Quasar Lyrics

God ride on!
Krishna ride on!
Mom ride on!
Yod He Vau He Om

Let’s ride on!
Ride on!
Let’s ride on!
Fated One hold me down
Know my blur and my keep
Do I know you?
What keeps us free if you believe?
Please allow me to say hello to you
Yes I understand
Yes I know thy will
Yes I am that man
Yes, I
Yes, I
Lover, lover, catch me slow
You can serve me notice
You can have my sight
Lover, lover stay with me all night
Yod He Vav He Om
Brothers, Sisters roam!
Sunlight ride on!
Yod He Vav He Om
Let’s ride on!
Right on!
Ride on!
Yes I understand
Yes I know thy will
Yes I am one man
Yes I
Yes I understand
Yes I know thy will
Yes I am one man
Yes, I
Yes, I
Yod He Vav Hey Om
Yod He Vav Hey Om
Yod He Vav Hey Om
Om…

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Genius Annotation

The opening lines to the opening track of Oceania make use of some strong religious allusions.

God is of course, well, God. The Almighty Creator, Alpha and Omega. The western world needs no description here.

Krishna is a Hindu god representing love and joy. He facilitates the merging on the earthly consciousness with the divine, and is frequently depicted as an object of desire.

The third line refers to Corgan’s mother, deceased at the time this was written. She belongs to the divine as well as she has passed on into the afterlife.

“Yod He Vau He Om” is a Hebrew phrase (if it can be called that) which roughly translates to ‘All that is’ or ‘The One God.’ It’s referred to as the tetragrammaton, or the father, son, mother, and daughter. These words are extremely complex and have deep origins. Some clergy members believe the words are too holy to be uttered by a mortal.

Notice that this song has lines such as “Lover, stay with me all night,” displaying Corgan’s poetic nature. If you’re listening to one of many Pumpkins songs that are commonly thought to be traditional love songs, you may want to dig a little deeper.

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

It was one of those riffs that we had laying around for a while. Actually, I think it went back to when I started working with Mike Byrne in 2009. The original riff was called ‘Nero Riff-O.’ So it sat around for a long time, and I was finally able to turn it into a song.

It’s a little bit of what I used to do, even in terms of process. The way I wrote when I first got into rock was, I’d write these crazy riffs and time signatures, and then I’d sit there and think, OK, what the hell am I going to sing over this? It was a way of working backwards.

With a song like this, I know we were using a combination of a Marshall Super Tremolo amp with four rhythm guitars, and the other guitars went through a Reeves Custom Jimmy head, which is the re-creation of Jimmy Page’s Led Zeppelin I amp. It’s incredible.

-Billy Corgan via Music Radar

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