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The Way We Get By
2002 · From Kill the Moonlight
Piano, bass and a single nagging guitar figure, with Daniel making aimlessness sound like the best available plan.
★ 5.4
Piano, bass and a single nagging guitar figure, with Daniel making aimlessness sound like the best available plan.

A pun on two Marys, overheard from a co-writer's mother, seeded a debut single that won a Grammy.
The album's opening shot, cut with Cale at the Hit Factory, and Iggy making boredom sound like a threat.

Flood said it wasn't good enough, so Corgan rewrote it that night and got the band's biggest hit.

Joey wrote it stranded in a shut-down London at Christmas, and Johnny's solo is one note, repeated.