Downer

Portray sincerity
Act out of loyalty Defend your free country Wish away the pain Hand out lobotomies To save little families Surrealistic fantasy Bland boring plain
(Describes the Kennedy family and Frances Farmer, JFK's death and the need for a Vietnam war to carry out the cold war but not being epic enough)

Hold me down in restitution (Surrendering after a struggle) Living out your date with fusion (Implies forces at work that are predetermined) Is the whole fleece shun in master? (A sense of duty from higher power) Don't feel guilty, master writing (Deism)

Somebody thought that they're not much like I am I know I can Make enough of the words you go along I sing your song
(Trying to empathize and ultimately epitomize with the audience)

Sickening pessimist hypocrite master
(Corrupt Nanny State; do as I say not as I do with a malicious medical theme) Conservative communist apocalyptic bastard (An absolute authoritarian state; the mark of the beast is proposing all mankind be connected through implanted scan-able microchips banking and religion) Thank you dear God for putting me on this earth (damnation) I feel very privileged in debt for my thirst (I feel very frivolous. death in mind, Nurse!)

Living in a society where your born into debt is why this song is called downer because a free country wouldn't need defending. An obligation to serve yet the the true purpose is evil

Kurt Cobains Attempt at a Political Song.

also frances farmer wrote an essay in school that won her a competition and made people think she was an aetheist and a communist you should read into her very intresting story.

woooh this song rokks rather lots =)

It seems to me that he wrote about some thoughts he had, he puted them all together. In the line "conservative communist" i think he disagrees with both extreme political ideas. In the alternative version (i dont know if its correct) that "Nirvanatourettes" pued, when he sings "Somebody served a dinner Much like I am" seems to be related with the line "animals trapped, all became my pets, and im living out of grass", as well as "yes i eat cow im not proud" from Mr.Moustache. It seems that he was thinking about vegetarianisim.

peace! OM MANI PADME HUM

i dont think kurt meant this as a "serious" political song. anyone who puts something like "apocalyptic bastard" in a song has to be sticking their tongue in their cheek

I think these lyrics are incorrect. Bland, boring, plain - should be the last line of the first paragraph, there are probably more wrong lyrics,but im not goin to point them out. "bad boy, fight." i dont think so.

I agree on the lyrics. This was originally one of Kurt's "Fecal Matter" songs, it is the Bleach song with the longest history

This is possibly my favourite Nirvana song, but some of the lyrics are definitely wrong. Of course, Kurt's lyrics are ofter hard to decipher. This is an example of his perfect genius.

i didnt even know the lyrics till i got the book.......good book....i read it in a day......yea the song kicks ass........the way he sings it kinda reminds me of what someone would think an acid trip would be like