This is one of the Pumpkins' best songs, one of my all-time favs... The lyrics are obscure but some of them make sense if you think about it. The theme of the song is nostalgia about Billy Corgan's youth.
"With the headlights pointed at the dawn / we were sure we'd never see an end to it all" - the youths in the story of the song are full of life and invincible and full of hope - they'll never see an end to their youth.
"And i don't even care to shake these zipper blues" - zipper blues - sexual frustration?
"And we don't know just where our bones will rest / to dust i guess" - the teens have no real aim in life and an uncertain future.
"We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement" - this is a metaphor for life in the city.
All in all such a good song, even if not all the lyrics make sense ;-)
I think 'poured cement' is a metaphor for laying foundations, foundations for the future. This song continues to touch young people who are discovering this band for themselves. I was only 6 when this got released a week before my 7th birthday in 1996. Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins are still going strong, just a few line-up changes!
I think 'poured cement' is a metaphor for laying foundations, foundations for the future. This song continues to touch young people who are discovering this band for themselves. I was only 6 when this got released a week before my 7th birthday in 1996. Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins are still going strong, just a few line-up changes!
@Cherub Rock what "to shake these zipper blues" meant to me 'to leave this body of suffering'; 'to open the zipper of my meat, that makes me suffer', as if the suffering of this world is like a mask, and with death we get release.
@Cherub Rock what "to shake these zipper blues" meant to me 'to leave this body of suffering'; 'to open the zipper of my meat, that makes me suffer', as if the suffering of this world is like a mask, and with death we get release.
This is one of the Pumpkins' best songs, one of my all-time favs... The lyrics are obscure but some of them make sense if you think about it. The theme of the song is nostalgia about Billy Corgan's youth. "With the headlights pointed at the dawn / we were sure we'd never see an end to it all" - the youths in the story of the song are full of life and invincible and full of hope - they'll never see an end to their youth. "And i don't even care to shake these zipper blues" - zipper blues - sexual frustration? "And we don't know just where our bones will rest / to dust i guess" - the teens have no real aim in life and an uncertain future. "We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts and poured cement" - this is a metaphor for life in the city. All in all such a good song, even if not all the lyrics make sense ;-)
I think 'poured cement' is a metaphor for laying foundations, foundations for the future. This song continues to touch young people who are discovering this band for themselves. I was only 6 when this got released a week before my 7th birthday in 1996. Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins are still going strong, just a few line-up changes!
I think 'poured cement' is a metaphor for laying foundations, foundations for the future. This song continues to touch young people who are discovering this band for themselves. I was only 6 when this got released a week before my 7th birthday in 1996. Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins are still going strong, just a few line-up changes!
@Cherub Rock what "to shake these zipper blues" meant to me 'to leave this body of suffering'; 'to open the zipper of my meat, that makes me suffer', as if the suffering of this world is like a mask, and with death we get release.
@Cherub Rock what "to shake these zipper blues" meant to me 'to leave this body of suffering'; 'to open the zipper of my meat, that makes me suffer', as if the suffering of this world is like a mask, and with death we get release.