Bleeding the Orchid

"Bleeding the Orchid" is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins's seventh studio album, Zeitgeist. It is about the commercial exploitation of the early-90s alternative rock movement, was deliberately styled after the music of Alice in Chains, a band that Corgan now greatly admires. The song was indirectly inspired by the 2002 death of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley.