Nirvana

Released: November 23, 2004

Songwriter: Kurt Cobain

Producer: Lance Bangs Steve Albini Butch Vig Steve Fisk Greg Babior Jack Endino

[Verse 1]
Clean up before she comes
Clean up before she comes
Clean up before she comes
Clean up before she comes
Living in a dusty dump
Living in a dusty dump

[Chorus]
Something in her eyes
Seems to be the smoke from my lungs
Something in her eyes
Must be the smoke from my lungs

[Verse 2]
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
I must be getting old (I'm starting to eat my vegetables)
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
I must be getting old (I'm starting to eat my vegetables)

[Chorus]
Something in her eyes
Something like smoke from my lungs
Something in her eyes
Must be the smoke from my lungs

[Verse 3]
Clean up the dusty dump
Living in a dusty dump
Living in a dusty dump
Living in a dusty dump
Clean up before she comes
Clean up before she comes
Clean up before she comes
Living in a dusty dump

[Chorus]
Something in her eyes
Must be the smoke from my lungs
Something in her eyes
Must be the smoke from my lungs

[Outro]
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
I must be getting old (I'm starting to eat my vegetables)
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
I must be getting old (I'm starting to eat my vegetables)
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
I must be getting old (I'm starting to eat my vegetables)
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
I must be getting old (I'm starting to eat my vegetables)
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
I must be getting old (I'm starting to eat my vegetables)
I must be getting old (I must be getting older)
(I'm starting to eat my vegetables)
(I must be getting older)
(I'm starting to eat my vegetables)

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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