"Turpentine" is a song by the American alternative rock band Hole.
[2] However, some of the lyrics of the song seem to have been written by Love earlier with the line "my water breaks like turpentine" appearing in a poem written by Love in the mid-late 1980s[3] which also features lines that would later appear in "Loaded", a track on Hole's debut album, Pretty on the Inside (1991).
The first and only known studio version of the song was recorded on March 17, 1990 during Hole's first studio session at Rudy's Rising Star, a "tiny ... basement studio" in Los Angeles, California[4] after Sympathy for the Record Industry's president, Long Gone John, gave the band a budget of $500 to record their first single, "Retard Girl.
"Turpentine" is typical of Love's writing standards at the time, using sardonic and cryptic imagery as well as the frequent usage of derogatory terms.
One interpretation of the song's lyrics refers to it as Love's "mockery on ...