When asked about the song's meaning in an interview, Corgan said it was about "one of those girls who's going to hell, but she doesn't want to, but down she goes".
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Originally meant as an old-timey number, like one you'd play sitting on a front porch drinking sarsaparilla; the day hot. But in that the song felt inconsequential, the message lost in tedium and a clock-like wait. Hence the loping synthesizer bass, and the gallop of the one-two beat's back rhythm. And whoever 'Daphne' is, she gets a lot of warning here about 'the boy.' No, not by band mate's fey, lovesick 'boy' of song, but the kind of boy-child I once was.
