100% Lyrics
I can never forget you
The way you rock the girls
They rule the world and love you
A blast in the underworld
I stick a knife in my head
A-thinking 'bout your eyes
But now that you been shot dead
I got a new surprise
[Chorus]
But I've been waiting for you just to say
The zoftig chick is mine
But all I know is you got no money
But that's got nothing to do with a good time
[Verse 2]
But can you forgive the boy who
Shot you in the head?
Or should you get a gun and
Go and get revenge?
A hundred percent of my love
U-up to you, true star
It's hard to believe you took off
I always thought you'd go far
But I've been around the world a million times
And all you men are slime
A gun to my head, goodbye, I am dead
Wastewood rockers, it's time for crime, hey
[Instrumental Outro]
About
In her autobiography Girl in a Band, Kim says the song is about Joe Cole. A friend of theirs who was murdered during a robbery in Venice, Los Angeles in front of his friend and roomate Henry Rollins.
She says:
When Henry called to tell me about Joe. I burst into tears. I didn’t get over it for a couple of years, to be honest. The senseless, random act of violence against someone so full of life and innocence, was mind-blowing, and I hated Los Angeles for a long time after that. I wrote the song “JC” about Joe, while Thurston wrote “100%”. It was hard to sing without tearing up.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Thurston and Lee both use F#F#F#F#EB, though they claim that any tuning will do. Thurston also uses a slide.
- 1.100%
- 5.Shoot
- 7.Sugar Kane
- 10.Nic Fit
- 11.On the Strip
- 12.Chapel Hill
- 13.JC
- 14.Purr
- 15.Crème Brûlée