The Smashing Pumpkins – Stumbleine

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boredoms in the bathroom shaking out the loose teeth
sally's in the stirrups claiming her destiny
and nobody nowhere understands anything
about me and all my dreams
lost at sea
jack it up judy set your heart alight
mayfair mistress of the satellies
misspent youth- faking up a rampage
to hold off the real slaves
paid off and staid
and what you never knew
can never get to you
so fake it
i'll be your stubmleine
i'll be your super queen
and make you
jukebox fuckup hanging round the drugstore
no matter what you say he'll be back for more
mommy's in the manger with the little kids
she's got her reasons, got my forgets
of tears and idle threats
misplaced
and no matter what they do
they can't get to you
so fake it
i'll be your stumbleine
i'll be your super queen
and make you me
come around ruby i could never sleep alone

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    General Comment:I think it's about how lonely and confusing it feels to grow up. I also get a sense that this person feels detachment from the world because they feel like they don't belong.
    Flag eyeball88on July 06, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I think that 'thru the eyes of ruby' is their relationship from her (ruby's ??) point of view and stumbeleine is from his.
    Flag stagnateon March 29, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I love the last line, "Come around Ruby I could never sleep alone..."
    Flag Musicmutton August 11, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Love this song. The music is beautiful and his voice is emotive and calming. Reminds me of growing up and some friends of mine.
    Flag xmakesherflyxon January 19, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:This has to be one of my favorite Pumpkins song.
    But one thing...
    What's a super queen?
    Flag kjenkson July 10, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:to me it it means this. when said it sounds like stumble-eine or stumble-line. what is a stumble a fall or trip or a mis alculation that leads in a mistake or fall right? what does a trampline do. when you fall it catches you and lifts you back up. so he's saying to all the mis guide youth and teen with no direction or dealing with probs or "and nobody nowhere understands anything about me and all my dreams lost at sea" he'll/good people out ther, will listen and be there for them and to guide them and catch them when they stumble and lift them up agian. That's my interpreitation.
    Flag tuchesuavaeon March 22, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with everyone who says that this song is about being young and prematurely disillusioned with the world, experimenting with drugs and learning about sex. But I always took the line "Sally's in the stirrups, claiming her own destiny," to be about a young girl having a secret abortion, thereby claiming her own identity and making her own decisions. But I have a tendency to be pretty literal.
    Flag chinaski1984on January 28, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i was 5 when this album came out. ive been lately listening to the pumpkins and i love it. :)
    Flag moulin.rouge2001on September 11, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think the title is almost certainly a pun on "Cymbeline", a Shakespearean play that was adapted as "The Injur'd Princess". Lots of intrigue, fakers attempting seduction, borderline rape etc (so standard Shakespearean fare).

    Cymbeline is actually the king and father of the princess who is 'beshmirched', it comes from his inflexibility as a parent and denial of his daughter's affections to someone he thinks is of low breeding. So perhaps a reference to an offspring growing up and getting into trouble, and the friction between them and an overbearing parent who represents the 'unfairness' of the adult world and making a 'them vs us' situation between the grown-ups and the young.

    A little too highbrow? ;)
    Flag Slavedriveron May 21, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Seymour_Glass:

    That being said, i think Conal's "translation" ain't too bad. I'd go one step further on the line "Sally's in the stirrups claiming her own destiny" and say that Sally's getting an abortion.

    Thats what I thought too.
    Flag Quinntheclownon April 23, 2008   Link

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