your weeks and indecisions

                      what if the sun refused to shine?
                      what if the clouds refused to rain?
                      what if the wrold refused to turn?
                      what if the clocks would hesitate?

                      what if, what is isn't true?
                      what are you going to do?
                      what if, what is isn't you?
                      does that mean you've got to lose?
                      digging for the feel of something new

                      does that mean you've got to choose?
                      the feel of something new
                      does that mean you've got to lose?
                      the thoughts you cannot lose
                      what are you gonna do?
 
 

                      Pug

                      kiss and kill me sweetly
                      come and drive me home
                      drag the miles in me
                      I am yours alone

                      inside where it's warm
                      wrap myself in you
                      outside where I'm torn
                      fight myself in two
                      in two
                      into you

                      desire me so deeply
                      drain and kick me hard
                      whisper secrets for me
                      try to go too far

                      inside where it's warm
                      wrap myself in you
                      outside where I'm torn
                      fight myself in two
                      in two
                      into...

                      please don't change
                      please don't change at all
                      bring your rain
                      bring your rain to fall

                      inside where it's warm
                      wrap myself in you
                      outside where I'm torn
                      fight myself in two
                      in two
                      into you

                      come and kiss me sweetly
                      ride the telephone
                      drag the miles to me
                      I am yours alone
                      yours alone
                      on the telephone
                      yours alone
                      looking for a kiss kiss
                      yours alone
 
 

                      The Tale of Dusty and Pistol Pete

                      dusty screams, through doors and imaginary floors
                      "why can't you miss me?"
                      pistol pete removes the final breaths from her unkind and she is shaken
                      what does this mean in love or in peace?
                      with you lying next to me
                      so faithless serene
                      and she calls to him

                      let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
                      far out beneath the sorrow clouds
                      let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
                      let them cry out through your rusted scars

                      alone he roams inside the ordinary catacombs of her waiting
                      with raven hands she steals and staggers towards her man
                      still scorned by his demon

                      because he's undone
                      become the language of
                      disaster and love, vengeance and dust
                      and she calls to him

                      let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
                      far out beneath the sorrow clouds
                      let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
                      let them cry out through your rusted scars

                      dusty screams, through doors and imaginary scenes
                      of hurt and teardrop
                      as he holds her down, in the cold lonely winds
                      together again, her inside him
                      and she calls to him

                      let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
                      far out beneath the sorrow clouds
                      let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
                      let them cry out through your rusted scars
 
 

                      Annie-Dog

                      amphetamine annie-dog
                      has her leash and a face
                      her velvet spleen her shackle spine
                      her diamond curse
                      it comes with mine

                      a vessel she
                      for violent I
                      confession arms a wake
                      mine, mine you were always mine
                      possessed by my taste

                      and below the angel dog
                      combs her hair and sings her psalms
                      the bombs go off
                      she doesn't notice
                      it all goes wrong
                      she sets things tragic
                      she is venus
                      she is mars
                      she's electric
                      and the struggle of

                      upon my face we leave no trace
                      but in her stomach mercury aged

                      she holds the blood
                      she carves the knives
                      she digs the wives in our babies

                      amphetamine annie-dog
                      pulls her trash
                      and her stories
                      from place to place
                      and bed to bed
                      gives of herself and the magnet head

                      another floor another ceiling
                      counting stairs with double meanings

                      is it wrong to be swallowed whole
                      to disappear in her
                      to give her the priceless peace
                      of giving up control

                      we tumble out into the streets
                      and annie-dog she drags her leash
                      pretty face
                      ugly mouth
                      bitter bred and so released

                      and by the no
                      and by the yes
                      annie goes if you couldn't guess

                      a simple man
                      a sycophant
                      her elephant with the laughing call
                      she wants clean sheets
                      and fresh flowers
                      and dental shots
                      and the hong kong glue

                      amphetamine annie-dog
                      has her leash and a face
 
 

                      Shame

                      you're gonna walk on home
                      you're gonna walk alone
                      you're gonna see this through
                      don't let them get to you

                      shame

                      love is good and love is kind
                      love is drunk and love is blind
                      love is good and love is mine
                      love is drunk all the time

                      shame

                      you're gonna walk on home
                      you're gonna walk alone
                      you're gonna walk so far
                      you're gonna wonder who you are

                      shame

                      love is good and love is kind
                      love is good and love is blind
                      love is good and love is mine
                      love is good all the time

                      hello goodbye, you know you made us cry...
 
 

Behold! The Night Mare

I've faced the fathoms in your deep
                      withstood the suitors quiet siege
                      pulled down the heavens just to please you
                      appease you
                      the wind blows and I know

                      I can't go on, digging roses from you grave
                      to linger on, beyond the beyond
                      where the willows weep
                      and whirlpools sleep, you'll find me
                      the coarse tide reflects sky

                      and the night mare rides on, and the night mare rides on
                      with a december black psalm
                      and the night mare rides on
                      what i fear is lost here
                      the wind blows and I know

                      all you have to do is run away
                      and steal yourself from me
                      become a mystery to gaze into
                      you're so cruel in all you do
                      but still I believe, I believe in you

                      so may you come with your own knives
                      you'll never take me alive
                      with all the force of what is true
                      is there nothing I can do?

                      I can't go on, digging roses from you grave
                      to linger on, beyond the beyond
                      where the willows weep
                      and whirlpools sleep, you'll find me

                      and the night mare rides on, and the night mare rides on
                      with a december black psalma
                      nd the night mare rides on

                      I've faced the fathoms in your deep
                      withstood the suitors quiet siege
                      pulled down the heavens just to please you
                      to hold the flower I can't keep
 
 

                      For Martha

                      whenever I run
                      whenever I run to you lost one
                      it's never done
                      just hanging on

                      just past has let me be
                      returning as if dream
                      shattered as belief

                      if you have to go don't say goodbye
                      if you have to go don't you cry
                      if you have to go I will get by
                      someday I'll follow you and see you on the other side

                      but for the grace of love
                      I'd will the meaning of
                      heaven from above

                      your picture out of time
                      left aching in my mind
                      shadows kept alive

                      if you have to go don't say goodbye
                      if you have to go don't you cry
                      if you have to go I will get by
                      I will follow you and see you on the other side

                      but for the grace of love
                      I'd will the meaning of
                      heaven from above

                      long horses we are born
                      creatures more than torn
                      mourning our way home
 
 

                      Blank Page

                      blank page is all the rage
                      never meant to say anything
                      in bed I was half dead
                      tired of dreaming of rest
                      got dressed drove the state line
                      looking for you at the five and dime
                      stop sign told me stay at home
                      told me you were not alone
                      blank page was all the rage
                      never meant to hurt anyone
                      in bed I was half dead
                      tired of dreaming of rest
                      you haven't changed
                      you're still the same
                      may you rise as you fall
                      you were easy you are forgotten
                      you are the ways of my mistakes
                      I catch the rainfall
                      through the leaking roof
                      that you had left behind
                      you remind me
                      of that leak in my soul
                      the rain falls
                      my friends call
                      leaking rain on the phone

   take a day palnt some trees
                      may they shade you from me
                      may your children play beneath

                      blank page was all the rage

                      never meant to say anything
                      in bed I was half dead
                      tired of dreaming of rest
                      got dressed drove the state line
                      looking for you at the five and dime
                      but there I was picking pieces up
                      you are a ghost
                      of my indecision
                      no more little girl
 
 

            17

(instrumental)

 
                    


CD REVIEW
When Drummer Jimmy Chamberlain "left" the group before recording this CD, the rest of the band obviously decided to throw away their guitars or something and give the CD more of a techno sound. It took me a little while to get used to this sound, but actually the CD is pretty good and most of the songs are very well written. My overall rating- B-
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