to cast divine arrows into her soul
to grab her attention swift and quick
or morrow the marrow of her bones be thick
with turpentine kisses and mistaken blows
see the devil may do as the devil may care
he loves none sweeter as sweeter the dare
her mouth the mischief he doth seek
her heart the captive of which he speaks
so note all ye lovers in love with the sound
your world be shattered with nary a note
of one cupids arrow under your coat
and in the land of star crossed lovers
and barren hearted wanderers
forever lost in forsaken missives and satan's pull
we seek the unseekable and we speak the unspeakable
our hopes dead gathering dust to dust
in faith, in compassion, and in love
BMI Work # 002114422
length- 2:50
Jimmy Chamberlin: (Modern Drummer 1996)
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"I had to challenge myself to veer away from my old
standbys - which everybody has - and stretch my creativity. I think that's
what helped me embrace the technology and not
limit myself to just the drumkit. I used everything from hair spray to a
pair of scissors - whatever was laying around - to
come up with different sounds. We used a bottle of aspirin as a shaker.
We'd just throw it on tape, sample it, and loop it.
You can hear that kind of stuff on "Cupid." "
Billy Corgan: (Impact Magazine 1996)
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"I was reading something with these words 'doth' and 'thou,' and I thought it would be kind of
cool to write a little love sonnet with that in mind. So I wrote this two-paragraph thing with this very colorful
language, not really intending to put it in a song. Then a week later we started playing the music of the song, and I
remembered I had this thing. And basically it's as I wrote it. I had to fix only a few little things."
Official Releases:
- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness