Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Lyrics






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 earth below

Double-cross the vacant and the bored
They're not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slipping dues down to see

That 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 thought we'd go
Beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
No apologies ever need be made
I know you better than you fake it to see

That we 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 earth below

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





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  1. M.... O....

    🇧🇷❤️😍

  2. D.... J....

    This kids rightnow is 60 years old and when they watched this video idk what they think but there reaction is truly priceless.

  3. D.... J....

    When every watched this video i have tears in my eyes but IDK what happen

  4. k.... ....

    Good times 😔😥😊

  5. K.... D....

    So that’s what Gerard Way would look like bald

  6. S.... S....

    Love this song

  7. t.... ....

    The teenagers in this video are close to if not 40 years old now. Feel old yet?

  8. J.... J....

    2:32: great!!!?

  9. K.... R....

    Favorite song: nobody


    High School years: yes please

  10. A.... ....

    This song takes me back to 1995.

  11. M.... M....

    The 90s...my college years, carefree because we didn’t even care.

  12. R.... ....

    Was driving with a buddy in my s10 with loud ass mufflers racing other stupid people and drifting and things of that nature when this came on the radio. Never gonna feel that happy again in my life. Thanks the smashing pumpkins for a moment of a lifetime

  13. A.... I....

    2019 desember

  14. N.... M....

    R u listening mocky rip

  15. Q.... ....

    Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
    On a live wire right up off the street
    You and I should meet
    June bug 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 earth below


    Double cross the vacant and the bored
    They're not sure just what we have in the store
    Morphine city slippin' dues, down to see that


    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 thought 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 fake it, to see


    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 earth below


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

  16. A.... L....

    LMS if you born in 1979

  17. 1.... h....

    Unwind 2019 december 21

  18. I.... ....

    Just think that 1979 was only 16 years ago from when this song was written and it has already been almost 25 years since this song was written.

  19. L.... A....

    90's nights...when you didn't know where your bones will rest and you didn't remember the girl you date next monday...no cell phones and what had happened that night was only in your buddies memories...great times!!!

  20. T.... ....

    I’m still only one year into high school and this song makes me wish we were free like these kids were it’s upsetting that we’re not

    T.... ....

    How are you not? You re as free as you want in modern society, just like they were not that long ago.

  21. G.... 1....

    19K people born after 1999 disliked this video

  22. 2.... ....

    Aún hay tiempo ...

  23. J.... L....

    I miss the 70s alot of sex and drugs and rock and roll.

  24. c.... ....

    1996 feels

  25. P.... D....

    Great song never expired

  26. S.... ....

    Came here from e621.net

  27. B.... S....

    90s were a bitch,but there were good times,like this song.

  28. G.... ....

    I was born in 1979. I didn't get my own cell phone till 2000, and it just made phone calls and sent basic texts. If you wanted to interact with friends you had two choices: phone call or IRL. I'm not saying we had it better, but it was real.

    G.... ....

    ok boomer

    G.... ....

    Oh, burn. Man you REALLY got me.

  29. G.... D....

    Literally on the last day of my senior year. This is the only song I needed to listen to when I was driving my friends back home.

  30. W.... ....

    we did truly have fallen through the rabbit hole, haven't we?

  31. �.... �....

    Gta 4))

  32. M.... A....

    Numero de Visualizacion 109.649.007 y corriendo.. Temazo!!! gracias

  33. D.... H....

    Man I miss days like this kids just enjoyed themselves no phones no social media just enjoyed being a kid 70,80,90 era will never get back but always can remember with tunes like this

    D.... H....

    I would have been one of the older kids at the party & I remember some 12 year old knobs running around, makes me laugh to think about it watching this vid!

  34. A.... S....

    well to krusha please to meet ya FBI likes ya.. good job

  35. C.... S....

    Infância(adolescência ). ...a melhor fase

  36. A.... F....

    GTA IV :')

  37. A.... C....

    December 2019? Happy 40th anniversary!!!

  38. A.... H....

    Here because of GTA IV

  39. P.... B....

    No se pero me da una sensación de vacío por dentro muy triste y noventera para mi jaja

  40. J.... E....

    Violenta Nostalgia !! 🌹

  41. J.... O....

    Makes a song about 79' in the 90s. Just goes to show. Anything before this era was good. Fact.

    J.... O....

    It is about people born in 1979, not about teens in 70s but teens in 90s

  42. d.... d....

    this makes me never wanna grow up, i’m 17 and i’ll never have these days again. i wish i was a teen in the 90s

    d.... d....

    derek davis or go do something fun with your life instead of dreaming of being a teen in that era, teens are always going to be teens being alive in a different era isn’t going to change it.

    d.... d....

    Nostalgia is always better than the real thing. The nineties were just like any other decade. Nothing special. Grow up in your own decade. In twenty years, you’ll be looking back on this decade thinking it was the greatest.

    d.... d....

    Enjoy while it lasts. You don’t know you’re in the “good old days” until they’re over.

  43. p.... c....

    What is it with people copying other peoples comments for likes on YT vids. Its a bit sad to be honest!! eg : " This song got me feeling nostalgia for memories that never even happened " dozens of variants of in thread. Pathetic liberal millenials me thinks

  44. E.... R....

    not gonna lie....... this is my life anthem! !!

  45. E.... O....

    90s songs must feel like late 60s songs to those that apply.......

  46. t.... s....

    cripes all mighty.... turn it up and enjoy music how it should be listened to.

  47. D.... D....

    Dude once said “we don’t condone slamming at our concerts”...what p#%

  48. P.... V....

    Grand Theft Auto IV

  49. P.... E....

    ☮️💓🙃🙂👍

  50. A.... P....

    I miss bein a kid, so much simpler

  51. N.... G....

    diciembre de 2019

    N.... G....

    natalia, me estoy haciendo viejo y no me gusta nada

  52. H.... R....

    It's ironic how everyone's discussing 90s nostalgia when this song is about 70s nostalgia and just happens to be made in the 90s

    H.... R....

    No, it is about people born in 1979 which has these years in the 90s.

    H.... R....

    @Grev McGrevington Billy Corgan was born in 67 and this song is about his youth. Hence the 70's muscle car that would've been worth a fortune in the '90s. You can also sort of tell the convenient store scene is more that time than '90s.

    H.... R....

    @miezcom he would’ve been 12 in 1979, and the convenience store looks 90s to me, look at the candid videos someone took at a 711 at 2am in the 90s. And the muscle cars are only affordable by teens in the 90s, not when they first come out in the 70s.

  53. W.... M....

    this song is the marker of the (great) times.

  54. D.... W....

    O god the 90s i want to go back. This decade fucking sucks.

  55. B.... C....

    This song works o so many levels. Not only is the instrumentation and guitar work in particular amazing, but also the lyrics and the way they describe the fun and nostalgia of being young. Nostalgia is something we can all relate to, of how great the past is in our memories and nothing captures that feeling better than this song. This song gives me a childhood nostalgia and euphoria that few songs fully capture. Thank you Billy Corgan.

  56. �.... �....

    Remember. 1998. A lifetime ago. I'm a schoolboy, we just got cable TV. Russia, North. There's some shit on the radio. Around is happening some nightmare. Small town, less than 25,000 people population. I turn on the TV, and there's Tonight, Tonight. I remember goose bumps running down my back. I am puzzled and surprised! What is it!?I ran to the only store where I could buy a cassette of some rock music. Found Adore. I could not even imagine that this music will accompany me all my life. Collected all albums, enjoyed. Even my grandmother was still alive, she survived the Second World War, and I blew her brain with this music... Oh, sorry, grandma! Billy, I'm an adult. Got a family, son. A lifetime behind him. There's so much going on. I know you'll never know, but I appreciate it. Thank you, man, I wish you all the best. Heartily.

  57. E.... ....

    ''gta IV''

  58. B.... T....

    Funny how this makes me yearn for a time without phones and yet here I am watching and replying with my phone. I miss making memories

  59. H.... S....

    When life was great .......the 90’s

    H.... S....

    Humberto Santana jr people will say the same thing in 30 years, how do you think people born in the 60/70s reacted when classic rock wasn’t popular anymore or when teenagers started wearing different clothing

  60. K.... J....

    The Smashing Pumpkins muito bom, com certeza esta música é uma das melhores

  61. L.... H....

    God, we were brats in the 90's. or maybe I'm old now...

  62. k.... x....

    Calvoooo

  63. k.... c....

    Sounds like Jagger!

  64. C.... ....

    3 weeks to 2020 and remembering when I was a teen

  65. B.... E....

    No auge dos 16 anos ouvia muito essa música!! Viva os anos 90!!

  66. B.... E....

    Musicao!

  67. K.... R....

    This was my college jam! This and plush, dookie, and interstate live song and... so much fucking good music in the 90s, oh and portishead!!!

  68. J.... D....

    ⏱ - TIMELESS - song. ⏱👶👦👱‍♂️🧔👴

  69. Y.... C....

    Самое эпичное это то, что все это было снято на пленку

  70. M.... H....

    I wasn’t alive in ‘79, but I was in ‘89, and this song brings me back.

  71. R.... �....

    Best videoclip in the world 😎

    R.... �....

    Best kids too

  72. N.... R....

    Man I miss my carefree highschool days

  73. d.... ....

    Video is full of rich entitled white kids.

    d.... ....

    Minus the Starbucks gender studies and the ANTIFA clothes.

    d.... ....

    And these "entitled" kids didn't have social media mobile crappy phones. Just hanging out with real life friends.

    d.... ....

    @Rampaiger Ren "hanging out" by destroying private property and driving recklessly?

    d.... ....

    @tj nope

  74. R.... H....

    What wrong with the 90s? Freak!

  75. M.... J....

    Ozzy syahputra jadi vokalis ya skrg ?

  76. C.... M....

    So, pretty sure Vince Vaughn was one of the cops.

  77. C.... C....

    This is giving me nostalgia for the fun teen years i never had

  78. V.... A....

    que recuerdos. es un tema que te transporta a esa época tan linda como los 90..

  79. J.... 3....

    Ok boomer

    J.... 3....

    Pfft there you Boomers go again writing stuff from 3 days ago. Y'all are ancient 👴

    J.... 3....

    @Hemp Rope ok boomer

    J.... 3....

    @Ventex 13 hours ago? PFFT you're such a *BOOMER*

  80. A.... P....

    Está canción tiene el año de mi nacimiento , y el video muestra algo de la juventud que viví ... Cool kids 🤘😋

  81. A.... P....

    Está canción tiene el año de mi nacimiento , y el video muestra algo de la juventud que viví ... Cool kids 🤘😋

  82. S.... B....

    Remember the Sunshine,the Innocent & the Acid x

  83. A.... I....

    this song makes me wish i was a teenager even though i am a teenager

    A.... I....

    Makes me wish I was alive then, even though I was alive then.

    A.... I....

    Tony T thats deep bruh 😳

    A.... I....

    @Anime Is For Weebs I still managed to have a good time, so that's good :)

    A.... I....

    enjoy these teenage years.

    A.... I....

    Anime Is For Weebs huh?

  84. D.... S....

    Before the social media era...sigh

  85. D.... S....

    I just discovered this song this year....Jesus Christ, where have I been all these years.

    D.... S....

    I lived through this, welcome to wherever you are....

    D.... S....

    @Nopehahalolwut ... Here in North Carolina. We took the 90s for granted.

  86. F.... C....

    la mejor cancion de los 90

  87. E.... ....

    Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  88. D.... C....

    This has got to go down as one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time.

  89. B.... S....

    beautiful this song!!! I love

  90. L.... S....

    This is SO beautiful Many beautiful memories of people I met loved and left in good spirits Forgot about this beautiful song It takes me to places that don’t exist anymore Makes me feel something I’ve forgotten I can feel again XxX Thank you

  91. m.... 0....

    anyone come here from joe rogan?

  92. H.... ....

    One of the best rock songs of the 90's, and ever.

  93. f.... c....

    This is REAL 90's... that we used to do... we just passed by but memories remain.

  94. N.... C....

    I found this song on guitar hero 2010 and i forgot the tittle, i look for for ages now i found it in 2019. So great song, remind me so much beautiful moments that far from fucking gadget.

  95. K.... R....

    Good times

  96. H.... L....

    this song reminds me of my childhood