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I got a picture of a photograph
Of a wedding and a shell
It's just burning itching memory
I never kiss and tell
So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along
Does anybody know how the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along
Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh
Spin me up, spin me, spin me out
Station to station send me up and out
Is this what life and love is all about
I think I think so
We used to see in color
Now it's only black and white
Yeah it's only black and white
'Cause the world is color blind
Does anybody know how the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along
Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh
Nothing's for free
Nothing's for free
Take it away boys
Of a wedding and a shell
It's just burning itching memory
I never kiss and tell
So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along
Does anybody know how the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along
Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh
Spin me up, spin me, spin me out
Station to station send me up and out
Is this what life and love is all about
I think I think so
We used to see in color
Now it's only black and white
Yeah it's only black and white
'Cause the world is color blind
Does anybody know how the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along
Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh
Nothing's for free
Nothing's for free
Take it away boys
Lyrics submitted by ChrissyTina
Track duration: 03:23
"Big Bang Baby" as written by Dean Deleo, Robert Emile Deleo, Eric Kretz, Scott Richard Weiland
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing
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I'm a bit disappointed in Scott to hear about him talking shit about Layne Staley, although it can kinda be chalked up to the fact that Scott was also an addict at the time and, as addicts do, probably trying to shift attention away from his own problems, using someone else as a scapegoat. Not cool, but I guess I can kinda understand why.
Having been said... and note I am a big STP fan, they're one of my favorite bands... no amount of cheap dissing on STP's part can put them on the same level as Alice in Chains.
If you know the band, where their from, what they looked like, what they did...you'd know it to be the truth.
Look to Too Cool Queenie if you want a song about Cobain and Courtney Love.
for me, the song is about mocking the idea of being this huge rockstar
Anyway, I think it's about things like conformity. The hamster wheel, all that. It's all there in the colour blind reference, the "big bang baby" set against the "rules"; "I wanna cry but I gotta laugh". Especially as an adult, I appreciate that. You're allowed to express yourself to some degree as a teen, but as an adult, there's never any room for feelings of sadness. People will just go "what's wrong?" and so on.
PS
I also always thought it was "say your sorry, sign an autograph". And of course I still think that would have been cooler, but it doesn't really change much of the overall impact.
Did anyone else think that he was singing, "Sell your song, sign an autograph" the first time around?
kurt cobain is not the big bang baby
courtney love is not the big bang baby
the big bang baby is...
are you ready?....
SCOTT WEILAND
this song is about him going from zero to hero in a matter of just a couple of years
i think this song also kinda mocks how people look up to scott when in reality he is just a normal guy with serious problems ( heroin addicted, bi polar disorder etc... ) and has become extremely self destructive
Anyway, I think it's about things like conformity. The hamster wheel, all that. It's all there in the colour blind reference, the "big bang baby" set against the "rules"; "I wanna cry but I gotta laugh". Especially as an adult, I appreciate that. You're allowed to express yourself to some degree as a teen, but as an adult, there's never any room for feelings of sadness. People will just go "what's wrong?" and so on.
PS
I also always thought it was "say your sorry, sign an autograph". And of course I still think that would have been cooler, but it doesn't really change much of the overall impact.
it was overplayed back in 96/97
i cant believe there wasnt some backlash or something back in 96 or people didnt get what this song was about... or it being talked about on mtv back in the day how its cobain
cmon people from the mid 90's... did you really think this song was about anything but kurt??
but i guess when you have seven number one songs and a bunch of other classics... its hard to remember them all