The Smashing Pumpkins – Age of Innocence

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we dismiss
the backroads
and ride these streets
unafraid
resort to
scraping paint
from our bones
unashamed

no more the eye upon you
no more the simple man

desolation yes
hesitation no
desolation yes
hesitation no
as you might have guessed
all is never shown
desolation yes
hesitation no

and in my prayers
i dream alone
a silent speach
to deaf ear
if you want love
you must be love
but if bleed love
you will die loved

no more the lie upon you
cast in stone the autumn shade

desolation yes
hesitation no
desolation yes
hesitation no
as you might have sensed
we won't make it home
desolation yes
hesitation no

before the rites of spring
come to mean all things
a little taste of what may come
a mere glimpse of what has gone

cause for the moment we are free
we seek to bind our release
too young to die, too rich to care
too fucked to swear that i was there

desolation yes
hesitation no
desolation yes
hesitation no
as you might have guessed
we won't make it home
desolation yes
hesitation no

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    General Comment:Grossly underrated. I just found out Machina I is their second worst-selling album. WTF?
    Flag BeatJunkie08on January 05, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:ahh! LoVE this :)!!!!!
    Flag songbirdsweetsourjaneon January 08, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:the whole album was a concept ablum about the band and Billy knew before even creating the album that this was a farewell album. So the final song on a farewell album of course is going to be a farewell song....amazing song tho.
    Flag steve0965on June 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:For me this song is kind of intellectual. You have two ideas...Hesitation and desolation. Desolation is ruin barrenness, sorrow grief woe and deprivation...yes. I am reminded of a jose gonzales song called remain that more concicely echos the semtiment of this song (I understand desolation)-and "I will stand up just the same and remain
    after everything has been washed away", is its simple refrain.
    Hesatation no...no more lies, no more seeking find release from freedom or "desolation" indirectly.

    Neways, lol, that's my intelectual interpretatioin of what seemes the intelectual song. It's a tune to wrap your mind around and keep it's course soul in your mind while you smooth out your own course psyche and crudely desolate heart. It's a lament for the soul. I keep this song in my ipod and listen to it and mine it when I long for renewed resolve and I need to "transform" myself.
    Flag Guarimnon October 14, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:this song makes me want to drive fast on the highway. what if this song was not intended to have any meaning at all. alot of the pumkins songs arent based on one simple meaning. but there is many different messages in them. this song is up there with the greatest and has sent many a chill up my spine. the pumpkins are pretty good at doing that. i should go pick up thier new album sometime soon. pumpkins=historic
    Flag oldeBlueEyeson October 08, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:This is my first comment in this site EVER :D
    I don't really know what this song is about, but I always thought that the line "desolation yes hesitation no" meant however sad and disappointed you are, you can't never hesitate and you gotta go on with you life. Don't know if this fits on the song though.
    Flag i.buried.the.devilon April 11, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:even though it WAS a goodbye song, and a brilliant one at that. we must still see that billy came true to his promise, "A little taste of what may come" I think he must've known that it wasn't over. It would be nice to think of this as the end of a mini saga of 1979, Perfect and Age of innocence.
    Flag Infraon August 31, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I love this song - the lyrics are just too amazing. they chill me to the bone sometimes - a can;t even try to decipher them.
    Flag ceekenpompon June 05, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:It's about the smashing pumpkins breaking up, kids.
    Flag svenllamaon May 18, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This is the most meaningful song off the machina album , in my opinion. its very posible that it's a goodbye song. hey... too bad the pumpkins are releasing a new album on 7-7-07 ha! i love this song and always will
    Flag BeterThanYouFakeIton May 13, 2007   Link

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