Bodies
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Bodies Lyrics
Cast the pearls aside
Of a simple life of need
Come into my life forever
[Pre-Chorus 1]
The crumbled cities stand as known
Of the sights you have been shown
Of the hurt you call your own
You know, you know
[Chorus]
Love is suicide
Love is suicide
Love is suicide
Love is suicide
[Bridge 1]
The empty bodies stand at rest
Casualties of their own flesh
Afflicted by their dispossession
[Refrain]
But no bodies ever knew
No bodies
No bodies felt like you
No bodies
Love is suicide
Love is suicide
Love is suicide
Love is
[Verse 2]
Now we drive the night
To the ironies of peace
You can't help deny forever
[Pre-Chorus 2]
The tragedies reside in you
The secret sights hide in you
The lonely nights divide you in two
In two, in two
[Bridge 2]
All my blisters now revealed
In the darkness of my dreams
In the spaces in between us
[Refrain]
No bodies ever knew
No bodies
And no bodies felt like you
No bodies
No bodies ever knew
No bodies
No bodies felt like you
No bodies
About
Love is suicide.
Courtney Love, lead singer of Hole and rocker boy heartbreaker, having been in relationships with Kurt Cobain, Trent Reznor, and lead singer of The Smashing Pumpkins Billy Corgan, says the hit songs Corgan wrote are about her. Although these claims seem to be elicited for attention by Love, it makes sense given the chorus lyric.
Love is suicide.
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Once we moved from Pumpkinland to the sterile drawl of the Chicago Recording Company, we still had some tracks to cut. For ‘Bodies,’ our producer Flood loaded in a full P.A. and cranked the subs so hard that in the sealed room we were nauseous with the pressure being thrown about. Naturally we became agitated and uncomfortable, which in turn meant our work with one another became terse. Someone in your ears says with a tongue that sounds sarcastic in your delirium, ‘rolling’, and you’re off; galloping like Norse prophets on a single noted mission.
At this point in my life there were bodies everywhere, and it would have titillated me then to know there were many more to come. The full-range speakers were lit on fire in the control room; loud enough to make my ears ring. Garble razor blades and scream-scream until it makes sense. I wondered then how I’d ever be able to sing the song in front of a room full of strangers.
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