Awful

About Awful

"Awful" is the twelfth single, and also third EP, by American alternative rock band Hole, from their third studio album Celebrity Skin. Released in April 1999 by Geffen Records as a CD single, the song's lyrics explore how the media and modern pop culture corrupt young girls and how they should rebel against this. The line "swing low, sweet cherry" in the song is an allusion to the African American spiritual hymn, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".

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Swing low sweet cherry 
Make it awful 
It's your life it's your party it's so awful 
Let's start a fire 
Let's have a riot! Yeah it's awful 
It was punk 
Yeah it was perfect now it's awful 
They know how to break all the girls 
like you 
And they rob the souls of the girls like you 
And they break the hearts of the girls 
Swing low cherry cherry 
Yeah it's awful 
He's drunk he tastes 
Like candy he's so beautiful 
He's so deep like dirty water 
God, he's awful 
You're lost, oh, where's your daddy it's so 
awful 
And they royalty rate all the girls like you 
And they sell it out to the girls like you 
To incorporate little girls 
Hey, run away with the light 
Run away it's divine 
Let's run away, yeah, tonight and 
We'll steal the light of the world 
Swing low, sweet cherry, yeah, it's awful 
You're ripe for the picking, it's so awful 
You've got your youth 
Don't waste your money 
Yeah it's awful 
I was punk! 
Now I'm just stupid! 
I'm so awful 
Oh, just shut up you're only 16 
If the world is so wrong 
Yeah you can break them all 
With one song 
If the world is so wrong yeah you can take it 
all 
With one song 
Swing low sweet cherry 
Make it awful 
They bought it all, just build a new one, 
Make it beautiful yeah

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Hole

Hole is an American alternative rock band that originally formed in Los Angeles in 1989. The band is fronted by singer-songwriter Courtney Love (vocals, rhythm guitar), who co-founded Hole with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson. Hole achieved considerable commercial and critical success throughout the 1990s, initially releasing singles through independent labels in L.A. and debuting with their caustic noise rock-influenced Pretty on the Inside (1991), and later gaining critical acclaim with their 1994 album Live Through This. more »

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