Travels

"Travels" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off of their 2018 studio album, Shiny and Oh So Bright - Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun.

So I was in Los Angeles making this record with Rick Rubin, Shiny and Oh So Bright, James and Jimmy and Jeff.... ... And uh, I started feeling unwell. I didn’t realize that I was coming down with a vicious flu that would last a month, actually, it was horrible. But um, so I’m kind of half dead, tired from working and for some reason, I grabbed a guitar and started playing this song and it just came out in this mad rush so I literally wrote this song like.... And I would play it for you like that if I could. I can’t tilt the piano. So...kinda sums up my experience. And the backstory to this song was I was staying with a friend, a longtime friend, probably somebody I’d known for about 15 years. And because I got sick, she threw me out. It’s true, she threw me out of her house. Destroyed the friendship. So this song was the delineating point from one world to another. From heaven into hell.