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"Cherry" is a song from the The Smashing Pumpkins' box set, The Aeroplane Flies High.
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Of all the B-sides, this song is probably my biggest regret. I never spent as much time on it as it probably deserved, with this version showing very little improvement from the demo. This one probably should have made the album. I love its feeling and atmosphere, the warbly guitar courtesy of an effect that changes oscillation in ratio to signal input (the harder you hit it, the faster it goes). The basic tracks were recorder during the Mellon Collie sessions.
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| — Billy Corgan, Guitar World, January 1997
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(Listen- Wanna just start it?...Ready, Flood?
Yeah......1,2,3,4)
Stay with me, I'll set you free
'Cause I can tell you once were pretty
Rose so sad you've lost your petals
Lost the luster off your tattle tales
I need a love to help me find my way
I need a strength that I can not betray
I need a word to say what I can't say
I need a lover, lover
I need a lover, lover
What are we waiting for?
What are we waiting for?
Time has lost its hold on me
Hatred sleeps inside my bones
In the stillness of cool air
All the boys have been left for dead
'Cause we go where they fear to tread
The beautiful one's the one's we'll remember
The precious one's our greatest pretenders
I need a love to help me find my way
I need a strength that I cannot betray
I need a word to say what I can't say
I need a lover, lover
I need a lover, lover
And if you lose yourself
Could you take me, too?
Could you rest inside the sleep?
Stay with me, I'll set you free from you...
Stay with me, I'll set you free from you...
Stay with me, I'll set you free from you...
Stay with me, I'll set you free from you...
I need a love...
Availability
Tour stats
- Total plays: 6 plays (6 full, 1 soundcheck), 2 acoustic, 2 piano, 2 artists
- First performance: The Smashing Pumpkins 2007-06-25 at The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC, US (soundcheck)
- First full performance: Billy Corgan 2017-09-22 at Madame ZuZu's, Highland Park, IL, US
- Last performance: Billy Corgan 2019-11-18 at Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY, US
