I Should Have Known Lyrics

Lyric discussion by BurntGerbil 

Cover art for I Should Have Known lyrics by Foo Fighters

I'm gonna be 'that guy' too just a little bit. I think it's more directly to Jimmy in that he's talking about how he's seen it before and all of that. But I think that having Krist on the bass makes it pretty hard to deny that there's at least some sort of relevance implied for Cobain as being case where he'd seen it before. And off all the songs over the years they could have chosen for him to play on (and crank his bass in the mix, none the less), it was one with this subject matter. And according to that quote in the above post, Kurt's death probably hit Krist pretty hard.

Either way, I think that this once, and JUST this once (not ****ing "My Hero" and every other Foo song ever), there may actually be some relevance to the whole Kurt thing, even if a bit indirectly.

Dave has actually said its about Jimmy. This song and "Word Forward" are for/about him. Can't find exactly where at the moment, but he has said so. He also said that for others, it can mean whatever they want it to mean, personally.

But you aren't totally off-base in saying it is appropriate for Kurt as well, cause it certainly is.

watch the documentary before you start guessing...dave himself says that its about relationships in his past where he said to himself "i should have known that was going to happen"...and those of you saying its about kurt and jimmy, even if you say your not one of "those guys that says every foo song is about kurt"...your a hypocrite because you just did... i dont think dave has written any songs directly attributed to kurt...most popular misconception is Let It Die...he says in an interview that that song is NOT about kurt at all...thousands of songs by thousands of artists...

that was not meant to be a reply directly to your comment lol my bad....that was supposed to be a comment to everyone sorry ahha