The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
[Verse 1]
Pledge your faith, my heart, it breaks
Struggle to renew
Blurry mind, so hypnotized
Fast enough, who?
[Chorus]
Wonder
Where you are
Tristessa
[Verse 2]
Soul takes soul as eye take eye
I will wait for you
What you believe, you’ll wish to receive
Won’t believe you
You-hoo
[Chorus]
Hang on
To your life
Tristessa
[Bridge]
I love you true
Surely, I do
I love you true
Surely, I do
Surely, I do
Surely, I do (No)
[Outro]
Do you ever wake up and find yourself alone?
Do you ever wake up far from home?
What you believe, you’ll wish to receive
I won’t believe you
Tristessa
Tristessa
Tristessa
Tristessa was written by Billy Corgan.
Tristessa was produced by Butch Vig & Billy Corgan.
The Smashing Pumpkins released Tristessa on Sat Dec 01 1990.
Lifted from author Jack Kerouac’s book of the same name, written, I think, about a Spanish prostitute. I sec myself not as a whore but as a mirrored reflection in the feminine creative mind. I will await the artist within to come out to play. I call out her name longingly, coyly. Maybe I know that t...