Nirvana

Released: November 30, 2009

Songwriter: Kurt Cobain

[Verse 1]
Down town such a fast, in my eyes
Won't ever let you down, flown home
Granted to your sense of sound, my eyes
You and me, it contains my heart

[Interlude]
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!

[Verse 2]
Go dark, soundcheck, my eyes!
Everything Teddy sees is all wrong!
Burnin' down half the town and my house
Everything sits inside my heart

[Interlude]
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!

[Verse 3]
Jonestown such a frown, see yours
Riddle meal left the town, or go home
Rarin' down such a day for me, uh
Hitch a train to Santa Fe or go horse!

[Intelude]
Hey!
Hey!
Hey!

[Outro]
Take...
Mean horse!
Mean horse!
Mean horse!
Mean horse!

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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