Nirvana: Polly Meaning

Polly Lyrics

Polly wants a cracker
Think I should get off her first
Think she wants some water
To put out my blow torch

Isn't me... Have a seed
Let me clip... dirty wings
Let me take a ride... cut yourself
Want some help... please myself
I got some...

1. anonymous

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   Dec 25th 2010 !⃝

   Well it's been said about it being about a rape but I Kurt used Polly as it is thought of as a birds name showing that the rapist had dehumanised his victim... Just a thought :D
2. anonymous

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   Dec 19th 2008 !⃝

   I am pretty sure it was a divine polly klaas premonition , I heard that 'i know I'm right song' is too in some way that if I mentioned , you would all think I WAS crazy , but polly klaas is the correct answer even if that other girl HAD to die too
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Klaas

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3. Brittknee129

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   Jan 5th 2008 !⃝

   One incident particularly distressing to Cobain involved two men who raped a woman while singing the Nirvana song "Polly". Cobain condemned the episode in the liner notes of the US release of the album Incesticide: "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly.' I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience. Sorry to be so anally P.C. but that's the way I feel."
   
   He didn't write the song after a rape, he was upset some asshole didn't understand the real meaning of the song. Thats one thing he hated most fans like you guys who say you love nirvana but have no idea what any are the songs are about. Pick up a book for one and read it his biography or anything
4. toma4114

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   Jan 5th 2008 !⃝

   Jesus christ these comments are so repetitive. everyone has made the exact same point like 19 times and when someone is wrong everyone has to correct them. Not just one person. It's bullshit.
5. anonymous

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   Aug 20th 2007 !⃝

   Good ol' Kurt heard about a girl getting r@ped by two guys singing polly..... It says so in the inside packet thing of the insecticide CD

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6. anonymous

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   Aug 6th 2007 !⃝

   This was about who was kidnapped after a concert, raped and tortured and eventually managed to escape by coming onto the rapist, who then let his guard down. Kurt was astounded by her and wrote the song from the point of view of the rapist, comparing the girl to a bird in a cage.
   
   After Polly was released, Kurt heard about a separate incident where two men raped a girl whilst singing the lyrics to polly. He was disgusted and called them 'wastes of sperm and eggs'
   
   There are some real assholes in this world
7. anonymous

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   Jul 8th 2007 !⃝

   Yea,it is about the rape he read about in the paper, although I actually believe she just was kidnapped. But the song is wrote from the rapist/kidnappers point of view. That woman, Polly, was friendly towards the rapist/kidnapper and made him believe he didn’t need to watch over her all the time. In the end she actually escapes because he lets his guards down. All this is in an interview in the heaveir than heaven biography.
8. you_are_all_arsefuck

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   Apr 22nd 2007 !⃝

   Yes it's about that fucker that raped the girl after the concert. Yes it's from the rapists point of view. If you know wot your talking bout please do keep submitting interpretations, but there are some fuckwits that are writing shit like- "it's about a bird named polly" you fucking dumbwitted narrow minded pieces of shit should fuck off, because you don't know your arse from your face. So stop writing bullshit that is wrong. You are all arse fucking retards that are into bestiality. Die.
9. anonymous

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   Jan 12th 2007 !⃝

   Well first off, whoever said that Kurt was taking the place of the women, was wrong, he sings the song in the rapists point of view. He read in a newspaper that a 14 year old girl was kidnapped from a local rock concert and tortured and raped. Then the girl decided to come to see her torturer as a person and he let his guard down and she got away. He was completely amazed and wrote the song about it.
10. anonymous

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    Jan 4th 2007 !⃝

    this is from wikipedia.com
    
    
    Cobain struggled to reconcile the massive success of Nirvana with his underground roots. He also felt persecuted by the media, comparing himself to Frances Farmer, and harbored resentment for people who claimed to be fans of the band but who completely missed the point of the band's message. One incident particularly distressing to Cobain involved two men who raped a woman while singing the Nirvana song "Polly". Cobain condemned the episode in the liner notes of the US release of the album Incesticide: "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly.' I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience. Sorry to be so anally P.C. but that's the way I feel."
    
    
    that song wasnt about sadism, or being an asshole or a rapist, it's a fucking song.

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11. anonymous

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    Oct 27th 2006 !⃝

    This song is about a girl that got kidnapped and raped and tortured with a blow torch then she managed to make it to the front porch where she died.The song is from a news paper article that Kurt saw. It is written in the perspective of both the rapist and the girl

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12. anonymous

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    Oct 2nd 2006 !⃝

    I think when he says "she caught me off my gaurd" it meant she stabbed him "amazes me the will of instinct" means he was suprised the lengths she would go to to escapes.

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13. anonymous

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    Oct 1st 2006 !⃝

    Whoever said that one of the rapists sang a nirvana song while raping 'polly' should check his facts, the rape occured before nirvana were popular.
14. anonymous

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    Jul 20th 2006 !⃝

    It's about a guy who raped a girl in Kurt's hometown. He saw the story in the news and wrote a song about it. It's from the rapist's point of view.
15. anonymous

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    May 1st 2006 !⃝

    "Last year, a girl was raped by two wastes of sperm and eggs while they sang the lyrics to our song 'Polly.' I have a hard time carrying on knowing there are plankton like that in our audience. Sorry to be so anally P.C. but that's the way I feel." This is what Kurt said in the linear notes of the album Incesticide. The song was written about a girl that was raped, and she outsmarted him and escaped. Kurt read a story in the paper and wrote this song. His notes tell of two men who raped a girl while singing this song. This case was not the reason that the song was written.
    Peace, love, empathy

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