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Loosely connected to the drug found in Huxley’s Brave New World, the song describes numbness as a defense mechanism to deal with life’s stresses.
Billy Corgan has commented that his inspiration came from the loss of a girlfriend in 1992:
It’s about the girlfriend who left me last year. I tried to...
[Verse 1]
Nothing left to say
And all I've left to do
Is run away from you
And she led me on, down
With secrets I can't keep
[Chorus 1]
Close your eyes and sleep
Don't wait up for me
Hush now, don't you speak
To me
[Verse 2]
Wrapped my hurt in you
And took my shelter in that pain
The opiate of blame
Is your broken heart, heart, your heart
Soma
[Chorus 2]
I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
And I'll betray my tears
To anyone caught in our ruse of fools
[Bridge 1]
One last kiss for me, yeah
One last kiss goodnight
[Verse 3]
Didn't want to lose you once again
Didn't want to be your friend
Fulfilled a promise made of tin
And crawled back to you
[Chorus 3]
I'm all by myself (Close your eyes and sleep)
As I've always felt (Don't wait up for me)
I'll betray myself (Hush now, don't you speak)
To anyone, lost, anyone but you
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 4]
So let the sadness come again
On that you can depend on me, yeah
Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah
When God sleeps in bliss
[Chorus 4]
I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
I'll betray myself
To anyone
Soma was written by James Iha & Billy Corgan.
Soma was produced by Billy Corgan & Butch Vig.
The Smashing Pumpkins released Soma on Tue Jul 27 1993.
From the Aldous Huxley book Brave New World, it is the narcotic we need to get by all that we cannot stomach to see in others. Or ourselves.
A lover betrays his other. He slips into the night. He asks her to sleep while-he is awakened by the looming city just beyond. He is alone no matter who he ta...
“Soma” is the name of a happiness-inducing drug in Aldous Huxley’s dystopian 1931 novel Brave New World. The song is about Billy Corgan’s breakup from his girlfriend Chris Fabian, with the lyrics tracing parallels between the titular fictional drug and the numbness of being in love.