The Smashing Pumpkins – Slow Dawn

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midnight people rushing for a downtown train
watching and wasting away
empty hearts beat free
cool frequency
and I don't know what it is
I'm gonna run
the slow dawn
seeking sigh
oh so faint
I'm gonna run
the slow dawn
away
it's best undone
[hard to hear this part]
and I'm not sure what it is
but I'm sure that I can give
away the slow dawn
slow dawn moves by your side
takes your silent sleep
slow dawn
midnight people washing down here, wasting away
they're gonna run
the slow dawn away
the slow dawn away
the slow dawn away
the slow dawn away

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    General Comment:"When I hear this song I think of it being 4am in a train station"
    Same thing!
    I always feel happy when I hear this song and I feel I love the place I live in... that's just my personal association.
    Flag Skayaon April 23, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Beautiful, as of all the rest
    Flag songbirdsweetsourjaneon February 11, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Also one of my favourites. I simply think its about insomnia, and the fact you get to see the dawn instead of a nights sleep.
    Flag Infraon November 13, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:One of my favorite Pumpkins songs. Rrgh, I wish they released this song properly.... So beautiful to listen to....
    Flag Dr. Don July 09, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:There is a better quality version of this song on the Judas O album.
    Flag madroxon June 22, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:from machina II right?? why the FUCK didn't they just release machina II as their official last album? :angry:

    but then again i also think TAFH should've been released in Mellon Collie's place...
    Flag ripelivejamon May 03, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This song is pretty much perfect, in my opinion. Every time I listen to it, I get a flutter in my stomach. The guitar solo in the middle is incredible.

    I reckon the song is just simply about getting used to something new. Slowly accepting things, be it the loss of someone, a lover leaving you or whatever.
    Flag Outlaw of Tornon February 28, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:When I hear this song I think of it being 4am in a train station in chicago then as it goes on the sun is rising over the buildings
    Flag aptitudeon January 28, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:...and what a guitar solo there in the middle!! I feel this song is about being trapped as time passes by, like a dream where something is coming, but you just can't seem to move.
    Flag virex7on April 15, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:The song as a whole perfectly represents dawn. It starts out sort of quiet and subtle, but then becomes loud, huge and glorious.
    Flag pumkinhedon October 25, 2004   Link

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