"Load up on guns; bring your friends" - Guns= needles friends= encase of fallout
"It's fun to lose and to pretend" - Euphoric feelings
"She's over-bored and self-assured" - there is no going back, and she knows it
"Oh no, I know a dirty word" - Heroin
"With the lights out, it's less dangerous" - feels secure and satisfied after a shot
"Here we are now; entertain us" - to messed up, they can't entertain themselves
"I feel stupid and contagious" - trying it was stupid yet he still introduces it
"Here we are now; entertain us" - " "
"A mulatto" - Black-tar mixed with water, turns it brown
"an albino" - his blue veins seen through light skin
"a mosquito" - the prick of the needle and checking the drawback of blood
"my libido" - Heroin is better than sex..
"Yeah, hey" - thats about all you can say after you've shot enough..
"Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello, how low
Hello, hello, hello"
-This about a fallout (overdose) other people trying to wake him up, he is at a very low point, very near death
"I'm worse at what I do best" - doesn't think hes a good musician
"And for this gift I feel blessed" - he feels blessed to create, though hes on dope
"Our little group has always been" - Always felt like they were over-rated
"And always will until the end" - Hes caught, and will be until death
"And I forget just why I taste" - why did he start?
"Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile" - it made him feel good while depressed
"I found it hard; it's hard to find" - hes hardened and lost inside
"Oh well, whatever, never mind" - no control, no hope, no future
"a denial" - he denies this part of himself though he knows it exists, a complex confusion all addicts face and nobody else can feel unless they have been where he has.
Yeah kinda what BiPolarBear said, you obviously have a bigger brain than the rest of these idiots who can't decipher lyrics from a heroine addict. Think outside the box dumb asses.
Yeah kinda what BiPolarBear said, you obviously have a bigger brain than the rest of these idiots who can't decipher lyrics from a heroine addict. Think outside the box dumb asses.
Except he didn't even start heroin until he was RECORDING Nevermind, meaning this song was written before he started heroin. (several post-death interviews wiil say this, as far as sources go).
Except he didn't even start heroin until he was RECORDING Nevermind, meaning this song was written before he started heroin. (several post-death interviews wiil say this, as far as sources go).
Dude you are losing it. You see the description above yours? The top one. It is correct becouse it's written in "Heavier than Heaven" Kurt's biography. You just writed about heroin lol it's all nonsense
Dude you are losing it. You see the description above yours? The top one. It is correct becouse it's written in "Heavier than Heaven" Kurt's biography. You just writed about heroin lol it's all nonsense
Heavier than Heaven is a biography yes, one written in 2001 and again NOT an auto-biography.
Heavier than Heaven is a biography yes, one written in 2001 and again NOT an auto-biography.
It's not fact, but actually Charles R. Ross speculation
It's not fact, but actually Charles R. Ross speculation
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In Heavier Than Heaven, Charles R. Cross' biography of Kurt Cobain, the author argues that the song is a reference to Cobain's relationship with ex-girlfriend Tobi Vail. Cross cites the line "She's over-bored and self-assured" and states the song "could not have been about anyone else."
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In Heavier Than Heaven, Charles R. Cross' biography of Kurt Cobain, the author argues that the song is a reference to Cobain's relationship with ex-girlfriend Tobi Vail. Cross cites the line "She's over-bored and self-assured" and states the song "could not have been about anyone else."
@BiPolarBer I believe you got is spot on bipolarber and I think the lyrics are pure genius.
@BiPolarBer I believe you got is spot on bipolarber and I think the lyrics are pure genius.
To add my thoughts on a few things it was clear that Kurt was devastated when Toni vail (who used teen spirit,her scent.)broke up with him,and he wrote at least 6 songs about her. (By the way this happened in 1990 and as in the cross book it's says a new character appeared in Kurt's journal and would soon spring into every image,song story,this was heroine.(which was Kurt's own "bastardisation" of the word heroin) Which became his great love in the fall of...
To add my thoughts on a few things it was clear that Kurt was devastated when Toni vail (who used teen spirit,her scent.)broke up with him,and he wrote at least 6 songs about her. (By the way this happened in 1990 and as in the cross book it's says a new character appeared in Kurt's journal and would soon spring into every image,song story,this was heroine.(which was Kurt's own "bastardisation" of the word heroin) Which became his great love in the fall of 1990. He overcame his fear of needles and injected for the first time with a friend that fall.
He found the euphoric affects helped him temporarily overcome his heartache and also helped with his stomach pain.
He also said he really liked it and it made him more sociable. So now you know all this. Just enjoy the pure Genius of the Lyrics.
@BiPolarBer
If you really think that this song had that much thought put into it, that it became a gumbo pot of metaphors that not even Bob Dylan could pretend to decipher than you are smoking too much salvia and not getting out of your parents basement enough.
@BiPolarBer
If you really think that this song had that much thought put into it, that it became a gumbo pot of metaphors that not even Bob Dylan could pretend to decipher than you are smoking too much salvia and not getting out of your parents basement enough.
Dude. It's a good song. And everyone knows that what makes a hit song, is simplicity.
Dude. It's a good song. And everyone knows that what makes a hit song, is simplicity.
There are people who try to make their songs as complex as possible and it doesn't come to be called art... It is called Techno...
There are people who try to make their songs as complex as possible and it doesn't come to be called art... It is called Techno...
As an ex heroin addict myself. I am confident in saying...
As an ex heroin addict myself. I am confident in saying this song may have been written while on a squinting-eyed, heavy headed, dose of what I used to refer of as "normal".
@BiPolarBer I don't think the lyrics were intended to have meaning, but I've never used heroin. It does reflected a tormented soul. Most of Cobain's lyrics do. Perhaps it's subconscious the way it was put from pen to paper.
@BiPolarBer I don't think the lyrics were intended to have meaning, but I've never used heroin. It does reflected a tormented soul. Most of Cobain's lyrics do. Perhaps it's subconscious the way it was put from pen to paper.
@BiPolarBer First let me say that i am an addict myself and i think that most of your interpretations of the lines of the song are spot on. This comment "The entire song is made up of contradictory ideas. It's just making fun of the thought of having a revolution. But it's a nice thought.", is in my opinion shot down by this interview segment where he says (when speaking about his heroine addiction) that he always lied about it, because he never wanted to influence anybody to do drugs because he think it is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0cQSFCSENI...
@BiPolarBer First let me say that i am an addict myself and i think that most of your interpretations of the lines of the song are spot on. This comment "The entire song is made up of contradictory ideas. It's just making fun of the thought of having a revolution. But it's a nice thought.", is in my opinion shot down by this interview segment where he says (when speaking about his heroine addiction) that he always lied about it, because he never wanted to influence anybody to do drugs because he think it is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0cQSFCSENI
@BiPolarBer That's a very great perspective, except for the fact that the mulatto, albino, mosquito, libido part meant hardcore liquors with the same names. Very great answer. You broke it down so well, and I think that's how it would have been. People misunderstand Kurt Cobain's lyrics all the time, but overthink them, and fail to see the abstracts in his meaning.
@BiPolarBer That's a very great perspective, except for the fact that the mulatto, albino, mosquito, libido part meant hardcore liquors with the same names. Very great answer. You broke it down so well, and I think that's how it would have been. People misunderstand Kurt Cobain's lyrics all the time, but overthink them, and fail to see the abstracts in his meaning.
@BiPolarBer This makes more sense than the whole teenage high school bs honestly. Coming from heroin addiction, it makes more sense and now I have chills on repeat nothings ever been so much more relatable
@BiPolarBer This makes more sense than the whole teenage high school bs honestly. Coming from heroin addiction, it makes more sense and now I have chills on repeat nothings ever been so much more relatable
The meaning is simple if you have been there..
"Load up on guns; bring your friends" - Guns= needles friends= encase of fallout "It's fun to lose and to pretend" - Euphoric feelings "She's over-bored and self-assured" - there is no going back, and she knows it "Oh no, I know a dirty word" - Heroin
"With the lights out, it's less dangerous" - feels secure and satisfied after a shot "Here we are now; entertain us" - to messed up, they can't entertain themselves "I feel stupid and contagious" - trying it was stupid yet he still introduces it "Here we are now; entertain us" - " " "A mulatto" - Black-tar mixed with water, turns it brown "an albino" - his blue veins seen through light skin "a mosquito" - the prick of the needle and checking the drawback of blood "my libido" - Heroin is better than sex.. "Yeah, hey" - thats about all you can say after you've shot enough..
"Hello, hello, hello, how low Hello, hello, hello, how low Hello, hello, hello, how low Hello, hello, hello" -This about a fallout (overdose) other people trying to wake him up, he is at a very low point, very near death
"I'm worse at what I do best" - doesn't think hes a good musician "And for this gift I feel blessed" - he feels blessed to create, though hes on dope "Our little group has always been" - Always felt like they were over-rated "And always will until the end" - Hes caught, and will be until death
"And I forget just why I taste" - why did he start? "Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile" - it made him feel good while depressed "I found it hard; it's hard to find" - hes hardened and lost inside "Oh well, whatever, never mind" - no control, no hope, no future
"a denial" - he denies this part of himself though he knows it exists, a complex confusion all addicts face and nobody else can feel unless they have been where he has.
I think this is the best "translation" of the song as its meaning. You really made the song sound more logical.
I think this is the best "translation" of the song as its meaning. You really made the song sound more logical.
Yeah kinda what BiPolarBear said, you obviously have a bigger brain than the rest of these idiots who can't decipher lyrics from a heroine addict. Think outside the box dumb asses.
Yeah kinda what BiPolarBear said, you obviously have a bigger brain than the rest of these idiots who can't decipher lyrics from a heroine addict. Think outside the box dumb asses.
Except he didn't even start heroin until he was RECORDING Nevermind, meaning this song was written before he started heroin. (several post-death interviews wiil say this, as far as sources go).
Except he didn't even start heroin until he was RECORDING Nevermind, meaning this song was written before he started heroin. (several post-death interviews wiil say this, as far as sources go).
inthe212, actually he started using heroin in 1986, well before he wrote this song in 1991. so this interpretation does have merit.
inthe212, actually he started using heroin in 1986, well before he wrote this song in 1991. so this interpretation does have merit.
Thank you, BiPolarBer! Your translation has helped me big time!!!
Thank you, BiPolarBer! Your translation has helped me big time!!!
Dude you are losing it. You see the description above yours? The top one. It is correct becouse it's written in "Heavier than Heaven" Kurt's biography. You just writed about heroin lol it's all nonsense
Dude you are losing it. You see the description above yours? The top one. It is correct becouse it's written in "Heavier than Heaven" Kurt's biography. You just writed about heroin lol it's all nonsense
Way to over-think it. I bet anyone can write nonsense and someone else would "find meaning" in it, oh wait, it already happened with this song.
Way to over-think it. I bet anyone can write nonsense and someone else would "find meaning" in it, oh wait, it already happened with this song.
@adnann1176
@adnann1176
Heavier than Heaven is a biography yes, one written in 2001 and again NOT an auto-biography.
Heavier than Heaven is a biography yes, one written in 2001 and again NOT an auto-biography.
It's not fact, but actually Charles R. Ross speculation
It's not fact, but actually Charles R. Ross speculation
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In Heavier Than Heaven, Charles R. Cross' biography of Kurt Cobain, the author argues that the song is a reference to Cobain's relationship with ex-girlfriend Tobi Vail. Cross cites the line "She's over-bored and self-assured" and states the song "could not have been about anyone else."
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In Heavier Than Heaven, Charles R. Cross' biography of Kurt Cobain, the author argues that the song is a reference to Cobain's relationship with ex-girlfriend Tobi Vail. Cross cites the line "She's over-bored and self-assured" and states the song "could not have been about anyone else."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit#Lyrics_and_interpretation
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit#Lyrics_and_interpretation
@BiPolarBer I believe you got is spot on bipolarber and I think the lyrics are pure genius.
@BiPolarBer I believe you got is spot on bipolarber and I think the lyrics are pure genius.
To add my thoughts on a few things it was clear that Kurt was devastated when Toni vail (who used teen spirit,her scent.)broke up with him,and he wrote at least 6 songs about her. (By the way this happened in 1990 and as in the cross book it's says a new character appeared in Kurt's journal and would soon spring into every image,song story,this was heroine.(which was Kurt's own "bastardisation" of the word heroin) Which became his great love in the fall of...
To add my thoughts on a few things it was clear that Kurt was devastated when Toni vail (who used teen spirit,her scent.)broke up with him,and he wrote at least 6 songs about her. (By the way this happened in 1990 and as in the cross book it's says a new character appeared in Kurt's journal and would soon spring into every image,song story,this was heroine.(which was Kurt's own "bastardisation" of the word heroin) Which became his great love in the fall of 1990. He overcame his fear of needles and injected for the first time with a friend that fall.
He found the euphoric affects helped him temporarily overcome his heartache and also helped with his stomach pain.
He also said he really liked it and it made him more sociable. So now you know all this. Just enjoy the pure Genius of the Lyrics.
Peace out.
@BiPolarBer If you really think that this song had that much thought put into it, that it became a gumbo pot of metaphors that not even Bob Dylan could pretend to decipher than you are smoking too much salvia and not getting out of your parents basement enough.
@BiPolarBer If you really think that this song had that much thought put into it, that it became a gumbo pot of metaphors that not even Bob Dylan could pretend to decipher than you are smoking too much salvia and not getting out of your parents basement enough.
Dude. It's a good song. And everyone knows that what makes a hit song, is simplicity.
Dude. It's a good song. And everyone knows that what makes a hit song, is simplicity.
There are people who try to make their songs as complex as possible and it doesn't come to be called art... It is called Techno...
There are people who try to make their songs as complex as possible and it doesn't come to be called art... It is called Techno...
As an ex heroin addict myself. I am confident in saying...
As an ex heroin addict myself. I am confident in saying this song may have been written while on a squinting-eyed, heavy headed, dose of what I used to refer of as "normal".
@BiPolarBer you have a good thought track, but according to Kurt, this song has no meaning. It's a joke.
@BiPolarBer you have a good thought track, but according to Kurt, this song has no meaning. It's a joke.
@BiPolarBer over thinking
@BiPolarBer over thinking
@BiPolarBer I don't think the lyrics were intended to have meaning, but I've never used heroin. It does reflected a tormented soul. Most of Cobain's lyrics do. Perhaps it's subconscious the way it was put from pen to paper.
@BiPolarBer I don't think the lyrics were intended to have meaning, but I've never used heroin. It does reflected a tormented soul. Most of Cobain's lyrics do. Perhaps it's subconscious the way it was put from pen to paper.
@BiPolarBer First let me say that i am an addict myself and i think that most of your interpretations of the lines of the song are spot on. This comment "The entire song is made up of contradictory ideas. It's just making fun of the thought of having a revolution. But it's a nice thought.", is in my opinion shot down by this interview segment where he says (when speaking about his heroine addiction) that he always lied about it, because he never wanted to influence anybody to do drugs because he think it is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0cQSFCSENI...
@BiPolarBer First let me say that i am an addict myself and i think that most of your interpretations of the lines of the song are spot on. This comment "The entire song is made up of contradictory ideas. It's just making fun of the thought of having a revolution. But it's a nice thought.", is in my opinion shot down by this interview segment where he says (when speaking about his heroine addiction) that he always lied about it, because he never wanted to influence anybody to do drugs because he think it is stupid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0cQSFCSENI
@BiPolarBer That's a very great perspective, except for the fact that the mulatto, albino, mosquito, libido part meant hardcore liquors with the same names. Very great answer. You broke it down so well, and I think that's how it would have been. People misunderstand Kurt Cobain's lyrics all the time, but overthink them, and fail to see the abstracts in his meaning.
@BiPolarBer That's a very great perspective, except for the fact that the mulatto, albino, mosquito, libido part meant hardcore liquors with the same names. Very great answer. You broke it down so well, and I think that's how it would have been. People misunderstand Kurt Cobain's lyrics all the time, but overthink them, and fail to see the abstracts in his meaning.
@BiPolarBer This makes more sense than the whole teenage high school bs honestly. Coming from heroin addiction, it makes more sense and now I have chills on repeat nothings ever been so much more relatable
@BiPolarBer This makes more sense than the whole teenage high school bs honestly. Coming from heroin addiction, it makes more sense and now I have chills on repeat nothings ever been so much more relatable
not only that it's super jammy :D
not only that it's super jammy :D