La canción 1979 fue escrita por Billy Corgan y es uno de los sencillos del álbum Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness de The Smashing Pumpkins, lanzado en 1995. La letra refleja sobre la juventud y la naturaleza transitoria de la vida, inspirada en las experiencias adolescentes de Corgan y la sensación de alienación. La canción recibió críticas positivas por su melodía nostálgica y se convirtió en uno de los temas más exitosos de la banda.
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Introducción:
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Shakedown nineteen seven nine,
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Cool kids never have the time.
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On a live wire right up off the street
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You and I should meet.
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Junebug skipping like a stone
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With headlights pointed at the dawn.
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We were sure we'd never see
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An end to it all.
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And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues,
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And we don't know just where our bones will rest
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To dust I guess
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Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below.
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Double cross the vacant and the bored,
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They're not sure just what we have in store.
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Morphine city slippin' dues down to see:
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That we don't even care as restless as we are,
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We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts.
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And poured cement,
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Lamented and assured.
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To the lights and towns below,
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Faster than the speed of sound,
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Faster than we thought we'd go beneath the sound of hope.
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Justine never knew the rules,
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Hung down with the freaks and ghouls.
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No a-pologies ever need be made,
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I know you better than you fake it to see:
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That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues,