That Which Animates The Spirit

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"That Which Animates The Spirit"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Released2023-02-21
Length3:56
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

"That Which Animates The Spirit" is the second track from Act III of the The Smashing Pumpkins' 2023 rock opera, ATUM.

Synopsis[edit | edit source]

Main article: ATUM (synopsis)

(performed by The X+I and a gaggle of State officials)

The head of the X+I takes the microphone after Shiny and officially welcomes him back. The people in attendance begin celebrating; all rallying behind the idea that "Zero is back". Not Shiny, nor Glass, but Zero. Shiny is confused by the reaction as he has spent two decades in exile, with the Glass and Zero character far in the past, and was sent back to Earth by force then greeted by a crowd he assumed had long forgotten him.[1]

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

may i have your attention please?
yes, your hero’s come back
and by official decree
lo, lo, befall
zero! zero! zero!
from a force beyond
as a beckoned belief of magik can’t go wrong

for evil, for evil
for evil’s song
for evil
for evil’s song
is none too late
and we have to wait

glory, glory hallelujah!
morning’s glory come
hallelujah
hallelujah, come
morning’s glory is settled after fire

lo, lo
lo!
zero! zero! zero!
what’s too far to save
was too close to ever know
where we’ve been afraid

for evil, for evil
for evil’s song
for evil
for evil’s song
is none too late and we have to wait

glory, glory, hallelujah
morning’s glory come
hallelujah

zero, zero, zero
zero, zero, zero
may i have your attention please?

Availability

TitleNotesType
ATUMAct IIIStudio

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Corgan, Billy. "That Which Animates the Spirit". Thirty-Three (Podcast). Retrieved May 3, 2023.

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