Stand Inside Your Love is a song by the rock band the Smashing Pumpkins, released on February 21, 2000. It was the second single and the lead international single released from their fifth album, Machina The Machines of God (2000). The song was written by Billy Corgan.
Billy Corgan claims the song is written about his then girlfriend Yelena Yemchuk. He explained, (Stand Inside Your Love) is one of those rare songs that seems to write itself really quickly… As far as the song goes, it’s sort of a love song that rocks, which is pretty rare, even for me. And I even got my girlfriend dancing in the video, so it’s all a tribute to my girlfriend, I guess.) Corgan would also call it the only “true” love song he’s ever written.
Stand Inside Your Love was initially conceived to be similar to the new wave style of the band’s earlier hit 1979; however, Corgan opted for what he considered “the classic Pumpkins sound”. The single contains one B side, Speed Kills, which appears in a shortened form on the vinyl and import CD versions of Machina, and in a heavier incarnation on the band’s following album Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music.
The single cover of Stand Inside Your Love was designed by Vasily Kafanov and is primarily a depiction of the alchemical androgyne, one of the most significant symbolic representations within alchemy, and, on its most basic level, represents the perfect union between man and woman when joined as a single entity.
Atop their head is a single crown, known to the Kabbalists as Kether, the source of all creation, and the first Sephiroth on the Tree of Life.
Tracklist:
- Stand Inside Your Love
- Speed Kills
