Best Sunday Dress

First of all, I'm so sick of people going on this site to carry on about how Courtney killed Kurt, Courtney's a man, blah blah blah. If you want to talk about that, go to a site discussing that, stop doing it on here.

The meaning of this song, to me at least, is about walking into a disaster you've created on your own, and having to pretend like everything's okay. Hurting the one(s) you love the most in the process.

first, it's deffinatly NOT about kurt because it was written way before all of that. Second, its sugar babylon, not baby doll

Actually fasterpussycat, I believe you're wrong. Courtney was in many different bands before. Sugar Babylon and Sugar Baby Doll were two different bands, but this wasn't their song. The band that originally did this song was The Pagan Babies which consisted of Courtney, Kat, and two other girls. And that version of Best Sunday Dress is quite different. I believe when Hole took this version, Courtney could have written it about Kurt. The Pagan Babies and Hole's version only have the chorus in common. So I do think that this song is about Kurt.

The Sugar Babylon song has only chorus from this song. The other lyrics are completely different, there's just "put on my best sunday dress and i walk straight into this mess of mine", if I remember right. Feels like it's about Kurt.. anyway it's beautiful.

This version is about Kurt. The older version's were about Billy and probably others, this one is in fact about Kurt and his death and how she was effected by his loss.

Just because she wrote a version of it back in the 1980's do not mean that she isn't allow to re-write this version about her late husband. Also their are pics of Courtney pregnant, and also if her naked..I'm 100% certain she is a lady.

here's the lyrics straight from the hole website:

Put on my best Sunday dress And walked straight into this mess of mine And I put on my best Sunday dress And I walked straight into this mess

And watching you burn - ai-ay Watching you burn - ai-ay Watching you burn - ai-ay Watching you burn - ah

Pale blue eyes so young Pale blue eyes so far away Watch me with his sorrow Forgive me all his pain

And I've come here to confess To the wind and the rain and the glorious fame And I've come here all undressed For the numb and the dumb both say

The name that you burn - ai-ay Watching you burn - ai-ay Watching you burn - ai-ay Watching you burn - ah

Pale blue eyes so dumb Pale blue eyes so far away Take him to the river Forgive us all his pain

Oooh, I'm coming undone He comes from the coal mine I see you shine like a diamond And curse us all goodnight

And I put on my best Sunday dress And I walked straight into this mess of mine And I've come here all undressed With the poison and pain to take With mine that you burn - ay-ah That you burn - ah

Pale blue eyes so young Pale blue eyes so far away Take me to his sorrow Forgive us all his pain

Watching you burn (put on my best Sunday dress) - ay-ah Watching you burn - ay-ah Watching you burn (put on my best Sunday dress) - ay-ah Watching you burn - ay-ah Watching you burn (put on my best Sunday dress) - ay-ah Watching you burn - ay-ah Watching you burn (put on my best Sunday dress) - ah

Put on my best Sunday dress

this song is beautiful

i love this song.

i think that in a way this is a sweet song, but it is also very sad. i think this song is about someone who puts on a happy face for people, when reallt they are dying inside. i think she uses the line "best sunday dress" as a metaphor for "a smiling face".

this song is one of courtney's earliest carried through from her babes in toyland days with kat bjelland. "A three chord cacophony" as Courtney once described it.

what the hell, these lyrics are worng ...

after the first verse it goes into the chorus like above... then it goes " pale blue eyes soo young, pale blue eyes soo far away. " " wash away with sorrow, forgive me of his pain...I've come here to confess...to thewind and the rain and the glorious things...and i've come here all undressed...for the numb and the dumb say thy name...watching you burn..." then it goes into pale blue eyes , take me to the river, forgive me for his pain. "

This song has to be about the whole controversy about Kurt Cobains death and her being bamed for it. The death affected her very deaply and this song is very beautiful.