cover #52: today

song: today
cover: madina lake
original: smashing pumpkins

comments: maybe i should start a spin-off blog dedicated to terrible covers of songs. we can toss evans blue and fear the clown there, and that one a perfect circle cover, and this one. i think the real crime here, in my (uninformed due to never hearing this band before) opinion is dudeguysinger trying to sound like billy corgan, when even billy corgan should be trying to sound less like billy corgan sometimes.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
smashing pumpkins - today
madina lake - today

lyrics: today is the greatest
day i've ever known
can't live for tomorrow
tomorrow's much too long
i'll burn my eyes out
before i get out

i wanted more
than life could ever grant me
bored by the chore
of saving face

today is the greatest
day i've never known
can't wait for tomorrow
i might not have that long
i'll tear my heart out
before i get out

pink-ribbon scars
that never forget
i tried so hard
to cleanse these regrets
my angel wings
were bruised and restrained
my belly stings

today is
today is
today is
the greatest day

i want to turn you on
i want to turn you on
i want to turn you on
i want to turn you

today is the greatest
today is the greatest day
today is the greatest day
that i have ever really known

cover #11: bullet with butterfly wings

song: bullet with butterfly wings
cover band: frida snell
original: smashing pumpkins

comment: there are songs out there that i call 'songs for the rain'. they don't necessarily have to have tinkly pianos, but there is just some underlying... iunno. it's hard to explain, ryan adams' "everybody knows" and massive attack's "teardrop" are songs for the rain. so's this one.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
smashing pumpkins - bullet with butterfly wings
unfortunately, amazon doesn't have frida snell's lovely version of bullet with butterfly wings. your only hope is to search the internet.

lyrics: the world is a vampire
sent to drain
secret destroyers
hold you up to the flames
and what do i get
for my pain?
betrayed desires
and a piece of the game

even though i know
i suppose i'll show
all my cool and cold
like old job

despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say
what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage

now i'm naked
nothing but an animal
but can you fake it
for just one more show?
and what do you want?
i want to change
and what have you got
when you feel the same?

even though i know
i suppose i'll show
all my cool and cold
like old job

despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage
then someone will say
what is lost can never be saved
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage

tell me i'm the only one
tell me there's no other one
jesus was the only son, yeah
tell me i'm the chosen one
jesus was the only son for you


despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage
despite all my rage
i am still just a rat in a cage