Sour by Limp Bizkit

Album: Three Dollar Bill Y'all (1997)

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A lesser-known track off of Limp Bizkit's first album, Fred Durst wrote the lyric about a girl he used to live with. She was once sweet, but has turned sour, and Durst is ready to leave her behind.
"Sour" got a music video in 1998 that Fred Durst directed with Roger Pistole. In the clip, Durst kicks his girl to the curb and has his creepy caretaker turn on the sprinkler to douse her on the way out.

It got some airplay on channels like Fuse and MTV2 as Limp Bizkit made their ascent; they were on the bill at Ozzfest and on the Family Values tour in 1998. Their next album, Significant Other, was released in 1999 with the lead single "Nookie." This made the band regular guests on MTV and ushered in the nu metal era.
The line, "You're still about as real as a three dollar bill," was the basis for the album title, Three Dollar Bill Y'all.

Comments: 3

Zero from Nowhere, NjI love the "Slap-Guitar" playing in the chorus.
Daniel from Ada, OkI coudn't have said it better myself Christina. So what's your favorite lb song?
Christina from Belle Chasse , LaI think that this song is about how Fred goes into relationship's deep a little too soon. How he buys his girlfriends everything that they want, just to show how much he cares, and then they end up throwing it in his face, like they take all that he does for granted. Since he starts out giving them all that he has, they aren't satsified with it anymore, and they want more. I think that he finally saw how he was being used.

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