Bullet with Butterfly Wings” is a song by the American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins and the lead single from their 1995 double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The song was named the 91st best hard rock song of all time by VH1 in 2009 and ranked number 70 on russian singles events nyc 2008 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time” of Rolling Stone.

The song had its origins during the recording of 1993’s Siamese Dream. According to frontman Billy Corgan, “somewhere, I have a tape of us from 1993 endlessly playing the ‘world is a vampire’ part over and over”. Filming for the music video took place in Los Angeles, California on September 30, 1995, with Samuel Bayer as director. When asked why the band chose Bullet for the first video, Corgan responded “the record company did a survey of K-Mart shoppers between 30 and 40 and this is the song they came up with”. Said Sadly” features Nina Gordon of Veruca Salt on vocals.