Smashing Pumpkins - 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 an end to it all

and i don't even 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 the earth, below

double cross the vacant and the bored
they're not sure just what we have in the 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 the earth, below

the street heats the urgency of now
as you see there's no one around

THE EVERLASTING GAZE
TONIGHT, TONIGHT

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