Thru the Eyes of Ruby
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Thru the Eyes of Ruby Lyrics
Wrap me up in always
And drag me in with maybes
Your innocence is treasure, your innocence is death
Your innocence is all I have
[Pre-Chorus]
Breathin' underwater
And livin' under glass
[Chorus]
And if you spin your love around
The secrets of your dreams
You may find your love is gone
And is not quite what it seemed
To appear to disappear
Beneath all your darkest fears
[Verse 2]
I believe in never
I believe in all the way
But belief is not to notice, belief is just some faith
And faith can't help you to escape
[Bridge 1]
And with this ring I wed thee true
And with this ring I wed thee now
And with this ring I play so dead
'Cause no one's askin' for the truth
So let me tell you
If you spin your love around
The secrets of your dreams
You may find your love is gone
And is not quite what it seemed
To appear to disappear
Beneath all your darkest fears
[Bridge 2]
To the revelations of fresh-faced youth
No one will come to save you
So speak your peace in the murmurs drawn
But youth is wasted on the young
[Verse 3]
Your strength is my weakness, your weakness my hate
My love for you just can't explain why
We're forever frozen, forever beautiful
Forever lost inside ourselves
[Outro]
The night has come to hold us young
The night has come to hold us young
The night has come to hold us young
The night has come to hold us young
The night has come to hold us young
The night has come to hold, us, young
About
“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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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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