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Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Canonical path: /smashing-pumpkins/tales-of-a-scorched-earth
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Tales of A Scorched Earth
Read Tales of A Scorched Earth lyrics by The Smashing Pumpkins on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Tales of A Scorched Earth
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Farewell, goodnight
Last one out turn out the lights
And let me be, let me die inside
Let me know the way from of this world of hate in you
'Cause the die is cast and the bitch is back
And we're all dead, yeah, we're all dead
Inside the future
Of a shattered past
I lie just to be real
And I'd die just to feel
Why do the same old things
Keep on happening?
Because beyond my hopes
There are no feelings
Bless the martyrs and kiss the kids
For knowing better, for knowing this
'Cause you're all whores and I'm a fag
And I've got no mother and I've got no dad
To save me the wasted
Save me from myself
I lie just to be real
And I'd die just to feel
Why do the same old things
Keep on happening?
Because beyond my hopes
There are no feelings
If I believe, if I decieve, if I defend you now that way
Would you believe, could you recieve, could you have faith
No one is ever gone
And time is everything and I have none
Everybody's lost just waiting to be found
Everyone's a thought just waiting to fade
So fuck it all, 'cause I don't care
So what somehow somewhere we dared
To try to dare
To dare for a little more
I lie just to be real
And I'd die just to feel
Why do the same old things
Keep on happening?
Because beyond my hopes
There are no reasons
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