“Credit in the Straight World” is track 7 from Hole’s second studio album Live Through This.
The song is a cover: the original version is by Young Marble Giants, released in 1980.
When applied to the context of Hole, most of “Credit in the Straight World”’s lyrics seems to speak of how, with the l...
[Intro]
And I will await your highness
I'm so high I cannot walk
And I will await
You cripple, you take away my time
My peace, my empathy
No babies sleep on atrophy
Your unborn love and fetal stress
Hard bitter candy, legless caress
[Verse 1]
Go for credit in the straight world
Look a dealer in the eye
Go for credit in the real world
Won't you try?
[Chorus]
I got some credit in the straight world
I lost a leg, I lost an eye
Go for credit in the real world
You will die
Yeah
[Verse 2]
Instant credit in the straight world
Leave your money when you die
Lots of credit in the real world
Gets you high
Yeah
[Chorus]
I got some credit in the straight world
I lost a leg, I lost an eye
Go for credit in the real world
You will die
Yeah
[Outro]
Oh!
Credit in the Straight World was written by Stuart Moxham.
Credit in the Straight World was produced by Paul Q. Kolderie & Sean Slade.
Hole released Credit in the Straight World on Tue Apr 12 1994.