Wound

"Wound"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Released	2000
Studio sessions	Late 1998 – Sadlands, Chicago; November 1998-September 1999 – Pumpkinland;
Length	3:58
Songwriter(s)	Billy Corgan
	Machina/The Machines of God The Everlasting Gaze; Raindrops + Sunshowers; Stand Inside Your Love; I of the Mourning; The Sacred and Profane; Try, Try, Try; Heavy Metal Machine; This Time; The Imploding Voice; Glass and the Ghost Children; Wound; The Crying Tree of Mercury; With Every Light; Blue Skies Bring Tears; Age of Innocence;

"Wound" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, Machina/The Machines of God. An early acoustic version called "If You Wait" appears on the Machina Acoustic Demos bootleg.

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

"Wound" (from Machina)

there you are
as you always were
in bathing light
and naked blur
you're a part of me
eternal wone
my grand design
and setting sun

if you wait, i will wait
taste, i will taste
if you love, i will love
run, i will run
to my last breath

last night i turned around and thought i saw myself turning
inside the strangest dream of life unloved and cities burning

awake in my arms
you cry unharmed
our age of the hours
when they still devour all

so take it all
i doubt if we
will know it's gone
cause we've been here
since time began
begged god awake
and make these plans

wound opens
reveal this broken man
and soon there's notions
of blood on his hands

if you wait, i will wait
taste, i will taste
if you love, i will love
run, i will run
to my last breath

last night i turned around, i thought i saw myself turning
last night i turned around and thought i watched the world ending
inside the crushing i felt a pang, the tide was turning

destroyed in the wake
the jealous ingrates
will tear this world down
to spite god above
with his own love
with his own love
if you wait
if you wait

if you wait, i will wait
taste, i will taste
if you love, i will love
run, i will run
to my last breath

"If You Wait" (from Machina Acoustic Demos)

wound opens
reveal a broken man
soon notions
blood on his hands
stop, stop, pop tart
taste of your demands

if you wait, i will wait
if you taste, i will taste
if you run, i will run
if you love, i will love
to my last prayer

tomb opens
reveal a stack of gold
cool poison
the taste of growing old
sit down, downtown
in your tower of steel

if you wait, i will wait
taste, i will taste
if you run, i will run
love, i will love
to my last prayer
my last prayer
to my last prayer

wound opens
reveal a broken man
soon notions
blood on his hands

if you wait, i will wait
taste, i will taste
if you run, i will run
love, i will love
to my last prayer

if you wait
if you wait
if you wait
if you wait

Availability

Title	Notes	Type
Machina Acoustic Demos		Demo • Bootleg
Machina/The Machines of God (premaster)		Promotional
Machina/The Machines of God	Main release	Studio

Tour stats

Total plays: 50 plays (50 full, 3 soundcheck), 14 acoustic, 1 piano, 2 artists
First performance: The Smashing Pumpkins 1999-04-10 at Saint Andrew's Hall, Detroit, MI, US
Last performance: Billy Corgan 2019-11-20 at Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY, US

External links[edit | edit source]

"Wound" at SPFC