Lyrics for Don't Want It All as interpreted by epsilon

Don't Want It All Lyrics
To hope is admittance
Feed before beginning
Double-sided cynics
Reflected images
Don't be so selfish
Leaving me this
Follow it far
To find where you are
You haven't grown
Go on alone

Never finished his sentence
Remained in seclusion
For the next few days
Family is circling
He having moved up
All the styles of heresy
Finally he appeared unexpectedly
Looking for company.

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floppy
08-22-2002

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slow solo acoustic song,its not that great.

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whitepoett
09-27-2002

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some say this was on the fecal matter demo....but i think it's amaizing,even being a little,like ...hun....basic lol

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smashingrocker666
06-10-2003

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slow song. not something to remember nirvana by, musically. altho the lyrics are kinda cool. sounds like it was recorded in someones garage with archaic equipment. great poetry tho.

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NoseDragon
06-26-2003

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Yeah, Kurt made this at home. He is playing all the instruments in the song.

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Teen Spirit 87
07-07-2003

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I definitely think this is an autobigiographical piece. Kurt seems to be talking about his own isolation. Oh, and I believe the line is "double-sided cigarettes" not cynics, which makes more sense metaphorically; cigarettes burn from both ends. Great song, Kurt never ceases to satisfy me.

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gohashbrowns
11-02-2004

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This song is so creepy because it almost describes his supposed last few days:
Never finished his sentence (Weird writing at the end of his suicide note)
Remained in seclusion, For the next few days (Was dead in the house alone for a few days)
Family is circling (everyone is looking for him)
He having moved up
All the styles of heresy
Finally he appeared unexpectedly (then the electrician found him)
Looking for company. (alone in that random room)

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juff
11-16-2004

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This song was written in like 1987 or 1988. And the weird writing at the end of the note was done by Courtney.

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fortybelownj
12-09-2004

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this song is also known as misery loves company. very mellow. not sure what it means really

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TeenageLobotomy
12-31-2004

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this song is so heavy. god it came on my music channel at like 3:30am and freaked me out. now i cant stop listening to it. really weird

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gohashbrowns
01-08-2005

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I'm not saying he wrote it about his suicide, i'm just saying it's cool/odd how it COULD be about his suicide. And Courtney didn't kill him, plan to kill him, hire someone to kill him or want to kill him. That's bullshit.

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manic_melvin
02-16-2005

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I really adore this song. Such a neat dark/erie sound. But is it called 'don't want it all ' or 'misery loves company'? was it realeased at two different times, under each name? I'm pretty sure it's called 'don't want it all' in the new boxset, and only been able to find live versions under 'misery loves company' *shrugs* this song entices bliss :)

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scoffed
02-24-2005

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The song was released as "Misery Loves company" in bootlegs. Looks like "Don't want it all" is the real name of the song. Or maybe not.

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bohda
04-09-2005

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well, courtny did not physically kill kurt unless she is capable of morphing or some shit, but their are some crazy events surounding kurts death. even if kurt did pull the trigger himself, i still blame his doing so on courtney...she's a bitch and a fake

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Melvana
06-22-2005

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Well, I would assume that "Misery Love Company" is the correct title for the song, because the title is more fitting.

And this song probably isn't what you expect out of Kurt Cobain. Really cool and dark.

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halobreak
06-30-2005

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This song is EXACTLY what you should expect from Kurt.

I believe it's "Following far" instead of follow it far..
and
"never finished a sentence
remained in seclusion for the next few days
the family circle knew
how he had removed her of all the styles of heresy
finally he appeared unexpectedly looking for company"
and the only relation to misery loves company is by misery being "he" in the song..
but apparently grohl + noveselic + (sometimes courtney/channing) knew the name of this song.

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Melvana
07-18-2005

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Well, you wouldn't expect a bunch of background noises in Kurt's songs, that's what I meant. The song itself is a typical song for him to make, yes, but he didn't put in weird noises often.

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fade_out_again
12-09-2005

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on limewire someone called a song 'spectre' which has this song and 'sad' one after the other. although it's slightly higher.

this song's like some kind of tribal trance thing. it's such a simple bassline, yet it feels really...i dunno

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fade_out_again
12-09-2005

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this song's called don't want it all on the boxset

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fugazi
01-04-2006

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This is one of my favorite Nirvana songs, it's so melancholy. Little pieces like this make the entity of Nirvana that much more personal to me.

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captain.crack
01-18-2006

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this song has the hardest bass line i ever heard. not in teh sense that it is fast, but so prominent.
dont want it all is a song that i dont think chris novoselic or dave grohl had teh right to put on the box set.
this is too personal of a song, and should not ever have been made public.
but i do really like it.

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alex_0203
01-26-2006

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this song was released on the box set as "don't want it all"

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fortybelownj
02-04-2006

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it's also been labeled on bootlegs as Seed, Sad, Spectre, and unexpected. I love this song actually. It was on an 88 demo tape that Kurt called "mellow 4-track shit" along with early versions of Polly and Sappy

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alex_0203
02-27-2006

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there is no such thing as a song being TOO personal. i mean, it's part of an artist's job to open up more to their fans. this song rocks and i love it.

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americansycoz
12-14-2006

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Is it just me or does the bassline in this song sound like the guitar riff in the beginning of Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin?

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Floyd The Barber
12-19-2006

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i think this could be about kurt with his loneliness and feuds with his family (the line "The family circle knew"). I'm not sure but thats what i thought when i looked at the lyrics.

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