The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-03-02

March 2, 2000 – Providence, RI, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Resume the Pose tour
Date	March 2, 2000
Venue	Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
Coordinates	41°49′24″N 71°24′47″W
Location	Providence, RI, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	850
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. "Glass and the Ghost Children" 
2. "I Am One" 
3. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] 

Set one

1. "Rock On" [David Essex] [5:35] 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Disarm" 
4. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [5:46] 
5. "I of the Mourning" 
6. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [11:08] 
7. "I Am One" (with rant) [7:57] 
   1. "Today" (tease) 
8. "Wound" 
9. "The Imploding Voice" 
10. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
11. "Glass' Theme" 

Set two

12. "Speed Kills" (acoustic) 
13. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
    1. "Shame" (acoustic) 
    2. "Drown" (acoustic) 
    3. "To Sheila" (acoustic) (reprise) 
14. "Crush" (acoustic) 
15. "Join Together" [The Who] (acoustic) 
16. "Pale Scales" 
17. "Zero" 
18. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
19. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [6:36] 
20. "This Time" 
21. "Tonight, Tonight" 
22. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore one

22. "Never Say Never" [Romeo Void] (tease) 
23. "X.Y.U." (with rant) [11:45] 
    1. "Never Say Never" [Romeo Void] (tease) 

Encore two

1. "We Love You" (tease) 
2. "Today" (tease) 
3. "Tristessa" (tease) 
4. "Rebel Rebel" [David Bowie] (tease) 
5. "We Love You" [6:41] 

Notes

• Last electric performance of "The Imploding Voice" until 2013-06-20

Banter

Rock On
(BC during Iha solo: Teddy Kennedy on the lead guitar.)
BC: (screams)
The Everlasting Gaze
Disarm
Blue Skies Bring Tears
BC: Thank you very much, thank you, thank you. Hello, how are you tonight? So I have to apologize, we’re going to play a really long time tonight. I know that you stood in line for a long time to buy a ticket to a really short show, but uh, we’re going to force you to listen to us. We have a record coming out in a couple weeks, it’s called um, Siamese - I mean, uh, Machina...The Machines of James, and uh, this is a new song off that album, it’s called I of the Mourning.
I of the Mourning
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Thank you very much, thank you.
I Am One / Today
(BC midsong: Across the chasms, I reach my hell, yeah. I align myself with phantoms re love imagined, yeah. I’m not fighting with much but myself. For the war, the war, the war isn’t over. Ow!! You rip apart the chest, you slit the throat, you take out the tongue, nothing changes, nothing changes, nothing changes, you cannot run from a shadow, you cannot run from a shadow. Yeah! Get that motherfucker. What do you need? What do you need? What do you need? It ain’t rock and roll, it ain’t rock and roll, what you need ain’t rock and roll, no. It ain’t about self control, it ain’t about mind control, it ain’t about controlling others, it ain’t rock and roll, it ain’t rock and roll, it ain’t. (Billy solos) Shh. Now! I can’t hear myself think, goddamn! It’s time, it’s time, it’s time, it’s time, we’re not waitin’ anymore, we’re not waitin’ anymore, we’re not waitin’ for any internet revolution, any Y2K revolution, any fuckin’ music business revolution, any political revolution, the time has come, the time has come, the time is now, there is no tomorrow when you are in today, today, today is the greatest, today, today, today is the greatest day that you have ever known. Yow! Can I get a witness? Ow!!! That’s right. We are the machines. We speak this dream. We are the machines. We are the machines of goooooooooood.)
Wound
BC: Thanks a lot, we kinda fucked that one up, so...we apologize. We fucked up, I’m sorr - it’s alright, I’m sorry. I’m sorry! No really, we’re sorry, I’m sorry. Stop. Stop crowdsurfing, we’re sorry. Hey wait, it’s the other way around. Stop crowdsurfing, you’re sorry. No no, just kidding.
The Imploding Voice
BC: It’s like, uh, Jimmy, it’s like suddenly we’ve turned into our own cover band. Sorry, we’ll bring out the real Pumpkins in a second.
Heavy Metal Machine
> Glass’ Theme
BC: Thanks, we’ll be back in about uh...20 or 30 minutes, thanks.
[set break]
Speed Kills (Billy solo acoustic)
To Sheila (Billy solo acoustic)
> Shame (Billy solo acoustic)
> Drown (Billy solo acoustic)
> To Sheila (reprise) (Billy solo acoustic)
Crush (acoustic)
> Join Together (acoustic)
(BC over very end: Thank you.)
Pale Scales
> Zero
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
and you might ask yourself
what the fuck kinda concert is this anyway?
you might ask yourself
who the fuck is that guy on stage? yeah!
you might ask yourself – hello!
what does he know about my life, my life?
and you might ask yourself
must i question why as why?

once in a lifetime
into the blue again
water flowing underground
into the blue again

you might ask yourself
where is my mommy tonight?
you might ask yourself
that is not my father
you might ask yourself
what the hell is an east coast?
you might ask yourself
why is [2 unintelligible words], why is [same unintelligible words]?

once in a lifetime
letting the days go by
into the blue again
under the rocks and stone

yow!

(Iha solo)

you might ask yourself
why is this man screaming?
you might ask yourself
why are my eyes clear?
you might ask yourself
is there any such thing as truth?
you might ask yourself
why are the young wasted on the youth?

once in a lifetime
letting the days go by
into the blue again
once in a lifetime!

yeah!
ow!
unh!

(instrumental until song ends)

BC: Spank you very much. Carlos Santana will be out in a minute, so thanks for watching our opening set.
This Time
BC: Thank you all so very much, thank you. We’d like to take you uh, eh! - hold on. We’d like to heh heh heh. We’d like to thank you at this moment for sticking with us and letting us have band practice and all that stuff. So we appreciate it very much, thank you very much, you guys are awesome, thank you. Like to take a second to introduce the band. Behind me to my right, Mr. James Iha. And over here to my left, Miss Melissa Auf der Maur. Behind me on the drums, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Tonight, Tonight
> Cherub Rock
BC: Thanks a lot, thank you, god bless you, thank you.
[encore break]
Iha: How we feelin’? Are you feeling okay?
Never Say Never (tease - scattered lyrics over jam)
BC: I might like you better if we slept together. I might like you better if you wore pleather. There’s something in your eyes that says maybe and that’s never...ever...never ever say never. I might like you better if you hadn’t fucked so many guys. I might like you better if you didn’t have wooden thighs. But I guess that’s okay because I fucked your mother about ten years ago. And just like you, she was a ho, a ho ho ho. Merry Christmas. There’s something in your eyes, yeah there’s something in your eyes. There’s something in your eyes and I got a feeling it’s a big surprise. Never ever ever say never.
> X.Y.U. / Never Say Never
she didn’t wanna know
she gave it all away
she saw her [2 unintelligible words]
but she was crazy

and i said
i wanna fill you up
i wanna break you
i wanna fuck you up
‘cause i’m your lover
and i’m your motherfuck
come to save you
‘cause you’re all mine
yeah!

ka bang bang boom!
oh!

and do you love me?
do you really care?
is it my good looks?
or just my long hair?

and i said
i wanna fill you up
i wanna break you
i wanna suck you up
‘cause i’m your lover
and i’m your motherfuck
come to save you
‘cause you’re all mine!

ow!
ow!
rat tat tat!

i met her after a show
she said it was time to go
because the band played too long
and we just couldn’t get along – yeah!

unh!
yeah!
ow!
ka ka ka boom boom, kaboom!

i love you, baby
you’re just the greatest
you can’t write no song
but your love is fakest

kaboom!
i can feel it, yeah!
razorblade!

white line
white line!

(song outro begins)

like a snail we crawl!
across your sheep
like the sheep we bought
week after week

water turns into blood
water turns into blood
blood into wine
i’m not feelin’ so good but i hope you’re feelin’ fine, yeah!

(Billy solo)

ow!
that’s right
from a faraway land called chicago, that’s right
chicago by way of canada, yeah!

she gave it all away
she saw that baby break
she threw it out with the bathwater
didn’t give a fuck anyway
no one cared for her
she was just a step away from doing herself in
‘cause everything would break
she had enough of daddy’s leanings
she’s had enough of mommy’s looking the other way, look out
no one understood, no one understood, she hid her poetry under her pillow, no one understood
they thought she cried teenage tears
they thought she weeped teenage tears
but little did they know that her scars were real, real
yeah, she might like you better if they slept together
she might like you better if they slept together
she might like it all better if everybody slept together
and she hid those poems under her pillow
she hid those poems under her pillow
in the land of rhyme, there are crimes, real and imagined

down we go
down we go
how low can you go?
they are other sheep fuckers
we are not like you
rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
no more, no more, we rock no more, no more, no more, no more, rock no more, no more [unintelligible word]
(song ends)
[encore break]
BC: Quite frankly, we’re out of riffs, we have no more riffs. We’re out of riffs. There are no more riffs. There’s no more riffs. Yes, you may [unintelligible].
Iha: Thank you.
BC: That’s it, that’s the end of the concert, goodnight, go home. Go away! That’s it, there’s no more. ... (high pitched) “Maybe if we scream James, James’ll come back out and play us a riff.” (normal) No. No. Heh heh heh heh heh. James is too tired, he doesn’t wanna come back out. (high pitched) “No really, if we chant his name, he’ll come back out and play a riff.” (normal) No, no. James is tired. He’s busy studying chemistry. (audience chants for Iha)
We Love You (tease)
BC: Put those house lights on. House lights on. On, on, on! On, put the house lights on, put the house lights on. There you go. That’s it? Those are the house lights? Can we put the disco ball on? Is it possible to put the disco ball on? Heh, that’s it, huh? James, now this is really gonna put you - this is really gonna put you on the spot, this better be good.
Today (tease - Iha plays first 6 notes poorly)
BC: No. That was yesterday, this is tomorrow.
Tristessa (tease - Iha plays main riff)
BC: No, no one knows that one.
Rebel Rebel (tease - Iha plays riff)
We Love You
BC: Alright. Enough with all that gloom shit, now it’s time to have a party! Woo!! We are an internationally known party band. When you wanna smile and have a good time, you think of us. Because we get the funk out.

we’re gonna get so high
we’re gonna reach to the sky
we’re gonna make you wonder why
why
why
when is this concert gonna end?
whyyyyyyyyyyyy

everything’s gonna be okay
alright
okay
alright

i’ll strap on this word to my crooked back
i’ll sharpen my vampire teeth until I can never come back
i am eyes begone
i am poetry removed
i am the summer wind
(screamed) inside her

we love you
we love you
we love you
that’s right, we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you
oh, we love you

now it’s no crime
to play too long
to make albums that are too long
to make anything too long
life is like a tv channel, you know, you can just change it when it gets boring

we’re gonna get so high
we’re gonna reach through the ground
we’re gonna hail satan
and make him come around
we’re gonna kick his ass
and ask him why there’s so many bad metal bands
yeah satan, why?
satan, why?
whyyyy?
if you’re the all powerful devil, why can’t you make better metal music?
because evil should be evil and metal should be metal, you know what I’m saying?

we’re gonna get so high
we’re gonna reach to the sky
we’re gonna make you wonder why...you ever came

BC: Oh yeah, tricked ya. I trick Jimmy all the time. Heh heh heh.

we’re gonna get so high
we’re gonna reach to the sky
you’re gonna walk so far
you’re gonna wonder who you are

we love you
we love you
we love you
we love you (about 18x very fast)

whoa!

we love you (13x)
we love us (4x)
do you love us? (7x)
(screams)

(song ends)

BC: God bless you all and uh, we’re gonna do a tour in April and May, so we’ll be back that soon, thank you.

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