The Smashing Pumpkins – Blue Skies Bring Tears

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unleash the armageddon
so all the children go to heaven
i sit by quiet still
with their pictures on my eyes
you'll draw the guns your given
write down the words as written
and never disturb the presense
of resurrection crutch

and it's about time
it's about drawing near
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears

descend the darkened stairway
make hate with plastic playmates
and fire out remaining traces
of your self esteem
mainline the deepest secrets
lick clean the dirty fingers
i am a stranger to you
as you are to yourself

and it's about time
it's about fear
blue skies bring tears
don't you want me
cause i await city sigh
we'll watch the seasons die

blue skies bring tears
take me inside your body
cover me with your soul
to the darkest recess
is where i wish to go
you are the sweetest flower
that i have ever devoured
i ask for nothing given
for nothing in return
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears
blue skies bring tears

blue skies bring tears

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    General Comment:I think there's a bit of social commentary in this song. The first stanza seems to hint at war and maybe religious intolerance.

    In the second stanza, "descend the darkened stairway...make hate...remaining traces" remind me of paramilitary operations, which hint at an oppressive, totalitarian government.

    The "I am a stranger..." line brings out the impersonal nature of a society controlled by martial law, as if the happiness were sucked out of everyone.

    Finally, the phrase, "You are the sweetest flower...devoured" just really gets me. It's really the finishing touch on this whole depressing, yet beautiful song. I interpret this last line to be the death of innocence, as it cannot survive in a society stifled with fear.
    Flag boribori90on April 29, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I think the main idea of this song's pretty easy to figure out...
    Blue skies bring tears = clarity brings sadness. When you figure out what's happening, you feel terrible.
    Flag EmotionSickness13on March 11, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think the main idea of this song's pretty easy to figure out...
    Blue skies bring tears = clarity brings sadness. When you figure out what's happening, you feel terrible.
    Flag EmotionSickness13on March 11, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:We're can't seem to hold on to a good thing. We ruin it. Both in a very personal sense (destroying someone you love emotionally) and in a global sense (apocalyptic warfare).

    We can't be happy and love ourselves when things are going great. Blue skies bring tears.
    Flag MaddAddamson September 22, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:"you are the sweetest flower
    that i have ever devoured"

    good line
    Flag Dasuitekillaon August 06, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:I believe this song is about all good things inevitably coming to an end and the disappointment that ensues.
    Flag aptitudeon July 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:It's about the "end of the world" (aka Armageddon to most). Or more specifically, about someone causing the "end of the world." Obviously.
    Flag RadioKoRnon June 04, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Glass realizes the horrible pain of what he did, realizing he was happier inssane
    Flag NuRGon July 19, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:I think it's about hurt, and (linking this to MACHINA) is the hurt that we have subjected to ourselves. It's like suggesting that clear will bring tears of sorrow, cause it will reveal the damage we have done.
    unleash the armageddon/so all the children go to heaven
    This line... If everyone died now, only th innocent children COULD go heaven, because we are all sinners in what we are doing to the world and hummanity's moral structure.

    It could also say that love with another person is the only freedom from this chaos we jhave brought upon ourselves.
    take me inside your body
    cover me with your soul
    to the darkest recess
    is where i wish to go
    you are the sweetest flower
    that i have ever devoured
    i ask for nothing given
    for nothing in return

    And it isn't bleak: It makes me happy in that weird Pumpkin-y way
    Flag Jack 88on January 24, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:I think some of this song is about realzing something and coming to terms with something that is very hard to come to terms with. "Blue skies bring tears" could mean that once everything is clear, and you realize the truth, it can be hard sometimes.
    Flag buwhahaon December 14, 2004   Link

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