Hope to hear updates on your journey! And to all teenagers out there, just savour every single moment of being in that age. This is only once in a lifetime. Also, what a wonderful song of Smashing Pumpkins, this song is indeed immortal.
Ellie88 on August 13, Dont even know, if you receive this. So: you re never to old for love and fulfillment also! Armitage75 on July 03, Tig45 I feel like everything you said comes straight from a powerful monologue in a non existent movie. Tig45 9 years later and depressed, quarantined 15 yo me is reading your comment while listenning to this song for the 3rd time.
I love it and after all these years when everything is different im here almost crying because of the feeling like my teenage years are getting wasted. Because of the quarantine i have some time to listen to this, learn how to play this song on guitar and sharing my thoughts with random strangers on the internet, because by the time it ends i wont have this amount of time anymore. By now youre probably this grey adult you were talking about in the comment. I dont know if you remember writing this, and if you will even read it, but i just wanna say thank you for the advice and for making my day just a little bit better.
I hope you're doing good if you are still alive :' janka on January 29, General Comment This is one of the Pumpkins' best songs, one of my all-time favs The lyrics are obscure but some of them make sense if you think about it. The theme of the song is nostalgia about Billy Corgan's youth. All in all such a good song, even if not all the lyrics make sense ;- Cherub Rock on May 22, Link.
Cherub Rock. I think 'poured cement' is a metaphor for laying foundations, foundations for the future. This song continues to touch young people who are discovering this band for themselves. I was only 6 when this got released a week before my 7th birthday in Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins are still going strong, just a few line-up changes!
Cherub Rock what "to shake these zipper blues" meant to me 'to leave this body of suffering'; 'to open the zipper of my meat, that makes me suffer', as if the suffering of this world is like a mask, and with death we get release. General Comment Shakedown Cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet This suggests the typical longing for connection felt by most suburban teenagers. Notice also that the speaker now appears to be older than in verse 1.
In the next line however, the speaker is now reflecting on the past, no longer speaking as a teenager. 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 Again we are back to the voice of the teenager.
Double cross the vacant and the bored They're not sure just what we have in store Morphine city slippin dues Down to see The first line is a reference to how teenagers are often quite ruthless in how they pursue a good time. Is he now one of those cool kids he used to idolise? Morphine is also very similar to heroin, is the speaker now loosing innocence and being exposed to the destructive behaviour in the city?
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 The first two lines represent that teenage dichotomy of emotion- you are both carefree and incredibly caught up in yourself, so at the time your problems seem real, but as you get older they seem insignificant.
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 Notice the speaker is now alone again, and like at the end of the previous verse is now looking back at the past. Anyone older than 16 will have friends from their childhood who have changed, but no matter how much they try to transform their image, these friends always retain the essence of the person you first knew them as. He soon realises, to his disappointment, that the people that made this place special are no longer there.
This brings the dreadful realisation that memories cannot be relived, because the people who created them have moved on.
I think this song is particularly poignant because of the tone of the last line of each verse- always tinged with sadness. However, I think its fair to say that regret is the overriding sense that this song evokes. Another beautiful analysis of this song I was looking for a meaning to the term "zipper blues"; along with that I have found a very heartfelt and insightful breakdown of a song that is very special to me.
NightRainbow on April 28, General Comment Its about a group of care free teenagers. No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment I think this song is about the politics of being a teenager, and growing up. I agree, like how he talks about "headlights" and not caring. It's just one of those songs you play while driving with your friends. Takes a weight off your shoulders. CowboyDan on April 28, General Comment song about the past. General Comment I'm It's raining outside. My best friend and myself are sitting in my room making mix tapes.
He's my love, my life, my everything. We're talking about our band. We're going to make it huge. We are. We'll get out of this fucking town. Thats what this song reminds me of. Just being young, bored, stuck in suburbia. Wanting to get out, not knowing how. Making plans for the future. JohnnyQuest likes this. I was also 12 in Apart from maybe a possible Cars homage who I was listening to tons back then , it doesn't sound that retro to me.
Go figure. Location: Bourbonnais, Illinois. Great track. Location: Saint Joseph, MO. I used to tell a high school friend of mine that he was saying her name It's definitely "I'm 12 again" imo. Once you know it it's obvious. Spaceboy , Nov 13, Location: British Columbia, Canada. Liam Brown , Nov 13, Liam Brown likes this. Location: Philadelphia, PA. And all this time, I thought it was just a Japanese wind instrument. If Corgan's purpose in writing was to create a nostalgic ode to adolescence which would stand the test of time, then we'd have to call it mission accomplished.
Foo Fighters. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Sam Fender. Why did Smashing Pumpkins pick the year for a song title?
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