Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box

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  General Comment:Courtney Love was on the Howard Stern show the other day and stated that "Heart Shaped Box" refers to her vagina. it makes sense in many ways, so why not? it seems like the song is refering to a woman who drags you down, and makes you feel bad. sounds like Courtney, lol.

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  General Comment:I think that 'Heart-Shaped Box' is about sex, love, drugs, child birth, and how he feels about his treatment by the media source. On the other hand, I think it could be about Courtney Love's vagina because the way the lyrics are written in context. the song probably is about that and the birth of his daughter. Or it could be about anything? I think it's a reflection of his marriage, child, and career. Although, who's to say? It's a pretty song though just not the lyrics but the melody and harmony of the music. That's what shaped their music as a band.

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  General Comment:Kurt mentions "pisces" and "cancer", both zodiac signs. And the funny thing is that Kurt is a Pisces, and Courtney is Cancerian.

  Flagged juliasoareon April 20, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:kurt was nuts
  the video has a old skinny santa clause on the cross who also wheres a pope hat
  a pregnant angel chasing fetuses on a tree
  a kkk girl whos hat gets blown off by the wind into the black muck
  then she becomes a witch
  i dunno, i think it has too much to do with religion to be about a specific person
  i think artists make music for the masses and their relationship with people at large i think is more important than the personal lives of the artists
  i think they are all, kurt and courtney both singing to a giant psychic stream that they were both in touch with

  Flagged HedlykaTrlon April 04, 2013   Link

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  General Comment:This song is about a woman using sex and he is powerless to say no. After sex, it's never happily ever after. It's something else to argue about, and instead of leaving, he's "in debt" to all the things she wants him to do or be, in order to continue the feeling he gets from her. She's telling him what he has to do to get in her good graces again. The "magnet" puts him in perpetual debt where he has to heed her "advice" (or whims). He dies a little everytime he goes through this, he cuts himself romancing her, then has intercourse and is "left black", dead. Throw down the umbilical noose you just killed him with, now let him climb back into the "relationship". The tar pit trap, he stays in this relationship and sets himself up to die again. The entire relationship is a heart-shaped box that he can't get out of. Forever in debt.

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  General Comment:ive read kurt's journal and while i was look through some lyrics of of an early version of in bloom(or possibly lithium) i noticed that some of the words were the same ones in heart shaped box but were taken out in the final version.

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  General Comment:just a contribution to those who know how to get the meaning from English Lyrics
  Tar Pit:
  An accumulation of natural tar or asphalt at the earth's surface, especially one that traps animals and preserves their bones.
  
  Read more: answers.com/topic/…

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  General Comment:Cortney gave Kurt a heart shaped box when they were dating. I agree with some of the other things ie the pisces/cancer thing . He basically says that Cortney can be really a succubus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… . I think that this is also about his relationship with Cortney that also had to do with drugs/toxic relationship. Tar pis= Tar herion. Cortney's "flower" aka vagina is refered to when he says "meat eating orchid" is um well it gets around shall we say. also in to know : Ability to reproduceAccording to the Kabbalah and the school of Rashba, the original three queens of the demons, Agrat Bat Mahlat, Naamah, and Eisheth Zenunim and all their cohorts give birth to children, except Lilith.[6] According to other legends, the children of Lilith are called Lilin.
  
  According to the Malleus Maleficarum, or "Witches' Hammer", written by Heinrich Kramer (Insitoris) in 1486, a succubus collects semen from the men she seduces. The incubi or male demons then use the semen to impregnate human females,[7] thus explaining how demons could apparently sire children despite the traditional belief that they were incapable of reproduction. Children so begotten – cambions – were supposed to be those that were born deformed, or more susceptible to supernatural influences.[8] The book does not address why a human female impregnated with the semen of a human male would not produce a regular human offspring.But in some Viking lore the child is born deformed because the conception was unnatural.
  
  The noose of the umbical cord could be a reference to Frances Bean who was born August 18 1992 and this song was published in 1993 but he had been working on it during that time. The babies breath and angel hair could reference that or it could be that Angel dust aka drugs were involved. So like when he was weak and wanted drugs Cortney was there to give him the drugs. she would not help him get off the drugs and the succubus that she was, was killing him with the news that she was pregnant. black cancer could be herion.

  Flagged freshmegamixon August 02, 2012   Link

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    Alright dude, all your archaic knowledge of the occult religions which sprouted out as a natural consequence of organized Christianity, Islam and Judaism and all the compulsory worship of some hateful yet loving deity contained therein, your comments about Heart Shaped Box are just a little... how do you say? FUCKING SEXIST TRASH. Sorry, but Succubi don't fucking exist. Bad people exist, because they've made bad choices and allowed themselves to be ruled by evil forces that exist within their own psyche or soul, but men can and do "suck the life" out of women just as often as women "suck the life" out of men. It's called Emotional Vampirism, google it, it's a convenient and perhaps emotionally provocative term for a real life phenomenon. PEOPLE MALE AND FEMALE DO THIS TO OTHER HUMAN BEINGS, THEY RELY ON THEM FOR EMOTIONAL SUPPORT THAT SOME PEOPLE TURN TO GOD AND JESUS CHRIST OR BUDDHISM OR TAOISM OR YOGA FOR, OR FOR THAT MATTER PSYCHOTHERAPY. This parasitic approach to human relations is the reason the term Succubus exist, but another phenomenon is also involved in the etiology of this term, it's origins, so to speak. This phenomenon is called selective attention, bias, prejudice, selective memory etcetera and is an empirically verified psychological mechanism in which individuals experience and remember what they are pre-conditioned or pre-disposed to remember. Since so much of America is filled with Bible-thumping hypocrites who say that Homosexuality is a sin against God but who at the same time treat women like cattle, the belief that Eve, a woman, is responsible for the ORIGINAL SIN that was perpetrated against God in the Garden of Eden has literally seeped into the brains of millions of men across America and pickled their brains. Their brains are now sour, anti-feminist, bigotry factories which kill, maim, hate and rob innocent people just like you and I of their dignity and humanity; their Free Will. That having been said, these self-same people have Free Will to make their own decisions and think critically about the information they receive, the sensations they experience, and what they do with this information and subjective experience. Some people choose to be hateful assholes who believe in Succubi while turning a blind eye to MALE Succubi, which by the way, since we're in the FUCKING 20TH CENTURY are now called SOCIOPATHS OR PSYCHOPATHS. I threw in the term "emotional vampire" because it seems a little bit closer to your sadly shallow cognitive process. Fuck you and have a wonderful day

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    * For all of your archaic knowledge etcetera etcetera....* Also Courtney Love contested that this song was written about her vagina, but Kurt Cobain in an official interview said that the song was about cancer and young cancer patients he had once visited. So you took what was a pretty simple analysis and magnified to into "Courtney Love was killing Kurt Cobain with the news that she was pregnant" This quote alone reeks of SEXIST GARBAGE. But please read my first comment, you might start thinking a little bit ;)

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    You can´t blame all on Courtney, she can´t be blamedon her husband´s illness, both
    were very messed up.

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  Song Meaning:Great ambiguous lyrics. It is about the manipulative ability of women who appear so soft, attractive and innocent on the outside, but then become bloodsuckers who suck the life out of a man. This is an evolutionary dilemma for men; they are attracted to, repulsed by and afraid of women all at the same time.

  Flagged RougeWoeon August 01, 2012   Link

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    I'm scared of women but that's because I don't understand them. I disagree wholeheartedly that this song is about a woman "sucking the blood" out of a man. Fucking listen to yourself dude. I know I know, you've been burned by a few females, maybe so many times that you're now a woman hater, but you can't tell me a relationship is a one-way street. Did you literally give these women THAT MUCH CONTROL OVER YOU AND YOUR EMOTIONS? I've been in relationships and broken up with a few girls for various reasons, and I didn't feel like either of us, me or the girl, was SUCKING THE LIFE out of the other one. Shit just wasn't clicking, sexual attraction weakened, we go to schools that are hundreds of miles apart from one another. Give women a fucking break dude. They deserve it, trust me, I've talked to plenty of them about dudes like you. Fuck you and have a nice day

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  General Comment:This song tells of a naïve relationship.

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