Lyric discussion by walternate 

Cover art for Seether lyrics by Veruca Salt

You guys are so funny.... In a radio interview in Australia, 1994 on Triple J, Louise explained the song was about her vile and uncontrollable temper. She would scream the most vicious abuse at her family and friends when she had one of these massive tantrums, saying things she would feel terrible about later. She, her family and her closest friends saw her as a completely different person when she was in this state, so she tended to think of her temper in the third person, someone she called The Seether. Louise explained that she could feel this temper coming on, but there was nothing she could do nothing about it, gentle or harsh: 'Keep her on a short leash', 'rock her in my cradle', 'knock her out', 'cram her back in my mouth'. The Seether of course 'is not born like other girls' because she comes from within and Loiuse 'knows how to conceive her' because The Seether is part of her. As an extension, The Seether could also live in other girls of all ages, sizes and races, something she could identify with and talk about, because if a guy sang about the same thing he would be considered sexist. During the interview both girls were laughing about all the whacky meanings people had attributed to the song. Read the lyrics though with this in mind and they all make sense.

Song Meaning

Thank you! And Nina's nod to "Seether" in "Volcano Girls" ("Well, here's another clue if you please: The seether's Louise!") certainly agrees with this. Though, Nina wrote the song, not Louise...

Well, that's a lie by either Walternate, or Louise, because Louise didn't write the song, Nina did. And Nina said in a recent interview with Spin that she wrote it after her friend got pregnant and failed at trying to give her self an abortion, and couldn't afford to have it done professionally. So, there you go.

My Opinion

@walternate Song was written by Nina, but both Louise and Nina credit it to what you described (and it has nothing at all to do with abortion). Here's from an interview from Radio.com (June 17, 2014) for the 20-year commemorative anniversary of the song single release:

Nina Gordon: "No, it’s not true! I haven’t heard that one. I thought you were going to say something way scarier. [laughs] Many songs, when I was writing early on, were inspired by William Blake. But “Seether” I don’t think was. It’s possible that the idea of the “seether,” a character, a made-up person…I did...