One of Silverchair’s most teenage angst type songs. Learn to Hate seems to be about a guy who likes a girl who is a drug addict and he is between his love and his desire to end it and, in the process, her.
[Verse 1]
I wanted to be friends with her too
So my relationship could be the same as yours
[Pre-Chorus]
I hated everyone just like you
Hating you should be introduced as a new law
[Chorus]
Take the time to learn to hate
Come and join the mass debate
Take the time, take the time
It's all uphill you've gotta climb
[Verse 2]
You betrayed all the trust I gave you
Now I need therapy to hate a little more
You cannot help me to forgive you
The drugs have given you all kinds of different sores
[Bridge 1]
Oh
Oh
[Pre-Chorus]
I hated everyone just like you
Hating you should be introduced as a new law
[Chorus]
Take the time to learn to hate
Come and join the mass debate
Take the time, take the time
It's all uphill you've gotta climb
[Bridge 2]
As you pump drugs into your bloodstream
I sit observing in disgust
Hoping that you will finally come clean
So I don't have to use this gun
[Chorus]
Take the time to learn to hate
Come and join the mass debate
Take the time, take the time
It's all up, It's all up, It's all uphill
Learn to Hate was written by Ben Gillies & Daniel Johns.
Learn to Hate was produced by Nick Launay.
Silverchair released Learn to Hate on Tue Feb 04 1997.