Nirvana

Released: November 23, 2004

Songwriter: Kurt Cobain

Producer: Jack Endino

[Verse 1]
I can read, I can write
I can breed, proven flight
Nurse my greed, crease infold
Is it me, or my ego?

Write some words, make them rhyme
Thesis or storyline
Set the mood, something new
Is it me, or my attitude?

[Chorus]
If you want to put off an image
The extremes, the extremes
Act it out, practicing
Perfecting, pressuring
Onto me
Onto me
Onto me

[Verse 2]
I will wade in the fire
To explain your asylum
Idle times, analyzing
We'll compare all our sightings
If you must

[Bridge]
I speak
To hear
My voice

[Verse 1]
I can read, I can write
I can breed, proven flight
Nurse my greed, crease infold
Is it me, or my ego?

Write some words, make them rhyme
Thesis or storyline
Set the mood, something new
Is it me, or my attitude?

[Chorus]
If you want to put off an image
The extremes, the extremes
Act it out, practicing
Perfecting, pressuring
Onto me
Onto me
Onto me
Onto me
Onto me
Onto me
Onto me

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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