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Soot and Stars
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Written by Billy Corgan
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the words flow
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decisions made
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idea's mine
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but the inspiration not
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dreams of hangers-on
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dreams of getting well
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spells of esmeralda
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amarose fortold
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splinters in the eye
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sentiments remain
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bones are never asked
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where are we going to
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it was never up to me
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and yet i pushed until it broke
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i love the open road
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and all that it suggests
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wheelwagon dust
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weeds and infidelities
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and always swore our love
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never questioned why
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in a wooden house
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immovable and silent
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and drinking strawberry wine
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forever lost in town
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and through the sleeping streets
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nightbound and heavy
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wheels in a spoke
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just a spoken foreign sound
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know my gates are high
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my friends even higher
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forgotten in my mind
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yet the scars still lingering
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cloud the blue skies
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i'm jealous of you birds
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was the only truth
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in a world full of words
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hear the prairie sound
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in a friend called neil
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the heart is pointed down
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but my spirit pointed up
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his voice the siren
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of greek mythology
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i pause with my pen
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i begin to defend
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every action taken
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every moment sealed
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when i was quick
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it coursed through open veins
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the will to live
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the urgency to move
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behind a panel door
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sealing cherry stain
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i played my guitar
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and lived those lonesome notes
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like a dog that's down
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in a corner just aside
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waiting to be called
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waiting to be yours
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ghosts of a machine
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without purpose or will
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i'll often speak of you
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but the you was always me
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'cause when i speak of me
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it's me i ask of you
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so let there be no truth
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just trickery in rhymes
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time the only thing
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waiting still is death
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i hope for resolution
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pray one defining moment
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pause without restraint
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barren without child
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a child is who i was
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a child is who i'll die
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a child is who i'll die
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soot in my hair
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and stars in my hands
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soot in my hair
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and stars in my hands
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soot in my hair
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and stars in my hands
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Soot and Stars
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| The Smashing Pumpkins |
