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"Rotten Apples" is a song from the box set The Aeroplane Flies High, originally released on the "Tonight, Tonight" single and later on the band's Rarities and B-Sides compilation. Corgan has since said that "Rotten Apples" was "probably one of the best songs [he] ever recorded",[1] and that he regrets not spending more time on the song.[2]
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A home demo that I just didn't have the heart or energy to go back and record. I like the lyrics a lot, and if I had spent more time on it it probably should have been on the album. It was written in the initial post-Lollapalooza batch ('33,' 'Jupiter's Lament,' 'Methusela,' 'Ugly') of acoustically tinged songs. It has double-tracked, finger picked guitar-all the better to hide those little mistakes-with a few choice keyboard overdubs bleeding through the vocal mikes.
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| — Billy Corgan, Guitar World, January 1997
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Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited
Where the cool winds blow
I must surely go
For my love calls me below to drag her
from the depths of my soul
When will I see her again?
The other side of friends
The darkened claws of death
The empty breath desire
Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited
Restless in my speech
And rootless in my teach
So vacant in my breach
I drive the dirt of her garden
Sorrow
She'll never listen again
No other lovers to bend
Just rotten apples to eat
Just letter yellowed distant scorn
Dirty your face
With longing and grace, God-given
Suffer her heart
And love her when your love goes unrequited
Life just fades away
Purity just begs
Dust to dust, we're wired into sadness
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Tour stats
- Total plays: 11 plays (10 full, 1 tease, 1 soundcheck), 10 acoustic, 2 artists
- First performance: The Smashing Pumpkins 1995-02-20 at Double Door, Chicago, IL, US
- Last performance: The Smashing Pumpkins 2007-10-23 at Tower Theater, Upper Darby Township, PA, US
- ↑ Wild, David. "The Aeroplane Flies Higher Than Ever: A Return Trip Into Mellon Collie's Existential Backwater", The Aeroplane Flies High 2013 reissue liner notes
- ↑ Corgan, Billy. "Aeroplane Track by Track", The Aeroplane Flies High 2013 reissue liner notes
