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Like most babies smell like butter
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He was born a scentless apprentice
Go away - get away, get away, get a-way
Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets
There are countless formulas for pressing flowers
I lie in the soll and fertilize mushrooms
Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume
You can't fire me because I quit
Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He was born a scentless apprentice
Go away - get away, get away, get a-way
Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets
There are countless formulas for pressing flowers
I lie in the soll and fertilize mushrooms
Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume
You can't fire me because I quit
Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit
Lyrics submitted by spitfirek7
Track duration: 03:48
"Scentless Apprentice" as written by Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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he states its the only song he's ever written based on a book he read.
also saying its a book he carries around all the time and when hes on a plane he reads
it. has read it 8 times or more and its subject is something he can relate to
he states its the only song he's ever written based on a book he read.
also saying its a book he carries around all the time and when hes on a plane he reads
it. has read it 8 times or more and its subject is something he can relate to
is worth the time to read and there`s really interesting poits of view
Look at the damn backmasking for the live version of this song before you decide what it is about. Cross reference this to "Your scent is still in my place of recovery." This song IS about Cobain's own suicide. When are you people going to realize that music heard by millions repeatedly affects so much causation that it is much much bigger than the musician.
Its my favorite song off the album I think...I just love it. Its so raw sounding when he screams "go away"
the drum beat is absolutely genius. i wonder if kurt or dave wrote it. does anyone know? kurt was one of the greatest musicians i ever heard. so much heart, so much energy, so real. oh well, yes, obviously the song is about perfume. yeah. great book.
it's probably the one and only nirvana song not written entirely by kurt.
ha
my mom showed me this movie and i liked it so much i wrote a poem about it one night
it ended up being kinda good
but Kurt Cobain wrote one too
and put it to music
and yelled a whole bunch in it
i think thats kinda cool.
The beginning of this movie is my favorite part. His mom just pops him out while shes chopping fish at the fish market and kicks him under a table but the smells of the fish or SOMETHING keep him from dying and he starts screaming and she gets arrested.
what kind of crazy shit is that?