Pale Horse

"Pale Horse" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off of their 2012 studio album, Oceania. Billy Corgan has said the song was written for his mother.

A lot of times when you have [this] kind of riff, you don't want to get too tricky. It creates a hypnotic effect. You don't want to change keys too much, so I leaned back on some of those artists who used space well. In old Pumpkins ideology, if you started with that riff, the song would get bigger and louder. In this ideology, it actually gets smaller, and that's how you get the dynamic back up.