Smashing Pumpkins: Through The Eyes Of Ruby Meaning

Through The Eyes Of Ruby Lyrics

Wrap me up in always, and drag me in with maybes
Your innocence is treasure, your innocence is death
Your innocence is all I have
Breathing underwater, and living under glass
And if you spin your love around
The secrets of your dreams
You may...

1. anonymous

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   Feb 12th 2021 !⃝

   Thru the eyes of jack ruby, (upon Ruby’s entry into heaven jack & jackie are made pure. Innocence is tragic, to appear to disappear (jimmy hoffa) Belief is not to notice, belief is just some faith...
   
   
2. anonymous

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   Apr 26th 2017 !⃝

   This is a song about young love, and the intensity of love without experience. It is easy to believe your first love is your soulmate. The person you lose your innocence with is intertwined with you. This is a song about letting go; about two young lovers so infatuated with each other that, they never have the maturity to fully seperate. They carry each other within themselves, almost like a disease that means they will never love another the same way, with the same passion. They love each other too fervently, too violently, too much. Young love is a love that consumes and destroys.
3. anonymous

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   Jul 29th 2016 !⃝

   I see these lyrics, which are carried by a haunting and driving melody and instrumentation, as a brilliant interpretation of a classic theme. The parallels between Ruby and Ophelia in Hamlet are clear, from the images of beauty frozen in water in both to the theme of self destruction through immature infatuation.
   
   One interpretation of Ophelia's character:
   Ophelia's character is nebulous at best. This quality was evident in the nature of her death. Gertrude, when reporting her death, said that she appeared at home in the water in which she drowned, as if it was where she belonged. She is fluid, intangible, insubstantial. Ophelia, like water, is without definite shape. Although the audience never experiences it, there must be a reason why Hamlet considers her a worthwhile companion, assuming that he does in fact have genuine feelings for her. We don't have a clear idea of who she is. Water takes the shape of its container. Polonius and Claudius are her first and foremost containers. She is under their authority and so takes the shape of their bidding, spurning Hamlet at their command. As is visible, she has difficulty not shifting her loyalty when with Hamlet and therefore in his container. It may then be assumed that if she were to be alone with him, her loyalty would switch over to Hamlet. However, it's difficult to assume anything about Ophelia or the nature of her relationship with Hamlet. Being a less-than-solid character, Ophelia, like water, slips through analytical fingers and eludes interpretation.
   
   From Hamlet,Act IV, Ophelia's death:
   
   QUEEN GERTRUDE --
   There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
   That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
   There with fantastic garlands did she come
   Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples
   That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
   But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:
   There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds
   Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;
   When down her weedy trophies and herself
   Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
   And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
   Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
   As one incapable of her own distress,
   Or like a creature native and indued
   Unto that element: but long it could not be
   Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
   Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
   To muddy death.
4. anonymous

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   May 19th 2015 !⃝

   The meaning of this song is that you really never know your love until you leave the person. If you still want them after they've been gone, and they still want you and have not moved on and then it is true. To need is not to appreciate someone, to need anyone in general is not to appreciate them. Younglove can be much based on need. Mature love is when you love them still even when the person has left - and they have not been simply replaced. It describes this when they talk that youth is wasted on the young as well, by this he means our ability to Love like it is our first time, has died. As we mature we often jump from person to person. Our first love is often the hardest because we have no understanding that we can simply move on. If things are ideal in the world people would marry their first love. It can't be like that for many though because u often have things to learn before you meet your soul mate.
5. anonymous

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   Feb 21st 2012 !⃝

   What a beautiful song. I particularly like the length and depth of the lyrics. The guitar work is the true unsung hero of this song.

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