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1979 (Sadlands Demo) Lyrics by The Smashing Pumpkins

Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness (Deluxe Edition)

2012

[Verse 1]
Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
[Verse 2]
Junebug skippin' like a stone
With the headlights pointed to the dawn
We were sure we wouldn't see an end to it all
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
Double-cross thе vacant and the bored
They'rе not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin' dues, down to see
[Chorus]
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
[Bridge]
Lamented and assured
To the lights and towns
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope
[Verse 4]
Justine never knew the rules
Hung out with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
Are you better than you think?
[Outro]
The street heats the urgency of sound
As you see there's no one around
Credits
The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins

About “1979 (Sadlands Demo)” by The Smashing Pumpkins

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