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This song was referred to as “An Ode to No One” on the original packaging, but recent reissues have reverted back to the song’s original title, “Fuck You (An Ode to No One).”
When asked who this song is directed towards, Frontman Billy Corgan told Rolling Stone in 1995:
The basic thing is just fuc...
[Verse 1]
I'm never comin' back, I'm never givin' in
I'll never be the shine in your spit
I disconnect the act, I disconnect the dots
I disconnect the me in me
[Hook 1]
And you're mistaken, it's you that's fakin'
Livin' breathin', dyin' too
This message is for anyone who dares to hear
A fool
[Verse 2]
You can't bring me back, you can't bring me back
'Cause I give it all back to you
[Hook 2]
Through sacred alleys, the livin' wrecks, yeah
Wreak their havoc upon this world
The disenchanted, the romantics
The body and face and soul of you is gone
Down that deep black hole, oh
[Pre-Chorus]
Destroy the mind, destroy the body
But you cannot destroy the heart
Destroy the mind, destroy the body
But you cannot destroy the heart
[Chorus]
And you
You make me so I need to disconnect
And you make it so real
I don't need your love to disconnect
[Bridge 1]
To runaround kids in get-go cars
With Vaseline afterbirths and neon coughs
Galaxies full of nobodies
Givin' us the farewell runarounds
And I took a Virgin Mary axe to his sweet baby Jane
Lost my innocence to a no-good girl
Scratch my face with anvil hands
And coil my tongue around a bumblebee mouth
[Bridge 2]
And I give it all back to you
I give it all back to you, yeah
I give it all back to you
And for you
[Chorus]
No way, I don't need it
I don't need your love to disconnect
And you make it so real
I don't need your love to disconnect
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
No way, no way
No way, yeah, yeah, to disconnect
And you make it so real
I don't need your love to disconnect
No way, no way
No way, yeah, yeah, to disconnect
Yeah!
Fuck You (An Ode to No One) was written by Billy Corgan.
Fuck You (An Ode to No One) was produced by Flood & Alan Moulder & Billy Corgan.
The Smashing Pumpkins released Fuck You (An Ode to No One) on Mon Oct 23 1995.
In jostling about for attention in an era where the pit out front often dominated the focus of our evenings' music, heavy songs were a must to both keep and control the crowd in short bursts of regulated energy.
“The more we traveled the heavier we got, and the heavier we got the bigger the audienc...