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"Daphne Descends " is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins ' fourth studio album, Adore . It was released as a promotional single exclusively in France in 1998 through Delabel.
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Originally meant as an old-timey number, like one you'd play sitting on a front porch drinking sarsaparilla; the day hot. But in that the song felt inconsequential, the message lost in tedium and a clock-like wait. Hence the loping synthesizer bass, and the gallop of the one-two beat's back rhythm. And whoever 'Daphne' is, she gets a lot of warning here about 'the boy.' No, not by band mate's fey, lovesick 'boy' of song, but the kind of boy-child I once was.
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— Billy Corgan , 2014 Adore reissue liner notes
with the sugar sickness
you spy the kidnap kid
who kids you to oblivion
it's the perfect hassle
for the perfumed kiss
he makes you miss him more than home
you love him
you love him more than this
you love him
and you cannot, you can't resist
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him
and no one, no one else
past sidewalk ashes
a last lovers arc
you come apart to intertwine
it was all so simple
as you watched him move
across the darkness in your room
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him
and no one, no one else
and to the winding vines
the pretty boys dive
and thru the pinhole stars
into the shadow mind
will you lose him then
on some gentle dawn
this boy is here and gone
you love him
you love him for yourself
you love him
and no one, no one else
you love him
you love him more than this
you love him
and you cannot, you can't resist
you love him
Released
Label
Catalog ID
Format
Country
External sites
1998
Delabel • Hut Recordings
DE 4518
CD
France
Discogs
MusicBrainz
[1]
Availability
Tour stats
Total plays: 39 plays (38 full , 1 abandoned), 3 acoustic , 1 piano , 2 artists First performance: Billy Corgan 1998-01-15 at The Viper Room, West Hollywood, CA, US Last performance: Billy Corgan 2019-11-04 at Lodge Room, Los Angeles, CA, US