1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins

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Capo 3

[VERSE 1]
            
Shakedown 1979

  
             
Cool kids neve

           
r have the tim

e 
             
On a live wire

              
 right up off 

    
the street
             
You and I shou

  
ld meet


[VERSE 2]
             
Junebug skippi

            
ng like a ston


e
             
With headlight

              
s pointed at t

   
he dawn

We were sure w

e'd never see
           
An end to it a

 
ll


[CHORUS 1]
             
And I don't ev

             
en care to sha

              
ke these zippe

  
r blues
             
And we don't k

              
now just where

              
 our bones wil

  
l rest
          
To dust I gues

s
              
Forgotten and 

            
absorbed into 

          
the earth belo

w


[SOLO]
    


[VERSE 3]
             
Double cross t

              
he vacant and 

         
the bored
             
They're not su

              
re just what w

          
e have in stor

e
             
Morphine city 

            
slippin' dues 

        
down to see


[CHORUS 2]
             
We don't even 

             
care as restle

         
ss as we are
             
We feel the pu

              
ll in the land

              
 of a thousand

 
 guilts
             
And poured cem

ent
             
Lamented and a

ssured


[BRIDGE]
              
To the lights 

          
- and towns be

low
             
Faster than - 

           
the speed of s

ound
             
Faster than - 

         
we thought we'

d go
           
Beneath the so

             
und - of hope


[VERSE 4]
             
Justine never 

           
knew the rules
             
Hung down with

              
 the freaks an

        
d ghouls
             
No apologies e

            
ver need be ma

de
             
I know better 

            
than you fake 

      
it to see


[CHORUS 3]
             
That we don't 

             
even care to s

              
hake these zip

    
per blues
             
And we don't k

              
now just where

              
 out bones wil

  
l rest
          
To dust I gues

s
             
Forgotten and 

             
absorbed into 

        
the earth belo

w


[OUTRO]
             
The street hea

              
ts the urgency

       
 of now
             
As you see the

            
re's no-one ar

ound

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