This seems to me to be about two old friends in the after life (which I get from "we passed upon the stair" like a stairway to heaven or something.) The friend seems to be saying that his death is his fault, be it suicide or an overdose. ("I never lost control") But the narrator, interestingly enough, seems to be bliss to the fact that he's even dead. Like maybe he thinks it's all a dream or a hallucination.
"I laughed and shook his hand
And made my way back home
I searched for form and land
For years and years I roamed"
And then he starts to realize:
"I gazed a gazeless stare
We walked a million hills
I must have died alone
A long, long time ago"
And then now by the narrator singing the chorus, he seems to be sort of ok with it and kind of brushes it all off. Or maybe he's in denial or something. Maybe he prefers death over pain ad doesn't really care if it was his fault. Not sure. This is a very interesting song though, and it's definitely well executed by both Kurt and David Bowie in my opinion.
@Super_Ultra_Mega Although it's thinkable that a cover version is deliberately given a different meaning by changing a few words, I don't think that's what Mr Cobain intended to do in this case. The making hay of 'I' and 'we' -compared to the original lyrics- was most likely a result of his state of (never)mind.
As for the 'gazeless stare' he gazed and the 'million hills they walked': they sound more like misunderstood lyrics to me, especially because they sound so much like the original lyrics (I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here)...
@Super_Ultra_Mega Although it's thinkable that a cover version is deliberately given a different meaning by changing a few words, I don't think that's what Mr Cobain intended to do in this case. The making hay of 'I' and 'we' -compared to the original lyrics- was most likely a result of his state of (never)mind.
As for the 'gazeless stare' he gazed and the 'million hills they walked': they sound more like misunderstood lyrics to me, especially because they sound so much like the original lyrics (I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here)...
This seems to me to be about two old friends in the after life (which I get from "we passed upon the stair" like a stairway to heaven or something.) The friend seems to be saying that his death is his fault, be it suicide or an overdose. ("I never lost control") But the narrator, interestingly enough, seems to be bliss to the fact that he's even dead. Like maybe he thinks it's all a dream or a hallucination.
"I laughed and shook his hand And made my way back home I searched for form and land For years and years I roamed"
And then he starts to realize:
"I gazed a gazeless stare We walked a million hills I must have died alone A long, long time ago"
And then now by the narrator singing the chorus, he seems to be sort of ok with it and kind of brushes it all off. Or maybe he's in denial or something. Maybe he prefers death over pain ad doesn't really care if it was his fault. Not sure. This is a very interesting song though, and it's definitely well executed by both Kurt and David Bowie in my opinion.
@Super_Ultra_Mega Although it's thinkable that a cover version is deliberately given a different meaning by changing a few words, I don't think that's what Mr Cobain intended to do in this case. The making hay of 'I' and 'we' -compared to the original lyrics- was most likely a result of his state of (never)mind. As for the 'gazeless stare' he gazed and the 'million hills they walked': they sound more like misunderstood lyrics to me, especially because they sound so much like the original lyrics (I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here)...
@Super_Ultra_Mega Although it's thinkable that a cover version is deliberately given a different meaning by changing a few words, I don't think that's what Mr Cobain intended to do in this case. The making hay of 'I' and 'we' -compared to the original lyrics- was most likely a result of his state of (never)mind. As for the 'gazeless stare' he gazed and the 'million hills they walked': they sound more like misunderstood lyrics to me, especially because they sound so much like the original lyrics (I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here)...