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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Aurora7
01-06-2007

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Not much to say. This is my all-time favorite song. It reminds me of driving around with my best friend, windows down, talking about anything and everything. She is moving three hours away today, and I am listening to this song today.

"We were sure we'd never see an end, to it all..."

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Aurora7
01-06-2007

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This is my all-time favorite song. It always makes me think of driving around with my best friend, windows down, talking about anything and everything. Today she is moving three hours away, and I am listening to this song...

We were sure we'd never see an end, to it all...

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Aurora7
01-06-2007

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This is my all-time favorite song. It always makes me think of driving around with my best friend, windows down, talking about anything and everything. Today she is moving three hours away, and I am listening to this song...

We were sure we'd never see an end, to it all...

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Aurora7
01-06-2007

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This is my all-time favorite song. It always makes me think of driving around with my best friend, windows down, talking about anything and everything. Today she is moving three hours away, and I am listening to this song...

We were sure we'd never see an end, to it all...

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ahat1321
01-07-2007

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all I have to say is that I am SOOO EXCITED for SP to tour again. Spossed to be sometime this year. Go to the SP website and read the letter from Billy. he is the love of my life. does anybody know who is going to be in the band? I'M SO SO SO SO HAPPY. I was too young to appreciate SP during their glory days but they're BACK! YES!

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mblight
01-25-2007

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Don't know if someone's mentioned this yet, but, arent the lyrics supposed to be:
The street heats the urgency of NOW, not Sound?

This phrase occurs a couple times on this album and seems to be a major theme in Billy's work.

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whothatBE
02-19-2007

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it´s a reall good song, actually, it´s my fav from this band. The guitar that is listened throught out all the song gives a peculiar feeling to anone who´s listening it.

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xMellon-Colliex
02-27-2007

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Billy is brilliant, he's such a talented song writer! I love his thinking and the way he expresses his feelings. Go Billy!!

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skellytor
03-03-2007

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i love this song... billy is an absolute genius... i think it is about being bored and not knowing where you will end up

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reesa
04-01-2007

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its about being freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

whenever i listen to this song i feel like i'm somewhere where no one could tell me what to do, what i have to do, how i should be or where i should go. i feel free. love this song. love billy. i made a song about him. coz he's cool.

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corryncouture
04-05-2007

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it's beautiful.
i do think its about being a teenager, restless, bored, frustrated
yeah
amazing

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+Bloody_Angel+
04-28-2007

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This song reminds me of my best friend that moved away, and I got to visit him about 3 years later and we listened to it the entire time the I was there, to me it means like that great summer that you will never forget. It's so powerful. I love the Smashimg Pumpkins and I so hope that they do get back together. I heard a rumor that they were.

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lcdjunkie
05-03-2007

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I found this on a Stylus Magazine's top 100 music videos (1979 is number 18) and I would like to quoute what Andrew Unterberger wrote about the video.
It is about the video of the song but I share exactly his feelings, and wanted to share it.

""I was about ten years old when I first saw the video for “1979,” and I fully expected it to be a forecast of what the next ten years of my life were going to be like. Or, at least, I hoped as much. I couldn’t wait to skid my car in circles around parking lots, or to bowl with liquor bottles and soda 2-liters, or to throw all my friends’ patio furniture into their swimming pool (which I actually goaded a couple of my friends into doing once), or to go to the top of a big cliff overlooking my town and just flip them the big one. I doubt anyone ever has one night as ideal as this during their teenage years, but I only hope that when I think back on being eighteen a few decades from now, my memories will congeal into a Greatest Hits package like this. Billy Corgan can even ride in the back seat. ""
[Andrew Unterberger]

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station820
05-09-2007

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nice quote lcd junkie, thanks

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gooup
05-28-2007

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OK ... but nobody's talking about what the hell he's saying after the guitar riff ... where the voice is flanged and i can't understand what the HELL he is saying. Sounds to me like "Dead Man..." .... ARRRGH!!!

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topgon
05-29-2007

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That's just Billy Corgan singing the song's melody with oos and ahs.

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AcidMilk
06-05-2007

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This song, like much of the album, to me, emphasizes to just live your life. Be happy, be sad, be angry, be in love. Cherish what you have.

In other words, the "urgency of NOW".

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astrozombiexxxxx
06-13-2007

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love it

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astrozombiexxxxx
06-13-2007

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whered the rest of my comment go? any way i said that after the guitar rif he's not just oohing and ahhing, hes actualy saying "IM 12 AGAIN" coz he was 12 in 1979, hope that helped lol :D

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astrozombiexxxxx
06-13-2007

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whered the rest of my comment go? any way i said that after the guitar rif he's not just oohing and ahhing, hes actualy saying "IM 12 AGAIN" coz he was 12 in 1979, hope that helped lol :D

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Love.Is.Suicide
06-16-2007

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"The most frequently asked question about '1979' is, 'What is the 'ooh-ahh-ahh' sound at the end of every phrase?' Flood and I were tracking the song, and I started humming the 'oohs' like a melody line. I sang them to tape, we sampled the pertinent ones, electronically manipulated them, and looped them against the drum beat. One of my favorite songs from the album." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)

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TeenAgeKicks
06-16-2007

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love the song.
when i hear it it reminds me of the whole teenage years, with a little angst.
for some reason i think about that 70s show too when i think about it.HA

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lacra
06-27-2007

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i love it so sad

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bts11
06-30-2007

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I think its about teens celebrating their youth. They aren't the coolest/most popular people in their own little suburban life but they don't feel the pressures of outside individuals. Because of this they can enjoy their "junebug skipping like a stone" while the "cool kids never have the time." Justine didn't see that there was anything wrong with hanging out with the kids who others saw as differerent (not knowing the rules), so she was outcast herself. These teens don't know where their lives are going as their bones are "forgotten and absorbed into the earth" but they are living their teenage life as they want to, not in a manner dictated by others.

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gabyeatworld
07-03-2007

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It makes me feel like dancing and bouncing around the room!!

The music is just freackin' awesome!!

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