Anybody Else Remember that Song that The Smashing Pumpkins Wrote

I wish I didn't.

>>85071015
didn't they all die

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My joke kind of fell flat, but my intention was to do a bait-and-switch in which I lead people to think I'm posting that "The End is the Beginning is the End" song that was on the Batman & Robin soundtrack, but then actually post "For Martha," which was not written about Batman and was never on any Batman soundtrack, but is humourous to place in that context due to the plot of the most recent Batman movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59g5R8rwqpY

Send a heartbeat to
The void that cries through you
Relive the pictures that have come to pass
For now we stand alone
The world is lost and blown
And we are flesh and blood disintegrate
With no more to hate

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour
I hold secrets flame
We can watch the world devoured in it's pain

Delivered from the blast
The last of a line of lasts
The pale princess of a palace cracked
And now the kingdom comes
Crashing down undone
And I am a master of a nothing place
Of recoil and grace

Time has stopped before us
The sky cannot ignore us
No one can separate us
For we are all that is left
The echo bounces off me
The shadow lost beside me
There's no more need to pretend
Cause now I can begin again


Literally perfect lyrics for Watchmen

>>85073402
Even though it's sister song TEITBITE was written about Batman, I feel like parts of it describe Mr. Freeze. "Is it bright where you are? Have the people changed?" I feel like that could be Freeze talking to Nora, wondering if her frozen slumber is more peaceful than the harsh reality of Gotham. "For I am crystal chrome, and I am shatter dome" kind of evokes imagery of ice and glass. I don't think it was intentional (I doubt Billy Corgan watched "Heart of Ice," hell, he probably didn't even watch the movie they put the song on).

And then there are parts that pretty much perfectly describe Batman. "The sewers belch me up. The heavens spit me out." Just how Batman lives in that grey area between the bad guys and the good guys, being an outlaw vigilante. And of course, referencing how Batman was created from trauma through "from aethers tragic, I am born again."

Kind of cool how these lyrics are so open to interpretation that a song like TBITBITE can fit perfectly for a movie released decades after it. Of course the book was written first, but I don't think Corgan is a comics guy and probably didn't even know Watchmen was a thing until he got some letter from WB asking if they could pay him money to use his song.

>>85072386
I love both songs so I'm just gonna zone out for a bit. Thanks, man.

Had this stuck in my head all day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRGA_kUpLYI

>>85072386
Eddie?
Is that you?

>>85073402
I used to love this song when the film came out. Haven't listened to it in years.

>>85072386
I got at first anon, it was a good joke.