Nirvana - Polly (Punk Rock) [Lyrics] video free download

Songwriter: Kurt Cobain/Dave Grohl/Krist Novoselic

Writing Period: 1989

Recording Session: 09/89 Music Source Studios, Seattle, WA

Alternate/Working Titles: (New Wave) Polly - Cracker

Common Mislabels: Final Flight - Hollywood Smokes - Pool - Punk Rock Polly

Nirvana booked into The Music Source, intent on recording an EP to promote their forthcoming European tour. "I think it was booked for three evenings and we may have done it in two", recalls producer, Steve Fisk.

Channing's North drums were both a source of amusement and frustration for the producer, "The smallest guy in the band had the biggest, stupidest drum set in the Northwest", cracks Fisk. "The kick drum was held together with miles and miles of duct tape because the bass had been used as a hatchet to chop the kick drum in half."

Indeed, the band's habit of trashing their gear at shows meant that Channing's decrepit drum set was just one of many obstacles Fisk had to equalize around, "Krist had spent all day trying to get his bass amp together because it was all trashed from touring", Fisk remembers. "There were two speakers and only one of them worked, and that didn't work that well. The bass was also fucked up."

The band spent the first evening laying down the basic tracks. "They didn't record 'em quick", Fisk recalls. "They did a lot of trying it again. There was a little sort of medium tension, talking to each other in-between takes."

"We had a hard time getting the feel right to Polly at the beginning", explains the producer. "They started it three times. They couldn't hold the tempo together with Chad playing the pulse on the cymbal. Chad was slipping and Kurt was finger picking."

"If they sounded lo-fi with Jack, you figured it was the cheap gear", remarks Fisk. "Once you're on the 24-track, what it plays back is theoretically what you've got. Maybe that's why Krist was trying so hard to get his bass together."

from Disc 1 of "With the Lights Out"

Lyrics

Polly wants a cracker

She'd like me to get off her first

Maybe she wants some water

To put out the blow torch

It isn't me

We have some seed

Let me clip

Your dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Don't cut yourself

I want some help

To please myself

I've got some rope

You have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Don't cut yourself

I want some help

To please myself

Polly wants a cracker

Maybe she would like some food

She asks me to untie her

A chase would be nice for a few

It isn't me

We have some seed

Let me clip

Your dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Don't cut yourself

I want some help

To please myself

I've got some rope

You have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Don't cut yourself

I want some help

To please myself

Polly says her back hurts

She's just as bored as me

She caught me off my guard

It amazes me, the will of instinct

It isn't me

We have a seed

Let me clip

Your dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Don't cut yourself

I want some help

To please myself

I've got some rope

You have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Don't cut yourself

I want some help

To please myself