Description
Artist: AEROSMITH
Title: HOLE IN MY SOUL
Format: CD
Country: AUSTRIAN
Label: COLUMBIA
Year: 1997
Description: 1 TRACK EDIT PROMO IN SPECIAL SLEEVE (XPCD883)
Condition (Sleeve/Disc): EX/EX
“Hole in My Soul” is a power ballad performed by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and professional songwriter Desmond Child. It was released as the second major single from Nine Lives in 1997.
The song reached #51 on the Billboard Hot 100, #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, #29 in the United Kingdom, and #4 in Latvia.
The song is a ballad, one of Aerosmith’s more emotional ones. It is also lengthy, running just over six minutes. The lyrics focus on a heartbroken man who feels very sad and emotionally damaged (“I got dust for tears and I’m all tapped out”) by a failed relationship (“tell me how it feels to be the one who turns the knife inside of me”) and feels that there’s a void in his life that cannot be filled (“there’s a hole in my soul that’s been killing me forever”).
In concert:
In concert, Steven Tyler has been known to substitute some lines with racier lyrics. On a live version of the song from the A Little South of Sanity album, Steven Tyler sings “I fuck with my boots on cause you fuck with my head” instead of the studio version lyrics “I sleep with my boots on, but you’re still in my head.”
The band played the song heavily on their lengthy Nine Lives Tour from 19971999, but has almost never played it since
Music video:
Directed by Brit Andy Morahan, the video featured a nerdy high school student (played by Branden Williams), often picked on, who is unsuccessful in finding the right girl. He uses his scientific genius to build a cloning machine and creates a beautiful girl (played by Eva Mendes), but she meets someone else at a party. He creates another who he also loses to a football player (played by Seann William Scott). A classmate (played by Alexandra Holden) discovers his machine and stops him from creating another girl for himself, and he realizes the girl for him had been there all along. The video features early appearances by Eva Mendes, Alexandra Holden, Branden Williams, and Seann William Scott.
I’m down a one-way street
With a one-night stand, With a one track mind
Out in no-mans land
(The punishment sometimes don’t seem to fit the crime)
Yeah theres a hole in my soul
But one thing I’ve learned
For every love letter written
Theres another burned
(So you tell me how its gonna be this time)
Is it over, Is it over
‘Cause I’m blowin’ out the flame
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns the knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find theres nothing there girl
Yeah I swear, I’m telling you girl yeah ’cause
Theres a hole in my soul thats been killing me forever
Its a place where a garden never grows
Theres a hole in my soul, yeah I should have known better
‘Cause your loves like a thorn without a rose
I’m as dry as a seven-year drought
I got dust for tears
And I’m all tapped out
(Sometimes I feel broken and can’t get fixed)
I know theres been all kinds of shoes underneath your bed
Now I sleep with my boots on but you’re still in my head
(And something tells me this time I’m down to my last licks)
‘Cause if its over, Then its over
And its driving me insane
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns the knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find theres nothing there girl
Yeah I swear, I’m telling you girl yeah ’cause
Theres a hole in my soul thats been killing me forever
Its a place where a garden never grows
Theres a hole in my soul, Yeah, I should have known better
‘Cause your loves like a thorn without a rose
If its over, It is over
‘Cause I’m blowin’ out the flame
Take a walk outside your mind
Tell me how it feels to be
The one who turns the knife inside of me
Take a look and you will find
Theres nothing there girl yeah I swear
I’m telling you girl, yeah ’cause
Theres a hole in my soul thats been killing me forever
Its a place where a garden never grows
Theres a hole in my soul, Yeah, I should have known better
‘Cause your loves like a thorn without a rose
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