MudaFoka (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yall all have it wrong. This is a song to his parents about his childhood, which he obviously did not enjoy. "The years burn" - his childhood is a painful memory. Though his parents expect him to be mean to them, he's nice to them - he "disarms them with a smile." Etc, etc. There's a video on TY in which he says "I wrote this song b/c I couldn't kill my parents." It's basically his way of dealing with a difficult childhood.

Yuengling8090 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"The killer in me is the killer in you My love I send this smile over to you" but yeh he is talking about his child hood a little too

mcd1302 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i thought this song was about billy's childhood living with his stepmother and father and the abuse he suffered there!

Yuengling8090 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I would just like to say that this song is not about greed or money at all, its an emotional song about how if you can send a smile over to someone and make them smile you can capture their heart "The Bitterness of one who's left A L O N E ! " like Z said

ZFortunateFoolD (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The Bitterness of one who's left A L O N E !

aidyquinn (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

well ive listened to it about 50 times in the last two days..;) but i can understand where your coming from. But 'bullet with butterfly wings' has been in my top ten songs for about the past 6 years!:)

zvx490 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Great song. From what i gather, it's about greed and money ruining your life- you can't live with or without it- ur trapped.

vinaXvendetta (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i first heard this song when i was 8! i'm almost 24 now. thank you, smashing pumpkins :)

Blackjack555 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yeah music is not the same now...

FromBoomTown (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Love of money is the root of all evil. It's the original saying.