Speed Kills

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"Speed Kills"
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
Released2000
Studio sessions
Songwriter(s)Billy Corgan

"Speed Kills" (sometimes listed as "Speed Kills But Beauty Lives Forever") is a song from The Smashing Pumpkins' sixth studio album, Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music. There is another version on the "Stand Inside Your Love" single truncated by two minutes with a fadeout.

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

speed kills, but beauty lives forever
speed thrills, but beauty knows your name
i fell ill inside eternal winter, winter
and stood still beside eternal flame

and when i ride
with you tonight
we can move
at the speed of light
with all i'd asked
and all i'd pray
the last rose of summer would stay

first time that i ever saw you
crashing hard thru days of pain
you were one of god's children
left to cry out in the rain
waiting to be saved again

'cause when i ride
with you tonight
we can move
at the speed of light
and all i'd ask
and all i pray
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer is gone
long gone, gone
the last rose of summer is gone

when i ride
with you tonight
we can move
at the speed of light
forever young
forever blind
into the stars
we rock tonight

last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer is gone
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer
the last rose of summer is gone

Availability

TitleNotesType
Machina Acoustic DemosDemo • Bootleg
Stand Inside Your LoveMain releaseSingle
Machina/The Machines of GodVinyl, Japanese CDStudio
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern MusicEP two (CR-02)Studio
Rarities and B-SidesCompilation
Celebrating *20* Years of SadnessLive

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