The Smashing Pumpkins – Stand Inside Your Love

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  General Comment:Also, I realize that the song may be a pure love song, as some of you reported billy as saying. However, I dont think other interpretations should be ruled out, considering most good lyrics are written with open interpretations, and many good songwriters will not fully let the press in on all of his or her secrets.

  Flag lfcYNWA11on March 15, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:I have to offer a somewhat different perspective, although i dont think that any of you are wrong necessarily. For me it comes down to just 2 lines, but those 2 lines could make a huge difference. They are "i will breathe for the both of us" and "i'll wrap my wire around your heart and your mind, youre mine forever". put in the context of the rest of the lyrics, it seems, to me, to depict a relationship (NOT necessarily romantic) in which one person (or persons) is telling the other how much they love and need them, would do anything for them, and have thier best interest at heart, but they use that to try to chain the other person's heart and mind, to think and feel for them, and make them feel dependent and unable to grow into thier own person, to feed the first person's ego, which is often an outward expression of insecurity. There are several types of relationships to which this can apply, including: romantic, govt and citizens, religious authority and followers, even in some cases parent and child. That being said, it's not to necessarily say that the first person doesnt love or care about the other, but may not know how to express that love without being possessive or controlling. Just my thought.

  Flag lfcYNWA11on March 15, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:but on a second thought, i really agree with HideMeFromReflection..this song captures the feeling of true love better than any other song i've ever heard in my life. if you don't feel exactly this way about the person you're with...then you don't really love them. if you're confused as to whether or not you love someone...there is no confusion. if it's not this fucking strong, it's not love.

  Flag x83on September 12, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:i know a lot of people say that there's absolutely no doubt in this song or whatever, that it's purely a love song..but i definitely think that there still is some unclear factor from the other side of the relationship. i feel that course, billy is 100% completely in love with this chick, and she may love him back but because i also can sense obsession in this song, i think that he may be more in love with her than he is with him. he's viewing her as the end all be all, everything she does is perfect and i get the vibe that billy (in writing this song) felt that he wouldn't need anyone else, ever again because this woman is the only one he could ever want. however, when you feel that way about someone..i mean when you seriously feel like hands down you could spend the rest of your life with someone and that they're such an amazing person that it surprises you the rest of the world hasn't found this individual first...it's sort of rare that both people feel exactly the same way. the line "don't fear me now" obviously gives away the fact that billy is kind of scared about coming on too strong, which wouldnt be the case if she felt the same way too.
  
  it sucks that there's always one person that falls harder.

  Flag x83on September 12, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:Billy stated in a TV performance (Storytellers on VH-1 in 2000 iirc) that this was written for/about his then girlfriend, Yelena Yemchuk. She is the girl who appears in the song's video. She also directed the video "Zero" and co-directed the vid for "Thirty-three". On the Greatest hits DVD she appears on the alternate cut for Thirty-three. I believe she and Corgan split up around 2001/02.

  Flag JohnnieAon December 30, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:This song describes true love so well, for those who haven't had true love I really hope you find it because you will know just what I mean, the lyrics speak to me Sooo much, and just how I would die for my Sammi, and just how pure and beautiful she is, it's like Billy wrote this to describe just how I feel lol, but seriously this describes true love so well

  Flag HideMeFromReflectionon December 16, 2010   Link

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  Song Meaning:This song is one of the Pumpkins greatest ever, hands down. The meaning of this song is, a man loves a woman but she doesn't feel the same way for him. He has a hard time telling her he does love her so much that he would "breathe for the both of us". He gets rejected by the girl. That is why a the end of the song he tells her, "And for the first time, I'm telling you how much I need and bleed for, your every move and waking sound". Also the lyric of "Who wouldn't be the one you love" that says it all.

  Flag Iamfree714on November 27, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Actually almost every single one of you, least the majority of what I've seen are completely way off. Corgan stated that this one a song he had written in only 10 minutes, it wasn't directed towards anyone, he just had to come up with lyrics to go with a song he had written, and it was origianally meant to sound a bit more upbeat, but when they got into it made it a little more melancholy, much like their older stuff.
  
  And anyone making ties between the video and the song itself, you should check out the story of Salome' before you start making assumptions.

  Flag Hashfailon November 08, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:Just how I take the song, Its about finding that person, the perfect one, and be frustrated with the fact they don't want to face it that your meant to be. No matter how much convincing they're only their half way. "I wrap a wire around your heart" I wanna keep you mine so I'm the only one you love. "a pure soul and beautiful you don't understand don't fear me now" The other person is afraid to take the leap. Because love is intimidating, putting it all on the line and trusting fully in someone else. But its clear there "meant to be".

  Flag Standinsideon September 15, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:HI...SOME OF THE LYRICS ARE WRONG
  HERE IS THE RIGHT ONE TOOK IT FROM THE CD
  
  YOU & ME
  MEANT TO BE
  IMMUTABLE
  IMPOSSIBLE
  IT'S DESTINY
  PURE LUNACY
  INCALCULABLE
  INSUFFERABLE
  BUT FOR THE LAST TIME
  U'RE EVERYTHING THAT I WANT & ASK FOR
  U'RE ALL THAT I'D DREAMED
  WHO WOULDN'T BE THE 1 U LOVE
  WHO WOULDN'T STAND INSIDE U'RE LOVE
  PROTECTED & THE LOVER OF
  A PURE SOUL & BEAUTIFUL U
  DON'T UNDERSTAND
  DON'T FEEL ME NOW
  I WILL BREATH
  FOR THE BOTH OF US
  TRAVEL THE WORLD
  TRAVERSE THE SKIES
  U'RE HOME IS HERE
  WITHIN MY HEART
  & FOR THE 1ST TIME
  I FEEL AS THOUGH I AM REBORN
  IN MY MIND
  RECAST AS CHILD & MYSTIC SAGE
  WHO WOULDN'T BE THE 1 U LOVE
  WHO WOULDN'T STAND INSIDE U'RE LOVE
  & FOR THE 1ST TIME
  I'M TELLING U HOW MUCH I NEED & BLEED FOR
  U'RE EVERY MOVE & WALKING SOUND
  IN MY TIME
  I'LL WRAP MY WIRE AROUND U'RE HEART & U'RE MIND U'RE MINE FOREVER NOW
  WHO WOULDN'T BE THE 1 U LOVE & LIVE FOR WHO WOULDN'T STAND INSIDE U'RE LOVE AND DIE FOR
  WHO WOULDN'T BE THE 1 U LOVE
  
  

  Flag miamaltaon November 22, 2009   Link

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