Snail
The Smashing Pumpkins * Track #7 On Gish
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Snail by The Smashing Pumpkins
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The Smashing PumpkinsProduced by
Butch Vig & Billy CorganWrited by
Billy CorganAbout
The seventh track off the Pumpkins' debut album, “Snail” is a prime exemple of the marriage of beautiful melodies and heavy distortion that set the Pumpkins apart from the get go. It is an early pick of Corgan’s as his favorite Pumpkins song:
[P]robably the song the consistently stays with me is ‘S...
Snail Lyrics
[Verse 1]
All your seven dreams
Are closer than you believe
As your things come undone
See you are the only one
[Pre-Chorus]
Flower, seize the hour, the day, away
Waiting, waiting for your way, away
[Chorus]
When you wake up your own way
Throwing your life away
Softly, siren coming home
Siren snail
What you wait for
[Verse 2]
Flower, the pain will wash away, away
When the sun shines
Climbs through your window
Into your bed
[Chorus]
When you wake up your own way
Throwing your life away
Softly, siren coming home
Siren snail
Yeah, that's my home
[Post-Chorus]
Flower, save the hours
Flower, away
[Outro]
What you wait for-ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Flower, chase the sunshine
Flower, chase the sunshine
Flower
Snail Q&A
Who wrote Snail's ?
Snail was written by Billy Corgan.
Who produced Snail's ?
Snail was produced by Butch Vig & Billy Corgan.
When did The Smashing Pumpkins release Snail?
The Smashing Pumpkins released Snail on Tue May 28 1991.
What did The Smashing Pumpkins say about "Snail"?
Yes. In 2011, Gish received a special reissue in which the following liner notes can be found:
7 dreams. 7 and 7 is? 7. A girl I’ve named ‘Flower.’ She puts the sun on her tongue, tastes the stars like snowflakes. Tine height of who we would have been if we didn’t always need to have more, and more...
What have critics said about the song?
Spin ranked this song fairly high among the 300+ Pumpkins songs they rated, comparing it to one of the greatest Pumpkin songs of all-time (according to fans and critics alike), “Drown”.
A kind of dry-run for ‘Drown,’ guitars soaring at an appropriately slow, gauzy crawl. Amazing in retrospect how f...