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


Lyrics submitted by bonj, edited by manic4manics, TomTom20

Polly Lyrics as written by Kurt Cobain

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    Let me clip/ Dirty wings you clip a birds wings so they cant fly or leave you. the part were there dirty means nothing really. the kidnapper didnt want the girl to leave him, thats why he was going to clip her 'wings'. its all symbolic. oh the song is about a girls kidnappin but it all took place in Seattle and was written the crimes, not before. and kurt was the one who was amazed by the will of instinct. he couldnt believe that the girl had sucduced her attacker.

    buildatreeon June 25, 2004   Link

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