Nirvana

Released: September 21, 1993

Songwriter: Krist Novoselic Dave Grohl Kurt Cobain

Producer: Craig Montgomery

[Verse 1]
It hurts when you have to press that dull little thing
That you're only supposed to use once and then discard
Where do you put it? In the garbage can, my honest friend
My shyness, pet her flow

[Chorus]
She's only been five months late
Even though we haven't had sex for a week
A meal a day, a meal, I say
And my heart's made, my—

[Verse 2]
Somebody else already used the word 'aurora borealis'
She was tied up in chains, and Sam had helped her in the freezer

[Chorus]
She's only five weeks late
But I haven't had a date forever
Ever
Ever
Forever

[Verse 3]
Wish I had more
More opportunity
More chances to remember some things
So I couldn't have so much pressure on my—
On my, on my, um—(Ooh)
Uh, on my
Um, um
Head

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 4]
We'd have so much more diversity
And so much more input
So much more creative flow
If we had someone in school, a G-I-T
G-I-T
Geeks in town (Ha)
Come on, Dave, think of one (Girls in trouble)
It should be GIC, geeks with charvels
No, GWC
Fuck, man, this is a waste of time

[Interlude]
A-hahaha
Hahaha
One more solo?
Yeah! Yeah!

[Guitar Solo]

[Outro]
You're—personally responsible for
The entire strip to be washed away
Cleansed, as if gallons of, um, rubbing alcohol
Flowed through the strip and were set on fire
It didn't just singe the hair, it made it straight
And then Perry Ellis came along with his broom
And his silk
And he—
He erected a beautiful city
A city of stars

[Guitar Solo]

Nirvana was arguably the most successful act of the early 1990s grunge movement that originated in Seattle, Washington. Formed in 1987 in the neighboring city of Aberdeen, they were catapulted into the spotlight four years later with the release of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and their second studio album, September 1991’s Nevermind.

They are credited with bringing alternative rock to mainstream attention and putting a nail in the coffin of ‘80s hair metal, which was dying a slow death on the charts at that point. In early 1992, Nevermind managed to knock Michael Jackson’s Dangerous from the #1 position on the Billboard charts, cementing their place in American music history.

The band’s career was suddenly cut short in April 1994, when iconic frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead from an apparent suicide. Drummer Dave Grohl has since become a hugely successful frontman in his own right with the band Foo Fighters. Nirvana has gone on to enjoy a musical afterlife in the hearts and ears of successive generations of fans comparable to that of The Beatles and Black Sabbath.

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