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1979

1979 lyrics by The Smashing Pumpkins. Shakedown 1979 Cool kids never have the time On a live wire right up off the street You and I should meet Junebug...

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1979

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Shakedown 1979

Cool kids never have the time

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

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 the 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 the 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

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