Breed Lyrics

Lyric discussion by hiddenaway4ever 

Cover art for Breed lyrics by Nirvana

"We don't have to breed We can plant a house We can build a tree I don't even care We can have all three"

Nobody on this sight seems to get these lyrics so from an English Education Major's these lyrics, like all of Nirvana's is very symbolic. Planting a house means starting a family. By saying that your planting a house it's a way of saying that the house or family as a house is a living, breathing, and growing thing. Building a tree on the hand feeds off of the era in which the song was written in which all was about technology, so building a tree is a way of saying that every thing is being produced for finacial gain, even nature is being manufactured. The lyrics are presented in such a way as that the writer is at a crossroads in his life and he can't chose a direction. The lyrics are filled with the words "she said" which leads me to feel as though the undiciding man is being pushed by a female, be it a girlfried, a wife, a mother, or just a friend, to make this dicision. The desision is whether he wants to Plant a house, Build a tree or all three. In my oppinion the third choice is "We don't have to breed." Which means that he could chose not to start a family (plant a house) or buy into the finacial gain of building a tree.

@putinsolitary "English Education Major" this is from a non-native speaker who hasn´t spent a single day in an English speaking country. Let me show you some of the mistakes in your writing: sight no: site on the hand no: on one hand finacial no: financial chose no: choose that one is fucked up undiciding no: undecided dicision no: decision desision no: decision the same word spelled wrong in two different ways Plant Build no: plant build oppinion no: opinion that one really hurts finacial no: financial As for the style: Piss-poor performance. Please don´t get me wrong, I don´t want to hassle or embarrass you, it´s just that I am perplexed and...