[5] Bullet With Butterfly Wings

I have just discovered the joys of YouTube.com, and man, it's really got me excited. I feel like a kid about to lose his virginity. Just one website and already it contains so many videos. YouTube is the videographical equivalent of a severe Viagra overdose. I'm all excited, and it just can't go down (my excitement - my mental excitement - I mean). What's more, you can embed the videos onto your personal website; your blog, personal webpage, adult friendfinder profile, whatever. With this knowledge in mind, I take the opportunity to present to you the top 5 music videos of all time, in my humble opinion.

Number 5. Bullet With Butterfly Wings by Smashing Pumpkins
From the album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

My cousin Faizal is probably the one most responsible for my current taste in music. When he introduced me to this song back when I was 12, I could instantly identify the raw, pent-up anger that Billy Corgan was trying to portray. Despite all that, however, this song is simply a tour de force of pure Pumpkins magic. Maybe I don't necessarily feel with Billy since I hardly do feel like a rat in a cage. But I can't deny the credit that this song deserves.

Soon after hearing the song, I checked out the video. Look out for the part when the sufferers finally taste sweet respite in the spraying water. A few seconds long, perhaps, but its a brilliant alternative depiction of the calm before the storm. The video's embedded below, courtesy of YouTube. Pump up your volume to the max, and enjoy...



The world is a vampire, sent to drain
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game

Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Now I'm naked, nothing but an animal
But can you fake it, for just one more show?
And what do you want?
I want to change
And what have you got, when you feel the same?

Even though I know - I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold - like old job

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son, yeah.
Tell me I'm the chosen one
Jesus was the only son for you

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
And I still believe that I cannot be saved
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage

Despite all my rage am I still just a rat in a cage

Tell me I'm the only one
Tell me there's no other one
Jesus was the only son
For you

And I still believe that I cannot be saved