Song Dedication Thread v4, "Combat your commentary" Edition

For @StonedLemur. Since you write poetry. This song is about youth and ambivalence.

Saw the Smashing Pumpkins perform it outdoors. Thousands singing every word. Every type of freak under the stars.

Also for @Kryptt, @TempleoftheDog, @Jackonfire, @helax, @Zebra Cheeks, @giovanni_ss, @BroRogan, @HUGHPHUG, @Bobby Boulders, @Hollywood Jack and all other ghouls who love great songs.



Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
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

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

Double cross 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

Took my 15 yr old neice to Summersault 2000 in Edmonton.


Sunday, August 6, 2000
Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, AB
A Perfect Circle
Catherine Wheel
Eve 6
Finger Eleven
Foo Fighters
Our Lady Peace
Sum 41
The Smashing Pumpkins
Treble Charger

Really great day outside at the football stadium. And my neice was really excited. And we both got to meet Dave Grohl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters) and talk to him for a minute. Great experience for my neice and I.

The Pumkins were the headliner. And I so badly wanted to see Bullet With Butterfly Wings. They literally got half way through the song when I realized the song.

Worst fail playing your signature tune and the audience honestly having no clue the song you were playing.

Overall a great festival. But the Pumkins did not play a good show, imo.
 
@Fengxian this song is for you.............


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