The Sacred and Profane

"The Sacred and Profane"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
Album Lyrics Tabs Spotify
Released	2000
Studio sessions	November 1998-September 1999 – Pumpkinland
Length	4:22
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;

The Sacred and Profane is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fifth studio album, Machina/The Machines of God. The song is the namesake of the band's final tour before their 2000 breakup.

An early release of Machina had an extended version of the song, with two bars of electronic dream beats at the beginning,^[1] though as with several Machina-era songs, the master reels have been lost, though Virgin may possess safeties of the original 24-track reels.^[2]

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

give me tears
give me love
let me rest
lord above
send the bored
your restless
the feedback-scarred
devotionless

you're all a part of me now
and if i fall
you're all a part of me now
in the sun
you're all a part of me now
you're all a part of me now

will our love ever be enough
just in time to prove
will our words ever be enough
just in time to lose

give me sight
and barren breast
pure snow
and happiness
give me time
give me peace
and i will prove
my release

you're all a part of me now
and if i fall
you're all a part of me now
trapped in the sun
you're all a part of me now
you're all a part of me now

will our love ever be enough
just in time to prove
will our time ever be enough
will our love ever be enough

you're all a part of me now
and if i fall
you're all a part of me now
in the sun
you're all a part of me now
you're all a part of me now
you're all a part of me now
and if i fall
you're all a part of me now
trapped in the sun
you're all a part of me now

will our love ever be enough
will our love ever be enough
will our love ever be enough
just in time to prove

Availability

Title	Notes	Type
Machina/The Machines of God (premaster)		Promotional
Machina/The Machines of God	Main release	Studio

Tour stats

Total plays: 13 plays
First performance: The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-08-04 at Summersault 2000 festival, Vancouver, BC, CA
Last performance: The Smashing Pumpkins 2000-11-14 at Big Arena, Cape Town, ZA

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "spfreaks.com/item/machina-the-machines-of-god-171/". SPfreaks. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
↑ Billy Corgan. November 24, 2020 Instagram Q&A

External links[edit | edit source]

"The Sacred and Profane" at SPFC

[1] "spfreaks.com/item/machina-the-machines-of-god-171/". SPfreaks. Retrieved 3 February 2019.

[2] Billy Corgan. November 24, 2020 Instagram Q&A

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