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“Muzzle” is the twelfth song on the first disc, Dawn to Dusk, of The Smashing Pumpkins' third album, and first and only double album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.
Lyricist and lead singer Billy Corgan has said that this song was written partially as a preemptive strike on critics who wer...
[Verse 1]
I fear that I am ordinary
Just like everyone
To lie here and die among the sorrows
Adrift among the days
For everything I ever said
And everything I've ever done is gone
And dead
[Chorus]
As all things must surely have to end
And great loves will one day have to part
I know that I am meant for this world
[Verse 2]
My life has been extraordinary
Blessed and cursed and won
Time heals but I'm forever broken
By and by the way
Have you ever heard the words
I'm singin' in these songs?
It's for the girl I've loved all along
Can a taste of love be so wrong?
[Chorus]
As all things must surely have to end
And great loves will one day have to part
I know that I am meant for this world
[Bridge]
And in my mind as I was floating
Far above the clouds
Some children laughed I'd fall for certain
For thinkin' that I'd live forever
[Outro]
But I knew exactly where I was
And I knew the meaning of it all
And I knew the distance to the sun
And I knew the echo that is love
And I knew the secrets in your spires
And I knew the emptiness of youth
And I knew the solitude of heart
And I knew the murmurs of the soul
And the world is drawn into your hands
And the world is etched upon your heart
And the world, so hard to understand
And the world, you can't live without
And I knew the silence of the world
And I knew the silence of the world
And I knew the silence of the world
And I knew the silence of the world
And I knew the silence of the world
Muzzle was written by Billy Corgan.
Muzzle was produced by Billy Corgan & Alan Moulder & Flood.
The Smashing Pumpkins released Muzzle on Mon Oct 23 1995.
Written at first on the piano in my crude Lennon-ish tinker toy style, this song possibly more than any other in the collection demonstrates the power of the old band collective to convert up ideas rapidly; from doleful sea shanties into epic rockets.
It took me nearly a month to convince Jimmy to...