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Rotten Apples

"A home demo that I just didn't have the heart or energy to go back and record. I like the lyrics a lot, and if I had spent more time on it it probably should have been on the album. It was written in the initial post-Lollapalooza batch ('33,' 'Jupiter's Lament,' 'Methusela,' 'Ugly') of acoustically tinged songs. It has double-tracked, finger picked guitar-all the better to hide those little mistakes-with a few choice keyboard overdubs bleeding through the vocal mikes." -BC (Guitar World 1/97)

 

Lyrics

Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited

Where the cool winds blow
I must surely go
For my love calls me below to drag her
from the depths of my soul

When will I see her again?
The other side of friends
The darkened claws of death
The empty breath desire

Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited

Restless in my speech
And rootless in my teach
So vacant in my breach
I drive the dirt of her garden

Sorrow
She'll never listen again
No other lovers to bend
Just rotten apples to eat
Just letter yellowed distant scorn

Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited

Life just fades away
Purity just begs
Dust to dust, we're wired into sadness

  Studio

Fall 1994 - Sadlands (Billy's house)

Availability

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness   (buy [amazon.com])
Tonight Tonight   (buy [amazon.com])
The Aeroplane Flies High   (buy [amazon.com])
Rarities and B-Sides   (buy [amazon.com])

The Aeroplane Flies High
Billy's Home Demos
KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas
MCIS Demos I
Mellon Collie Disc Three
Rare Stuff Vol. 2

total: 10 (4 on official releases, 6 boots)

Extra Links

iTunes

 

BMI Number
1995870

Writing Credits
Billy Corgan



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