"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Polly wants a cracker
Think I should get off her first
Think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch
Isn't me
Have a seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Got some rope
Have been told
Promise you
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
She asks me to untie her
Chase would be nice for a few
Isn't me
Have a seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Got some rope
Have been told
Promise you
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
Amazes me the will of instinct
Isn't me
Have a seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Got some rope
Have been told
Promise you
Have been true
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Think I should get off her first
Think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch
Isn't me
Have a seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Got some rope
Have been told
Promise you
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
She asks me to untie her
Chase would be nice for a few
Isn't me
Have a seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Got some rope
Have been told
Promise you
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
Amazes me the will of instinct
Isn't me
Have a seed
Let me clip
Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Got some rope
Have been told
Promise you
Have been true
Let me take a ride
Cut yourself
Want some help
Please myself
Lyrics submitted by mojo risin
Polly Lyrics as written by Kurt Cobain
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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This song is actually based on a true story as Krist Novoselic says so in "Classic Albums: Nevermind" Kurt was reading an article in a newspaper about a girl that got kidnappedand held hostage for weeks but she tricked the guy and escaped. Kurt was so mindblown by this girls story that he decided to write a song about it.
Ugh, this song IS about a true story, and yes, it is also an anti-rape song. And Courtney didn't kill him or influence him to do so. Kurt was suicidal ever since his parents' divorce when he was 7 (or 9? I can't remember). Regardless, he suffered all of his life, most of which was before he even met Courtney. He loved her, and disrespecting his wife is dishonoring him.
This is about a young girl named Polly getting abducted from a concert and brutally tortured and raped.
Polly is one of the greatests songs that I ever heard. Lyrics, music, everything is great. Electric version is better then acoustic.
KURT DONALD COBAIN R.I.P.
Polly says 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
I dont think her name was polly. The rest of the story is true
MUSH! MUSH! MUSH! MMMMUUUUUUUSSSHHHHHH!
ALL OF YOU! SHUT UP! MUSH!
The Song wasnt written about a true story. The song was supposedly an Anti-rape song, kinda sarcastic i guess. Atleast, thats what iv heard. I think its true, although kurt wrote alot about what was going on around him, he never once said that it was based on truth. R.I.P Kurt. Courtney Loves a Husband killer and a liar, SEND HER TO HELL!!!
The Song wasnt written about a true story. The song was supposedly an Anti-rape song, kinda sarcastic i guess. Atleast, thats what iv heard. I think its true, although kurt wrote alot about what was going on around him, he never once said that it was based on truth. R.I.P Kurt. Courtney Loves a Husband killer and a liar, SEND HER TO HELL!!!
No shit... Courtney Love is Kurt's COD... even if she didn't murder him (which I think she did), she was definitely the cause for his suicide...