I of the Mourning

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radio, play my favourite song radio, radio radio, I'm alone radio radio, please don't go radio I peer through curtains on empty streets behind a wall of caller i.d. noone's out there to hear if I care about the troubles in the air as I of the mourning now come pick up where my thoughts left off cause I'm home to die on my own as my radio plays my favourite song radio, radio radio, don't you know? radio, radio tha radio, I'm alone I've blown the dust off my guitars in the attic with the stars I read your letters to feel better my tears upon the faded ink as I of the mourning now gone pick up where my thoughts left off cause I'm home to die on my own as my radio plays my favourite song radio, radio radio, I'm alone radio, radio radio, please don't go I sit in the dark light to wait for ghost night to bring the past alive to make a toast to life cause I have survived what is it you want? what is it you want to change? what is it you want? what is it you want to change? what is it you want to change? radio, radio, radio, radio radio, radio, radio, radio radio, radio, radio, radio what is it you want? what is it you want to change? what is it you want? what is it you want to change? what is is you want to change?

Written by Billy Corgan. BMI WORK # 5246461 length- 4:37 This song title can be found [here]. [Radio] was eventually incorporated into the final version of [I of the Mourning]. Billy Corgan: (from Real Detroit April 13-19) [In "I of the Mourning" you sing "What is it you want to change." Well, what is it you want to change?] "(laughs) Ummm... Personally, I want to sort of try and reinvent the wheel. Not so much reinvent rock'n'roll, but reinvent what is possible for someone like me to be. It's sort of like, simple example, I write about 50 songs a year and about 20 of them are acoustic (solo), but it is still about 50 songs a year. Most of them end up in some sort of bucket somewhere. As an artist, I am not really sure what to do with everything, because I am consciously (I agreed to do it) putting out an album every two years and doing a tour. I'd like to reinvent what to do with that." Billy Corgan: (from Machina promo interview CD) "One song on Machina that's a good example of a long walk is a song 'I of the Mourning' which was originally two different songs, one song called 'Radio' and one song called 'I of the Mourning,' so it became commonly referred to 'I of the Radio.' We worked on that song probably for 3 months on and off, there were at least 5 or 6 different versions of the song with 5 or 6 different arrangements. And at different times Flood tried to talk me into basically letting go of it and setting it adrift in a sea of b-sides. I just couldn't let it go, cause it had a certain draw to me. That's the funny thing, is it's almost begging you and daring you to keep mining til you find the spot, and then one day it was like cracking a safe, the whole thing just came together." Official Release: Machina: The Machines of God