Reviews for Polly Lyrics

Please don't be saying that kurt doesn't have any meaning with writing songs. It may be a little confusing but he has meaning for every song, every line, and every word.

People..if you believe this song is just a random mixture of lyrics get offline and read a book.. Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, It's all explained in there and it was based on the rape victim.

listen and enjoy his music. i guess noone will ever really know what this song means..no one knows for sure except for kurt himself. Just don't spread untrue stories about it. you all know he wouldnt have appriciated it.
RIP.

ok every one just stop whingin ok sure this song has a message and its a great one too but theres no need to argue if it does or not...obviously it does an to that unleet guy your a dag i was on here just so i could clear up wat he was sayin in the chorus

If you think Kurt's songs don't have any meaning, you are an idiot. He may have said countless times that they they have absolutely no significance, but maybe he didn't like the spotlight on him. I don't know why he refused to accept the fact that they meant something, but if you actually listen to his lyrics, they all have meaning.

As for this particular song, it has definite parallels to the story of the rape victim Polly (not Klaas, a different Polly). Articles written about the incident say that Polly's abducter starved her (Polly wants a cracker), burned her (she wants some water to put out the blow torch), tied her up (she asks me to untie her, and then that she escaped by gaining his trust (she caught me off my guard). How could Kurt's lyrics match a story so similarly and not be related at all?

She was a 14 year old girl who was coming back from a concert when she was abducted. The man who kidnapped her tortured her with a blow torch ( "I think she wants some water To put out the blow torch" )

no knows the meanings, but that's why people love these songs... you can try enjoy figure them out, or just enjoy the feelings coming out of this words.. one thing you can say - the words expres what the auther felt that time

A really bad incident involving this song was that two men raped a woman while singing the song. Cobain condemned the episode in the liner notes of the US release of the album Incesticide: "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly.' I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience. Sorry to be so anally P.C. but that's the way I feel."

Hopefully no one here wants to rape sum1 while singing it.

If you think Kurt's songs don't have any meaning, you are an idiot. He may have said countless times that they they have absolutely no significance, but maybe he didn't like the spotlight on him. I don't know why he refused to accept the fact that they meant something, but if you actually listen to his lyrics, they all have meaning.

As for this particular song, it has definite parallels to the story of the rape victim Polly (not Klaas, a different Polly). Articles written about the incident say that Polly's abducter starved her (Polly wants a cracker), burned her (she wants some water to put out the blow torch), tied her up (she asks me to untie her, and then that she escaped by gaining his trust (she caught me off my guard). How could Kurt's lyrics match a story so similarly and not be related at all?

no one knows what the meaning of any of Kurts songs are and he probly doesnt either because they probably dont have any meaning.. he even says in that dvd Nirvana Live Sold out tonight, that he just likes spacey lyrics that are weird and far out because their cool, so why does everyone always think they know everything about nirvana and kurt cobain when they dont know shit. you dont know him unless you were his friend or something.. and yes its to bad hes gone.. so chill out with trying to figure out his songs just listen to the music and light one up.

Come on people. No one knows about this song? In the Tacoma Paper there was a huge story at the time where a young teenaged girl went to a rock concert and was kidnapped, raped and tortured. She got away by seeing her torturer as a human being and started talking to him. She "caught him off his guard" and that was how she escaped. Kurt was blown away by the artical and he wrote a song about it from the kidnappers point of view. The line "polly wants a cracker" means she is starving and is hungry he's just named the girl in the song polly. It's a play on words. So there you go...thats what it means.!! From someone who knows.

i was watching like a nirvana biography and i dont know the main idea of the song but i do know that it WAS meant to be a anti-rape song i guees kurt got pissed though when the song was used in a movie during a rape so for all we know he could of written it about that polly girl, it could of just been a sick twisted joke that only kurt got, he could of seen a rape happen, he could of even assisted in a rape which i hope isnt true but no matter what he got his idea from we all have to admit its a great song! RIP kurt cobain

I cant help but "feeling" sure that the second Polly wants a cracker is in fact Polly was a cracked girl.
I dont know and or care about where the song writer got the inspiration for this song i think its best to just agree its a good song.

On the other hand;

He’s the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means

Describes most of the people on here (otherwise why lookup the lyric in the first place:P)

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 a blowtorch by her abductor (Gerald Friend). Cobain's only narrative flourish is that the victim manages to escape by flirting with her captor, convincing him to let her go

i dont know who was involved in the specific incident, but kurt wrote it after reading an article about a girl who was raped after a punk show. he didnt witness it, he just read the article in the newspaper