1979
Smashing PumpkinsBilly Corgan wrote this about making the transition out of youth and into adulthood.
They chose 1979 for the title because it rhymed with many of the words he wanted to use in the lyrics.
The theme of the song is nostalgia about Billy Corgan's youth.
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 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
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
The street heats the urgency of sound
As you can see there's no one around
Play with the song, fill the gaps
Legend
- The video player plays from the time specified
- Chorus
- People Talking
A depressed feeling one gets from constantly having to move around or not being able to stay in one place. Comes from having to always zip up ones jacket because they always have to leave. Depression caused by successive movement and not being able to settle in one place. Frustration caused by constant mobility and inability to maintain a residence.
informal (betrayal)
My partner betrayed me with a double cross
often plural (vehicle's front light)
figurative (person: takes pleasure in [sth] horrible)
Below, under
She kissed me beneath the trees
What I think adam's hiding beneath his mask?
Unwilling or unable to stay still or to be quiet and calm, because you are worried or bored:
To suppose