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1979 Lyrics By The Smashing Pumpkins

    Shakedown 979
    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

    Doublecross 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

    Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins

    Year: 1996

    Decade: 90s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 106