Hole: Nobody's Daughter Lyrics

Nobody's Daughter Lyrics Hole

2010-03-30T22:51:00.000-07:00

Nobody's Daughter Lyrics Hole

Nobody's Daughter is the title track from Hole's first album in over a decade.

Lyrics:

Made something better, he kept it for himself

I’m not that stupid, I just need a lot of help

To understand how stupid you really are

Down at the bottom of the ocean I lay down

Nobody’s coming, just continue to drown

And no one here could ever stop my ruin now now

And I know I’ve got not to fear

You’ll get me out

Oh god just get me out of here

Are you astounding us, surrounding us

And asphyxiate all your pain away

Don’t try to win it will only end in disgrace

Nobody’s daughter, she never was, she never will

Be beholden to anyone she cannot kill

You don’t understand how damaged we really are

You don’t understand how evil we really are

And I will dig my own grave

I’m miss begotten

I am the last one you save here

Of course I’ll sleep forever and forever

Anesthetize all your horrors away

We live inside this black web that you have spun

Greed, your bile is miles away

Don’t tell me I have I lost when clearly I’ve won

I want to see you stretched out on the floor

The world broken doll

The world’s shattered whore

And you you can’t walk

But you you can crawl

Come on infect us all…

Asphyxiate all your pain away

Don’t try to win it will only end in disgrace

Translucetize the cold light of day

It’s glorious, its terrible god I need it

It’s beautiful it’s ravenous; I’ll just feed it

Coil down to your black dark decay

And I will dig my own grave now

I’m miss begotten

I am the last one you save here

It’s all gone rotten

Check out the lyrics to Hole's Skinny Little Bitch

Honey Lyrics Hole / Courtney Love

2010-03-30T22:38:00.001-07:00

Honey Lyrics Hole / Courtney Love

Honey features on Hole's sweet album, Nobody's Daughter.

Anguish and misery fall here like a dead star

And everything you ever said now tears me all apart

He goes down, down to his bitter end

He knows now now it’s the ghost of her

He goes down, down to his bitter end

He knows now, now you can’t touch him

Pray for the rain oh are you up there do you listen?

It’s the terror and the pain and I just wait ‘til you have risen

He goes down, down to his only friend

He knows now, now that you love him

He goes down, down to his bitter end

He knows now, now you can’t touch him

Hold onto you like the death of an angel

And I hold onto you with all the love that’s in me

Why I’m not good enough to save you from destruction?

And your end and my beginning Oh they need no introduction

He goes down, down to his only friend

He knows now, now that you love him

He goes down, down to his bitter end

He knows now, now you can’t touch him

Sweet as honey

I’ll live forever

Pure as first love

Just come home

Hold on to you like a the death of an angel

And I hold on to you with the love that’s in me

And I hold on to you like the death of an angel

And I hold on to you with all the hope I have left

And I hold on to you watch the death of an angel

And I hold on to you until the light pours like honey

Someone Else's Bed Lyrics Hole / Courtney Love

2010-03-30T22:37:00.001-07:00

Someone Else's Bed Lyrics Hole / Courtney Love

Nobody's Daughter is the title track from Hole's first album in over a decade.

So you’re lying in your underwear, in someone else’s bed

And the silence is so dangerous; it’s a terrible sense of dread

So I have another cigarette and I just try to forget

How did I end up all alone?

How did we all end up dead?

Oh yeah….

Sunday morning when the rain begins to fall oh

I believe I’ve seen the end of it all

Oh yeah

Sunday morning when the rain begins to fall

I’ve got the cure for it all

And my dirty little secret has a wretched little name

In the filthy morning after, I walk the walk of shame

Oh and you will be the end of me cause I will be the death of you

And I quite enjoy your suffering

Oh I want to watch the view

Oh yeah…

Sunday morning when the rain begins to fall

I believe I’ve seen the end of it all

Oh yeah

Sunday morning when the rain begins to fall

I’ve got the cure for it all

Are you there when I’m ready to top myself?

Were you there when I’m all alone?

Do you even know why I am suffering?

Are you down to your bones?

Are you down to your bones?

Are you down to your bones?

Oh yeah….

Sunday morning when the rain begins to fall

I believe I’ve seen the end of it all

Sunday morning when the rain begins to fall

It’s the end of the world

Check out the lyrics to Hole's Skinny Little Bitch

Loser Dust Lyrics Hole / Courtney Love

2010-03-30T22:36:00.000-07:00

Loser Dust Lyrics Hole / Courtney Love

Loser Dust features on Hole's sweet album, Nobody's Daughter.

Lyrics:

You are beautiful, you are glorious

Now you’re covered in loser dust

You are fabulous, you are gorgeous

Now you’re covered in loser dust

And all the things I used to trust, yeah

All the things I’m about to crush

Your youth is gone, it’s turned to rust

It’s all covered in loser dust

Hey I loathe every inch of you

You’re going down for what you love, hey

Every single particle you’re going down for your loser dust

All the things you used to trust you’re going down

I’m burnt out, I’m furious and look at you, you’re embarrassing us

Descend, descend and go you must

Isolate the prize, give it one big flush

It’s indiscreet, omnivorous

We won’t call you and don’t call us

And all that’s sick with gloat and lust

And do call me I’m so serious

It’s not an image it’s just a way

You’re going down for your final crush

Hey, nothing here can stop you with you’re going down for your loser dust

Hey, I can’t wait to see you go; you’re going down for your loser dust

Hey, show me one thing I didn’t know, you’re going down….

Think fast baby, what is the rush?

The very thing you would never trust

The very thing you would never touch

It’s all covered in loser dust

These women all around, obsessive cunts, file under miscellaneous

They’re starving and carnivorous

I mustn’t touch what I want so much

You, you make me nervous

You make me drunk

Do you have to grovel so very much?

It’s so unfair, it’s so unjust, it’s just another witch-hunt

Broken, shattered, busted, yeah, you’re going down for what you love

Hey, all the death it’s just good, yeah

You’re going down for your loser dust

Hey, oh just die in public babe

You’re going down for your loser dust

Hey, in you lays a gutter yeah; you’re going down for your loser dust

Hey, we can’t wait to see you go, you’re going down….

Check out the lyrics to Hole's Skinny Little Bitch

Hole's Nobody's Daughter Track Listing and Cover Art

2010-03-30T15:22:00.000-07:00

Nobody's Daughter album cover art.

It's in the style of of the Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen era...

Nobody's Daughter final tracklisting:

"Nobody's Daughter"

"Skinny Little Bitch"

"Honey"

"Pacific Coast Highway"

"Samantha"

"Someone Else's Bed"

"For Once in Your Life"

"Letter to God"

"Loser Dust"

"How Dirty Girls Get Clean"

"Never Go Hungry"

Hole SXSW Festival 2010 Set List

2010-03-23T02:39:00.000-07:00

Hole SXSW Festival 2010 Set List

"Though there were a few new tunes – of which I’m having mixed feelings overall – in the mix, she deftly growled through “Doll Parts,” “Celebrity Skin,” “Malibu,” “Miss World,” “Violet” and set closer “Samantha” (wait, what? Why?). New single “Skinny Little B*tch” reared it’s ugly head early in the set, and “Letter to God” had some burning-lava potential.

But then there was the opening song, “Thirteen,” a Big Star cover Love sang with only Micko Larkin on acoustic behind her, in tribute to Alex Chilton who would have played SXSW this very night; she closed her eyes and whirled around like Stevie Nicks, another influence on her work. In fact, she sang Fleetwood Mac track “Gold Dust Woman” in aces later on. Hole covered that track for “The Crow” soundtrack. She also sang Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" (the crowd got several glimpses, too, of her Let It Bleed tattoo, on inside of her right bicep)."

Set List:

Thirteen

Skinny Little Bitch

Miss World

Nobody's Daughter

Violet

Letter to God

Pacific Coast Highway

Reasons to be Beautiful

Honey

Dirty Girl

Malibu

Celebrity Skin

Samantha

No idea where Gold Dust Woman or Sympathy for the Devil were played!

Skinny Little Bitch Hole Lyrics

2010-03-11T23:47:00.000-08:00

Skinny Little Bitch Hole Lyrics

"Skinny Little Bitch" is the fourteenth single from Courtney Love's group Hole. It will be released on March 16, 2010 and is the first single by the band in ten years, and first from Hole's fourth studio album, Nobody's Daughter. NME magazine described SLB as "The Stooges fronted by a Joan Jett re-imagined as the Bride Of Frankenstein." Co written by love with Linda Perry and Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins fame.

Skinny Little Bitch Lyrics:

Skinny little bitch, starring at the mirror

And your desperation and you disappear

And you would be oh so dumb to fuck with me

Cause baby you’re much too young to end up with me

Your bedroom walls are falling down

And everyone can see you now

Your bedroom walls they sell for cheap

You lie you lie alone

You lie alone you never sleep

You never sleep

Skinny little bitch, praying to the lord

Praying for some salvation cause she’s oh so bored

In my vile sex horror and cheap drugs hell

And all the things you’ll never live to tell

And you will never see the light

You’re just obscure and out of spite

Just a nasty piece of work

Come on baby try and be reborn

Just come here

Born of foul creation

Born of sour milk

Cocaine filth

You staggered here on broken glass

So I could kick your scrawny ass

All the drugs and all the burns

What a nasty what a nasty nasty nasty piece of work

Oh baby does it hurt?

Oh baby just go slower

Oh baby just go lower

Skinny little bitch

Skinny little bitch

Skinny little bitch

Skinny little bitch

Skinny little bitch

Skinny little bitch

Skinny little bitch

Skinny little bitch

Check out the lyrics to Samantha which was also released as a single from Nobody's Daughter.

Everything I Touch Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T23:35:00.003-08:00

Everything I Touch Lyrics Hole

Do you like other Pop Divas? Check out Lady Gaga's Born This Way

For Once In Your Life Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T23:35:00.001-08:00

For Once In Your Life Lyrics Hole

For Once in your Life features on Hole's, new album Nobody's Daughter. It was their first album since Celebrity Skin which was released in 1998.

Lyrics:

You just don’t love me
And I just don’t care
Oh, I never said I would play fair
Something so perfect and so rare
There is no cure
There’s not a prayer
A prayer
Look what I can do

I am the only perfect choice
You’ve met your match
I’ve lost my voice
And when you’re gone it gets so cold
I swear I’m too young to be this old
This old
Look what I can do

Oh, I’ve been cheated, covered in diamonds and covered in filth

But I’m still breathing, oh please stick around and I build…

Yes I’ve crawled on glass to grasp at straws

Stuttering, staggering through

And I’ve pierced the last hole in my arm

To gouge out the pieces of you

And your staggering, stuttering greed

And your never ending need

And your terrible awful deeds

And your lack of truth in these things

You know the whole thing is rigged

You’ll always quit, you always did

To the most delusional stare

And all that I have is out and laid bare

And laid bare

Look what I can do

What I can do

Look what I can do

Oh, I’ve been bitter

You know what’s true

And you know what’s right

Oh I’m forever

Oh just do the right thing for once…

To your grave

To your grave

I know that I’m a hungry lost girl

But please stick around

And I’ll build you a world

I’ll build you a world

I’ll build you a world

Never Go Hungry Again Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T23:34:00.002-08:00

Never Go Hungry Again Lyrics Hole

Never Go Hungry Again was first seen in the documentary, The Return of Courtney Love, which was about the making of Nobody's Daughter. This was in 2007 so the lyrics below are subject to change on release of Hole's new album.

Never Go Hungry Again Lyrics

It’s a long way back where I found you
It’s a fair hard fall, it’s a very cruel town
And my dress is tore, and I got no jewels
And I’m hungry for life a little less cruel
Some dignity and not too much sorrow
And just a little bit of hope
we’re not for tomorrow

And I don’t care what it takes my friends
I’ll never go hungry, go hungry again
Oh and I don’t care what I have do defend
I’ll never go hungry, go hungry again

It’s a long ride home and my headache’s back
And you’re no comfort to me now
And it’s fully loaded and it’s set on stone
At least I know that I have won
And my ways aren’t crooked
And I got no shoes
I run back and forth and I wait for you

I don’t care what it takes my friends
I will never go hungry, go again
Oh and I don’t care what I have to pretend
I will never go hungry, go again

And out of it all I have survived
From the fires of hell
I am alive
Sin, it cost your spirit
Survived this mess you’ve made
Oh god can you hear us?
In my salvation day
And it’s time for me to take a stand
And it’s time for me, yeah, to be a man

I don’t care what it takes my friends
I will never go hungry again
Oh and I don’t care what I have to pretend
I will never go hungry again

And a phoenix she rises
She is short to descend
She will never hungry, go hungry again
And you’re looking to me more and more like a godsend
We will never go hungry, go hungry again
And we owe each other nothing
There’s no one left here to offend
We will never go hungry
Go hungry again.

Check out the lyrics to Samantha or Skinny Little Bitch

Mono Lyrics Courtney Love

2010-03-11T23:34:00.000-08:00

Mono Lyrics Courtney Love

"Mono" was the debut single released by Courtney Love as a solo artist. Its release was overshadowed by issues Love was undergoing in her personal life, namely her drug addiction and legal problems and was a flop. In 2010 Love reformed the band that made her famous Hole and released the album, Nobody's Daughter.

Mono Lyrics:

Hey
Hey

Hey yeah we had everything
Vinyl in mono
And we looked the other way man
We were so dumb
Is this the part in the book that you wrote
Where I gotta come and save the day
Did you miss me
Did you miss me

Well they say that rock is dead
And they're probably right
99 girls in the pit
Did it have to come to this

Oh, god you owe me one more song
So I can prove to you that
I'm so much better than him
Oh, god just gonna listen fast
Here comes the crash
We're gonna rise above
We're gotta smash it up
You won't abandon us again

Give us brilliant boys that we wanna fuck man
Full of ecstasy, hard drugs and bad luck
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Turn the lights back on
You burn so hard
But you won't burn long

Three chords in your pocket tonight
Are you, you the one
With the spark to bring my punk rock back
And I dont think so

Oh, god I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that you're sorry again
Oh, god you owe me one more song
So I could prove to you
That I'm so much better than them
Oh, god I'd give you anything
To hear you say that I was right
And you were wrong
Oh, god before I leave this life
Now enable us to love
A hook is never gonna come
Just give it back to me
Blow out all of the lights tonight

Two million miles down the PCH
And now he's gone
I slashed his tires, I bled his brakes
It had to be done
Their hand job lives were just too cruel
You merciless villan
We drowned them all in their swimming pools
Run away, run away, run away, yeah

Oh, god I wanna hear you say
I wanna hear you say that you were wrong again
Oh, god I wanna hear you say I wanna hear you say
That I am so much better than you
Oh, god you owe us one more song
Get out my life, see this world as it really is
Is it just a sad side show
Can make a hooker cum
And enable us to love
I need one thing that's divine

Let me hear it tonight
Let me hear it tonight
I've got to hear it tonight
You're gonna let me hear the lost cord tonight
Yeah

Check out the lyrics to Hole's Letter to God.

Do you like other Pop Divas? Check out Lady Gaga's Born This Way

Letter to God Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T23:27:00.000-08:00

Letter to God Lyrics Hole

Letter to God was written by Hole mainstay, Courtney Love, and Linda Perry. Perry made her name as the leader of the Four Non Blondes and in recent years has written high profile songs and lyrics with Pink and Christina Aguilera.

Letter to God Lyrics:

Oh dear god I’m writing this letter to you
Cause I don’t have a clue
Can you help me?

I’m sitting here
Simply trying to figure out
What my life’s all about it
Can you tell me?

I never wanted to be
The person you see
Won’t you tell me who I am?

I always wanted to die
But you kept me alive
Please tell me who I am

I lie awake conducting this symphony,
That you have gifted to me,
but I don't ever sleep

Don’t get mad
Cause I get weak inside
And I start to fall apart
Cause I feel nothing

I never wanted to be
Some kind of comic relief
Please show me who I am

I been tortured and scorned
Since the day that I was born
But I don’t know who I am

And I thank you man for everything
Sorry I’m so frightened about all of this
Oh I wish I could give you more

But all the lights are shining down on me
And I feel violated by it all

I never wanted to be
The person you see but thank you
Oh god please tell me now
Are you disappointed or are you proud
I’ve been also EVRYTHING, EVRYTHING!

I’m so sorry I’m so weak
And I turned into a freak
But I don’t know ANYTHING, ANYTHING!

I’ve lost all self-esteem
A million, everything
And I feel NOTHING, NOTHING!

Oh god please tell me now
God please tell me now
Cause I feel nothing

Oh dear god I’m writing this letter to you
Cause I’m coming undone
Please help me, me

Check out the lyrics to Samantha

Pacific Coast Highway Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T23:18:00.000-08:00

Pacific Coast Highway Lyrics Hole

A new album from Hole delivers us the following new song. Hole debuted the song at their first gig in over a decade in London.

Pacific Coast Highway Lyric

I knew a boy, he came from the sea

He was the only boy who ever knew the truth about me

I’m overwhelmed and undersexed

Oh baby what did you expect?

I’m over rod and so disgraced

And too ashamed to show my face

And they’re coming to take me away

What I want I will never have

I’m on the Pacific Coast Highway
With your gun in my hands

I knew a boy, he left me so ravaged
Do you even know the extense of the damage?
My dirty lips, oh secrets dies
In between the sheets and the promises that kept me from your eyes

I’m bloody and so darling bow
I don’t know what to do with my hands now
I surrender, I give in
I'll kick down your door if you don't let me in
And I lost myself completely
I look to you my shooting star
I’m on the Pacific Coast Highway
My God how did you fall so far?

Your whole world is in my hands
Your whole wide world is in my hands
Your whole world is in my hands
Your whole wide world is in my hands

I'm out there dying for you, baby
And I got your blood on my hands

Your whole world is in my hands
Your whole wide world is in my hands
Your whole world is in my hands
Your whole wide world is in my hands

And you know I'm drowning
And you know I'm drowning
And you know I'm drowning
And you know I'm drowning
And you know I'm drowning

Hole / Courtney Love Set List O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London

2010-03-11T23:12:00.000-08:00

Hole / Courtney Love Set List O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London

Hole's first gig in a decade or so... Taking the stage soundtracked by Ravel's 'Bolero one review noted that" Love's vocals held it all together. She wailed and her voice broke and howled and cracked. The pneumatic lips seemed to fade in the lights of the the Empire too, leaving memories of riot grrrrl days or feminist tendencies, and the crowd was left wondering how Courtney ever landed in L.A.. "

Being the home of the Rolling Stones, Hole played a manic version of the Stones' Sympathy for the Devil.

Hole Set List:

Pretty On The Inside/Sympathy For The Devil
Skinny Little Bitch
Miss World
Honey
Violet
Letter To God
Pacific Coast Highway
Reasons To Be Beautiful
Nobody's Daughter
How Dirty Girls Get Clean
Malibu
Celebrity Skin
Samantha
Encore 1
Doll Parts
Northern Star
Never Go Hungry Again

Do you like other Pop Divas? Check out Lady Gaga's Born This Way

Samantha Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T23:00:00.000-08:00

Samantha Lyrics Hole

Samantha was premièred by Courtney Love on the BBC's Johnathan Ross Show. The song was the second single released from Holes album, Nobody's Child.

Samanatha Lyrics: note these lyrics are a really bad version, which I'll fix up when the song is formally released.

Samantha, you swore you never turned that trick before

keep waiting for what

you`ll never win you`ll loose again

I wont tip the balance in your faith

Watch her wrap her legs around the world

Chorus

People like You, Suck

People like me, suck

To avoid suffering

Samantha, and no one can regain their innocence again its clearly

not your prettiest play,

and oh better love your anger then

go and hit the streets again cause there's nothing here for you

leave the money by the bed

in the gutter where you live

and ill throw it all away

yeah throw it in you face

and if you were on fire I would

bring the kerosene and that's how much I hate and I hate what you have

said to me

Chorus

People like You, Suck

People like me, suck

To avoid suffering

Check out the lyrics to Letter to God or maybe Hole's Skinny Little Bitch Lyrics

How Dirty Girls Get Clean Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T22:41:00.001-08:00

How Dirty Girls Get Clean Lyrics Hole

A new song from Hole's album Nobody's Daughter.

How Dirty Girls Get Clean Lyrics:

I’ve lost my mind yeah, I’ve lost control

I’ve the lost the feeling in my arms, I’m a lost soul

Make the most of me baby, oh don’t spit me out

This is how dirty girls get clean, don’t leave me now

Listen to her lust, yeah, hear her disgrace

Listen to the fragile things as they all break

Watch from the covers, the comfort of your home

Through the ice and sleet baby, oh down down we go

What angry star runs your devil heart?

What angry star runs your devil heart?

Oh oh, how’d you get so mean?

This is the only way d-dirty girls stay clean

And I wanted you like no one before

Said you’re coming back for me honey

This is how hell forms

This is how a storm begins

This is how trouble’s born

Listen to sleep

Listen to her wail

You’ve given birth to terrible things, watch them unveil

Listen to my torment

Listen to my pain

Please come on back here baby, let me try again

What angry star runs your devil heart?

What angry star runs your devil heart?

Oh oh, how’d you get so mean?

This is the only way d-dirty girls stay clean

And the rain it poured down

And the wind it moaned

And she wrapped her legs around him

And she’s got no home

And he’s looking at me, oh god he looks so dumb

What are you staring at? This is how it’s done

I will define for you, the meaning of greed

While you were vanishing, this dirty girl got clean

What angry star runs your devil heart?

What angry star runs your devil heart?

Oh oh, how’d you get so mean?

This is the only way d-dirty girls stay clean

Oh oh, how’d you get so mean?

This is the only way d-dirty girls stay clean

Oh oh, how’d you get so mean?

This is the only way d-dirty girls stay clean

Never Go Hungry

It’s a long way back, from where I’ve fallen from

It’s a very hard fall, it’s very cruel town

And my dress is torn and I’ve got no jewels

And I’m hungry for a life a little less cruel

Some dignity, and not too much sorrow

Just a little bit of hope, hold out for tomorrow

Oh I don’t care what it takes my friend

I will never go hungry, go hungry again

Oh and I don’t care what I have to pretend

I will never go hungry, go hungry again

It’s a long ride home, and my head is bowed

And you’re no comfort to me now

And it’s fully loaded

And it’s set on stun

At least I know, that I have won

And my wig’s on crooked and I’ve got no jewels

I rock back and forth and I wait for you

And I don’t care what it takes my friend

I will never go hungry, go hungry again

Oh and I don’t care what have to defend

I will never go hungry, go hungry again

And out of it all, I have survived

From the fires of hell, I am alive

Sin its costs your spirit

Survived the mess you’ve made

Oh god can you hear us? You’re my salvation day

And it’s time for me, yeah, to take a stand

And it’s time for me, yeah, to be a man

And I don’t care what it takes my friend

I will never go hungry, go hungry again

Oh and I don’t care what I have to pretend

I will never go hungry, go hungry again

And the phoenix she rises, she is sure to descend

She will never go hungry, go hungry again

And you’re looking to me more and more like a godsend

We will never go hungry, go hungry again

And we owe each other nothing, there’s no one left here to offend

We will never go hungry, go hungry again

Check out the lyrics to Pacific Coast Highway and Loser Dust or maybe even the lyrics to Everything I Touch

Sad But True Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T22:40:00.003-08:00

Sad But True Lyrics Hole

The Depths of My Despair Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T22:40:00.001-08:00

The Depths of My Despair Lyrics Hole

My Bedroom Walls Lyrics Hole

2010-03-11T22:39:00.001-08:00

My Bedroom Walls Lyrics Hole

Nobody's Daughter Development Album Information

2010-03-11T22:22:00.000-08:00

Nobody's Daughter Album information

History

In September 2005, after violating a legal drug probation, Courtney Love was sentenced to a six-month program in a lock down rehabilitation center, which she was released after one half of the sentenced time and completed the other three months left in house arrest. During the period on the clinic, friend and producer Linda Perry visited Love and supported her by encouraging to write new songs, giving her a Martin acoustic guitar. The musician then borrowed a Panasonic compact cassette recorder and penned eight songs on rehab, among them "My Bedroom Walls", "The Depths of My Despair", "Sad But True" and "How Dirty Girls Get Clean". She declared about the new guitar-playing and songwriting stint: "My hand-eye coordination was so bad, I didn't even know chords anymore. It was like my fingers were frozen. And I wasn't allowed to make noise (in rehab). So I'd sit there and try to quietly write and struggle. I never thought I would work again. No one is ever going to talk to me. I'm never going to get a record deal. I'm never going to get on stage again. So, I just kept writing. This is a very personal album."^[10]

Only a few days after her release in November 2005, Love dubbed "The Rehab Tapes" demos with Perry and Billy Corgan. After having returned for the third time to her Nichiren Buddhist practice, Love allegedly started writing a song a day (according to her, the tune "Pacific Coast Highway" was written in a Los Angeles hotel on Christmas Eve, and "Never Go Hungry Again" was penned in the same day she got out of rehab). In a sequel, the trio put together a backup band to Love—including guitarist Paul Thorn, bassist Paul Ill and drummer Nathan Washington—and started recording the actual album, with Linda Perry in charge of production and Corgan as a guitarist and arranger. Anthony Rossomando (Dirty Pretty Things) and Ben Gordon (The Dead 60s) are also said to be present on the work as guest musicians. Love and her band then began rehearsing at a studio in West Hollywood. Many of these rehearsals, as well as various other studio sessions, were featured in the 2006 documentary, The Return of Courtney Love.

In a September 2006 interview, Love declared that the album would be mixed in London by Danton Supple, best known for his work with Coldplay, and was predicted to be released in February 2007. However, in January the singer stated that she had March 1 as a deadline for the release of the album. Otherwise, the work would only hit the stores in Winter, probably because of record company issues. Love declared she "can't be a winter release", or else she would "go insane". Later in November, Love listed the songs that would not make the album, "Wildfire", "The Depths of My Despair", "Sad But True", "Good In Bed" (adding that they really tried to make the latest two work) and "My Bedroom Walls", though the lyrics of this one were used on another. The song "How Dirty Girls Get Clean" (which also was the working title of the album) was reworked and isn't known if it's going to be featured in the release. Later, she also confessed that she felt the album needed one more song for the work, which apparently had been written in January. Courtney describes the tune, which carries the working title of "Can You Make Me Cry", as being influenced by White Stripes, and she would be "fine-toothing" the lyrics and finishing it with Linda Perry on the following days. In the same month, Moby, who was rumoured to be involved in the album's production in the early stages, declared to Billboard: "Courtney sent me a CD of demos and I thought the music was remarkably good, It reminded me of Irish protest songs or old Bob Dylan. It was just her with an acoustic guitar." Besides Dylan, -- mainly the album Blood on the Tracks -- Love has confirmed R.E.M., Radiohead, U2 and Fleetwood Mac as influences on the album.

More information regarding possible songs to be featured on the album were leaked in early February 2007. According to Love, there are another five songs that could be on the album, named "I See Red", "Too Much Dope", "In My Gutters", "Samantha" and "Honey". Nevertheless, Love later stated that these songs were mostly demos, except "Samantha", which was the last song to be recorded in late March 2007 (over a year after the beginning of the sessions) and is being considered as a possible first single of the album.

In the January 2009 issue of Elle Magazine, Courtney Love announced that the album would be released to download on her website on 1 January 2009, however the album failed to appear on that date. On 2 January Love's MySpace administrator posted a blog entry on the site explaining that with much regret the album had again been delayed, in part, due to technical sound issues at the studio where the album was recorded.

More recently, Love has revealed that David LaChapelle will direct the music videos for her forthcoming album. She states "i miss videos so happy Lachapelle is doing mine!". Also on Love's Twitter, she revealed through a twitpic, three new song titles, "Everything I Touch", "The Light" and "Don't You Forget About Me", which is a cover of the Simple Minds song "Don't You (Forget About Me).

Recording process

Billy Corgan and Linda Perry are the principal personnel involved in the recording of the album. Corgan has helped Love lay down some of the demos at the Village Recorder and assumed the role of guitar player on most of the songs, as well as writing the main riff to song "Samantha", while Perry co-wrote some of the new songs and is heading the production. She stated in a May 2006 interview: "my dedication right now is to bring back the queen of rock and roll, and that's Courtney Love... My job now is to make that (Courtney Love) rock and roll record that everybody's gonna love." Although she has had support from friends in the progress of the album, Love has clarified that most of the songs are indeed her own work: "Make no mistake, I've written these songs by myself. It's great to have good musicians, but this is me and a guitar."

The Dead 60s guitarist Ben Gordon met Love through friends and heard her play some of the new material in the studio. He told NME, "I had an amazing time. I think she's got some really good ideas. The songs sound fresh. Some of it has a (Bob) Dylan quality to it. It's quite raw and more personal". Gordon considered 'Sunset Marquis', named after a Los Angeles hotel, as one of the standout cuts: "It has a really good story in (the lyrics). It sounds like a classic Courtney Love song and feels like it could be a big hit."

Love has stated in a recent blog that her "final producer on this record is very strong as a man and has opinions very strongly- he did Celebrity Skin". This indicates that Love is working with Michael Beinhorn, who produced Hole's Celebrity Skin. Love has also stated that the record was finished with the completion of the song "Honey", "the widow song" she never wanted to record, but is extremely pleased with. Through her Twitter account love has revealed she is recording at Purple Studios.

Record and management deal

Love signed with Linda Perry's label, Custard Records, for the release, and Universal Music -- the company which Hole has been in a legal battle a few years prior over getting out of contract—may be the worldwide distributor of the album. Love declared she was "not holding any grudges about it". Around the same time, some of the new lyrics, such as "Letter To God" and "Sunset Marquis", plus excerpts from "Sad But True" and "Stand Up Motherfucker", were released on the Internet. Some of them (plus others, like "My Bedroom Walls" and "The Depths of My Despair") are featured in their original handwritten versions on Love's memoir/journal entry-collection hardcover book Dirty Blonde, released in October 2006.

In July, Perry talked again about working with Love in an interview with rock journalist Morley Seaver, from RocknWorld.com. Between great comments about Courtney's lyrics, emotional voice and rock'n'roll power, she revealed that "(...) Working on this record has been just a pleasure. It's been a slow process because we've been really horning in on a vibe. Like the thing I wanted to do with Courtney is create a real cool vibe. There's some fast songs on there, but the majority of it are kinda mid-tempo, hypnotic type songs, that, you just kinda get lost in her songs and then here's her voice and all we're doing musically is kinda creating a cool little landscape, an atmosphere for her to showcase her voice. And then there'll be the big punky rock song but personally, I wanted to hear on this record with Courtney, who Courtney is at 42. She's definitely not a stage diver, you know what I mean? She's not going out play a concert and dive into the audience anymore. So I wanted to make a record with her that gave a little bit of Hole and who Courtney is right now, after the shit she's been through because what people forgot about with Courtney is the music."

By the end of January 2007, Love signed with The Firm, a notorious Californian management company, for representing her on the sale of the upcoming album. Also on August 7, Love struck a distribution deal with Universal Records sub label W14 Music, a London UK based label, although Love is signed directly to Linda Perry's Custard Records. On January 5, 2009, it was revealed that the album will be endorsed by a tequila and menstrual brand. According to her administrator, the sponsorship accounts for more than 30 million dollars.^[18]

Love has quashed rumours that she had signed a deal with Linda Perry's label, Custard Records. Love's Facebook information states that Nobody's Daughter will in fact be released by "CherryForever on various Majors Internationally."