The Smashing Pumpkins Net Point

"Alcune delle canzoni di "Let It Come Down" , più o meno la metà, erano già scritte da un pezzo ed era da tempo che volevo fare un disco tutto mio , con i brani come me li sento io nella testa. Di solito scrivo un paio di canzoni , sempre insieme a Billy , in ogni album dei Pumpkins . Per la gente sarebbe probabilmente spiazzante trovarsi in mano un disco del gruppo con undici brani composti e cantati da me..."

James Iha

"Let It Come Down" è il primo album solista di James Iha , chitarrista degli Smashing Pumpkins.
L' album è uscito il 10 Febbraio 1998 per la Virgin ed è co-prodotto dallo stesso Iha insieme a Jim Scott.
All'album hanno partecipato anche D'Arcy (che canta in "One and Two) e Nina Gordon delle Veruca Salt (che canta in "Beauty")

little darling belle with such a fragile shell
in the powerful way that love seems to make her all regret it now
and if she’d only say what’s wrong- she can’t on

you’ve got to be strong now
and if I come and hold you now
you’ll be safe and sound

little lonely face that no one ever sees
you see the thing she believes is life is bittersweet if she’d
open up to me, and its the only thing she dreams,
you gotta believe

you’ve got to be strong now
and if I come and hold you now
you’ve got to be strong now

if I hold you now

ooh god if I could change a thing tonight we won’t
be lonely, ooh god if I could change a thing,
why does it have to be this way

THE SOUND OF LOVE

the sound of love is oceans far away
and I can love and I can shake your faith
the sound that beckons me is from your heart
and I can’t begin to say cause I don’t really know
just where I’ve been every desire my heart gives in

your love it takes a lot of faith
and I know I have to wait my own good time
your love it takes a lot of faith
and I know that we can make it all work out

I found you lost and longing, a troubled past
lets begin again cause she’s not going to last
before this day is done every desire under the sun

in the daylight love seems to come and go
but no more indecision, no more heartfelt division
I’ve seen a vision

the sound of love is passing as cities decay
people always searching a lonely disease
overrunning run right to me babe
I swear that this love is strong
It’s going to carry me, over this dream, and every desire

your love it takes a lot of faith
and I know I have to wait my own good time
your love I know I can’t escape it
and I know that we can make it all work out

no more indecision, no more heartfelt division
I’ve seen a vision

BEAUTY

in a minute dear, in a whole second, it’ll come clear
do you see beauty, do you see love +
right away dear, in the desperate way, no one hears you call
do you see beauty, do you see love

in the morning light you lay by my side
in the evening it gets so your love begins to shine

the world is changing but my love will remain
do you see beauty, do you see love, do you see anything at all *

theres a love that never comes back down
it feels like something is gonna happen now

love it calls your name no matter how you try
and I can’t recall a time when I didn’t love you

do you see beauty, do you see love, do you see anything at all
in all this time we waste precious time you waste
I can’t hide it anymore

love, love, love
love is what you keep
love is what you need

SEE THE SUN

come back to me darling don’t stay your heart is free to be
with someone else who loves and cares and talks to you-it’s me
when you wanna sing do sing and if your undecided you know
theres no denying how I loved you I’ll be around to run to-it’s me

see the sun and what your given
and every wonder
see the sun and what your given
feel the warmth love gives
to everyone and everything know you feel the same

and oh-it’s the hardest thing to do and no if you’re gone
will I come find you- I know that in a day or two when
things are quiet and there’s only you, theres no wrong and on

I told you, I told you that when we fell apart
I wrote you, I wrote you and asked you for apart of you
don’t deny it
feel the warmth love gives
see the sun and what your given
feel the warmth love gives

COUNTRY GIRL

hallelujah, I’m in love with a girl from the country
she’s got no money just a smile I’m in love with
we go running I don’t care where to till the mourning
there’s a part of you that never dies I’m in love with

if I give you everything you’ll ever need and it all comes down to

your half smile, country mile, angel child

when night is falling you dream of city lights
you hear them calling you hold my hand and then we
cry i’m in love with

and I can’t find any other way to live and it all comes back to

want you to stay, want you to sway, want you

I’m in love with you

JEALOUSY

hey now you never wanna be alone you never wanna be apart
from me on your own
hey now if we runaway and hide and you tell me theres
a hurt if you confide

you’ve been lost for so many years all your heartache
it all comes clear

your little jealousy, your little jealousy, jealousy over me

hey now throw your arms around me and you tell me
theres no reason to believe
hey now, now if I reassure you I can tell you in one little word

love is a falling star
love could cure a heart

you’ve been lost for so many years, all your worries, they disappear

there is a falling star
love could cure a heart

You’ve been lost for so many years, all your worries , they disappear

there is a falling star love could cure a heart

you’ve been lost for so many years and every time your heart
pulls at my strings

LOVER LOVER

lover darling, when you hold my hand it’s all I’ll have until tomorrow
lover darling, when you hold my life if you say it’s night until tomorrow

lover, lover come to me if you need sympathy
lover, lover won’t you speak I can barely hear you breathe

lover, angel and the stars at night in a burned out sky until tomorrow
lover, angel with no end in sight and no wings to fly
but your still there

on the way to the sun
theres a new world thats just begun
I can feel I’m getting older I can feel the years wash over
your the only one I love

lover, lover come to me if you need sympathy
lover, lover won’t you speak I can hardly hear you
if you’ll say that you’ll love me if your hearts one and only
if you’ll live with me for just one day until tomorrow
until tomorrow - lover, lover come to me if you need sympathy

SILVER STRING

I need you dear, you lay sleeping by my side
and I worry dear but things you say are bright and gay
and I warm to your words of encouragement
and not a soul knows what I will know

were lovers and were honestly
together somehow and tied with silver string
we’ll live forever and ever
and if you decide

downhearted, down cause we live apart
no, I can’t fake it not for one more day

if theres someplace we can go
if we can make a home
it’s up to us to cope

in you I trust in all things theres a must
and I will live again

WINTER

love will carry me over land to the sea
take me far away to a home where i’ll stay
I give you part of me and thru your eyes I will see
a place where there is light and all the stars are out at night

and I came calling out your name
and I came calling out in vain
and I walk and no one knows my name
and I come will you help me find my way

theres another way if I leave here today
I’m down and I’m blue am I hearing right
will I come find you, if I fall away in there

if it’s over the highest peak I will go if you cover me
oh I know I’ll fail oh I know I’m weak but its you again
over and over I hear angels singing love
I dreamed I found you, yearning tides love the moon
hold me in your mourning light
Jesus loves the first light

ONE AND TWO

you and I are one and two
if you count we were both torn in two
you and I are one and two
both our hearts beat as one did

but is it ok, but is it ok if I runaway, is it ok
when your love has faded away
if I hold you tight and never let go
if I hold you tight and never let show
the I feel all around me I know its you

you and I are hopeless too
if I give you all my heart could and Im true (I need you)
all my life I waited for
and there’s nothing left and theres no one else
here live for anymore

is it ok, is it ok if I can’t escape in good faith
or live just one more longer day

If I hold you tight and never let go
if I hold you tight and never let show
the way god moves deep inside of you I swear its you

if I hold you tight and never let go
if I hold you tight and never let go
if I hold you in arms forever all around me
all around me and I swear its you

NO ONE'S GONNA HURT YOU

no one’s gonna hurt you, not anymore
ever since I’ve met you I’ve come to adore you
and I know they’ve hurt you bruised and sore
and I wanna love you a nightengale that longs to sleep
and sound

No ones gonna hurt you, no ones gonna hurt you not anymore
No ones gonna hurt you, no ones gonna hurt you not anymore

if I hold you close I will take you to a secret world where no on knows

you’ve tried for so many years to runaway
please don’t break my heart
oh you know this is our last chance
if were ever gonna make it

no one’s gonna hurt you, not anymore
no one’s gonna hurt you
I swear to god I need, there is no more
no one’s gonna hurt you

over rocks, over stones, all my life spent alone

MY ADVICE

another day that passes just seems like a laugh
we had months and days, can we talk is it ok
were still on top of this world we made
if were still on top why do you stare that way

now I understand how every part of a man dies
theres just one thing left and thats a heart
that needs mending
we’re still on top of this world and were still on top
if you slip away

my advice to you is stay with me Im telling you
my advice yes my advice is to
stay with me for a little while
talk with me can we reconcile
stay with me tonight

my advice to you is stay with me no Im telling you
my advice which you never listen to
stay with me for a little while
talk with me if Im in denial
and stay with me tonight tonight