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The Smashing Pumpkins

1979

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Hard Rock

1979 was released on November 26, 1996 by SMASHING PUMPKINS - DEAL #1 DIGITAL as a part of the album The Aeroplane Flies High

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OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

D'arcy Wretzky

Bass Guitar

James Iha

Guitar

Jimmy Chamberlin

Jimmy Chamberlin

Drums

William Patrick Corgan

William Patrick Corgan

Vocals

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Billy Corgan

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Billy Corgan

Producer

Alan Moulder

Mixing Engineer

Mark "Flood" Ellis

Mark "Flood" Ellis

Producer

Barry Goldberg

Assistant Mixing Engineer

Bob Ludwig

Mastering Engineer

Chris Shepard

Recording Engineer

Claudine Pontier

Claudine Pontier

Assistant Recording Engineer

James Iha

Recording Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Shakedown, 1979

Cool kids never have the time

On a live wire, right up off the street

You and I should meet

[PreChorus]

June bug skipping like a stone

With the headlights pointed at the dawn

We were sure we'd never 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 to the earth below

[Verse 2]

Double cross the vacant and the bored

They're not sure just what we have in store

Morphine city slipping 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, lamented and assured

[Bridge]

To the lights and towns below

Faster than the speed of sound

Faster than we thought we'd go

Beneath the sound of hope

[Verse 3]

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

[Chorus]

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 to the earth below

[Outro]

The street heats the urgency of now

As you see, there's no one around

Written by: Billy Corgan

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