| Stand Inside Your Love | ||
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Billy: "Stand Inside Your Love was probably the only song of the entire Machina sessions that we didn't tamper with. Literally, wrote the song, came in, the band learned it, we flushed out the whatever little arrangement that was in the drum things, rehearsed it, recorded a rough version of it, and never changed a thing after that." The Raft. The Raft: Can you isolate a song that is one of your purest songs....by "pure" I mean the point at which all of your influences, art and literature, and life and family came into perfect confluence? Billy: "I think that there's probably only been a few, a handful. I would say that Disarm on Siamese Dream, 1979 on Mellon Collie and Stand Inside Your Love on MACHINA, I'm sure there's a few more, but there's a harmony in those things that to me is awestriking, 'cause I don't really understand where that balance or that harmony comes from, 'cause it certainly didn't come from me." The Raft. Billy: Every once in a while, a song comes and it comes so fast that you can't even almost remember how it happened. And you almost feel kind of guilty because you almost feel like you don't own the song. Of course you still take credit but um...[chuckles] Uh, this song Stand Inside Your Love, um, I had written the music. The song was a little different um, it sort of was more new wave if I can show you really quickly, it was more like um [plays short, new wave version] and I envisioned it as a new wave song. And um, when the band first came back together to record the Machina album, within about maybe the second or third rehearsal that we had, I sort of threw this up as an idea I had. We tried to play it the new wave way and it didn't work and suddenly it just mutated into what I would call "Classic Smashing Pumpkins" in the sense that it sounds like it could come from any album. And um, we immediately arranged the song top to bottom so the song that you hear on the album is basically the same musical arrangement, but I didn't really have a melody and I didn't have any words. And I went home that day thinking "Well, I should really should try to write some words for this song, I really like it." I woke up the next morning and I was reading a book and um, all I had for this song was the line "Who wouldn't stand inside your love," which I can't say I really knew what that even meant at that particular moment. And um, it's the strangest feeling because all of sudden it's like a faucet opens up in my head and suddenly I can understand the whole song, I see it all. So, the lyrics to the song were --and i'm not joking when i say this-- were literally written in ten minutes and I have the sheet of paper that I wrote the lyrics on. And um, there's, not one word is different, not one word was ever changed. It all just came out in a stream of conciousness. To talk about what the song is about, it's probably one of the only rare...it's probably one of the only love songs I've ever written. I dedicate it to my friend and partner Yelena. [applause] Um, she doesn't like me very much right now so --it's true. [chuckles] No, but what I-- the reason I say that she doesn't really like me right now, is when I sing this song, it reminds me of how precious love is and how important love is in all of our lives. And even though I wrote this song for a person, I would say to anyone who likes this song, that I also write it for you in the sense that I'm trying to express that that feeling, that, that, when you really try to explain to somebody how much you really care about them. So this is um...maybe she'll forgive me. - Transcript from VH1 Storytellers, 2000 Video background: The video is thought to relate to the story of King Herod from the Bible's New Testament. At a wedding feast, Herod's daughter danced for him, and he was so pleased that he promised to grant her one favor, anything in the world she wanted. Herod's wicked wife told Herod's daughter to wish for the head of the prophet John the Baptist, a political prisoner at the time, on a silver platter. Reluctantly, Herod agreed. Herod's wife kissed the decapitated head when it was presented to her. This story is alluded to in the video, by the falling guillotine, the dancing girl, and the wicked king. Taken from the Siva message board - (who wrote this? I want to credit you, please). |
Written by Billy Corgan
You and me
But for the last time
Who wouldn't be the one you love A pure soul and beautiful you
Don't understand
And for the first time
Who wouldn't be the one you love
and for the first time | |
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| MACHINA/The Machines of God Stand Inside Your Love 12" 45 Single |