The words flow
Decisions made
Ideas mine
But the inspiration not

Dreams of hangers-on
Dreams of getting well
Spells of Esmarelda
Emeralds foretold

Splinters in the eye
Sentimentally made
Bones that never rest
Where we going to?

It was never up to me
And yet I pushed until it broke


I love the open road
And all that it suggests
We are wagon dust
Weeds and infidelities

Always swore our love
Never questioned why
In a wooden house
Immovable and silent

And drinking strawberry wine
Forever lost in town
And thru those sleeping streets
Night bound and heavy

Wheels in a spoke
Still spoken foreign sound

Now my gaits are high
My friends even higher
Forgotten in my mind
But the sighs still linger


Climb the blue skies
I�m jealous of you birds
Was the only truth
In a world full of words

In a prairie sound
In a friend called near
The heart is pointed down
But my spirit pointed up
His voice was siren
Of Greek mythology

I pause with my pen
I begin to defend
Every action taken
Every moment sealed


When i was quick
It coursed thru open veins
The will to live
The urgency to move

Behind a paneled door
Sealed and cherry stained
I played my guitar
And lived those lonesome notes

Like a dog that�s down
In a corner just aside
Waiting to be called
Waiting to be yours

Ghosts of all my shame
Without purpose or will


I often speak of you
But the you was always me

Cause when I speak of me
It�s me I ask of you

So let there be no truth
Just trickery and rhymes

Time the only thing
Waiting till his death

I hope for resolution
Pray one defined moment
Pause without restraint
Barren without child

A child is who I was
A child is who I�ll die

A child is who I�ll die

Soot in my hair
And stars in my hands
Soot in my hair
And stars in my hands
Soot in my hair
And stars in my hands


~Billy Corgan
Soot and Stars
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