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Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Canonical path: /smashing-pumpkins/speed-kills
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Speed Kills
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Speed Kills
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Speed kills
But beauty lives forever
Speed thrills
But beauty knows your name
I fell will inside eternal winter
And stood still beside eternal flame
'Cause when I ride
With you tonight
We can move
At the speed of light
And all I ask and all I pray
The last rose of summer would stay
The last rose of summer would stay
First time that I ever saw you
Crashing hard thru days of pain
You were one of God's children
Left to cry out in the rain
Waiting to be saved again
When I ride
With you tonight
We can move
At the speed of light
And all I ask and all I pray
The last rose of summer
The last rose of summer
The last rose of summer is gone
Long gone
Gone
The last rose of summer is gone
When I ride
With you tonight
We can move
At the speed of light
Forever young
Forever blind
Into the stars
We rock tonight
The last rose of summer
The last rose of summer
The last rose of summer is gone
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