Lyrics for 1979 as interpreted by Ice

1979 Lyrics
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 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 sound
As you can see there's no one around


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mo0stah
01-15-2002

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What can you not say about this song?
It is simply awesome.
Listen and Feel.

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sic n twisted
04-25-2002

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ya its a great song but to bad it doesnt make any sense. I think the title is supposed to be the year most teens who listened to this music at the time it came out were born.

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misskitty
04-26-2002

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It's a cool song. Even though it's meaning is cloudy, the music is great.

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cherub_saturnine
04-29-2002

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I think this song is about the politics of being a teenager, and growing up.

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rds1979ca
04-29-2002

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this song is a masterpiece :D

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rds1979ca
04-29-2002

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i love this song. billy is a machine when it comes to writing lyrics.


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warhead
05-02-2002

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song about the past. some nostalgia.

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Croc
05-07-2002

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It's about not having anything to do, growing up in the suburbs, and being bored in general. And yeah, the lyrics are obscured, but what Pumpkin's song isn't?

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MnOvrboard182
05-08-2002

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this song is about growing up and being a teenager and not caring about what happens, you just go with the flow of things, it's one of the best summer songs

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rockstar001
05-09-2002

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obviously a nastalgia song for billy that i think just about everyone expeienced...i think the video for this song sheds a little insight...not a whole lot though

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R.O.U.S
05-11-2002

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You guys are obviously blind. Billy even said what this song is about, its a precursor to Perfect. 1979 is about a bunch of adolescent kids and how they just look to have a good time and they remember at as the best time of their lives. Perfect is about the same group ten years later.

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ezekiel856
05-11-2002

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ROUS, you are very, very wrong. What Billy said was that lots of people were telling him that "Perfect" had a "1979" feeling, so for the VIDEO for perfect, he got together almost all of the kids from the 1979 video, and the VIDEO was supposed to be of the kids 10 years later. The song itself, 1979 is just about what everyone has said, reminiscing on billy's part of being a teenager and being restless and bored. Perfect I think is about just... meeting a special girl or something, I'm not really sure, whatever though, Billy is a god.

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R.O.U.S
05-12-2002

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oh, im sorry i learned what i had posted by word of mouth. but yes billy is a god.

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angel 08
05-15-2002

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it seems to me like a suicide song.

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ClioMouse
05-19-2002

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Keep in mind, I haven't seen the video, I don't think. (Or at least I don't remember it.) But it makes me think of a road trip, kinda, or at least driving...but I guess that could just be another part of nostalgia.

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Ethilien
05-19-2002

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great stuff...some kids are having some simple fun during the summer or something and they know it'll end soon and their adolescence will too and they know they won't be able to be carefree forever but they just aren't thinking about it right now. before they thought the fun would never end, they could do whatever they wanted to, but they're facing reality and shit. or u know, it could just be a good song with weird lyrics that make no sense ^_-

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Cherub Rock
05-22-2002

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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.
"With the headlights pointed at the dawn / we were sure we'd never see an end to it all" - the youths in the story of the song are full of life and invincible and full of hope - they'll never see an end to their youth.
"And i don't even care to shake these zipper blues" - zipper blues - sexual frustration?
"And we don't know just where our bones will rest / to dust i guess" - the teens have no real aim in life and an uncertain future.
"We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement" - this is a metaphor for life in the city.
All in all such a good song, even if not all the lyrics make sense ;-)

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rockkid
05-22-2002

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yes, this is great stuff!

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crone85
05-25-2002

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"justine never knew the rules,
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls"

I'm pretty sure this is a reference to Frankenstein. As the story goes, this girl Justine is falsely accused for killing a little boy. She is innocent, but is eventually killed for the false accusation. We find out that Frankenstein's monster planted the incriminating evidence in the pocket of her dress while she slept. Thus, "hung out with the freaks and ghouls?"

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y2doggy
05-27-2002

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it's just a suburban teen anthem...great song.

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immortalbeloved
05-27-2002

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Not as powerful as Bullet with butterfly wings but certainly strikes a nerve..

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Forsakenone223
05-29-2002

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I dont know what its about but i can feel this song alot i love this band its asome

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anarchysomething44
05-30-2002

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Oh my God! This song is awesome. One of the best by The Pumpkins. They are one of the greatest bands of all time! If you are a suburban teenager or any teenager for that matter, the lyrics make a lot of sense about struggles and the fun times of being a teenager. There are a lot of metaphors in this song about teenagers.

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Mr. Bojangles
06-03-2002

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I'm A suberban teen and the lyrics dont mean shit to me but its still a very kick ass song.

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Lilak
06-04-2002

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crone85 that's really interesting to know...either way, it's an awesome song, and the music video is definetly the best...Billy is a musical genuis!

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