Your Empathy

wow...courtney love really sucks...the only good song she ever made was Doll Parts and i'm sure kurt wrote it for her

About Kurt? I think so. He loved his empathy :*(....sob sob; RIP Kurt!!!

btw ilikefood Kurt didn't write doll parts, well not the 2nd verse anyway cuz it was from a fax courtney sent to Kurt when they were both on tour and couln't see eachother that often.

Doll Parts first started appearing in Hole's setlist around 1990/1991 before she met Kurt. Courtney Love isn't the only person in the band or the only person to contribute to songs.

this has sexual connotations to me. I think she's refering to this guys dick, when she says empathy, like a fuck from him is gunna make her better and she's jealous of him, but she wants him and she's just disgusted with herself.

why does every1 think all her songs are about kurt fuckin cobain.. she did have a life b4 him.. hes an asshole, he left a daughter and a wife.. dickhead. as much as i do love nirvana, WANKER !!

Even if this song wasn't written about Kurt, it could still apply to him in some way. Kurt was huge on the empathy thing, at least from what I've read. He was a very empathetic person.

From the lines "Your empathy / Inside of me / I want you / Inside of me" it sounds like she's talking about having sex with Kurt, although it could be talking about anyone, really.

There are uploads of this on YouTube, it appears to be a live recording from a show in 1993 in Portland, OR, when Hole opened for the Lemonheads. I think the song is pretty obviously about her feeling like an ancillary object in comparison to Kurt, and how they got targeted by people. She sings "Tell your bitch to just shut up" at the end, which is a direct quote from Axl Rose when he told Kurt to "tell his bitch to shut up" when they were at the VMAs the year before.