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INSTRUMENTAL The Shondes – On Your Side
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Many reviewers have noted that The Garden takes The Shondes in some new sonic directions, including this song’s shredding solo by guitarist Furiegh. Writer Aaron Brown notes:

“On Your Side” is a another example where this risk tolerance pays huge dividends. The anthemic tune plays with glammy guitar solos and a particularly epic, stadium-rock key change. The end result feels a bit like the Shondes covering an unreleased Queen track.

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Punch a hole into the sky The Shondes – On Your Side
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In a USA Today interview, singer/bassist Louisa Solomon says:

That’s where the line ‘punch a hole into the sky’ comes from. Sometimes you can just see so clearly how a person’s world has shrunk down, and you want so much to break open their false sky and let some sunshine in. Of course, that’s not how living with depression really works. But it’s a real feeling.

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I knew a boy, he came from the sea Hole – Pacific Coast Highway
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Love opens the song with a reference to her husband, Kurt Cobain, who was famously a Pisces (the sign of the fish, a “water sign”).

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Rozz Rezabek, an early boyfriend and lifelong relationship of Courtney Love, is from Bandon, Oregon. The sign outside of Bandon reads “Bandon by the sea”

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Kurt Cobain was also born in a hospital in Hoquiam, WA, which is a coastal town in Grays Harbor.

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With your gun in my hands Hole – Pacific Coast Highway
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Love is keenly aware of the fact that most listeners will assume this line references her husband, Kurt Cobain, who shot himself in 1994. Whatever other sources of inspiration she may have, that’s a big chunk of it.

Love admitted this part is about a suicide but she didn’t want to say who this song is about, as it’s “not anybody’s business”. When asked if the suicide is metaphorical or real, she answered:

I don’t know how to drive. You do the math.

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It’s clearly metaphorical, it could easily mean that she has his gun in her hand because she has to carry the grief and the accusations made about her but more than likely it’s just a cool lyric

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