Tear

Tear is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' fourth studio album, Adore. It was written for the Lost Highway soundtrack but was rejected by by David Lynch in favor of "Eye".

Recording
The released version of the song was recorded during the August-September 1997 – Chicago Trax Recording sessions. Once the band moved to Sunset Sound in November 1997, Billy Corgan attempted to rerecord heavier versions using distortion and over-compression, citing the lack of enough "loud moments" on the album, but these versions ended up sounding too much like the original. In a final attempt, he and the engineers attempted to use tape saturation to create harmonic distortion (whereby the tape head approaches its limit of residual magnetization), which they were content with. However when it came time for mixing the album, the saturation had worn off, and Corgan and Flood decided to use the original rough mix recorded in Chicago.