"Muzzle"

Band's Comments Lyrics
Billy: "Everybody's favorites tend to be the better songs. My favorites tend to be more sentimental favorites, or songs that are maybe not the best songs, but they have so much heart to them that I like those songs more. Well, there's this song called "Muzzle" which I don't know if it will always be called "Muzzle," but a song like that, it's a simple song and it's not a song that will blow people away on first listen." (mtv week in rock 2/95)


Billy: "I'm a confused person. It's that simple. I'm certainly battling my own idealism. With love, there's a lot of issues: respect, intuitive love, attraction, shifts in nature. It's such a complicated thing, I don't know what to make of it. And what complicates it even more is that the goals two people have are not always common ones. You end up dealing with these hidden agendas."


James: "Billy plays the first solo, and towards the end of the song there's an outro solo that I play. That's just the way it seemed to work best."

Written by Billy Corgan

i fear that i am ordinary, just like everyone
to lie here and die among the sorrows
adrift among the days
for everything i ever said
and everything i've ever done is gone and dead
as all things must surely have to end
and great loves will one day have to part
i know that i am meant for this world
my life has been extraordinary
blessed and cursed and won
time heals but i'm forever broken
by and by the way...
have you ever heard the words
i'm singing in these songs?
it's for the girl i've loved all along
can a taste of love be so wrong
as all things must surely have to end
and great loves will one day have to part
i know that i am meant for this world
and in my mind as i was floating
far above the clouds
some children laughed i'd fall for certain
for thinking that i'd last forever
but i knew exactly where i was
and i knew the meaning of it all
and i knew the distance to the sun
and i knew the echo that is love
and i knew the secrets in your spires
and i knew the emptiness of youth
and i knew the solitude of heart
and i knew the murmurs of the soul
and the world is drawn into your hands
and the world is etched upon your heart
and the world so hard to understand
is the world your can't live without
and i knew the silence of the world

Official Releases Listen To This Song
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"


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