Smashing Pumpkins - The End is the Beginning is the End

"The end is the beginning is the end" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It is the first song the band released as a single for the Pumpkins in the wake of his 1995 album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. It is the first release to include a performance by the drummer Matt Walker, who will later perform on multiple tracks of Adore and all of the James Iha let it come down.

The sewers belch me up
The heavens spit me out
From ethers tragic I am born again
And now I'm with you now
Inside your world of wow
To move in desires made of deadly pretends
Till the end times begin

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
You can watch the world devoured in it's pain
Strange

Climb my ribcage to
The replays run for you
Unhook my lights to peek behind the flash
For I am crystal chrome
I am shatter dome
I am kremlin king of angels avenged
To destroy the end

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
You can watch the world devoured in it's pain

The zeppelins rain upon us
The guns of love disastrous
A shadow lies amongst you
To defy the future cast

Is it bright where you are
Have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
You can watch the world devoured in it's pain
Strange
Strange

The song was released in Batman & Robin and the soundtrack was written by Billy Corgan. The song won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.

Billy Corgan says of the song,
"I found myself that, 'I can not write a song about Batman, I'm in a band alternative." And I thought, this is stupid, if I can write a song about Batman and serves the purpose, which is to make it happen and connect with the film, and connect with something that is unique and original, then why not? For me it was a great kind of art needs to be done because it was very release. I was not talking about myself or try to represent the Smashing Pumpkins. He was trying to represent Batman.