Cover art for Luna by The Smashing Pumpkins
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Luna Lyrics

[Verse 1]
What moonsongs
Do you sing your babies?
What sunshine do you bring?
Who belongs?
Who decides who's crazy?
Who rights wrongs where others cling?

[Chorus 1]
I'll sing for you
If you want me to
I'll give to you
And it's a chance I'll have to take
And it's a chance I'll have to break

[Verse 2]
I go along
Just because I'm lazy
I go along to be with you
And those moonsongs
That you sing your babies
Will be the songs to see you through

[Chorus 2]
I'll hear your song
If you want me to
I'll sing along
And it's a chance I'll have to take
And it's a chance I'll have to break
[Outro]
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you
I'm in love with you, ooh
I'm in love with you (So in love)
I'm in love with you (With you)
I'm in love with you, ooh
I'm in love with you (So in love)
I'm in love with you (I'm so in love)
I'm in love with you, ooh (With you)

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Genius Annotation

The closing song of Siamese Dream. Written as a song for an ex-lover, presumably Courtney Love. It ends the album on a gentle note along with “Sweet Sweet”. In the liner notes for the reissue of Siamese Dream, Billy Corgan said, “(The song) is for the moon. It can never be for the one you love.”

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Who is this about, Courtney Love? Haha.
Genius Answer

Actually, this particular song most likely is about Courtney Love. Check out this excerpt from the liner notes where Corgan writes about “Luna”

I am in love with someone that doesn’t love me. My songs are better than hers. This is my way to prove a point not worth making.

What did The Smashing Pumpkins say about "Luna"?
Genius Answer

Written in a hotel room in London on a three week stay. We come early for press, and the powers that be figure it’s cheaper to have us sit and wait than fly us home, only to return. I am in love with someone that doesn’t love me. My songs are better than hers. This is my way to prove a point not worth making.

I lean my back up against the wall of my room, pushing my spine up straight. My guitar has been painted day-glo at the hands of a sweet madman. I sing a love song in an empty room. It is for the moon. It can never be for the one you love.

Billy Corgan, 2011 Reissue Liner Notes

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Recorded At
Triclops Sound Studios (Marietta, Georgia)
Release Date
July 27, 1993
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