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Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Lyrics

Song details
Title1979
ArtistSmashing Pumpkins
AlbumGreatest Hits [2004], Track 9
Rotten Apples: The Best of the Smashing Pumpkins [2001], Track 9
Aeroplane Flies High [1996], Track 1 Disc 2
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995], Track 5 Disc 2
GenreAlternative, Rock
Duration04:22
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Song lyrics
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet

June bug 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

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 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

The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around
submitted by ziggystardust
corrected by ilikerock on 22-06-2012


44 comments, showing 1 to 25page 1 of 2

 Song comments
  17-12-2012 23:38 shaqreia 
shaqreia
 
609 posts
now how in the hell can you not like the song its relaxing i love makes me re mincing on the old days
  20-04-2010 14:38 idanosh6 
idanosh6
 
2,883 posts
  14-08-2008 05:00 neurotic987 
neurotic987
 
85 posts
one of my favorite songs. everything about it is great
  10-07-2008 14:39 Ruda 
Ruda
 
35 posts
Sweet, simply beautiful. One of my favourites by them. Can't find the correct words, this is just too great song to describe. "Cat got my tongue".
I'll never get bored to this one
Love it.
  30-04-2007 23:30 XAFireInsideX91 
XAFireInsideX91
 
19 posts
Amazing
  04-02-2007 22:44 skanker 
skanker
 
126 posts
OMG!!!!!!!! I love this song. It makes me cringe everytime I hear it. This song is AWESOME. Reminds me of how great simple things are and how great childhood is
  19-07-2006 22:04 Sempret 
Sempret
 
9 posts
This song is very fitting. It reminds me of back in the day, when I first heard it. I was around nine, and didn't care about a damn thing. Perfect timing.
  18-04-2006 22:14 xoparisxo617 
xoparisxo617
 
3,035 posts
This song is absolutely incredible...probably the best from the Pumpkins, and most definitely my personal favorite from them. One of the best of the 90s, it will go down as a classic.
  18-04-2006 22:06 xx_Gabi 
xx_Gabi
 
65 posts
I love this song! I'm listening to it right now. It reminds me of when I was a little kid. They used to play this a lot on the radio back then.
  01-04-2006 16:42 Pin2 
Pin2
 
3,426 posts
I forgot to rate this song

One of my all time favs
  06-03-2006 02:28 blunty 
blunty
 
444 posts
yup fantastical song
  06-03-2006 02:27 JLynn943 
JLynn943
 
119 posts
absolutely wonderful song
  20-11-2005 01:52 dudekrulz 
dudekrulz
 
3,618 posts
I havn't rated this song!?

Anyway, classic genius Pumpkins music.
So reminiscent the sound of this...makes you think.

Great video too...
All hail one of the best bands of the 90's, the Smshing Pumpkins.
One band that derserved to be in the mainstream unlike a lot today.
  03-11-2005 14:32 kingdev 
kingdev
 
10 posts
really nice song
  29-10-2005 09:24 crutch 
crutch
 
13 posts
  10-09-2005 22:05 santito 
santito
 
772 posts
  27-07-2005 18:30 kalsonberry 
kalsonberry
 
17,852 posts
me too, catchy rhythm
  27-07-2005 18:28 HYPNOTiSED 
HYPNOTiSED
 
9,699 posts
weird..i was just listening to this song.

i love this song.
  27-07-2005 18:26 xNOWHERE_KIDDx0 
xNOWHERE_KIDDx0
 
2 posts
the smashing pumpkins are probably one of the greatest bands that ever existed ;; all their songs make me wanna cry for some reason.. omg i love this song AND them so much
  26-07-2005 09:37 Metal_God 
Metal_God
 
39 posts
This song (video mainly) almost literally makes me want to cry. Just the thought of being a kid and having no worries and all. Also the thought of SP getting back together and connecting with their inner children! This is the greatest song of the 90's and one of the greatest teen anthems of all time! Can I get an amen!?
  09-07-2005 15:59 Chrisrocks53 
Chrisrocks53
 
13,570 posts
thought it would be appropiate to use my 1979th post to talk about it

this is an awesome song

thanks to rawkerNoangal for recommending me to listen to Smashing Pumpkins
  22-05-2005 04:02 kurtbestever 
kurtbestever
 
202 posts
wow
  18-05-2005 14:39 _ANARCHY_ 
_ANARCHY_
 
1,003 posts
How does Billy Corgan manage to write such amazing lyrics?
  12-05-2005 00:06 lambofgod83 
lambofgod83
 
447 posts
great song over all
but i love the song cherub rock better!!!
billy
  27-03-2005 18:11 KittenYAY1 
KittenYAY1
 
42 posts
BEST SONG IN DA WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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