Oct 24, 2025

I Knew The Silence Of The World


Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins (1995)
One of my favorite albums of the 90's was released thirty years ago today.  I had been a Smashing Pumpkins fan and a member of their fan club for a few years at this point, so I picked it up from Gallery Of Sound on the day that it was released and have listened to it countless times since that day.
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet

Junebug skippin' like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all

And I don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth
Below

Double-cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues, down to see
That we don't even care
As restless as we are
We feel the pull
In the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement

Lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it, to see
That we don't even care
To shake these zipper blues
And we don't know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth
Below

The street heats the urgency of now
As you see there's no one around