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Genius Annotation

“Thru the Eyes of Ruby” is about Corgan’s soon to be (at the time) ex-wife Chris Fabian. Many of the songs off Mellon Collie were about Fabian and how Corgan wanted to break free from her. He was sure the feeling was mutual, and this song is about convincing her so.

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What did The Smashing Pumpkins say about "Thru the Eyes of Ruby"?
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As Corgan writes in the liner notes, his frustrations with his bandmates becomes very apparent:

The last of our long and overly constructed,
epic songs; I even said as much at the time, thinking we’d never bother to do another. I approached ‘Ruby’ with real weariness, knowing the amount of work it would take and in my heart never being quite sold on the song. Looking back it has far more
going for it as a composition than I gave it credit for at the time, and part of the way I approached the production of the guitars was almost to mock the mostly overblown style.

Because my attention was elsewhere on other tunes, preparation of the guitar overdubs was handed off to my band mates, who spent a week coming up with very little between them. With our time running out I added something in the neighborhood of 54 guitar parts in 4 hours, if for nothing else than to show my frustration with them in spite. Not necessarily inspired ways of communication, but effective nonetheless.

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October 23, 1995
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