Tales of a Scorched Earth

Smashing Pumpkins · Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [1995]

Farewell, goodnight last one out turn out the lights

And let me be, let me die inside

Let me know the way through this world of hate in you

Cause the dye 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?

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?

Beyond my hopes there are no feelings



Everbody'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?

Beyond my hopes there are no reasons