The Smashing Pumpkins — Haunted

[Verse 1] Along the banks of rivers Zion Sang a fallen and forsworn The chain Of human rage And let between an ocean rain And lambs so led, I stayed [Chorus] If this be life, our evening's prayer Or death's denouement A thorned idyll that's offered no one And I've stood for no one Then father, I'm nowhere I'm no closer to your throne [Verse 2] Swirling forth, the sea conscripted Each, the dead and nursery rhyme At voice A trailing drone And baptized by the breath of pain I crossed heart's knave and swore [Chorus] If this be life, our evening's prayer Or death's denouement A thorned idyll that's offered no one And I've stood for no one Then father, I'm nowhere I'm no closer to your throne [Bridge] Swirling forth (Swirling) The dead and nursery rhyme [Chorus] If this be life, our evening's prayer Or death's denouement A thorned idyll that's offered no one And I've stood for no one Then father, I'm nowhere I'm no closer to your throne [Outro] Pacific glass, these gifts rend senseless And knell, repentless The auger of the cosmic traveler As god's own straggler Who's vowed, unopposed To embody word and shore