Nirvana

Released: June 15, 1989

Songwriter: Kurt Cobain

Producer: Jack Endino

[Verse 1]
Portray sincerity
Act out of loyalty
Defend your free country
Wish away the pain
Hand out lobotomies
And save little families
Surrealistic fantasy
Bland, boring, plain!

[Pre-Chorus]
Holy now in restitution
Living out your date with fusion
Is our whole fleece shun in bastard?
Don't feel guilty master writing

[Chorus]
Somebody says that they're not much like I am, I know I can
Make enough up the words
As you go along, I sing a song

[Verse 2]
Sickening pessimist hypocrite master
Conservative Communist apocalyptic bastard
Thank you dear God for putting me on this Earth
I feel very privileged in debt for my thirst!

[Pre-Chorus]
Holy now in restitution
Living out your date with fusion
Is our whole fleece shun in bastard?
Don't feel guilty master writing

[Chorus]
Somebody says that they're not much like I am, I know I can
Make enough up the words
As you go along, I sing a song

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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