Numb Lyrics

Lyric discussion by seraphius 

Cover art for Numb lyrics by Cure, The

it is about Kurt Cobain

@seraphius I think this is extremely doubtful. Among other things, I don't know of any evidence that Smith (or anyone else in the Cure for that matter) knew Cobain. The timing would be rather odd too, since this song came out after Cobain's highly publicised suicide, which certainly isn't even referenced.

Also, it seems to me that Kurt's big psych issue was untreated depression, that he was self-medicating (an all-too-common problem). I get the impression that his doctor(s) hadn't really tried to do anything about it; he should have been at least trying more, umm, traditional antidepressants, but they...