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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 should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we’d never see an end to it all
And I don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don’t know
Just where our bones will rest to dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the (1)__________ below

Double cross the vacant and the bored
They’re not sure just what we have in the store
Morphine city slippin dues (2)________ to see
We don’t even care as restless 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 speed of sound
Faster than we (3)______________ we’d go
Beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you (4)________ it, to see
And we don’t (5)________ (6)________ to shake these (7)____________ blues
And we don’t know
Just where our bones will rest to dust, I guess
Forgotten and absorbed (8)________ the earth below

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

Answers:
(1) earth(2) down(3) thought(4) fake(5) even(6) care(7) zipper(8) into