The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 (Album: Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (1995))
!!! Tune Down ½ Step: E♭ A♭ D♭ G♭ B♭ E♭ !!! {Key: A♭m}
Intro: [riff1]
Shakedown 1979, ….. cool kids never have the time
F#m A [riff1]
on a live wire right up off the street, you and I should meet
junebug skipping like a stone
with the headlights pointed at the dawn
F#m7sus A
we were sure we’d never see an end to it all
E5 Emaj7 [riff2] E
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
F#m7sus B [riff1]
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
double cross the vacant and the bored
they’re not sure just what we have in store
F#m7sus A
morpine city slippin dues down to see
E5 Emaj7 [riff2] E
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
B5 C#m Amaj7/9
to the lights and towns below
faster than the speed of sound F#m7sus B [riff]
faster than we thought we’d go, beneath the sound of hope…..
Justine never knew the rules
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
no apologies ever need be made
F#m7sus A
I know you better than you fake it to see that
[chorus 1st]
the street heats the urgency of now, as you see there’s no one around
