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Loaded by Hole

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Hole

Loaded

Release date: 30th June 1991

From Pretty on the Inside
Track 8
4:19
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About This Track

'Loaded' by Hole is a 1991 rock song from the album 'Pretty on the Inside'. The lyrics paint a surreal, confrontational portrait that leans on grotesque imagery, with lines about “falling down” and a fixation on eyes, light, and bodily metaphors. The register is lurid and theatrical, as if the speaker is both addressing someone directly and dragging the scene into a feverish, nightmarish glamour. The repetition of thick, tactile images gives the track a compulsive momentum, turning a personal address into something stranger and harsher.

"Loaded" is a track by Hole, from the album Pretty on the Inside, released 30th June 1991. The track is 4:19 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Hole.

About the Artist

Hole

Hole

Lyrics

Loaded

Black lung coat and your little crown
That's the crown that you get for falling down
Hey baby, let me look in your eyes
I see you standing in a weird red light
The pump and grind that I call my head
The suck milk nebula I use instead
The sweet cream clot and the sweet cream udder
The weird red light that pulls you under
Open my scar, let out my stars
Slut me open and suck my scars
And now I'm loaded
Yeah, now I'm loaded
Put on your coat and your little crown
That's the crown that you get when you fall down
Hey baby, won't you wave goodbye
As you go off to fuck your weird red light?
Rotten sun spits on your raw hide
As you dance to the sound of a suicide
Oh yeah, you laugh as you try to to hide
That you're the rat poison daughter of a suicide
Slut me open and suck my scars
Better open your eyes when I come down
And now I'm loaded
Yeah, now I'm loaded
Don't blush when I rip you open
Don't blush when I rip you open
Hey baby, let me look in your eyes
As you go off into your weird red light
The pump and grind that I call my head
The suck milk nebula I use instead
The sweet cream clot and the sick milk udder
The weird red light that pulls me under
You open and suck my scars
Better open your eyes when I come down
And now I'm loaded
I just get loaded
I just get loaded
I just get loaded
And now I'm loaded
So am I, So am I
And I, I just got, I just got I just get, I just get, I just get loaded
I just get loaded

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Track details

From Pretty on the Inside

4:191991
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Album
Pretty on the Inside
Pretty on the Inside
Hole
1st July 1991
Track number
8
Release year
1991
  1. 1Teenage Whore
    2:57
  2. 2Babydoll
    4:59
  3. 3Garbage Man
    3:19
  4. 4Sassy
    1:43

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Caroline Rue, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Jill Emery
    Producer
    Don Fleming, Kim Gordon
    Engineer
    Brian Foxworthy
    Bass
    Jill Emery
    Drums
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    Guitar
    Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson
    Vocals
    Courtney Love
    Engineered At
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    Produced At
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