The World is a vampire,sent to drain Secret destroyers,hold you up to the flames And what do I get, for my pain Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game Even though I know-I suppose I'll show All my cool and cold-like old job Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage Then someone will say What is lost can never be saved Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal But can you fake it, for just one more show And what do you want, I want to change And what have you got When you feel the same Even though I know-I suppose I'll show All my cool and cold-like old job Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage Then someone will say What is lost can never be saved Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage Tell me I'm the only one Tell me there's no other one Jesus was an only son Tell me I'm the chosen one Jesus was an only son for you Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage And I still believe that I cannot be saved |
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Recorded: Between March-August 1995
Written by: Billy Corgan
Available on: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness(CD/CS) Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness(12") Bullet with Butterfly Wings Single The Aeroplane Flies High Launch CD-Rom Magazine Bullet with Butterfly Wings/1979 7" promo The Smashing Pumpkins 1991-1998 promo The Smashing Pumpkins 2000 7 Track promo Rotten Apples (US Version) Rotten Apples (UK Version) Rotten Apples w/ Judas 0 (US Version) Rotten Apples w/ Judas 0 (UK Version)
Video Info: Directed by Samuel Bayer. The first single on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and one of the most popular Pumpkins songs ever. Won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1997. The video takes place in a rock quarry or something close to that. The band plays in the middle of a bunch of sliding "mud people". Also, the band is shown in a room with words such as "anarchy" painted on the walls. Here's a video clip of Billy being interviewed in 1995, it kind of explains the whole "mud people" idea.
The video's concept is described best with this quote: The band enlisted Samuel Bayer to shoot the lead-off video, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings." Unlike with past video directors, Corgan took a back seat to Bayer. The director looked to the art world for inspiration and suggested a concept based on the stark black-and-white images of manual laborers by Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado. The song, an indictment of rock stardom that Corgan says is done at least partially tongue in cheek, is mirrored by a video that suggests a connection between the frantic activity in a concert mosh pit and the oppressive conditions in a labor camp.
Song Secrets If you play the "rat in a cage" part backwards, it sounds like: "here are my abs!" - There is a sound sort of like a distorted guitar or a synthesiser making wooooooAAAAAAhhhhhhooooooo sounds from 3:42 to 4:11. -pLaNkEr