The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-04-25

April 25, 2000 – New York, NY, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
The Sacred and Profane tour
Date	April 25, 2000
Venue	Hammerstein Ballroom
Coordinates	40°45′10″N 73°59′39″W
Location	New York, NY, US
Venue type	Ballroom
Capacity	3,500
Personnel	Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, Melissa Auf der Maur
Order of bands	The Smashing Pumpkins
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Setlist

Soundcheck

1. (jam)
2. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
3. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
4. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" (take one) 
5. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" (take two) 
6. "Drown" 

Set

1. "Pale Scales" 
2. "The Everlasting Gaze" 
3. "Heavy Metal Machine" 
4. "Age of Innocence" 
5. "Glass and the Ghost Children" [10:01] 
6. "Blew Away" 
7. "Stand Inside Your Love" 
8. "This Time" 
9. "I of the Mourning" 
10. "Le Deux Machina" (prerecorded) 
11. "To Sheila" (acoustic) 
12. "Disarm" (acoustic) 
13. "Try, Try, Try" (acoustic) 
14. "Ava Adore" (acoustic) 
15. "Rock On" [David Essex] [7:38] 
    1. "And the Cradle Will Rock..." [Van Halen] (tease) 
    2. "Everybody Wants Some!!" [Van Halen] (tease) 
16. "Zero" 
17. "Today" 
18. "Blue Skies Bring Tears" [7:03] 
19. "Cherub Rock" 

Encore

20. "Blank Page" 
21. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" 
22. "Once in a Lifetime" [Talking Heads] [7:48] 

Banter

Pale Scales
The Everlasting Gaze
> Heavy Metal Machine
Age of Innocence
Glass and the Ghost Children
BC: Good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening. Good evening. Thank you very much for coming tonight. I’d, uh, now like to introduce, uh, my partner, my friend, my muse, Mr. James Iha.
Blew Away
> Stand Inside Your Love
This Time
I of the Mourning
Le Deux Machina (tape)
To Sheila (Billy acoustic w/Iha)
Disarm (acoustic)
BC: Thank you very much, thank you. We’d like to play, um...uh, a song from our new album, Machina and the Attack of the Missing Toys. This is called Try, Try, Try.
Try, Try, Try (acoustic)
BC: On the drums, uh, Mr. Jimmy Chamberlin.
Ava Adore (acoustic)
Rock On / And the Cradle Will Rock... / Everybody Wants Some!!
(BC during quiet part before outro: Long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll, long live rock and roll. Long live Britney Spears, long live the Backstreet Boys, long live...that’s rock and roll. Face it, they’re in our lives, they’re not going to go away. Soon they’re going to have children and they’re going to form boy bands and it’s going to start even worse. Long live rock and roll! Actually, that whole spiel was on a script, I just read it, I don’t even mean it. Are you ready to rock?)
> Zero
BC: See, we’re just toying with you, toy with you. We can rock anytime we want.
Today
Blue Skies Bring Tears
> Cherub Rock
BC: Thanks a lot.
Iha: (growl voice) Thanks a lot.
[encore break]
Blank Page
> Bullet with Butterfly Wings
> Once in a Lifetime
you might ask yourself
what do i feel if i have no feelings?
you might ask yourself
what does this song mean if it has no meaning?
you might ask yourself
why do my friends think that my parents are gay?
you might ask yourself
if my parents are gay, does that mean my dog is gay too?

once in a lifetime
water flowing underground
into the blue again
water flowing underground – oh!!

you might ask yourself
who is that fucking guy on stage? ugh!
you might ask yourself
what does he know about me and my life?
you might ask yourself
why am i incapable of crying real tears?
you might ask yourself
is my life my fear or my fear my life?

into the blue again
water flowing underground
when all the days go by
water flowing underground

what?!
what?!
what the fuck?

noxious swagger motherfuckin’ loaded dumb shit comin’ off the rails, lost in space, lost in time, lost my mind, out of time
buy one rhyme in my mind, i want to rock
(screams)

whoa!
what the fuck?
i want answers!!

(heavy delay on vocals)
fear and a gut go in America
we tear it apart, we look around
we kill the echo, lose the fades
we’ve lost our way, that’s right
...
we pose, we wait, we think, we know, we work, we went
we went forward to go backwards to turn ‘em into lep – up, down, this is down down, just down tune
old and jaded and lost
(Iha plays a blues lick)
that’s right, we got the blues
we got the blues, we got the reds...and a whole lotta brown
we watch tv and we see too many elians
too much cubas
too many blowjobs, too many monicas
...
we want the world and we want it now
we want our answers framed as questions and our questions answered, yes
we ask “what the fuck is goin’ on?”
(gradually rising to a scream) what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ on, what the fuck is goin’ on?!

what the fuck?
owwwwww! yeah!

(song ends)

Iha: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thanks a lot for coming out. We appreciate you staying.

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