The Smashing Pumpkins - Atom Bomb

Atom Bomb
MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music (2000)
Written by Billy Corgan
Performed by The Smashing Pumpkins

Lyrics:

Clung to the sweater from the day you were born
Never knew better, that's what you swore
Murder heard you 'cause the walls were thin
In saturnine sweetness and ratio din

No boy could spell you out
In the grass at night
Beneath the stars
You grew right past the streets where you were raised
Sneaking out early to a secret place
Like a hole in the wall
Like a hole in the wall

Into the bed you hang your sleep
Watch your man as he seeks relief
You cut out his heart and watch him die
So we can know you and that you're alive
As the hole in the wall
You are the hole in the wall

No one could know your soul
Kisses and noise
Now you belong to them all

Awake to the dawn and scratch your eyes
Light the prayer candles that you remind to
Send you a boy that you could waste
A little piece of heaven to set you straight
Thru the hole in the wall
You are the hole in the wall

No one could tell you why
The tape's full of hiss
And sons who cry
To the night of the dead and the wishing ghost
Beating on you to drain morose
Thru the hole in the wall
We are the holes in the wall

We are the...

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[dubconcrete]

definitely prefer this version over Judas 0. the lyrics are different for each...

[billycorgan1967]

Nice song, reminds me of 1979. Nice vibe

[Sincerelyiris]

Billy is such a fucking poet man. Who writes like this today! Such great imagery. Even if you don't know exactly what he's talking about it's like you know exactly what he's talking about lol.

[kevman5]

This song, much like 1979 just makes me want to get out in the cold night air and go somewhere

[nicholsjoshua15]

I love the way this sounds like a live recording of The Smashing Pumpkins, we all know there's nothing better than The Smashing Pumpkins live.

[JBHutto]

@silverfuck77jpm1 The turntable Eric Agnew used to transfer was 3% faster than normal, so the speed and pitch of the music on this version is increased compared to the others.[10]

[silverfuck77jpm]

This song is at a different tempo than my version?

[phatzmb]

I'm not sure why but this is possibly my favourite Pumpkins song. There's something very unusual about it.

[87AlExlopez]

reminds me of high school

[melabonbon]

this is for sure the superior version.

[Mewseph]

Same goes for "In saturnine sweetness and ratio din"; "In saturnine, sweetness, horatio fin"

[Tmh21791]

the lyrics are wrong. he says  no one could sell you out not no boy could spell you out