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1979 by The Smashing Pumpkins

Shakedown 1979
Cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I (1)____________ meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we’d (2)__________ see an end to it all
And I don’t even care to shake these (3)____________ blues
And we don’t know
Just where our bones (4)________ rest to dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They’re not (5)________ just what we have in the store
Morphine city slippin dues down to see
We don’t even care as (6)________________ as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the (7)__________ of sound
Faster than we thought we’d go
Beneath the sound of hope
Justine (8)__________ knew the rules
Hung down with the (9)____________ and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it, to see
And we don’t even care to shake (10)__________ zipper blues
And we don’t know
Just where our bones will rest to dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

The street heats the urgency of sound
As you can see there's no one around

Answers:
(1) should(2) never(3) zipper(4) will(5) sure(6) restless(7) speed(8) never(9) freaks(10) these