I am buried up to my neck in
Contradictionary lies
I take pride as the kind of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice
If you ever need anything, please don't
Hesitate to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive
I've seen it all, I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
If you ever need anything, please don't
Hesitate to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive
I've seen it all, I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the ground
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
Contradictionary lies
I take pride as the kind of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice
If you ever need anything, please don't
Hesitate to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive
I've seen it all, I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
If you ever need anything, please don't
Hesitate to ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive
I've seen it all, I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the ground
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
Lyrics submitted by justinjtp, edited by spacebat11, BudGreen0420, KurtDC, sony105798
Very Ape Lyrics as written by Kurt Cobain
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"... if you ever need anything please don't hesitate
to ask someone else first
i'm too busy acting like i'm not naive
I've seen it all i was here first ..."
what it meant to me at that moment i'm gonna keep to myself (and its noway near to what some of you are posting here) but it did save my life
i'm 34 now and have no plans to check out early.
thank you Kurt for being there at the right time, i wish i could have been there for you man.
any who, my point is, stop arguing about the meaning of songs and lyrics. get it the way you want to get it because none of you really knows true meaning of it and the only one who really knows what it means is no longer available for comments.
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt"
I see this as bipolar mania.. Because "out of the ground, into the sky" during mania you feel depressed and all of the sudden feel great and on top of the world.. "Out of the sky, into the dirt" back into depression...
It's quite clear he had difficulty making his ideals a reality; the popularity explosion and constant media exposure meant he could not escape from the lies, the contradictions - even if some of these were media fabrications; and some of the contradictions, part of the media persona he created himself.
"...and very nice. If you ever need anything..."
he was a nice, caring guy, and yet selfish and insular - both are true.
I think this, and the "too busy acting like I'm not naive" is a pretty good description of the lengths kind people will go to so they do not get used and abused - and hence another contradiction. I also think it's a sarcastic (and self-immolating) remark about the "punk rock ethic".
The chorus is chilling.
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I think that kurt was probably aware of other interpretations of these lyrics - as an attack on other people/society - that others have mentioned, and that in a sense he intended these also, but I feel that the real drive behind the lyrics is against himself, though never with total sincerity.
He's also talking about how they feel that Aberdeen belongs to them, because their whole family was born and raised in this one little town.
I'm very ape and very nice" Mocking them so badly.
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
if it is talking about the people in Aberdeen, maybe this bit is talking about how they believe that they are better than everyone, high ang mighty, while in reality they are the lowest u can get, the real dirt of society
i dont know...whatever
he's a moron but he feels more intelligent than the entire family just because he was here first... ._.