Bullet With Butterfly Wings (The Smashing Pumpkins)
Song:
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Artist:
The Smashing Pumpkins
Album:
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
(1995)
“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. 3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.” – Ecclesiastes 1:2-4
In this episode, we meet up with Dave & Tyler from the Pulp Christian Podcast Show (PCP). They will be with us talking about their show and some other interesting topics including homosexuality, Christian in-fighting, and the dangers of “fake” Christianity.
Our Discussion also involves the song “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” from The Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 “Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness” LP.
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Dave & Tyler
Pulp Christian Podcast
Pulp Christian is a podcast by Dave Pendras and Tyler Johnson discussing the highs and woes of modern Christianity.
We aren’t experts or pastors. In fact Dave just became a Christian. This is our attempt to talk through what Christianity is in today’s context, and back ourselves into corners on accident.
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, The Smashing Pumpkins’ third studio album, was released in 1995. The 28-track album was a 2-disc CD and triple LP.
“Bullet with Butterfly Wings” propelled the LP to #1 on the Billboard 200 and paved the way for other hit singles such as “1979,” and “Tonight, Tonight.”
“I was sitting there bored out of my mind (the producers) were dicking around with some microphone, and I had this line in my head, ‘Despite all my rage. I’m still just a rat in a cage.’ I was just sitting there, bored, and I picked up the guitar and I started singing. But what if the guy had been like, ‘Ooh we’re ready!’? People don’t appreciate that there’s a thing that needs to happen. The stars need to align.” – Billy Corgan
“Bullet With Butterfly Wings”
song lyrics:
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
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
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
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
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
Songwriters:
William Patrick Corgan
Bullet with Butterfly Wings lyrics
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