Birch Grove

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"Birch Grove"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
ReleasedOctober 9, 2020
Studio sessionsApril-August 2019 – Pumpkinland II
Length3:22
Songwriter(s)Billy Corgan
Producer(s)Billy Corgan

"Birch Grove" is a Smashing Pumpkins song that was an accompanying A-side to the "Anno Satana" single released on October 9, 2020. Billy Corgan has said he wrote the song for his children,[1] and it is also The Smashing Pumpkins' tribute to Italian composer Giorgio Moroder.[2] The song was written on a piano.[3]

Videos[edit | edit source]

Official audio
Live on the '"Howard Stern Show, December 1, 2020

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

I forsee a time without me
So not unlike the trees
I've stood for so long
So long

Shading life inside the falling rain
All alone, in love with age and someone
Someone else
Sundays come and Sundays flee
Sundays wed
Won't you stand with me
Not someone
Not someone else

My seedlings grow, and grow
And home is whatever ground they hold
Shading life inside the falling rain
All alone, in love with age and someone
Someone else

But I've grown stronger
As someone, as someone
As someone else

Shading life inside the falling rain
All alone, in love with age and someone
Someone else
Sundays come and Sundays flee
Sundays wed
Won't you stand with me
Not someone
Not someone else

As my seedlings grow, and grow
Towards someone
Towards someone else

The birch grove stands for us

Additional personnel[edit | edit source]

Availability

TitleType
Anno SatanaSingle
CYRStudio
CYR SinglesBox set

Tour stats

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Billy Corgan. November 29, 2020 Instagram Q&A
  2. Billy Corgan, October 10, 2020 Instagram Q&A
  3. Billy Corgan, November 1, 2020 Instagram Q&A