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Any one know the meaning of the song Polly by Nirvana?

Just wondering. here are the lyrics:

Polly wants a cracker

I think I should get off her first

I think she wants some water

To put out the blow torch

Isn't me

Have a seed

Let me clip

Dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Cut yourself

want some help

Please myself

I've got some rope

Have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Cut yourself

Want some help

Please myself

Polly wants a cracker

Maybe she would like some food

Ask me to untie her

A chase would be nice for a few

Isn't me

Have a seed

Let me clip

Dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Cut yourself

want some help

Please myself

I've got some rope

Have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Cut yourself

Want some help

Please myself

Polly said

Polly says her back hurts

she's just as bored as me

She caught me off my guard

It amazes me, the will of instinct

Isn't me

Have a seed

Let me clip

Dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Cut yourself

Want some help

Please myself

I've got some rope

Have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Cut yourself

Want some help

Please myself

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  • 1 decade ago
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    here it is, but you may not want to know.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_(song)

  • 6 years ago

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    Any one know the meaning of the song Polly by Nirvana?

    Just wondering. here are the lyrics:

    Polly wants a cracker

    I think I should get off her first

    I think she wants some water

    To put out the blow torch

    Isn't me

    Have a seed

    Let me clip

    Dirty wings

    Let me take a ride

    Cut yourself

    want some help

    Please myself

    I've got some...

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  • 1 decade ago

    From wikipedia:

    According to Michael Azerrad's 1993 Nirvana biography Come as You Are, "Polly" is based on the true story of a female rape victim from Tacoma, Washington. The girl, 14, was abducted in 1987 while returning from a punk rock show, and was raped and tortured with razors and a blowtorch by her abductor. Cobain's only narrative flourish is that the victim manages to escape by flirting with her captor, convincing him to trust her. This allows her to escape while he stops for gas.[1]

    In the liner notes to Nirvana's 1992 compilation Incesticide, Cobain expressed disdain for an incident which occurred after the song's release on Nevermind. "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly,'" he wrote. "I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience."

  • 6 years ago

    It's about a 14 year old girl that got kidnapped and raped by a man by the name of Gerald friend. She was also tortured with a blowtorch and a knife and escaped one day when he drove to a gas station with her and she ran. They never released her name to the public.

  • 6 years ago

    It was originally titled, Hitchhiker, and I'm pretty sure it's about someone being kidnapped and raped.

  • Foxxxy
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    This song is based on a true story about rape.

  • ....
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    i think he is talking about a board relation ship... they are just there and depressed, and just stay together cause its simple... i am most likely wrong!

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