The first track from Hole’s first album, Pretty On The Inside (1991), “Teenage Whore” is meant to set the tone of the album. It comes in hard and angry, and, like everything else on the album, is characterized by a mix of thrashing and screaming and yet melodic sensibility.
Courtney Love wrote thi...
[Verse 1]
When I was a teenage whore
My mother asked me, she said, "Baby, what for?
I give you plenty, why do you want more?
Baby, why are you a teenage whore?"
[Chorus]
I said "I feel so alone and I
I wish I could die
I've seen the things you put me through and I
I wish I could die"
[Verse 2]
When I was a teenage whore
The rain came down like it never did before
I paid good money not to be ignored
Then why am I a teenage whore?
[Chorus]
I've seen your repulsion and it looks real good on you
Denying what
What you put me through
[Bridge]
Of my house
Get out of my house
Get out of my house
Get out of my house
[Verse 3]
When I was a teenage whore
My mother asked me, she said, "Baby, what for?
I give you plenty, why do you want more?
Baby, why are you a teenage whore?"
[Chorus]
I've seen your repulsion and it looks real good on you
I don't want to live what you have
You have put me through
I wanted that shirt and I
I wanted those pants
It's all the lying put me through and I
I never had a...
Teenage Whore was written by Courtney Love & Eric Erlandson & Caroline Rue & Jill Emery.
Teenage Whore was produced by Don Fleming & Kim Gordon.
Hole released Teenage Whore on Mon Sep 23 1991.