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A B-side to the Beautiful Son EP, it explicitly discusses Love’s connection to another much-maligned rock widow: Yoko Ono. Like Love, Ono was a very creative musician who married a popular rock musician of the time, John Lennon. Love identifies with Ono in that she is overshadowed by her husband a...
[Verse 1]
She spent twenty years in the Dakota
Every single day was black in the Dakota
Riot grrrls think you can stop
And you're forever in her debt
Well, I know you haven't sank me
And you haven't sank her yet
[Verse 2]
She spent twenty years like a virus
They want to burn the witches inside us
Well, you, you don't fuck with the Fabulous Four
Or you spend the rest of your life
Picking things up off the floor
[Interlude 1]
She's still alive, but I am sure
That all the stars belong to her
Oh, California King-sized bed
She's wrapped in rags inside my head
[Bridge]
This is the story, this is the story of someone's wife
Big Black rules her whole life
(I don't remember, I forget)
[Interlude 2]
Oh baby, dry your dirty eyes
My water breaks like turpentine
The pee girl burns to be a bride
Your ever-lovely suicide
Hey, ah
Hey, ah
[Outro]
Are they coming for me?
Are they coming soon?
Hey Jude, hey Jude
Are they coming for me?
Judy, Judy, are they coming soon?
(I don't remember, I forget)
The pee girl burns to be a bride
Your ever-lovely suicide
(I haven't left there yet
I don't remember, I forget)
I don't remember, I forget
20 Years in the Dakota was written by Patty Schemel & Eric Erlandson & Courtney Love.
20 Years in the Dakota was produced by Jack Endino.
Hole released 20 Years in the Dakota on Thu Apr 08 1993.