Hole Malibu

Hole Malibu
[Verse 1] Crash and burn All the stars explode tonight How'd you get so desperate? How'd you stay alive? Help me, please Burn the sorrow from your eyes Oh, come on be alive again Don't lay down and die [Chorus] Hey, hey You know what to do Oh, baby, drive away To Malibu [Verse 2] Get well soon Please don't go any higher How are you so burnt When you're barely on fire? Cry to the angels I'm gonna rescue you I'm gonna set you free tonight, baby Pour over me
[Chorus] Hey, hey We're all watching you Oh, baby, fly away To Malibu Cry to the angels And let them swallow you Go and part the sea, yeah In Malibu [Bridge] And the sun goes down I watch you slip away And the sun goes down I walk into the waves And the sun goes down I watch you slip away And I would [Interlude] And I knew love would tear you apart Oh, and I knew the darkest secret of your heart [Chorus] Hey, hey I'm gonna follow you Oh baby, fly away, yeah To Malibu Oceans of angels Oceans of stars Down by the sea Is where you drown your scars
[Outro] I can't be near you The light just radiates I can't be near you The light just radiates
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“Malibu” is the second single from Hole’s third studio album, Celebrity Skin , and was released on December 29, 1998 on Geffen Records.
“Malibu” was one of the Hole’s most commercially and critically successful songs. The song peaked at number three on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart, and garnered a Grammy nomination in 1999. The song charted at number 264 on The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born list by Blender Magazine in 2005. The single features “Drag” as well as a cover of Bob Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” as B-sides.
The song was co-written by Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins . Shortly after the release, Corgan told Rolling Stone that his songs being included in the album “left a bad taste in [his] mouth.”
Love claims she wrote the lyrics to the song based on her late husband’s stay at a rehabilitation clinic in Malibu, California while receiving treatment for his heroin addiction prior to his suicide in 1994.

Malibu is ritzy beach city in California near Los Angeles. Hole frontwoman Courtney Love lived there for a time, but in a trailer with her first boyfriend, Jeff, when she was 16. That's what inspired the song, along with her relationship with Kurt Cobain. "It's an empathy song: Come to me, I'll save you," she said in the December 2006 issue of Blender magazine. "I wanted the boy in the song to drive away from Hollywood and the drugs. When I was pregnant, Kurt and I always had this thing about getting out of the basement apartment we lived in with dealers next door and going to live in Malibu. It's a very healing place."
By the time "Malibu" was released in 1998, Courtney Love had become a successful actress and had moved to Beverly Hills, where she integrated into the celebrity culture she once railed against. She even hung out with Madonna. It was quite a makeover, and it reflected in her music, which became more melodic and accessible. "Malibu" is a true pop song, a far cry from earlier Hole tracks like " Miss World " and " Softer, Softest ." Still, the darkness was there. While "Malibu" paints a pretty picture of the city, she rails against Hollywood culture in " Celebrity Skin ," the lead single and title track from the album.
Billy Corgan is a songwriter on "Malibu" along with Courtney Love and Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson. Corgan and Love have a long history, going back to 1991 when she dated him before taking up with Kurt Cobain. When Hole hit a creative block while working on the Celebrity Skin album, she called on Corgan, who song-doctored some tracks to get them to the finish line. He has writing credits on five of the songs.
Released as the second single (following the title track) from Hole's third album, Celebrity Skin , "Malibu" was the last chart hit for Hole. Their breakthrough album, Live Through This , was released in 1994 just a week after Kurt Cobain died. Celebrity Skin didn't show up until 1998, but it also went Platinum. Hole fell apart soon after, abandoning a tour with Marilyn Manson in 1999. Courtney Love put out a Hole album called Nobody's Daughter in 2010, but it was with a new lineup of the band.
Courtney Love is a big fan of Stevie Nicks, and said she would have loved to give this song to Stevie. With Hole, Love covered the Fleetwood Mac song " Gold Dust Woman " in 1996.
Paul Hunter, whose work includes " Honey " by Mariah Carey and " Fly Away " by Lenny Kravitz, directed the video, which was shot in Malibu. Scenes of beautiful beaches and tidy houses are offset by images of burning palm trees and lifeguards carrying plastic dolls.
Considering how well the word sings, it's surprising that this is the first Hot 100 hit with "Malibu" in the title. In 2010, Miley Cyrus had a hit with her "Malibu."
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