Nirvana

Released: November 23, 2004

Songwriter: Kurt Cobain

Producer: Nirvana

[Intro]
What's up?

[Verse 1]
So my tensions, feed me
I'm fucking hungry
Degrade me
I want my gun back

[Chorus]
Life's a fucking résumé
Experience, credentials
Experience, the process
People freaking everyday

[Post-Chorus 1]
White lights, sitting inside
And then you get sicker than you

[Verse 2]
Get a little better than a blasphemy
Mommy, has a vendetta against daddy
Walls are set up
Baby, is sad to find that daddy
Exploring only

[Chorus]
Life's a fucking résumé
Experience, credentials
Experience, imposters
People freaking everyday

[Post-Chorus 2]
White diligence, sickening and pessimist
It is a lot worser than it appears on the cover of a...

[Verse 3]
Hold me, so my tensions
Degrade me, I'm fucking hungry
Feed me, the walls of comfort
Exhume me, I want my complex back

[Verse 4]
Cold naked man, picked off his scabs
And fed them, to the pigeons
Help him, he's so cornered
Kill him, you mercy mourner

[Chorus]
Life's a fucking résumé
Experience, credentials
Experience, the imposters
People freaking everyday

[Post-Chorus 3]
White lie, running inside
And then you get the complete sentence of a...

[Verse 5]
Hold me, fucking hoses
Help me, until my tensions
Graze me, I'm really hungry
Degrade me, I want my complex back

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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