| Nirvana – Dumb Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Like many of of Kurt's songs I think this has a bunch of different themes all jumbled together. There's no doubt in my mind there are pot references in there though. "Help me inhale" "float around and hang out on clouds" And hangover doesn't need to be taken literally, this is Kurt we're talking about remember? Hangover could be as simple as describing your high wearing off. Even the lines about "I'm not like them, but I can pretend"...ever been high in a room full of sober people? I'm sure Kurt had. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – Summer Skin Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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You ever feel like the sunshine and beautiful weather lessens any worries you might have? How getting outside and being active and soaking up rays helps you forget about your job, your bills, your loneliness, etc? And how you watch the calendar every day hoping it will perpetually be mid-June? And how you start to get bummed out towards the end of summer when you're facing the prospect of another rainy, cold, and utterly depressing Northwest autumn/winter? That's what I think this song is about. |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – What Sarah Said Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I like this song because I sat in a waiting room off and on last year while my mom died and when I listen to this song it makes me think about it in a not-so-awful way. i dont agree with love being watching someone die. there are sick people who kill and get a thrill out of it - do they love their victims? but im just nitpicking, i get what he's trying to say. i always wonder if the line about "there's no comfort in the waiting room" is inspired in any way by chris rock's song '"theres no sex in the champagne room". something about the way in which he sings this line....judge for yourself. it's asburd, i know. cool song. good melody, interesting and genuine lyrics, deep subject matter, and an interesting and unique perspective on that subject matter to top it off. |
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| Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Whenever I hear these lines it always makes me think of the Nirvana days: \"Hook me up a new revolution Cause this one is a lie We sat around laughing and watched the last one die\" Nirvana definitely shook things up and while everyone was running around trying to exploit and profit off of that, they seemed to forget that the person that it all revolved around was in trouble. |
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| Alice in Chains – Junkhead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Layne didn't promote drug use. Argument over. Go read some interviews. | |
| Nirvana – On a Plain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm always fascinated with the line 'I love myself better than you, I know it's wrong but what can I do?' I think Kurt struggled a lot with feeling like the rest of humanity was stupid because of the things they placed value on. But I think in some sense that made him feel guilty because he, of anyone, didn't think it was cool to see yourself as better than anyone else. Kurt's struggle with his fame and the impact, or lack of one, on his self-esteem is really interesting. The one lesson that Kurt clearly taught me is that money and fame is not the road to happiness. |
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| Nirvana – All Apologies Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is just my opinion based on things I've read, seen and heard about Nirvana and Kurt in particular. I think Kurt took a lot of vague passive-aggressive stabs at people like ohwhocares. I think Kurt saw things in terms of humanity as a whole and I think many of his lyrics reflected that. I think the easily amused line is an example of what I'm talking about. Kurt was bored with what most people are amused with, mostly material things and the pursuit of money, power and mostly measuring self-worth in terms of those things. Kurt was just a whole lot deeper than most people on the planet and I think in the end he just got bored and annoyed with everyone and everything else. With Kurt and Nirvana, I think you either get it or you don't. |
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| Nirvana – Drain You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this song is about Tobi, drugs, and Kurt's views on humanity. Even his suicide note references his feelings on humanity and how he'd lost the faith in it. | |
| Nirvana – Lounge Act Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ps, there was no rape. it was an awkward tryst with a girl who was retarded/mentally disabled, but there was nothing stating that she wasn't a willing participant. at the very worst kurt was guilty of taking advantage of a dumb girl, but if that were a crime then anybody who fucks a stupid girl is a rapist. | |
| Nirvana – Lounge Act Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Most of Nevermind is about Tobi Vail or at least most of the songs contain at least one reference to Tobi. Read the bios, they're incredibly interesting. | |
| Filter – Hey Man, Nice Shot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can see why Filter admires this guy. After doing a bit of research, the consensus seems that Dwyer was merely a pawn in this whole thing and was sacrificed so some higher-ups could avoid being smeared. Whether that's true is probably debatable but I think on some level you have to admire a guy who fought to the end and when it looked inevitable that he was going to be railroaded, gave people the ultimate fuck you. | |
| Nirvana – Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Heartbreaking song. Perfect for Kurt. | |
| Foo Fighters – On The Mend Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| After reading Dave's comments, now when I listen to this song I just have a vision of Dave sitting alone in some hotel room in London staring out a window overlooking the city singing this song. To me it seems like it's about looking back on a rough patch in our lives and realizing that we've survived it. I think it's a song about healing and letting go or realizing that you have healed and let go. | |
| Foo Fighters – Aurora Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For me this song is about that entire late 80's/early 90's Seattle era when these new bands were really getting a chance to be heard. When ordinary everyday kids got a rare chance to actually say something on a big stage. It kind of made you feel like this world might change for the better with our generation. It felt kind of special. It was a something special that I think was killed by the very things that the generation was rebelling against. I think Kurt's death was one of the final nails in the coffin which is one of the reasons it was so sad. When Dave says, "I loved everything about my life in Seattle." it really tugs at my hearthstrings, because I really miss those days too. The days where real life pressures of reality hadn't reached you yet and life was mostly about being carefree and having fun. Where you had the whole world in front of you and your vision hadn't been corrupted. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but Dave did say it was a deep song. |
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| Nirvana – Dumb Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think it's both about self-esteem and being so emotionally stunted that you can't tell the difference between feeling dumb and feeling happy. I also think it's about the transition from smoking a lot of weed to shooting a lot of heroin. Kurt's journals seem to state as much. I don't have the *exact* quotes handy but in his notes next to "Dumb" he mentions something like "all that innocent weed" and then "climbing the ladder to the poppy" That's what is so great about Kurt's songs, they hint at meanings but then they can mean nothing at all. |
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| Foo Fighters – On The Mend Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I agree, the music is so beautiful and relaxing - and almost haunting - that I don't really care what the lyrics mean. | |
| David Bowie – Under Pressure Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is actually a lot deeper than it's given credit for. It goes into some very basic truths that a lot of forget sometimes. "Cause love's such an old fashioned word And love dares you to care For the people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves" I see people "on the edge of the night" as homeless people or just people who aren't as fortunate as some of us are. This is echoed by the "people on the street" lines. A lot of us say we love people. And that we're open-minded and enlightened. Meanwhile we see a street person and we ridcule them. Love "dares" us to be open-minded about the term and apply it to people we might otherwise never think about. I also think the song doubles as a rant about the insanity of this world in general. Great song. |
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| Alice in Chains – Nutshell Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This was a very personal song for me long before Layne died. It's even more meaningful now. I think it's possibly one of the most hopeless yet moving songs ever written. | |
| Coldplay – Fix You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song played on the radio as I drove home from the hospital after seeing my mom for the last time. The tears really did stream down my face. She died later that night. It'll always be a special song for me. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Soul to Squeeze Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's all about how life can be a real bummer sometimes and how focusing on the good things can aid our struggle. One thing about Anthony is that he survived it all when many other rock stars couldn't and I appreciate that. It's nice to see a happy ending sometimes. | |
| Alice in Chains – Don't Follow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think it's pretty clear this song is about the choice he made to retreat from the world in order to pursue his heroin hobby. If you read the history of the last decade of Layne's life, it'll make sense. | |
| Nirvana – On a Plain Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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To me, he's talking about the contempt he had for his audiences in this song. If you study the man, I think you find that he was tortured by the commercialization of his music, by the masses of people who came to hear his music only because he was KURT COBAIN - SUPER ROCK GOD. It's the dilemma of any famous person, but I think it particularly affected Kurt because he was one of those rare people who feel. I think Kurt was constantly torn between staying true to himself and getting his music out there. I think he felt that he was superior than many other people intellectually - journalists, fans, reocrd people and that ate at his sense of how he though people *should* act. And it also was directly at odds with how he felt about his personality and his appearance. -It is now time to make it unclear To write off lines that don't make sense- He always complained about people trying to 'decipher' his lyrics. -I love myself better than you I know it's wrong so what should I do?- -One more special message to go And then I'm done then I can go home- This reminds me of his suicide note where he basically said he's tired of faking the love for music he once had. When you take a man who was defined by music and you kill the love for that, it's easy to see why Kurt felt it was time for whatever's next. |
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| Nirvana – Where Did You Sleep Last Night (Lead Belly cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's possible I'm being melodramatic and reading far too much into this, but I believe that at the time this was recorded Kurt had already made up his mind he would be ending his life sometime soon. I believe that it's quite possible he understood how powerful this unplugged record would be and that he had designated it as both his and the band's last big hurrah. You can tell that Kurt pours his entire being into this performance and like someone said earlier, nearly all the songs have to do with death and despair. He had talked about going out in a blaze of glory while he was on top his entire life. The last line in the song, where he pauses, it almost feels like a sigh of relief that it will all soon be over. I believe that Kurt Cobain was one of the most fascinating and talented storytellers of his time, especially for the many of us who've had less-than-perfect childhoods and struggle to find that sense of self-worth that a divorce will steal from you as a child. He didn't tell stories to your mind, he told stories to your heart. I believe that he was consumed by emotions that not many people understand and I think that was part of his frustration. I think that he sang intensely personal songs that people interpreted as songs about sex and drugs and all kinds of crap. I think that he was a very simple, almost child-like, man who just wanted to be surrounded by all things beautiful and gentle. To this day, over ten years after his death, I still get misty-eyed thinking about what he was...and what he could have been. |
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| Nirvana – Something in the Way Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Kurt Cobain was a fascinating guy. I believe that he did spend time under this bridge on the Wishkah river even if he didn't rechnically live there. If you've seen it in person or even seen pictures of Aberdeen, WA you know how depressing it is. Imagine a young boy who's parents not only don't want each other, but they don't want him. And the only place he knows to turn is a deserted bridge where he can try to figure things out on his own. I think this song's meaning is very simple. It's about a very lonely and depressed young man who feels that the underside of a bridge is his only home, the grass his food, and the creatures who live there his pets. I believe the fish line is a sarcastic reference to himself. It's okay to mentally and emotionally cripple a young boy during a vicious divorce because he can't possibly have feelings of his own. The effects of a divorce can be devestating for a young child - I know, I've been there. I don't agree with committing suicide, but I completely understand the deep-seated feelings that led him there. A simple yet extremely powerful song, especially the unplugged version. |
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