Album: Live Through This (1994)

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• Well I went to school, oh
  Well I went to school, ha ha
  Well I went to school in Olympia
  Everyone's the same
  What do you do
  With a revolution?
  
  When I went to school in Olympia, ya, ya, ya
  And everyone's the same
  We look the same
  We talk the same
  Yeah
  Don't you please
  Make me real, fuck you
  Make me sick, fuck you
  Make me real, fuck you
  
  Well I went to school in Olympia
  Everyone's the same
  And so are you, in Olympia, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya
  Everyone's the same
  We look the same
  We talk the same yeah
  We even fuck the same
  Well I went to school in Olympia, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya
  Don't you please
  Make me real, come on
  Make me sick, come on
  Make me real, yeah yeah yeah
  
  Do it for the kids, yeah
  Do it for the kids, yeah
  Do it for the kids, yeah
  Do it for the kids, yeah
  Do it do it do it do it do it
  For the kids
  
  No we're not done
  Well I went to school in Olympia
  Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye Writer/s: COURTNEY M. LOVE, ERIC T ERLANDSON
  Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

• Fursuiter Chloe from Belvidere, IlHoly s--t I thought this was about individuality
• Theresa from Murfreesboro, TnJust to hear Courtney scream is well worth it.
• Elise from Oklahoma City, OkOriginally, the last song of Live Through This was a song called "Rock Star", which parodied a group, The Lemonheads. The group, Hole, and the label feared for legal actions, so they both decided to change it for another song called "Olympia". However, as the artwork had already been printed, it is now the original song title, "Rock Star", that we can read at the back of Live Through This.
• Kat from Seat, United StatesAlmost immediately before the album's release, the final song, "Rock Star", was deleted from the album and replaced by the outtake "Olympia". It was widely believed at the time that this was because its lyrics, which included the lines "How would you like to be Nirvana? / So much fun to be Nirvana / Barrel of laughs to be Nirvana / I'd rather die", appeared inappropriate in the wake of Cobain's suicide. However, it was later revealed that the band and the Geffen label had already deemed the track unfitting of a major label debut for Hole, as the song had a very "non-artistic" character which fit poorly with the rest of the album. After the decision to remove "Rock Star" was made, the album artwork and various other inserts had already been printed, and since "Olympia" was put in its place, "Olympia" is called "Rock Star" on the artwork.
• Jeremy from Shelbyville, Ky"When I went to school in Olympia."
• Lisa from Brampton, CanadaThis song was originally titled "Olympia".

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