Stand Inside Your Love Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You and me
Meant to be
Immutable
Impossible
It’s destiny
Pure lunacy
Incalculable
Inseparable

[Pre-Chorus 1]
But for the last time
You’re everything
That I want and asked for
You’re all that I dream

[Chorus]
Who wouldn’t be the one you love?
Who wouldn’t stand inside your love?
Protected and the lover of

[Verse 2]
A pure soul
And beautiful
You
Don’t understand
Don’t feel me now
I will breathe
For the both of us
Travel the world
Traverse the skies
Your home is here
Within my heart
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And for the first time
I feel as though I am reborn
In my mind
Recast as child and mystic sage

[Chorus]
Who wouldn’t be the one you love?
Who wouldn’t stand inside your love?

[Guitar Solo]

[Pre-Chorus 3]
And for the first time
I’m telling you how much I need
And bleed for
Your every move and waking sound
In my time
I’ll wrap my wire around your heart
And you’re mine
You’re mine forever now

[Outro]
Who wouldn’t be the one you love and live for?
Who wouldn’t stand inside your love and die for?
Who wouldn’t be the one you love?

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About

Genius Annotation

“Stand Inside Your Love” is the lead single from the Smashing Pumpkins' final studio album before their initial breakup.

As Corgan explained on VH1 Storytellers in August of 2000. “Stand Inside Your Love” was written and arranged very quickly and evolved into a classic Pumpkins song within a day.

[The song] mutated into classic Smashing Pumpkins in that it sounds as if it could have come from any [Pumpkins] album."

After nailing down the musical arrangement, Corgan realized he had no vocals or even an idea for a vocal melody.

I woke up the next morning and I was reading a book. I had the words, ‘Who wouldn’t stand inside your love’ in my head and I didn’t know what it meant….it’s the strangest feeling, its like a faucet opens up in my head and suddenly I understand the whole song; I see it all. The lyrics were written in ten minutes and I still have the sheet of paper. Not one word is different.

The official music video is described as an homage to Oscar Wilde’s Salomé and stars the film director and photographer, Yelena Yemchuk, who was also Corgan’s girlfriend at the time.

Q&A

Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning

What did The Smashing Pumpkins say about "Stand Inside Your Love"?
Genius Answer

‘Stand Inside Your love’ was the only song out of the entire Machina sessions that we didn’t tamper with. The band learned it, rehearsed it, recorded a rough version of it, and never changed a thing after that; which for us could not be more rare.

-Billy Corgan via radio interview

Did the song win any awards?
Genius Answer

While the song itself didn’t win any awards, VH1 recognized the music video with the Visionary Video award, stating:

With a Fellini-esque blend of glamour and the grotesque, this black-and-white mini-epic is offered as a meditation on love and death. Touring bassist Melissa Auf der Maur perfectly complements Billy Corgan’s goth sensibilities: Along with guitarist James Iha, the pair cavort around some kind of heaven/hell netherworld in full masks of makeup and Edwardian leather clothing, searching for salvation or maybe just a rockin' party.

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