Smashing Pumpkins – "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" (1995)

Despite all my rage

I am still just a rat in a cage

When I drive, I use my horn regularly. 

Women usually cringe when I honk the horn – it upsets them.

“Why do they put horns in cars if they don’t want you to use them?” I ask them.  “When other drivers do something stupid, they need to be taught a lesson.”

“Honey, that’s not the way to teach someone a lesson,” one woman used to tell me.  “They’re not learning a thing from your honking at them.”

Maybe not.  But too many people turn a blind eye to bad behavior – “It’s not my responsibility,” they say, shrugging their shoulders.  “Let someone else take deal with it.”  

I’m not one of those who has given up on trying to make this world a better place.  If one blast from my horn doesn’t get the job done, I hit it again.  And again, if necessary. 

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I think I’ve always been a bit of a d*ck.  

But I have changed as I’ve gotten older.  I used to feel bad about being a d*ck – I’d try not to let it show.

Nowadays, I don’t mind acting like a d*ck – in fact, I kind of enjoy it.

Only when I have good reason to act that way, of course . . . which happens several times in the typical day.

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“Bullet with Butterfly Wings” was released in 1995 on the Smashing Pumpkins’ double-CD and triple-LP album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.  (A double-CD and triple-LP album seems very apropos for 2 or 3 lines, don’t you think?)

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