Gutless

"i don't really miss God but i sure miss Santa Claus" is one of my favorite lines ever. it's brilliant. i'm an atheist now, but i used to be a christian, but now that i think of my younger years, i feel like i really do miss believing in santa way more than believing in god. i feel that santa is a good metaphor for the innocence of childhood whereas god is a metaphor for living in denial.

Haha try getting you're facts straight when you're trying to make a short, curt point. Courtney Love doesn't get enough credit as an artist, although I prefer Celebrity Skin to Live Through This...but this is still a pretty good song.

nah guys, this song is a dig at Riot Grrrls, just like Olympia/Rock Star. Girl Germs was a Riot Grrrl zine created by members of the band Bratmobile. "Revolutions come and die" is Courtney dissing the RG "Revolution", a concept which she has always very been critical of. The first verse seems to refer to the loneliness and isolation of young women in the Riot Grrrl scene, putting all their hopes in a Revolution announced by zines but which, in the end, failed to materialise. Courtney refers to Riot Grrrls as "gutless" and presents herself as a defiant figure standing alone on the rock scene after the RG movement folded.

a favorite line: i don't really miss god, but i sure miss santa clause. although im jewish (hehe) i can deff relate to that. i miss and dispise my childhood inocence...at the same time.

yea. im the same person as smells like girl. but, for some reason, songmeanings seemed to delete me, or something. anyway, this song really rocks. one of my favorites. then again, im a hole fanatic...

This isn't my favourite Hole song. They have so many better ones. But the chorus is great to scream along to and the lyrics are clever. It just gets a bit annoying after a while. I'm not really sure of the meaning, either. But hey, never mind.

wait nope courtney wrote this song. it's so awesome anyways.

Seems to me that the first verse is about a woman who is totally alone in the world because she has no spine, and the second verse is the narrator describing herself, a brave, unstoppable individual.

The first verse -- "All my friends are embryonic/All my friends are microscopic..." seem to point that this woman's only friends are, oddly enough, bacteria and viruses, since those are the only things that are unavoidable, and herself -- "All my friends wake up alone." Her own fears of standing alone as an independent woman -- "girl germs" -- stop her from asserting her own identity. She instead chooses to submit to men -- "Sleep with me, wake up alive."

I totally agree with Yvaine!

This song has some of the best lyrics ever. Besides the Santa Claus line, I also like it when she sings "Girl germs eat your little virus, revolution come and die." Just sounds catchy.

i love this song, btw it was written by courtney and kat bjelland(babes in toyland)