This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Bell on door clang, come on in
Floyd observes my hairy chin
Sit down chair, don't be afraid
Steamed hot towel on my face
I was shaved
I was shaved
I was shaved
Barney ties me to the chair
I can't see, I'm really scared
Floyd breathes hard, I hear a zip
Pee-pee pressed against my lips
I was shamed
I was shamed
I was shamed
I sense others in the room
Opie, Aunt Bee, I presume
They take turns and cut me up
I die smothered in aunt Bee's muff
I was shamed
I was shamed
I was shamed
Floyd observes my hairy chin
Sit down chair, don't be afraid
Steamed hot towel on my face
I was shaved
I was shaved
I was shaved
Barney ties me to the chair
I can't see, I'm really scared
Floyd breathes hard, I hear a zip
Pee-pee pressed against my lips
I was shamed
I was shamed
I was shamed
I sense others in the room
Opie, Aunt Bee, I presume
They take turns and cut me up
I die smothered in aunt Bee's muff
I was shamed
I was shamed
I was shamed
Lyrics submitted by justinjtp, edited by Mellow_Harsher, Bennyshambles, LHGL
Floyd the Barber Lyrics as written by Kurt Cobain
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this song was written about the Andy griffith show
@Butterfly_Babe Yeah and Kurt was embarrassed to like it, Ha!
it obviously does have refrences to the andy show, but it's mostly about being overcome by higheer authority. -m
This song is about how a seemingly perfect town has it's dark secrets(acording to "Come as You Are") just like Arberdeen, Kurt's hometown.
I'm not sure this is exactly what the song is about, but it's an interesting analysis/interpretation.<br /> <br /> The song subverts and corrupts Andy Griffith's fictional town of Mayberry as an analogy to "a seemingly perfect town (that) has its dark secrets."<br /> <br /> That "perfect town" could be Aberdeen (although it was a run-down, derelict, blue-collar town that was far from seeming perfect), but it's more likely to be a town like the fictional Twin Peaks or any picket-fenced, 50's conceived, American small town.
In this song, the "homely fantasy" of Mayberry (Opposite of Aberdeen) is turned into a night mare. Kurt could have also drawn from a comic strip parody of the Andy Griffith show by Drew and John Friedman. It is a remix of a Dale Crover demo that was done with Cobain and Novoselic.
Actually the line goes "I was shamed / I was shaved / I was shamed" so you're both right. Actually I may have that a little backwards. It might be shaved/shamed/shaved.
Anyway, you're pretty much right. . one of his punkier ideas, a small town gone bad, references to the ANdy Griffith show, which he thought was hte most hyprocritical, absurd show ever, especially when he compared it to his hometown of Aberdeen. THus the bizarre nightmarish mix of a character being raped and slaughtered by the cast of the Andy Griffith show.
This song draws you in. It goes from a normal visit to the barber shop to, well...a little more than that. It definitely reflects the horrifying secrets behind a small town (eg- Andy, Aberdeen, etc). Fucking amazing song. Also, if you read the Journals, its actually, "Bell on door clanks, come on in" and I died smothered in Aunt Bea's butt"...whether he altered them during different performances, this is what he originally wrote in his Journals.
It's actually "I die smothered in Andy's butt", other than that, you are correct all the way.
Floyd the Barber - A song about a small town that goes bad, the title is taken from a character on The Andy Griffith Show. Everyone turns out to be a mass-murderer. The song also shows Freudian castration fears
xDD I find the meaning of this song to be really funny.
It's basically about all the characters from the Andy Griffith show going evil and stuff. -snickers-
Exactly, it's just black comedy, bascially.
Uhh...guys....the Andy Griffith meaning REALLY IS the meaning...
Exactly, FellOnBlackDays. Stop acting like this song is so deep. It's about exactly what it seems to be on the surface; Kurt gets raped by the cast of the Andy Griffith show. It came from Kurt's warped sense of humor. Haven't you ever seen Nirvana interview footage? Or read some of his published journals? Kurt was always making jokes. Yes, he was a severely depressed human being. That doesn't mean he always acted sad. He, like tons of people, used humor to cope. This song is about the pure folks of Mayberry raping Kurt, which is what people call irony, and he meant it to be funny.
Well said.<br /> <br /> By the way, is "KickerOfElves" a reference to Tenacious D?