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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Track duration: 02:24

"I Want It All" as written by Freddie/deacon Mercury

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    General Comment:This song is about his death.

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

    Finally he appeared unexpectedly, looking for company.

    That line is about the electrician who found his body. I can't believe no one else noticed what this song is really about.

    "Remained in seclusion
    For the next few days
    Family is circuling
    He having moved up"

    He remained in the greenhouse alone for the next few days of his death. His family is looking all around for him, but he moved up and out of this world.

    "Reflected images
    Don't be so selfish
    Leaving the image
    Follow it far
    To find where you are
    You haven't grown
    Go on alone"

    Reflected images - Having thoughts about his ordeal going on
    Don't be so selfish - A perspective on taking his life
    Leaving the image - Leaving his body behind
    You haven't grown, Go on alone - He feels he hasn't progressed, go on alone means death.


    BAM! Only few people know what this song was ment for.
    Flag Punkfunkbuzzon December 03, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:So, creepily [accidentally?] prophetic. Like someone above me said:

    Never finished his sentence [both, the final sentence on his suicide note, and his stay at rehab- which to him was a prison]
    Remained in seclusion [in the greenhouse]
    For the next few days [the length of time before they found him]
    Family is circling [searching for him frantically]
    He having moved up
    All the styles of heresy
    Finally he appeared unexpectedly [the electrician]
    Looking for company. [like his ghost got lonely]

    Of course, the meaning he probably really intended was the way he disappeared and isolated himself from people [think "I wanna be alone" in Sliver] and after a few days, finally appeared, looking for company, because he got lonely. I forget whose house it was, but in Heavier Than Heaven, Kurt was staying at someone's house while on tour, and they couldn't find him, until they looked in the nursery and he was sitting in the darkness alone, just staring. I've always been that way, too. I look through my family photos and I'm missing in most of them, because I had always gone somewhere to be by myself. Always felt like a stranger in my own family. It irks me that I wrote a song a long time ago with the lyrics "Imprisoned in my confusion, and you'll never let me finish my sentence, I was innocent the day you gave me life" only to find Kurt had already used the same metaphor. Damn!
    Flag CriticsAreRavingon November 01, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i dunno
    Flag Tronniton August 16, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Unbelievably, but it makes sence a bit. At least to me. Especially second verse starting with line 'Never finished his sentence....'
    Of course all of these similarities between what is written in the lines of this song and what actually happened in April '94 are nothing but a coincidence. However this coincidence is kind of strange and weird....
    Flag Kasparson November 05, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:I'm expanding on gohashbrown's comment that this eerily describes Kurt's few days (of course, this is untrue, seeing as this was written in 1987/1988 and he died in 1994).

    To hope is admittance, feed before beginning
    [[Feed before beginning; injecting heroin before the suicide.]]

    Double-sided cynics, reflected images
    [[Critics like Lynn Hirschberg, who became Kurt's mortal enemy when she almost got Frances taken away from him.]]

    Don't be so selfish, leaving me this
    [[Being selfish by committing suicide and leaving Frances behind; also leaving behind the physical mess of his suicide to be cleaned up.]]

    Follow it far to find where you are
    [[Following conspiracy theories to find out the truth/lies.]]

    You haven't grown, go on alone
    [[How he felt Frances' life would be much better without him.]]

    Never finished his sentence, remained in seclusion
    [[The suspicious ending of his suicide note, and him hiding for the three days before his death.]]

    For the next few days, family is circling
    [[His family and friends were searching for him like crazy between April 1-8.]]

    He having moved up all the styles of heresy
    [["Moved up", as in suicide; suicide is seen as a grave sin.]]

    Finally he appeared unexpectedly, looking for company
    [[He was found suddenly by the electrician, and then had a funeral.]]
    Flag Malteseon September 25, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Many nirvana/Kurt demos didnt have a title, so when bootleggers spread them, they were given a range of widely accepted names. Hence 'Misery Loves Company'. However, as the names were unknown, it is possible that 'Dont want it all' is not the actual name either, just another guess.

    Sounds to be another one of kurts downswing depressed songs, a demo without krist.

    This song has also been known as 'spectre' i believe.
    Flag Krankdon May 09, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:The name of the song is don't want it all and kurt named it seed on his 4 track demo in 88
    Flag frank,nirvanaon April 12, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Kurt can't be playing all the instruments in this song unless he's got four hands. And I know he hasn't.
    Flag Kasparson March 09, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Kurt can't be playing all the instruments in this song unless he's got four hands. And I know he hasn't.
    Flag Kasparson March 09, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment: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.
    Flag Floyd The Barberon December 19, 2006   Link

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