Wildflower

"Wildflower" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off of their 2012 studio album, Oceania. The song was written during the original Teargarden sessions with Mark Tulin of The Electric Prunes. After Tulin died in February 2011, Corgan felt compelled to revive the tune.

I'm a real fan of when chord revolutions don't resolve. Cherub Rock's like that, too. You never feel that sense of 'dahhhh!' until the end of the song. It creates an anticipatory effect. To write an entire song around one chord sequence, essentially -- there's one minor bridge in there -- nine-tenths of the song is that same sequence over and over again. It's kind of got a hymn aspect to it. I really like it in that sense because it reminds me of Mark and how he's affected my journey. It's a kind of a sad ending to the record -- I didn't intend that, but it's just the way it worked out.

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According to Smallville writer, Bryan Q. Miller, he would have included “Wildflower” in the Smallville: Season 11 comic, “Guardian”, had the story been a live-action television episode. Specifically, he confirmed that the song would have started near the end of the ‘episode’ (actually Chapter 12 of the digital release), during a solemn scene on the Daily Planet rooftop between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.