Marigold Lyrics
He's scared because I warned
He's scared in case I want it all
He's scared 'cause I want
Six color pictures all in a row
Of a marigold
this is a song dave wrote when he first joined nirvana. it is a b-side to nirvana's heart-shaped box single. dave sings lead vocals.
First off I think the last line is "He's scared 'cause I won't."
With that said I think this song is about a girl watching a boy fall in love with her.
He's watching her and making sure she doesn't leave him like she said she might.
At the same time he's scared that she may want it all (his love) and that is like taboo to him, you just don't talk about it. The flip side of that is that if she doesn't want everything, then "what do I do now."
And as they sit there studying each other, seeing if she'll fall for him and he seeing if she'll run away, the clock ticks away. Nothing is happening to better or worsen the relationship "the clock is slow."
The six colored pictures of a marigold just reiterates that point because nothing changes between the six different pictures of a flower.
JUST BECAUSE DAVE GROHL SINGS THIS SONG DOES NOT MAKE IT AN EFFIN FOO FIGHTERS SONG!
THIS WAS DONE BY KRIST NOVOSELIC, KURT COBAIN, AND DAVE!
AKA NIRVANA
It was actually released by Dave in 1992 on Simple Machines record label under the name Late! He wrote and recorded all of that material himself. It isn't a Foo Fighters song as much as it isn't a Nirvana song. While both bands have recorded it and released it themselves, its a Late! (DG original) song.
It was actually released by Dave in 1992 on Simple Machines record label under the name Late! He wrote and recorded all of that material himself. It isn't a Foo Fighters song as much as it isn't a Nirvana song. While both bands have recorded it and released it themselves, its a Late! (DG original) song.
To nirvana_cali, True that. But Dave sings it with the Foo Fighters on Skin and Bones with, i guess, makes it a cover, and people put up cover lyrics all the time. So yeah. I agree though.
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DG wrote this song while with Nirvana and Kurt heard him playing around with it and loved it (that is from a DG interview) so Nirvana cut it.
I think the best way to categorize it would be it is a Dave Grohl song. Foos usually play it in concert.
However you think of it, Nirvana or Foo, it is a tremendous, very emotional song.
Oh yeah, it is also the only Nirvana song that does not have a Kurt Cobain writing credit. That is pretty incredible.
i like this song. the meaning for me is kind of personal, but this is what i think: its about two friends, the singer ("I") is suicidal while the "He" in the song is not suicidal. the singer wants to commit suicide but the other friend is always there to keep the singer from doing it, and the friend is scared that the singer is going to get hurt. and in the chorus, it is just saying how time is going by without changes so the non-suicidal friend cannot freely live his life and be happy.
i like this song. the meaning for me is kind of personal, but this is what i think: its about two friends, the singer ("I") is suicidal while the "He" in the song is not suicidal. the singer wants to commit suicide but the other friend is always there to keep the singer from doing it, and the friend is scared that the singer is going to get hurt. and in the chorus, it is just saying how time is going by without changes so the non-suicidal friend cannot freely live his life and be happy.
Actually this song was written by Dave Grohl way back before he joined Nirvana. It was on a demo tape which he called "Live! Pocketwatch". And it's know as the "Pocketwatch"-demos. The last recording session Nirvana ever did, Dave and Krist recorded early outtakes on Foo Fighters songs because Cobain didn't show up some days later than expected.