Ava Adore
The Smashing Pumpkins * Track #2 On Adore
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Ava Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Performed by
The Smashing PumpkinsProduced by
Brad Wood & Billy CorganWrited by
Billy CorganAbout
“Ava Adore” is the first single and the second song on The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album Adore. Released May 18th, 1998, the track reached number 3 on the Billboard Top Alternative Songs and number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998.
Released on June 1, 1998, the music video featured the...
Ava Adore Lyrics
[Verse 1]
It’s you that I adore
You’ll always be my whore
You’ll be the mother to my child
And a child to my heart
[Refrain]
We must never be apart
We must never be apart
[Chorus]
Lovely girl, you’re the beauty in my world
Without you, there aren’t reasons left to find
[Verse 2]
And I’ll pull your crooked teeth
You’ll be perfect, just like me
You’ll be a lover in my bed
And a gun to my head
[Refrain]
We must never be apart
We must never be apart
[Chorus]
Lovely girl, you're the murder in my world
Dressing coffins for the souls I've left to die
Drinking mercury to the mystery
Of all that you should ever leave behind
In time
[Bridge]
In you, I see dirty
In you, I count stars
In you, I feel so pretty
In you, I taste god
In you, I feel so hungry
In you, I crash cars
[Refrain]
We must never be apart
[Chorus]
Drinking mercury
To the mystery of all that you should ever seek to find
Lovely girl, you’re the murder in my world
Dressing coffins for the souls I’ve left behind
In time
[Refrain]
We must never be apart
[Verse 3]
And you’ll always be my whore
'Cause you’re the one that I adore
And I’ll pull your crooked teeth
You’ll be perfect, just like me
In you, I feel so dirty
In you, I crash cars
In you, I feel so pretty
In you, I taste god
[Refrain]
We must never be apart
Ava Adore Q&A
Who wrote Ava Adore's ?
Ava Adore was written by Billy Corgan.
Who produced Ava Adore's ?
Ava Adore was produced by Brad Wood & Billy Corgan.
When did The Smashing Pumpkins release Ava Adore?
The Smashing Pumpkins released Ava Adore on Mon May 18 1998.
What did The Smashing Pumpkins say about "Ava Adore"?
In the 2014 reissue of Adore Corgan writes:
Ostensibly written about some objectified person, there also is no ‘Ava’ that I can configure, and the lyric is perhaps more a screed to my frustration at the fairer sex than say what might meld two souls together; ‘we must never be apart’ more a demand t...
What have critics said about the track?
Spin called “Ava Adore” “the most troubled love song of the ’90s.” The same article went on to call the song
An unsteady and seeping bedrock for prickly meditations on some deeply ingrained Madonna/whore complex. Like all of the best Pumpkins songs, they’re transforming doom and gloom into a defeat...
How did they achieve the special effects seen in the music video?
The entire video is remarkably made up of one single take. Given this fact, the most notable feature of the video is the use of both slow motion and fast motion on the movements of the band members while the camera moves at a fixed rate. This made for an especially challenging task when it came to l...