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"Processional" is a song off of Billy Corgan's second studio album, Ogilala. The recording marked the first time since The Smashing Pumpkins' break-up in 2000 that Corgan has collaborated with the band's former guitarist James Iha.[1]
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He came to visit me when I was demoing some of the songs, just to hang out, and because he was sitting there I thought, well, fuck, I’m going to play some of them to him and get some feedback. He was very encouraging, and that encounter stuck with me, so when the record was almost done, and as Rick was saying that it was my last chance to add anything else, I sent James the whole album and told him to pick whatever he wanted, so that it’d be about what he was attracted to. He picked ‘Processional’ and one other song that didn’t make the album. I love the work he did, it’s so cool.
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| — Billy Corgan, Drowned In Sound, October 24, 2017
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The tide was laughing, our shade was sung
Drummed past a solstice where fairies hum
Slaved for these masters to evening's rung
Won't you christen me?
Come on now, christen me
To the foundings of the valley deep
Won't you christen me
And stake your heart on mine
To places, other times
It's a long way, it's a long way to get back home
On trails of Eden, sad trumpets blare
This yearling's burden, a priestly air
Paid for his masters as autumn's heir
Won't you carry me?
Come on now, carry me
To the foundings of the deepest deep
Won't you carry me
And place your heart on mine
For places, other times
It's a long way, it's a long way to get back home
Decree Osiris to a fleeing thoth
I oaked more knowledge than you might have caught
Paid for this master, who is the dawn
Won't you bury me
Come on now, bury me
And stake your heart on mine
To places, other times
It's a long way, it's a long way to get back home
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