"The Crying Tree of Mercury" adalah lagu yang menyayat hati oleh The Smashing Pumpkins, mengungkap kisah cinta yang menyiksa dan keinginan yang tak terwujud. Sang vokalis melukiskan dirinya sebagai pohon yang meneteskan air mata kerinduan sepanjang hidupnya, berharap dapat membuka hati orang yang dicintainya dan membagi jiwanya. Nada lagu yang getir mencerminkan pengorbanan dan rasa sakit emosional yang dialami, karena sang penyanyi mengakui keegoisannya dalam menginginkan orang yang dicintainya di atas segalanya.
The Crying Tree of Mercury Lyrics
The Smashing Pumpkins
This is the song I've been singing my whole life
I've been waiting like a knife
To cut open your heart
And bleed my soul to you
I did it all for you
You and you and you and you
This is the sound I've been making my whole life
I've been waiting for this night
To clear up all the talk
Althought I'm selfish to a fault
Is it selfish it's you I want
You I did it all for you
This love will stand as long as you
There's really no excuse
I did it all for you
These are the tears I've been crying my whole life
Like an ocean of desire
I'm reaching thru the noise
Across the dusk of time
Within the lilting lies
I am singing out to you
I've been waiting like a knife
To cut open your heart
And bleed my soul to you
I did it all for you
You and you and you and you
This is the sound I've been making my whole life
I've been waiting for this night
To clear up all the talk
Althought I'm selfish to a fault
Is it selfish it's you I want
You I did it all for you
This love will stand as long as you
There's really no excuse
I did it all for you
These are the tears I've been crying my whole life
Like an ocean of desire
I'm reaching thru the noise
Across the dusk of time
Within the lilting lies
I am singing out to you