The line comes from Bullet with Butterfly Wings, the lead single from the Smashing Pumpkins album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, released in 1995 and sung by frontman Billy Corgan. The song became one of the band's defining alternative-rock anthems, and its bleak opening lyric has since been lifted into short clips, edits and soundboards. Because the phrase works both seriously and ironically, it keeps circulating in memes, reaction videos and dramatic montages decades after its original release.