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Nirvana – The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie cover) Lyrics 10 years ago
@[Super_Ultra_Mega:5758] Although it's thinkable that a cover version is deliberately given a different meaning by changing a few words, I don't think that's what Mr Cobain intended to do in this case. The making hay of 'I' and 'we' -compared to the original lyrics- was most likely a result of his state of (never)mind.
As for the 'gazeless stare' he gazed and the 'million hills they walked': they sound more like misunderstood lyrics to me, especially because they sound so much like the original lyrics (I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here)...

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