Steps In Time

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"Steps In Time"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Released2022-10-25
Length3:49
Songwriter(s)Billy Corgan
Producer(s)Billy Corgan
  1. Atum
  2. Butterfly Suite
  3. The Good In Goodbye
  4. Embracer
  5. With Ado I Do
  6. Hooligan
  7. Steps In Time
  8. Where Rain Must Fall
  9. Beyond The Vale
  10. Hooray!
  11. The Gold Mask
  12. Avalanche
  13. Empires
  14. Neophyte
  15. Moss
  16. Night Waves
  17. Space Age
  18. Every Morning
  19. To The Grays
  20. Beguiled
  21. The Culling
  22. Springtimes
  23. Sojourner
  24. That Which Animates The Spirit
  25. The Canary Trainer
  26. Pacer
  27. In Lieu Of Failure
  28. Cenotaph
  29. Harmageddon
  30. Fireflies
  31. Intergalatic
  32. Spellbinding
  33. Of Wings
  34. Simmatar
  35. Magdalena
  36. Saffron
  37. Zope
  38. Huzzah!
  39. Automaton
  40. MaryQ
  41. Burr
  42. Excelsior
  43. Necromance

"Steps In Time" is the seventh track from Act I of The Smashing Pumpkins' 2023 rock opera, ATUM.

Billy Corgan has said he stole the song title from Fred Astaire's autobiography of the same name.

Synopsis[edit | edit source]

Main article: ATUM (synopsis)

(performed by June to those images of Shiny she has framed)

We're now back in space with June after she's received the message from Osirah. June knows Osirah is on Earth, but Osirah doesn't know June is in space. June is amazed that there's someone on Earth who cares about Shiny's suicidal "March of Life". June writes back to Osirah, telling her in an encrypted message that if she wants to find out who the real Shiny is, she should go to specific geographic coordinates. There is a "treasure" hidden at these coordinates.[1]

"Steps In Time" is basically June's celebration that her message was received and Shiny is remembered. She's metaphorically facing towards Shiny and saying "see, I was right, people do miss you", and that he doesn't know how important she is to him. June's destiny to save Shiny is now coming to fruition.[1]


Lyrics[edit | edit source]

can you
can you hear me?
can you feel
you feel me?

written as a birthright
on pregnant bough, a guarded night
is it more than what you'd bargained for

steps in time
we're steps in time

risen to the fore
yet rotten to our core
more has ceded more
where history divides

do you love me?
i'm shouting out
will you need me now?
i've had it all but the honor

sha-la-la
sha-la-la

will you love me?
shouting out what the ages brought
and triumph not what goes reeling

sha-la-la
sha-la-la
sha-la-la
sha-la-la

dream-dream of new dreams
it's the cream of blessed shock
boy, your gift a'int squandered
boy, your head screams artifice
to the aught decembrists we bid bye-bye

steps in time
we're steps in time

do you love me?
i'm shouting out, will you need me now?
i've had it all but the honor
sha-la-la
sha-la-la

will you love me?
shouting out what the ages brought
and triumph not what goes reeling
sha-la-la
sha-la-la
sha-la-la
sha-la-la

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Corgan, Billy. "Steps In Time (with Tegan and Sara)". iHeartPodcasts. Retrieved November 30, 2022.

External links[edit | edit source]

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