With Every Light

Album: Machina: The Machines Of God (2000)
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Songfacts®:

  • Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan gets spiritual on this track, singing:

    Every light I've found
    Is every light that's shining down on me


    His mother died in 1996, and later he met an "intuitive" who could help him communicate with her in the beyond.

    "That particular afternoon so many things about life that I believed in were confirmed for me in general way," he explained on the band's Storytellers special. "It became a rare moment of happiness, really content with the world, and the first thing I did when I got home was I picked up a guitar and I wrote this song. The meaning of the idea 'With Every Light' is that we basically are everybody that we meet and the energy that comes into our body becomes part of who we are. It's not just an acknowledgement of my mother, but an acknowledgement of the fact that everything that I've become in my life has become a part of me."
  • "With Every Light" is part of the Smashing Pumpkins album Machina: The Machines Of God, released in 2000 a few months before they announced their split (they re-formed in 2006).

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