HOLE: LYRICS
Celebrity Skin
Celebrity Skin
Oh make me over
I'm all I wanna be
A walking study
In demonology
Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, so glad you could make it now
Oh look at my face
My name is might have been
My name is never was
My name's forgotten
Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, there's only us left now
When I wake up in my makeup
It's too early for that dress
Wilted and faded somewhere in Hollywood
I'm glad I came here with your pound of flesh
No second billing cause you're a star now
Oh Cinderella, they aren't sluts like you
Beautiful garbage, beautiful dresses
Can you stand up or will you just fall down
You better watch out
What you wish for
It better be worth it
So much to die for
Hey, so glad you could make it
Yeah, now you really made it
Hey, there's only us left now
When I wake up in my make up
Have you ever felt so used up as this
It's all so sugarless
Hooker/waitress/model/actress
Oh just go nameless
Honeysuckle, she's full of poison
She obliterated everything she kissed
Now's she's fading, somewhere in Hollywood
I'm glad I came here with your pound of flesh
You want a part of me
Well I'm not selling cheap
No, I'm not selling cheap
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Awful
Swing low, sweet cherry
Make it awful
It's you life, it's your party, it's so awful
Let's start a fire
Let's start a riot!
Yeah it's awful
It was punk!
Yeah it was perfect, now it's awful
They know how to break all the girls like you
And they rob the souls of all the girls like you
And they break the hearts of girls
Swing low, cherry cherry
Yeah it's awful
He's drunk, he taste like candy
He's so beautiful
He's so deep like dirty water
God, he's awful
You're lost, oh where's your daddy
It's so awful
And they royalty rate all the girls like you
And they sell it out to all the girls like you
To incorporate little girl
Hey, run away with the light
Run away it's divine
Let's run away, yeah tonight and
We'll steal the light of the world
Swing low, sweet cherry
Yeah it's awful
You're ripe for the picking it's so awful
You've got your youth
Don't waste your money
Yeah it's awful
I was punk!
Now I'm just stupid
I'm so awful
Oh just shut up you're only 16
If the world is so wrong
Yeah you can break them all with one song
If the world is so wrong
Yeah you can take it all with one song
Swing low, sweet cherry
Make it awful
They bought it all
Just build a new one
Make it beautiful, Yeah
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Hit So Hard
Put me up above the boy
The one I love I should destroy
My sweet tooth has burned a hole
Forget about it all
He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw god
He's cold give him a candy coat
He can't swim but he can float
One by one they all fall down
I look at him and drown
He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw god
Just one big shining light
Your secrets safe tonight
So much, so much to lose
So glad they win our life
He's so candy my downfall
Melts in my mouth till he's nothing at all
This keeps me, I can't sleep
He rages to be true
He hit so hard
That I saw stars
He hit so hard
That I saw god
I saw god
Just one big shining flash
Oh save his drink tonight
Look at the pretty lights
He hit so hard
I saw stars
He hit so hard
I saw god
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Malibu
Crash and burn
All the stars explode tonight
How'd you get so desperate
How'd you stay alive?
Help me please
Burn the sorrow from your eyes
Oh, come on be alive again
Don't lay down and die
Hey, hey
You know what to do
Oh, baby, drive away to Malibu
Get well soon
Please don't go any higher
How are you so burnt,
When you're barley on fire?
Cry to the angels
I'm gonna rescue you
I'm gonna set you free tonight, baby
Pour over me
Hey, hey
We're all watching you
Oh, baby, fly away to Malibu
Cry to the angels
And let them swallow you
Go and part the sea, yeah in Malibu
...And the sun goes down
I watch you slip away
And the sun goes down
I walk into the waves
And the sun goes down
I watch you slip away
And I walk
And I knew
Love would tear you apart
Oh and I knew
The darkest secrets of your heart
I'm gonna follow you
Oh baby fly away to Malibu
Oceans of angels
Oceans of stars
Down by the sea is where you
Drown your scars
I can't be near you
The lights just radiate
I can't be near you
The lights just radiate
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Reasons To Be Beautiful
Love hangs herself
With the bedsheets in her cell
Threw myself on fires for you
10 good reasons to stay alive
10 good reasons that I can't find
Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, give me one reason to be beautiful
Oh, and everything I am
Love hates you
I live my life in ruins for you
And for all your secrets kept
I squashed the blossom and the blossom's dead
Oh, give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
Oh, and I will make myself so beautiful
Oh, and everything I am
Miles and miles of perfect skin
I swear I do, I fit right in
My love burns through everything
I cannot breathe
Miles and miles of perfect sin
I swear, I said, I fit right in
I fit right in your perfect skin
I cannot breathe
Hey, baby, take it all the way down
Hey, baby, taste me all the way
Oh you were born
So pretty oh summerbabe
We'll never know
And fading like a rose
Give me a reason to be beautiful
So sick in his body, so sick in his soul
I'll give you my body, just sell me your soul
Oh, and everything I am will be bought and sold
Oh, and everything I am will turn hard and cold
And they say in the end
You'll get bitter just like them
And they steal your heart away
When the fire goes out you better learn to fake
It's better to rise, than fade away
Hey, you were right
Named a star for you eyes
Did you freeze, did you weep
Turn to gold, baby, sleep
Hey honey mine
I was there all the time
And I weep at your feet
And it rains and rains
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Dying
Ever seen a cripple dance?
Bring your money, baby, now's your chance
Your love's/eyes like cyanide
I am so dumb
Just beam me up
I had it all forever
I've had enough
Remember, you promised me
I'm dying, I'm dying please
I want to, I need to be
Under your skin
Our love is quicksand
So easy to drown
They steal the gravity out
From moving ground
Remember, you promised me
I'm dying, I'm dying please
I want to, I need to be
Under your skin
And now I understand
You leave with everything
You leave with everything I am
Memories
And now I know that love is dead
You've come to bury me
There's nothing left here to pretend
Anyways
Remember, you promised me
I'm dying, I'm dying please
I want to, I need to be
Under your skin
I'm dying, I'm dying please
I'm dying, I'm dying please
I'm dying, I'm dying please
Under your skin
Under your skin
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Use Once And Destroy
It's the emptiness that follows you down
It's the ache inside when it all burns out
It's poisonous, it muscles, it aches
It's everything you had when it breaks
It's the emptiness that's all you have left
Too terrified of your frozen breath
It's a bitter mouth it's buttered and knived
It's the awful truth you fight for your life
It might as well, it might as well hurt
It might as well, it might as well
I went down to rescue you
I went all the way down
Fill your hungry wretched life
Here they come it's closing time
It's the bitter root it's twisted inside
It's the heart you used to have when it died
It's the emptiness it poisons it lies
It's everything that you'll never find
It might as well, it might as well hurt
It might as well, it might as well
I went down for the remains
Sort through all your blurs and stains
Take you rapture blister burns
Stand in line it's not your turn
All dressed in red, always the bride
Off with her head, all dressed in white
Off with her head
I went down to rescue you
I went all the way down
I went down for the remains
Sort through all your blurs and stains
Ooh, I will follow you
Anytime, anywhere
Ooh, I will come for you
Just say you aren't there
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Northern Star
And I cry and no one can hear
Inhale
The blinded that see
The chaos
Bring the pitiful to me
Even though I'm wide awake I will
And blackest night and I wait for you
It's cold in here there's no one left
And I wait for you
And nothing stop it happening
And I knew I'd cherish all my misery alone
And I wait staring at the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead me anywhere
He's so cold, he will ruin the world tonight
All the angels kneel into the Northern light
Kneel to the frozen lights
And they payed, I cry and cry for you
Ghosts that haunt with their sorrow
I cried cause you were doomed
Praying to the wound that swallows
All that's cold and cruel
Can you see the trees, charity and graditude
They run to the pines
It's black in here, blot out the sun
And run to the pines
Our misery runs wild and free
And I knew, the fire and the ashes of his grace
And I wait, staring at the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you very far
He's so cold, he will win the world tonight
All the angels kneel to the frozen lights
Feel their hearts, they're cold and white
And I want you
And blessed are the broken
And I beg you
No loneliness, no misery is worth you
Oh tear his heart out, cold as ice it's mine
And I wait praying to the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you very far
He's so cold raining on the world tonight
All the angels kneeling to the Northern light
And I pray begging to the Northern Star
I'm afraid it won't lead you anywhere
He's so cold he will rule the world tonight
All the angels kneeling to the Northern lights
Kneeling to the frozen lights
Feel their hearts they're cold as ice
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Boys On The Radio
Do what you want
Cause I'll do anything, and
I'll take the blame
What's mine is yours
You can have all of it, and
I learned to blame
Oh, the boys on the radio
They crash and burn
They fold and fade so slow
In your endless summer nights
I'll be on the other side
When you're beautiful and dying
All the world that you've denied
When the water is too deep
You can close your eyes and really sleep
Tonight
Tonight
I want what's yours
Oh, I'd give anything, and
I'll take the pain
I wait alone
For what will never come, and
I'll throw it all away
Oh, the boys on the radio
They crash and burn
They fold and fade so slow
In your endless summer nights
I'll be on the other side
When you're beautiful and dying
All the world that you've denied
When the water is too deep
You can close your eyes and really sleep
Tonight
Your beauty blinds
If I let you in, under my skin
And risen every angel slain
He said he'd never ever ever go
Heaven's never ever snowing
Never ever, ever go away
Baby I've gone away
In your endless summer nights
I'll be on the other side
When you're beautiful and dying
All the world that you've denied
When the water is too deep
You can really close your eyes and sleep
Tonight
Your beauty blinds
I know what you are running to
Please come back, oh come back again
I hear the truth
It's coming from you
Oh come back, come back again
In your endless summer nights
I'll be on the other side
When the water is too deep
I will ease your suffering
When the glitter fades in morning
Turn away and you will find my empty eyes
Your beauty blinds
I know that you are rotten to the core
I know that you don't love me anymore
I know that you are rotten to the core
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Heaven Tonight
Here comes the sun in the form of a girl
She's the finest, sweetest in the world
Take you to heaven tonight
Look at the horses coming galloping in the summer rains
Take you to heaven tonight, uh huh
Cause I love you for what you are
Oh, I'll gallop to you
Tonight, tonight we'll ride
I'll give it to you
We'll go to heaven tonight, tonight
Down on the winding road
I couldn't wait
Oh, baby I was afraid
And if for heaven tonight
Uh huh, I'll go to heaven tonight
I can hear the horses come galloping I will never grow old
I'll go to heaven tonight
Oh, because I love you for what you are
I'll gallop to you
Tonight, tonight we'll ride
I will ride
I'll bow down to you
We'll go to heaven tonight
Tonight, tonight
I can't believe that I could be happy
Summer will come again
I could be happy
Oh, stop your crying
You could be happy
Go to heaven where you could be happy
Here comes a kiss
That I never had
Nothing feels like this
And for heaven tonight, uh huh, uh huh
I love you
Here comes a storm
In the form of a girl
She's the finest, sweetest thing
In the world
I'll go to heaven tonight
For what you are
I'll gallop to you
Tonight, tonight
We'll ride
I'll bow down to you
We'll go to heaven tonight
Tonight (x5)
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Playing Your Song
Hey you, you're way ahead of me
You choke on apathy
You burned right out
Hey you, you're just a cripple now
We sell for millions now
They sold you out
And oh, I had to tell them you were gone
I had to tell then they were wrong
And now they're playing your song
Hey you, don't take it out on me
You're bored of everything
You burned right out
Hey you, so bored and cynical
It's fucking wonderful
They sold you out
And oh, they've bought and sold it all it's gone
They've taken it and built a mall
And now they're playing your song
Ooh, their innocence tastes like candy, yeah
Get so fat on it, it's a tragedy, yeah
Ooh, I can help you come to me, yeah
Just bring your innocence to me, yeah
Hey you, don't you dare blame me
You trusted everything
They sold you out
Hey you, now when they call it cool
It's just so mean and cruel
They sold you out
And oh, they bought and sold it all it's gone
And every note if it is wrong
And now they're playing your song
And oh, they bought it and sold it all it's gone
They've taken it and built a mall
And now they're playing your song
Playing, playing your song
Playing, playing your song
They're playing, playing your song
Playing, playing your song
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Petals
She's the angel on
top of the tree
Sugar heart here she comes
She's growing to fall on me
Innocence was our fire
We told the truth
I miss the sweet boys in the summer of their youth
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you
And they will make you so
So cynical
The fire burns the flesh
Destroyed the best and made us old
She's the grace of this world
She's too pure
For the lacks of this world
This world is a whore
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you
Hey, it's all mine
Hey, it's all mine
Hey, it's all mine
I never knew what I could be
All the darling buds of May
They fall with no sound
They carry you down
They carry you down
All the lilies bloomed and blossomed
Wilted and they're shivering
I can't stop their withering
Oh, this world is a war
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you
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Best Sunday Dress
Put on my best sunday dress
Gonna walk straight into this mess of mine
Put on my best sunday dress
Walk straight into this mess
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
Pale blue eyes, so young
Pale blue eyes, so far away
Wash me with his sorrow
Forgive me all his pain
And I've come here to confess
To the wind and the rain
And the glorious fame
And I've come here all undressed
For the numb and the dumb all say the name that you burn
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
Pale blue eyes, so dumb
Pale blue eyes, so far away
Take him to the river
Forgive us all his pain
Oh I'm coming undone
He comes form the coal mine
I see you
Sharp like a diamond
And curse us all goodnight
Put on my best sunday dress
Gonna walk staright into this mess of mine
And I've come here all undressed
For the poison and the pain
And to take what is mine that you burn
That you burn
Pale blue eyes, so young
Pale blue eyes, so young
Pale blue eyes, so far away
Take me to his sorrow
Forgive us all his pain
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
Watching you burn
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