 - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Miranda Turpentine - This song as far as I can tell is Courtney's mockery on maybe Christianity. There may be nothing wrong with the religion but if you are a good Christian well you're supposed to be good and she's stating that they call themselves Christians but they are "devils" and "bitches". I know I can relate because girls at my school call themselves Christians but treat people like shit. You can't exist on the Christmas list if you don't believe in God. She's pissed and she wants to watch all the hypocrites die! - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jessica Phonebill Song - This song is about when Courtney was living with this guy [forgot his name exactly] she had no money and was bumming off him for everything she would stay up all night talking long distace on the phone and run the phone bill up. when she refers to "cause I'm loser buttercup " she is refering to herself sarcastically. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By cayuse19 Retard Girl - This song is about Courtney's childhood... about how she felt alienated and outcast from other kids for being "different." It's from the point of view of clichy, self-absorbed girls who hate the retard girl because she doesn't dress, act, talk, or do anything the same as them. "She walks funny, kinda like a pig" is a perfect example of their insults, which are totally superficial and stupid. "Don't forget her face" is Courtney's own way of saying "Ha, you mocked me before, but look where I am today." - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Morcheeba Retard Girl - I think that this song is sympathetic towards a lot of the outcasts today. The lines like "She walks funny. Kind of like a pig." are what the other kids would tease this Retard Girl about, it's all what they would say about her, even if they aren't necessarily true. Courtney is sympathetic towards the outcasts of today, because she went through it. When she says "Don't forget her face" I think she's saying that this Retard Girl could go on to become famous and leave the others in awe for treating her that way. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Andrea Retard Girl - Courtney said in an interview that she got a lot of flack for the song Retard Girl, but is actually about herself and how she was made fun of unmercifully in school. This explains lines like "wearing the same dress from 4th grade" (we all know how it is to be the kid with the wrong clothes), and the part where she says, "Don't forget her face." Despite being the retard girl, Courtney knows she's going to make something of herself. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By david Retard Girl - This song is about how coutney felt she was treated in her teenage years. She felt ugly that people would treat her like she was somekind of mental kid.It's about her and about people that are treted like she was treated so its really a sad song and i feel for courtney when i listen to it because there is a lot of rage there. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By maude Retard Girl - As everyone says, it talks about her childhood. But when Courtney sings "God I hate that retard girl", it makes me think she hated herself when she was young and that she still hates what she was in her childhood. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By molly Burn Black - i just thought was a song about bitterness or ending of an relationship or mistrust. just angry bitter feelings.hatred.rage.bullshit.or how love and cobain were and are fucked round by thier fame and vulnerabiltiy-invasion of privacy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jessica Dicknail - This song is about rape and incest it talks about, [did she ask for it] because a lot of the time in trails rapist are let off because the girl had on a short skirt or was permiscous. It says "I did what you said I did what you asked I was a good girl " In other words I was a good girl so dont molest me tonight, daddy I did what you said I did what you asked. I think there really is a good point to this song when she says you wont forget me, she saying even if you get off on this trail I'm gonna make your life a living hell asshole you should have just kept it your pants!!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - By david Dicknail - This song is about rape and how if someone rapes you and you tell a guy no means try again. It'a also about revenge and reality checks of if someone says no its no and this is about forcing somebody in doing something they dont want and then say well they wanted to and they liked it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Muckhead Beautiful Son - Well, this song surely must be about Kurt Cobain. He loved to wear Courtney's dresses. I have seen pictures of him in dresses, wearing makeup and ribbons in his hair. She mentioned that she finds it sexy when a man wears a dress, and I guess this is her showing her appreciation and love for Kurt, for doing just that. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Phil 20 Years In The Dakota - i love this song, and i read in a rare foreign interview what courtney said about it. "it's about yoko ono". i think what she means is that yoko spent 20 years behind all the glamour of the beatles, and of course "you don't fuck with the fabulous four". All the lines make sense when you realize it's about her. (this is the story, this is the story of someone's wife etc.etc.) So, like most hole fans, i'd like to believe this song was about courtney,but it's not. (well...i bet a little). - - - - - - - - - - - - - By lilith 20 Years In The Dakota - how could this song not be about yoko? i think courtneys trying to say life is fickle, she spent so long being happy and 20 years ago on the steps of the dakota everything changed. maybe courtney empathises with that, the loss of a husband and dealing with that grief. maybe shes scared shes become a cliche. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By sparkley sarah 20 Years In The Dakota - well i know that this song is about yoko ono and all and the beatles... but before i heard about that i had my own interpertation of it... i thought [and still sorta do believe] that its a song about not throwing your whole fricking life just down the drain, and how you have to move on... or you will end up unhappy and 'spend the rest of your life picking things up off the floor'... like pushing everyone to just go for it... after i heard this song i told my dad that i wouldnt care if we move to costa rica [we might have to for his job] because its boring here, you know? and i dont want to be in my own dakota forever, like i wanna get out of it before you waste away your whole life, so get up off your ass! - - - - - - - - - - - - - By jessicka 20 Years In The Dakota - I think this is about Yoko Ono & the Beatles situation (Example: "she spent twenty years in the dakota") and how Courtney relates (Example: "well I know you haven't saved me, and you haven't saved her yet") She's also talking about how she won't trade in her life and dreams to be little Miss Homemaker (Example: "or you spend the rest of your life picking things up off the floor") after marrying Kurt, like everyone (especially the whole riot grrl scene) expected her to (Example: "riot girls think you can stop me"). That and most of the Nirvana crew hated her/thought she was going to break up the band like everyone thought Yoko did to the Beatles I don't know, that's just how I think of it. Plus, wasn't "hey jude" a Paul McCartney song? Something like that? - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Keroscene 20 Years In The Dakota - It's fairly obvious that this song is about Yoko Ono, but it's just as much about Courtney. The two have a lot in common, since they're both women who married icons and were resented for it. Whilst Yoko got the blame for breaking up the Beatles ("you don't fuck with the fabulous four"), Courtney would have got the blame had Kurt disbanded Nirvana. At Reading Festival in 1992 (the year before this song was written), various journalists saw how much tension there was in Nirvana and generally they put this down to the presence of a "heavily pregnant Courtney." Courtney was in exactly the same position as Yoko. People could not believe that John Lennon had married this average-looking conceptual artist when he could have had whatever models or actresses he wanted and a lot of people resented Courtney for having Kurt when she wasn't nearly as pretty as people like their princesses to be (as backed up by C.L.s sarcastic comment "he should've married a model" in Vanity Fair). The Dakota for Yoko was this place which was her sanctuary and her prison. After the whole Vanity Fair/social services debacle, Kurt said to Courtney "twenty years stuck inside the Dakota. I'm not going to let that happen to you." Which probably inspired the whole song. The part about the "pee girl" (Courtney at school) turning into a "bride" is the point where Courtney makes it explicit that she and Yoko have had the exact same experience. The part where she chants "Hey Jude, are they coming for me?" is partly Yoko talking to John (since I always assumed "Hey Jude" was addressed to himself) and partly Courtney asking Kurt if he's ready to go through this with her. And judging by the line about the "every-lovely suicide" (and a dozen other quotes about C.L. knowing K.C. would die soon), she knows it's asking a lot. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jamie 20 Years In The Dakota - i agree with you, keroscene but i remember hearing somewhere that paul wrote hey jude for julian lennon as a bit of a lullabye because john didn't really pay that much attention to him and more to sean lennon. but i definetely know that's a mccartney song. i think that a lot of these songs and our interpretations reflect our own experiences and having been the greiving widow, this is another song, like best sunday dress, that reminds me of that. there have been many times when i have felt like yoko. you get blamed for the breakup of the band and when your husband dies his bandmates, the ones besides you that were probably closest to him, treat you like shit. but the weird this is that this song was written before kurt died because it was on the beautiful son single. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Shany Old Age - It's about getting old, feeling so burned out, like you've lost you chances. I think that also wanting to be forgiven. Not be able to make peace with you past and make a mance for your mistakes. It's about feeling your whole life were just fake ("All the lies in her place"). There are some metaphors for glory fading away ("All that glitter is sour"). This whole song sounds like a prayer (especially the beginning) and the lyrics fits to it very well. ("Jesus saves" "And now she begs you, she says pretty please I'll make her pure again, I'll make her clean"). I think the music is very different from other Hole songs. This is one of the few earlier songs with no screaming on it what so ever (at least not at MBTHG version), it's a just a beautiful melody, with a holy sense to it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Laura Palmo Old Age - Not only is the song about all the things you stated, but one lyric points to how the press has treated ppl "it's okay to kill your idols" which is just the same as saying Hollywood likes it's heroes dead where a person who was persecuted by the press in life, after their death they are praised. the lyrics that follow that "just pretend you have no rivals/we all know that she is friendless", shows how the press can have a total disregard for the "victims" feelings. They justify their actions by knowing that no one else will be offended. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By jessicka Old Age - Everytime I listen to this song I automatically feel Courtney wrote this song just for me. (spits at mirrors, it's not an issue, just remove the hateful tissue) i'd like that to be true, but I know it's not, so I think she wrote it when she was really down (the ugliest girl you've ever seen) and is describing how she feels old and ugly and burned out about herself (some day she will die alone) and her situation, (an old forgotten concubine) but she doesn't really care anymore. Then it hints that she will be change things (some day she will die for no one) and be herself and not worry what others think. (someday she won't have to fake it, living well itself seems sacred, /someday she will just refuse). Yep, that's it. Oh, and you're welcome. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Morcheeba Old Age - I think that this song is very sympathetic to all of those out there who feel like they're never going to be anything or spread their wings and leave all the hell that surrounds their lives behind. She's saying that through the dark there is light, and though it isn't obvious right now someday it will present itself. I think she's also talking about herself too, how for so long she felt like she was never going to get anywhere and now she sees being upset about it is stupid because if she believes in herself long enough she'll make it, even if she is the only friend she's got. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Miranda Old Age - I believe Old Age is about the way it must feel for Courtney in her life. It's kind of like that feeling of having to grow up too soon and missing it. It's the song for the nobody's, the unloved ones, the ones who just want Jesus to come and take them away. It's for the old ladies nourishing their only children, their gardens. It's just a song for everybody feeling worthless. - - - - - - - - - - - - - By sonicpisces Old Age - there are various version of this song, and with them i attribute different meanings.... the version on my body the hand grenade i see in terms of fame, disillusion, regret and forgiveness.... a few of the lyrics i see in terms of frances bean love cobain: "she seems to me, to know all the glitters are sour" her parents are entrenched in fame, and a destructive sort of attention, all of which is unforgiving, but she (frances) seems to realize that her parents are people, that fame and stardom is an illusion, the glitter is sour, none of it matters. "all the lies in her place"...well, before frances could even speak much was being said about her, in terms of the status of her health and situation... hence, "all the lies in her place" - instead of being seen in terms of who she is the only thing being said about her were slanderous lies...."and then she begs you she says pretty please, make her pure again, make her clean" - this i see in terms of redemption and forgiveness, (possibly in terms of drugs, and having a reason to be clean). and then there's the reflection on past idols, two women hester prynne (the scarlet letter) and anne bolyn (beheaded wife of henry the 8th) - perhaps of some relevance because they were destroyed by the powers that be, simply for going against what was accepted by society. what can be said after having witnessed all of this: love, fame, illusion, deception, lies, beauty - all of which has been endured with a sense of strength, duty, and regret.... "old age, jesus saves, rest in peace, me in pieces, i'm sorry, so sorry, i'm sorry, so sorry". - - - - - - - - - - - - - By sparkley sarah He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss) - o this song was written by carole king [co-written] i say its about a dilussional girl [sorry forgive my wonderful spelling and grammar] who is going out with a jerk asshole guy... like my aunt did once... and this guy just keeps on abusing her, but she thinks shes in love and she thinks hes in love [with her] so she sorta shrugs it off and she is blinded by love in a way but its just a disalussional crush... shes never gonna get out of this relationship but she needs to.... - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Laura Palomo He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss) - A funny joke. When Hole played this on Hole's unplugged session shecraked the joke "This was written by Carole King and a certain man, which you have to think, go ahead!" Did she mean, hey Carole got it together behind a jerksback with this co-writer dude and they wrote a song together about theoutcome? I thought it was funny! - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Lisa Drown Soda - I think this song is basically about a man trying to devour you in his life. An abusive man, a man who won't take no for an answer. And in my opinion "drown soda" is either alcohol or drugs. Cuz' when you're under the influence you want to do things to escape pain. When she says she wants to destroy or fuck certain places.. in this version of the song they refer to certain ppl i believe. Minnisota... Kat Bjelliand is from Minnisota...., Billy Corgan is from Illiniois, she lived in Seattle and you know who Kurt was from there as for OHIO.... HMM i'm sure there's someone there she wants to fuck or save or kill or all three!! - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Julie Drown Soda - My interpretation is just about the same as Lisa's, so I won't write it all out. She mentioned something about all the citys and states courtney refers to and she didn't know why Ohio was so significant. I think it was because Dave Grohl was born in Ohio - - - - - - - - - - - - - By rob Drown Soda - I think its pretty obvious that this is about a violent guy, or about a relationship that threatens to take away a girls identity. However, bearing in mind the way Courtney uses the 'drown' metaphor in Hit So Hard, I think 'Drown Soda' refers to orgasm rather than drink or drugs. 'Drown soda' is like a lethal orgasm, drawing her to the guy against her better judgement. It might even refer to a more obvious liquid associated with sex... - - - - - - - - - - - - - By **{falling jen}** Drown Soda - i disagree with all of you. to me, this song represents the thoughts going through a woman's head just before she dies after commiting suicide. she's angry at the world and thinks the only thing she can do about it is overdose, hence the lines "sit in the the corner and i drink drown soda/i wanna bomb the whole state of minnesota". drown soda is perhaps a metaphor for pills, because pills 'drown your pain' so to speak. these powerful lines reflect her longing to change the world's evil wrath, but she's powerless to stop it, so the only alternative is dying. explanations as to why she might be overdosing are evident in the anti-male verses. a man has finally sent her over the edge. she's also mad because nobody noticed how upset she was, hence the heart wrenching lines "are you going to sit and watch me/watch me while i go down/are you going to sit and watch me/watch me while i DROWN". the much repeated line "just you wait til everyone is hooked" suggests her resistance towards society and the 'social norm', and her sadness that everyone around her are the exact same people and she is the only different one. well that's just what i think anyway :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - - Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 7 - Page 8 - Page 9 - - - - - - - - - - - - - |