Drum + Fife
The Smashing Pumpkins * Track #6 On Monuments to an Elegy
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Album Monuments to an Elegy
Drum + Fife by The Smashing Pumpkins
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The Smashing PumpkinsProduced by
Jeff Schroeder & Howard Willing & Billy CorganWrited by
Billy CorganAbout
The fourth single and sixth track from Monuments To An Elegy. The single artwork shows a baby Billy Corgan playing with some drums.
The music video is an allegory that touches on the subject of soldiers with PTSD as explained by Corgan:
I couldn’t be more proud of the message we’re sending that we...
Drum + Fife Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Away, away foul dreams
You're gonna listen now to me
No rules, or in-betweens
You're gonna listen now to me
Waste all your time
Find another kind of boy
A feint up on the line
A phantom I don't care to hold
[Pre-Chorus]
Come on along on an eastern shore
Come on along you're mine
Come on along on a winter's morn
Come on along you're mine
You're mine
[Chorus]
In sight, the drum and fife with steam
Racing scene to scene
To break this beast with need
Cause I will bang this drum to my dying day
[Verse 2]
In mind. A fetching June
You're gonna listen now to me
What's done, what's left as ruin
You're gonna listen now to me
[Pre-Chorus]
Come on along on an eastern shore
Come on along you're mine
Come on along on a winter's morn
Come on along you're mine
You're mine
[Chorus]
In sight, the drum and fife with steam
Racing scene to scene
To break this beast in need
To remedy what's been bleeding
'Cause I will bang this drum to my dying
I will bang this drum to my dying
I will bang this drum to my dying day
'Cause I will bang this drum to my dying day
[Bridge]
Don't you ever be afraid
Don't you ever be afraid
Don't you ever be afraid
No more, no more, no more
[Refrain]
'Cause I will bang this drum to my dying day
(Don't you ever be afraid)
'Cause I will bang this drum to my dying
I will bang this drum to my dying
I will bang this drum to my dying day
'Cause I will bang this drum
Drum + Fife Q&A
Who wrote Drum + Fife's ?
Drum + Fife was written by Billy Corgan.
Who produced Drum + Fife's ?
Drum + Fife was produced by Jeff Schroeder & Howard Willing & Billy Corgan.
When did The Smashing Pumpkins release Drum + Fife?
The Smashing Pumpkins released Drum + Fife on Fri Nov 21 2014.
What did The Smashing Pumpkins say about "Drum + Fife"?
Corgan told Rolling Stone about the meaning behind the music video:
I asked, albeit in an allegorical way, for the video to represent what our returning soldiers are going through with PTSD, and I feel that the directors captured that with poignancy."
He went on to say, “I couldn’t be more proud o...