Lyrics for 17 as interpreted by alexboy

17 Lyrics
instrumental - liner notes list the following :

17 seconds of compassion
17 seconds of peace
17 seconds to remember love is the energy behind which all is created
17 seconds to remember all that is good
17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain
17 seconds of faith
17 seconds to trust you again
17 seconds of radiance
17 seconds to send a prayer up
17 seconds is all you really need

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ChaosFluro24
09-14-2002

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Zerpens is right, this was a poem Billy Coragan wrote for the Adore album. I found it to be the most inspirational part of the album. And in truth all anyone really needs is 17 seconds . . .

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Nowhere_Girl
09-14-2002

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I love this poem...
"17 seconds to remember all that is good
17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain"
It's amazing

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Nero
03-12-2003

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adore was the first sp album i ever bought and now i own all except gish. adore ties with mellon collie as my favourite. the poem is very touching and has certainly made me think, question, and wonder.

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hesitating_stars
06-18-2003

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This poem accents the mood on 'Adore' so well. It just wraps the whole album up tight. It makes me lay in bed and dream about wonderful things.. Billy Corgan's words make my heart melt.

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samREDmonstalker
05-03-2004

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all I have to say is fuck,why couldn't it have been 20 secs long, it was way to beautiful to be such a constricted short piece. but corgan does that tyope of stuff. I remember at the end of the song before stumbaline (i think thats how you spell it) on melon choly theres a little piece he did at the end there and i wish that melody could go on forever because its such a beautifully composed piece of music that I could spend the rest of my life listening to,but unfortunatly its only 30aprox

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y2doggy
05-09-2004

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Is it me or is this an early version of "Wound" from Machina?

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Satur9
05-15-2004

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The piano tune is a weird version of the song blissed and gone, found on still becoming apart and Judas o among other places.

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xtiandeth
05-22-2004

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"17 seconds of faith"
The Cure had an album called Seventeen Seconds, and its follow up was called Faith.

Just a funny little coincidence

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indignity
06-11-2004

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to samREDmonstalker:

this song is 17 seconds long because every 17 seconds someone commits suicide. it's symbolic. or so i was told. oO;

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Mortonium Ice
11-16-2004

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1234567891011121314151617
and off he goes.

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skifdank
11-23-2004

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17 seconds is a refrence to a stopping point, inwhich a 60 second count down was intiated... this is a standard in life some have some too, others... not. at 17 seconds left the realization of what could come with the time left is the following... Other instances happen frequently from 59sec-1sec... look around for em, they are around... its a personal symbolic meaning for the writer... but that is what it boils down too... i think 7 seven is all you truly need...

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LiquidPeppermint
01-15-2005

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It's just the first 17 seconds of Blissed and Gone aka Need, played on the piano.

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saturnine
01-30-2005

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this is a direct reference to the song "seventeen seconds" by the cure. here are the lyrics to that song:

Time slips away
And the light begins to fade
And everything is quiet now
Feeling is gone
And the picture disappears
And everything is cold now
The dream had to end
The wish never came true
And the girl
Starts to sing

Seventeen seconds
A measure of life
Seventeen seconds

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Ciyaak Boy
03-09-2005

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just like somebody said 17 seconds is the rate of suicide...i think this isa contrast to that..a contrast of hope...instead of every 17 seconds soembody kills themselves...you can take those 17 sconds and atleast try to turn to soemhting positive,,instead of suicide..let it be salvation

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virex7
04-12-2005

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The song does sound very...archaic...a perfectly disquieting way to end a haunting album. The song sounds old, with an air of sadness, coldness, and loneliness conveyed by an ancient-sounding piano over a short 17 seconds.

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dross
07-12-2005

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Sorry to ruin things by making the 18th post, but I checked into the above comments about suicide. The information I found said that a suicide is attempted every 17 seconds.

Sounds like a plausible explaination for the linear notes, and probably for the song also.

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noss81
08-16-2005

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i was listening to blissed and gone as i read these comments and i must say 17 sounds nothing like it.

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Requiem89
12-24-2005

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I really like the idea of instead if suicide every 17 seconds, do something possitive, awesome. But I am in a hurry so that's all I can say.

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smashingpumpkinsguy
12-27-2005

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Hmm, this is very interesting. It's 17 seconds of an old recording of grand piano. It's sort of like a sequel to Martha/Blank Page. I think it goes well with "Once in a While" included on the import version of Adore.

The Smashing Pumpkins must have done a lot of thinking when making this. To them, 17 seconds is like a ticking of life. Well I'm also in a hurry like Requiem89, I'll comment more on other songs later. :-)

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capricorn
03-24-2006

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smashing pumkins is fuckin gay and everybody who listens to them is asking for an ass woopin, if you feel offended by this then fuck off and die you fuckin queers

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Panacae
04-15-2006

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if they are so gay then why did even bother to look at this?

anyways...this song is so symbolic and beautiful and it means a lot to me. it gives me hope. even though its really short, it's my favorite song ever

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Tamy
08-14-2006

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someone said -I don't remember who/where/when- that the sudden end represented the abrupt that suicide -death too, but with this poem is obviously meant to be about suicide- is on life, specially if we're talking about teenage-suicides,
17 is such a beautiful moment that hurts.

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randye
06-01-2007

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I'm pretty sure that this song is referring to the average male orgasm, which lasts 17 seconds.
It makes sense, if you read the lyrics.

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ninja amnesty
07-31-2007

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This is a 17 second piano clip of a song called Blissed & Gone which was relased for a short time with the Greatest Hits CD called Judas O: B-Sides and Rarities.

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Loesje
08-17-2007

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Wow, I wish I had known all this when my brother showed me this album (I didn't even listen to it at that moment). It was the last weekend I ever saw him... He comitted suicide two weeks later, a year ago today. The Adore album was still on repeat when he was found five days later...

Ah well, it probably wouldn't have made any difference.

I really love your explanation of the sudden end, Tamy. It kind of bothered me a little sometimes, but I always thought there must have been a reason. It all makes sense now.

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