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 endto it all
and i don’t even careto shake these zipper blues
and we don’t know
just where our bones will rest
to dust i guess
forgotten and absorbedinto 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 that we don’t 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
17살때, 친구의 추천으로 smashing pumpkins 의 “today” 를 처음 듣고 “이렇게 부드러운 디스토션 사운드도 있구나” 라며 아주 깊은 인상을 받았던 기억이 아련합니다.
제 생년과 같은 제목의 이곡은 향수를 불러 일으키는 듯한 묘한 감정을 들게 하는, 들을때마다 가슴 설레게 하는 그런 곡입니다. 이들의 가장 큰 히트곡이기도 하죠.
이때만 해도 정말 신선한 음악이었는데, 저도 이젠 올드팝을 고집하는 나이가 된건지도 모르겠네요;