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Originally named “48 Chords” as a commentary on the unusual high number of piano chords played, “Blank Page” is about Corgans marriage ending. According to himself, he felt it was odd he had not written about it earlier, but only with this song could express how he felt about it.
Save for “17,” whi...
[Chorus]
Blank page is all the rage
Never meant to say anything
In bed, I was half dead
Tired of dreaming of rest
[Post-Chorus]
Got dressed, drove the state line
Looking for you at the five and dime
Stop sign told me, "stay at home"
Told me you were not alone
[Chorus]
Blank page was all the rage
Never meant to hurt anyone
In bed, I was half dead
Tired of dreaming of rest
[Verse]
You haven't changed
You're still the same
May you rise as you fall
You were easy
You are forgotten
You are the ways of my mistakes
I catch the rainfall
Through the leaking roof
That you had left behind
You remind me
Of that leak in my soul
The rain falls
My friends call
Leaking rain on the phone
[Bridge]
Take a day, plant some trees
May they shade you from me
May your children play beneath
[Chorus]
Blank page was all the rage
Never meant to say anything
In bed, I was half dead
Tired of dreaming of rest
[Post-Chorus]
Got dressed, drove the state line
Looking for you at the five and dime
[Outro]
But there I was, picking pieces up
You are a ghost, of my indecision
No more, little girl
Blank Page was written by Billy Corgan.
Blank Page was produced by Brad Wood & Flood & Billy Corgan.
The Smashing Pumpkins released Blank Page on Tue Jun 02 1998.
On the 2014 reissue of Adore, Corgan writes in the liner notes:
A miracle in that ‘Blank Page’ was never meant to be a song in the conventional sense, but an instrumental called ‘48 Chords;’ in honor of its un-cycling sequence. A chance encounter changed all that when I stuffed a poem I’d just writ...