k…this might be a little long, but many explanations I’ve read frustrate me. this song is about the three band members, and what it was like for Dave to be put in a situation like this. he has said that when he first joined the band, he lived with krist. after a while of living with krist, it became too depressing and gross for him, so he moved in with kurt. he would "...stay up till the sun came up and sleep all day" while living with kurt, and eventually began to write songs. this being one of them.
“he needs a quiet room
with a lock to keep him
in its just a quiet room
and hes there”
I think that this first verse has been split into two halves, and this first part is about kurt. Dave observed kurt a lot while living with him, and it didn’t take long for him to be inspired to write a song about the three of them, so it would make sense for such a strong group of lyrics to be about kurt. Not to mention, this sounds like kurt.
"he plays an old guitar
with a coin found by the phone
it was his friends guitar".
my guess is that the first verse is about dave himself, since he had no guitar, and he was writing songs on one. he said on the skin and bones dvd that he had written that song on the guitar, and seeing as he didn't have a guitar, and lived with kurt, it would've been kurt's.
“hes never been in love
but he knows just what love is
he says nevermind
and no one speaks”
I think this verse is split in half as well, with this half being about kurt. I don’t think that nevermind could’ve been a reference to the record, seeing as how it wasn’t out when this song was written. Kurt had been in one serious relationship by this point, and had some un-official relationships going at this time with a couple of girls. In a biography, it is observed that kurt wanted the kind of family life with a stable relationship and love that is referenced in this verse; but it was often hard for kurt to find this. So maybe when “he says nevermind”, it means that he’s given up.
“he thinks he drinks too much
cause when he tells his two best friends
i think i drink too much
no one speaks”
this verse must be about krist, since krist was a drinker. I think the three band members had a silent friendship, especially with kurt’s personality in the mix, so the “no one speaks” refrain probably refers to this silent assurance that could’ve come from “his two best friends”.
And then the first verse, which like I said is most likely about dave, is repeated, and is a very nice conclusion to an great song. Dave said that writing this song (or maybe marigold) was the first time he ever picked up a guitar to write an acoustic song, and it came out beautifully.
k…this might be a little long, but many explanations I’ve read frustrate me. this song is about the three band members, and what it was like for Dave to be put in a situation like this. he has said that when he first joined the band, he lived with krist. after a while of living with krist, it became too depressing and gross for him, so he moved in with kurt. he would "...stay up till the sun came up and sleep all day" while living with kurt, and eventually began to write songs. this being one of them.
“he needs a quiet room with a lock to keep him in its just a quiet room and hes there”
I think that this first verse has been split into two halves, and this first part is about kurt. Dave observed kurt a lot while living with him, and it didn’t take long for him to be inspired to write a song about the three of them, so it would make sense for such a strong group of lyrics to be about kurt. Not to mention, this sounds like kurt.
"he plays an old guitar with a coin found by the phone it was his friends guitar".
my guess is that the first verse is about dave himself, since he had no guitar, and he was writing songs on one. he said on the skin and bones dvd that he had written that song on the guitar, and seeing as he didn't have a guitar, and lived with kurt, it would've been kurt's.
“hes never been in love but he knows just what love is he says nevermind and no one speaks”
I think this verse is split in half as well, with this half being about kurt. I don’t think that nevermind could’ve been a reference to the record, seeing as how it wasn’t out when this song was written. Kurt had been in one serious relationship by this point, and had some un-official relationships going at this time with a couple of girls. In a biography, it is observed that kurt wanted the kind of family life with a stable relationship and love that is referenced in this verse; but it was often hard for kurt to find this. So maybe when “he says nevermind”, it means that he’s given up.
“he thinks he drinks too much cause when he tells his two best friends i think i drink too much no one speaks”
this verse must be about krist, since krist was a drinker. I think the three band members had a silent friendship, especially with kurt’s personality in the mix, so the “no one speaks” refrain probably refers to this silent assurance that could’ve come from “his two best friends”.
And then the first verse, which like I said is most likely about dave, is repeated, and is a very nice conclusion to an great song. Dave said that writing this song (or maybe marigold) was the first time he ever picked up a guitar to write an acoustic song, and it came out beautifully.