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Zeitgeist by The Smashing Pumpkins - Album Lyrics & Tracks

The Smashing Pumpkins•2007 Released•Progressive Rock•United States

Tracks: 12

Duration: 52:27

Label: Martha’s Music

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Complete Album Tracklist

Doomsday Clock

03:44

7 Shades of Black

03:17

Bleeding the Orchid

04:03

That’s the Way (My Love Is)

03:48

Tarantula

03:51

Starz

03:43

United States

09:52

Neverlost

04:20

Bring the Light

03:40

(Come On) Let’s Go!

03:19

For God and Country

04:24

Pomp and Circumstances

04:20

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Zeitgeist Complete Lyrics

Doomsday Clock Lyrics

8 ContributorsDoomsday Clock LyricsIs everyone afraid?

Is everyone ashamed?

They’re running towards their holes, to find out

Apocalyptic means are lost amongst our dead

A message to our friends to get out

There’s wages on this fear

Oh so clear

Depends on what you’ll pay to hear

They’re bound to kill us all

In whitewashed halls

Their jackals lick their paws

Please don’t stop

It’s lonely at the top

These lonely days

When will they ever stop?

This doomsday clock ticking in my heart

Not broken

I love life every day

In each and every way

Kafka would be proud, to find out

I’m certain of the end

It’s the means that has me spooked

It takes an unknown truth to get out

I’m guessing I’m born free, silly me

I was meant to beg from my knees

Please don’t stop

It’s lonely at the top

These lonely days

When will they ever stop?

This doomsday clock ticking in my heart

These lonely days when will they ever stop?

We gotta dig in, gas masks on

Wait in the sunshine, all bug-eyed

If this is living?

Sakes alive!

Well then they can’t win

No one survives

Is everyone afraid?

You should be ashamed

Apocalyptic screams

Mean nothing to the dead

Kissing that ‘ol sun

To know all there is

Come on, last call

You should want it all

Ah, it’s lonely at the top

These lonely days

When will they ever stop

This doomsday clock ticking in my heart

These lonely days

When will they ever stop

This ticking in my heart

Is everyone afraid?

Bleeding the Orchid Lyrics

6 ContributorsBleeding the Orchid LyricsIf life is my witness

Love is my song

If nothing means no one

Then blank, i belong

If fear conquers easy

I can lead on

Milk from the flower

Blood from the dawn

So here we are

Upon your stage

The laughs we shared

The dreams we saved

Bleeding the orchid

We’re bleeding the orchid

Bleeding the orchid

Blessed my weakness

Blessed my wrongs

As hate forms the sequence

Of one by one

As freedoms dies easy

We suffrage the want

There’s clouds in my shower

Ghosts in my arms

Youth is where you are

Faith some sinner’s child

We’re bleeding the orchid

Bleeding the orchid

Gilded art this silent march past triumph thru alarm

So thus charmed

Does this will stand for much?

But heart’s untouched by heart’s unloved

Bleeding the orchid

Here we are

Upon your stage

The love we share

The dreams we’ll save

They’re bleeding the orchid

Tarantula Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I don't want to fight

Every single night

Everything I want is in your eyes

You and me go back

To places I don't know to care

The spoils of all I got were left for scraps

[Pre-Chorus]

Don't let me say this

But you're no worse than me

It's crazy

[Chorus]

We are the real

If real ever was

And just because

We are the real

They feel we have enough

We are the real

'Cause someone gave us up

[Post-Chorus]

I want to be there when you're happy

I want to love you when you're sad

Can't stand the morning rain?

Get out, I'll take your place, then

Can't stand the blazing sun?

Then, close your eyes you'll see

The angel dust

[Instrumental]

[Verse 2]

I don't want to be

Anything believed

A million watts of sound can't compare

Come along you'll see the world

The pulse ripples, the crowd unfurls

The current starts to flow, and, then, you're on

[Pre-Chorus]

Oh, it's white hot soul they want

To sing for

[Chorus]

We are the real

If real ever was

And just because

We are the ruin

Of every living soul

We are surreal

'Cause someone gave us up

[Post-Chorus]

Don't break the oath

I want to love you when you're happy

Don't break this oath

I want to be there when you're sad

Freeze-frame the pouring rain

[Bridge]

We are the real

As real as any ghost

So, easy now

We are the real

In ever living soul

Oh, don't they know?

[Interlude]

Can't stand the blazing sun?

Can't stand the morning rain?

Oh, get out, I'll take your place again

[Outro]

I don't want to be alone

I don't want to be alone, at all

If it's a white hot soul they want

Then, a black heart they'll get

Starz Lyrics

3 ContributorsStarz LyricsBorn of love and cast in light

Don’t you know we cannot die

We are stars

We are

We are stars

We are

We are stars

We are

The stars above, stars of grace

Shining down what’s left of face

You hurt so bad

This knowing, this fallacy

I want so much

To follow as I lead

For love I keep

Silent I weep

Dead suns rule dead air

But Heaven is everywhere

Stars…

Torn from god and flung towards night

Don’t you want what I can’t fight

We are stars

We are

We are stars

We are

We are stars

We are

The stars that shine, stars that bleed

Silver seeking destiny

So follow please

This hurts so much

This knowing carries me

We want so bad

We forget we are free

Spirit smile on

Deep black diamond

So rise the lost toys

Island of white noise

And purple haze

We are starz

What hurts so much

Is knowing we are free!

United States Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro 00:00-01:42]

[Verse 1]

Tired eyes, close for days

There’s no regret

Cause there’s no place

I don’t know what i believe

But if i feel safe, what do i need?

[Chorus]

Revolution!

Revolution blues

What will they do?

Revolution!

Revolution blues

What will they do to me?

[Verse 2]

Dulcet tongues, whisper fast

The future yearns

Right now’s the past

Rouse me soon, the end draws nigh

Who’s side are you on?

Your blood you cannot buy

[Chorus]

Revolution!

Revolution blues

What will they do?

Revolution!

Revolution blues

What will they do to you?

[Instrumental Break 04:19-06:48]

[Verse 3]

We’re alive

I feel alright

So tonight

I got to ask you why?

Why tonight?

It’s no surprise

I’ve got to survive!

[Bridge]

Freedom shines a light ahead

I’ll lead the last charge from bed

They said my last rites

I don’t have to run scared no more

[Verse 4]

Fight!

I wanna fight!

Revolution tonight!

I wanna fight!

I wanna fight! Revolution tonight!

Acolyte, acolyte

Do you wanna watch me die?

[Outro]

Let me be something good

Let me prove something real like I should

Let me embrace every single living thing

Let me be every single moment I ever misunderstood

[Instrumental Outro]

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(Come On) Let’s Go! Lyrics

3 Contributors(Come On) Let’s Go! LyricsC’mon let’s go

I’ll find you waiting there

Beyond their violence dared

A light around your soul

You could be my friend

Lovely and different

Crushing up the stars above us

A guarantee to spoil our rot

Tears were once my only way back home

Someone speaks and instantly I’m cold

C’mon let’s go

Beyond the great unknown

Beyond their punched-up skulls

To die upon this road

C’mon let’s go

Anesthetized I’m hollow

Playing to the dark back row

C’mon let’s go

Assimilate, it’s all been staged

I’ve made mistakes, they penetrate

They’re gonna take, it’s all the same

They cannot wait, their love spells hate

I wanna love

I’m pushing back

I’m serpentine

I’m pushing back

Lord save me

With need

Lord walk me home

C’mon let’s go

C’mon, c’mon let’s go

Tears were once my only way back home

Someone weeps and instantly I’m thrown

C’mon let’s go

Pomp and Circumstances Lyrics

4 ContributorsPomp and Circumstances LyricsWhen I was born I lost

When I was freed I fought

Now that I’m loved I’m caught

Between the rest and this tragic mess

An invited guest

Torn, broken and frayed

Oh don’t we face

War, sunshine and grace

Oh won’t you stay

For a while

We can fail in style

I can hold your smile

For a while

What was once new now gone

What was once praised now wrong

As they go, we can say we know

But what do we know

But warm sunshine and graves

Don’t we see

What’s bitter to taste

Torn, broken and frayed

Don’t we face

War, sunshine and graves

Won’t you stay

’cause I won’t tell

I won’t tell a soul

That I’m mad as hell

Torn, broken and frayed

I’m torn, broken and frayed

No, I’m cold, worn out and shamed