"About a Girl" as written by Kurt Cobain....
I need an easy friend
I do, with an ear to lend
I don't think you fit this shoe
I do, won't you have a clue
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I'm standing in your line
I do hope you have the time
I do pick a number too
I do keep a date with you
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I need an easy friend
I do whip her in to land
I do think you fit this shoe
I do won't you have a clue
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
No I can't see you every night
Free
I do
I do
I do
I do
I do, with an ear to lend
I don't think you fit this shoe
I do, won't you have a clue
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I'm standing in your line
I do hope you have the time
I do pick a number too
I do keep a date with you
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
Free
I need an easy friend
I do whip her in to land
I do think you fit this shoe
I do won't you have a clue
I'll take advantage while
You hang me out to dry
But I can't see you every night
No I can't see you every night
Free
I do
I do
I do
I do
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lol
but i cant see you every night free = shes literally making him pay to be her boyfriend. hes gotta get a job or he cant be with her every night
He plans to take advantage while she 'hangs him out to dry' or abandons him by doing him; but he can't be with anyone every night because hooking up has a price--the price being that the girl will eventually fall in love.
He finally wants to do right by the girl and ask her on a date and he realizes that many would love to date her so he is simply saying, I know you are a special person and I want to do right by you.
Then he goes back to restating what he wants and the fact that she fits the shoe.
Regardless of whether or not this was about someone he actually knew I don't know...not a huge fan just heard the song and wanted to interpret. I don't think it matters either way because people should interpret it in a manner that has meaning in their own life. Music, like poetry, is open to interpretation; I am simply sharing what the words put together mean.
Free" refers that she dosen't have (or want/bother to have) time for him.
I don’t know anything about “Tracy” and certainly did not know Kurt personally and so would not suggest either was actually involved in prostitution. The greatest artists are not that self-centered and write, instead, of the tragedy they see and feel in the lives of others around them.
I hear this song as a dark, disturbing “Roxanne”. It is the story of a very lonely man who has fallen in love with a hooker. She treats him as a friend when they are together and listens indulgently just as a good professional should. She probably does have a “clue” of his feelings for her but she does not want to acknowledge that because she does not feel the same.
“Take advantage while… you hang me out to dry” a bitter complaint that the relationship is one-sided.
“I’m standing in your line. I hope you have the time. I take a number, too.” Like every other customer waiting for his number to be called at the meat market, this man is waiting his turn with the object of his affections. That he has to take a number and wait like everyone else reveals the tragic awareness that he is just another “John” to her.
And, because of her professional view of him, because she does not love him the way he loves her, he can’t have her every night for free… only when he pays.
The repeated, plaintiff refrain, “I do”, is a sad reference to one half of a wedding vow.
Damn good music!