Celebrity Skin

Hole's third album Celebrity Skin is my lyric inspiration for today's entry. I adore Hole and Courtney Love. Some may say she is a train wreck or even that she is a bad artist. To me she is a rock goddess and what pisses people off is that I enjoy Hole more then Nirvana. I always have and always will. One thing that sets Hole up as a better band to listen to is simple, Courtney Love oozes pain and heartache when she sings. I believe everything she says when she sings. And that's a major reason for my love of this band.

Celebrity Skin was an album that many seen as a more pop orientated move for Hole. Gone was the gritty grunge and a more clean sound emerged from the band. I still think this is very much a rock album but it's almost as if the band went from garage to studio in the sense that this album sounds like a million dollars.

I will include three songs to update from this album. Two of the songs that I've chosen I have been referenced back to Kurt Cobain and the third choice is just a fantastic metaphor for trying to expose someones inner thoughts and that's how I've always seen it. I think my three choices are the three hardest hitting songs from Celebrity Skin. I hope you like my choices and let me know what some of your favorite tracks are from this excellent album.


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 barely 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
That 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 secret of your heart

Hey, hey, I'm gonna follow you
Oh baby, fly away, yeah 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 light just radiates
I can't be near you
The light just radiates


DYING

You see the cripple dance
Pay your money, baby
Nows your chance
Eyes like Cyanide

I am so dumb
Just beam me up
I've 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, yeah
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
Memory

And now I know that love is dead
You've come to bury me
There's nothing left here to pretend
Anything

Remember, you promised me
I'm dying, I'm dying, please
I want so, I need to be, ah
Under your skin

And I'm dying
I'm dying please
I'm dying
I'm dying please
I'm dying
I'm dying please
I'm under your skin
Under your skin


PETALS

She's the angel on top of the tree
Sugarheart, here she comes
She's going 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

They will make you so
So cynical
The fire burns, the flesh destroys
The past that made us old

She's the grace of this world
She's too pure
For the likes 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

I wait till mine and
Hey, it's all mine
Hey, it's all mine
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
Ooooooooo Ohhhhhhhhh
Ooooooooo

All the Lillie's bloomed and blossomed
Wilted and they're shivering
I can't stop this 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
Tear the petals off of you
Make you tell the truth
Tear the petals off of you