The Smashing Pumpkings Tuning: or I fear that I’m ordinary just like everyone To lie here and die among the sorrows Adrift among the days For everything I ever said And everything I’ve ever done is gone and dead As all things must surely have to end And great lovers will one day have to part I know that I am meant for this world My life has been extraordinary Blessed and cursed and won Time heals but I’m forever broken By and by by the way Have you ever heard the words I’m singing in these songs? It’s for the girl I’ve loved all along Can a taste of love be so wrong As all things must surely have to end And great lovers will one day have to part I know that I am meant for this world And in my mind as I was floating Far above the clouds Some children laughed I’d fall for certain For thinking that I’d last forever But I knew exactly where I was And I knew the meaning of it all And I knew the distance to the sun And I knew the echo that is love And I knew the secrets in your spires And I knew the emptiness of youth And I knew the solitude of heart And I knew the murmurs of the soul And the world is drawn into your hands And the world is etched upon your heart And the world so hard to understand Is the world you can’t live without And I knew the silence of the world And I knew the silence of the world And I knew the silence of the world And I knew the silence of the world And I knew the silence of the world