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Violet by Hole

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Hole

Violet

Release date: 1994

From Live Through ThisTrack 13:25
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About This Track

Written in 1991 and performed during Hole's earliest tours, 'Violet' eventually became the opening track on the band's second studio album 'Live Through This'. The first recorded studio version appeared on the EP 'Ask for It' before the album cemented it as one of the band's most enduring statements. Courtney Love sets a tone of bitter reciprocity, the lyrics moving between celestial imagery and a refrain of transactional contempt. The song pivots on the idea that desire exhausts itself the moment it's satisfied, a cycle Love claims to have transcended. The repeated dare to take everything reads less as surrender than as a test of appetite, the violence in the title bleeding into the arrangement's serrated edges. The track peaked at number 29 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and received generally positive critical reception. Its longevity in the band's catalogue speaks to the clarity of its anger, a song that refuses to soften its terms or apologise for the wreckage it surveys.

"Violet" is a single by Hole, from the album Live Through This, released 1994. The track is 3:25 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 2 articles about Hole.

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Hole

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Lyrics

Violet

And the sky was made of amethyst
And all the stars look just like little fish
You should learn when to go
You should learn how to say no

Might last a day
Mine is forever
Might last a day
Mine is forever

When they get what they want
They never want it again
When they get what they want
They never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to

And the sky was all violet
I wanna give my violent more violence
Hey, I'm the one with no soul
One above and one below

Might last a day
Mine is forever
Might last a day
Mine is forever

When they get what they want
They never want it again
When they get what they want
They never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I dare you to

I told you from the start just how this would end
When I get what I want then I never want it again

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to

Free ride, you're mine, you're mine

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to

Go on, take everything
Take everything, I want you to
Go on, take everything
Take everything, take everything, take everything

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Track details

From Live Through This

3:251994Single
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Album
Live Through This
Live Through This
Hole
1994
Track number
1
Release year
1994
  1. 1Violet
    3:25
  2. 2Miss World
    3:00
  3. 3Plump
    2:34
  4. 4Asking for It
    3:29

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  1. Asking for It (Live at Riverside Theater September 7, 1994)
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  4. Biggest Star (Live at Enmore Theater, January 20, 1999)
  5. Boys on the Radio (Live at Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 28, 1999)
  6. Celebrity Skin (Live at Ericsson Stadium, January 15, 1999)
  7. Celebrity Skin (Live at Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 28, 1999)
  8. Credit in the Straight World (Live at Irvine Meadows Amphitheater, August 14, 1995)
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  10. Dying (Live at Enmore Theater, January 20, 1999)

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5Jennifer's Body
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  • 6Doll Parts
    3:32
  • 7Credit In the Straight World
    3:11
  • 8Softer, Softest
    3:28
  • 9She Walks On Me
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  • 10I Think That I Would Die
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  • 11Gutless
    2:15
  • 12Rock Star
    2:42
  • —Asking For It
    3:29
  • —Gutless
    2:15
  • —Live Through This Liner Notes
  • —Violet
    3:25
  • —Doll Parts
    3:32
  • —Rock Star
    2:42
  • —Softer, Softest
    3:28
  • —I Think That I Would Die
    3:36
  • —Credit In The Straight World
    3:11
  • —She Walks On Me
    3:24
  • —Miss World
    3:00
  • —Jennifer's Body
    3:41
  • —Plump
    2:34

    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson
    Producer
    Paul Q. Kolderie, Sean Slade
    Bass
    Kristen Pfaff
    Drums
    Patty Schemel
    Guitar
    Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson
    Vocals
    Courtney Love
    Background Vocals
    Dana Kletter, Kristen Pfaff, Kurt Cobain
    Mastering Engineer
    Bob Ludwig
    Mixing Engineer
    Scott Litt
    Piano
    Kristen Pfaff
    Video Director
    Fred Woodward, Mark Seliger
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