The Smashing Pumpkins is an American alternative rock band from Chicago. Formed in 1988 by frontman Billy Corgan (lead vocals, guitar), D'arcy Wretzky (bass), James Iha (guitar), and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), the band has undergone many line-up changes. The current lineup features Corgan, Chamberlin, Iha and guitarist Jeff Schroeder.
Disavowing the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries, they have a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound
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CHORDS: B x24432 Em 022000 C x32010 D xx0232 Am x02210
Intro [drums, then] BEmC BEm
Verse CBEm Shakedown 1979 CBEm Cool kids never have the time CD On a live wire right up off the street AmBEm You and I should meet CBEm Junebug skipping like a stone CBEm With the headlights pointed at the dawn CDAm We were sure we'd never see an end to it all
Chorus (second guitar plays verse muted i think) DAmD And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues Am And we don't know D Just where our bones will rest Am To dust I guess DAmB(goes into verse) Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Verse BEm CBEm Double cross the vacant and the bored CB They're not sure just what we have in store EmDAm Morphine city slippin' dues down to see
Chorus/Bridge (second guitar plays verse muted through chorus, ends at %) DAmD That we don't even care as restless as we are AmD We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts Am %D And poured cement, lamented and assured C To the lights and towns below DC Faster than the speed of sound DC Faster than we thought we'd go DAmB(goes into verse Beneath the sound of hope
Verse BEm CBEm Justine never knew the rules, CBEm Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls CBEm No apologies ever need be made CDAm I know you better than you fake it to see
Chorus (second guitar same as before) DAmD That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues AmD And we don't know just where our bones will rest Am To dust I guess DAmB Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Verse BEm CBEm The street heats the urgency of now CD(single downstroke) As you see there's no one around [drum outro]