You Know You're Right

When he says "Lets talk about someone else. Steaming soup against her mouth" I think he is trying to change the subject when he says the "Steaming soup against her mouth" line. Only trying to help since you couldn't figure it out. Thanks. (:

A lot of good facts and ideas in your interpretation. One thing that I don't think I read in your analysis is the fact that Cobain had a vicious stomach ailment that kept him in near constant pain--except, of course, when he used heroin. The pain factor likely contributed to his suicide.<br /> <br /> I agree about Courtney being a factor and that it would be impossible to blame her solely for his death. She was probably a nightmare to be married to ("buried" sang Kurt in "All Apologies"), but with his addiction, depression, and physical pain, he had many other factors contributing to his suicide than his psychotic and also strung-out wife.

@kittysixx <br /> I've wondering what the meaning of the title of this song could mean for a while now... and I think I finally figured it out<br /> <br /> You know when you're down or depressed you always have that voice in<br /> the back of your head telling you that you're worthless or even that<br /> you should take your own life. But somehow you push yourself to keep<br /> going and have this strange hope that everything will be alright one<br /> day... I think the words 'you know you're right' refer to when you get<br /> to that point when you no longer have hope and just quit fighting for<br /> you life and start actually believing all these nasty thoughts that<br /> grow in your head like 'you know no one loves you and no one will miss<br /> you when you're gone'...<br /> <br /> if you take it to an extreme you can even consider that when Kurt<br /> wrote this song he already decided (or at least considered) comiting<br /> suicide and in this song he just tells himself he's doing the right<br /> thing (even tough 'no though was put in to this' because now the<br /> voices in his head make it obvoius that he was always meant to end<br /> that away)

@kittysixx I always saw this as a intent to divorce Courtney. I this it gets associated with suicide because it was released after his death. As far as suicidal intent, I believe you have to take the entire discography into account to paint a picture of his bipolar dissorder. His death was not due to addiction or murder ( I believe). I think it was a culmination of achieving pop status and feeling like who didnt live up to his image. "Im to busy acting like im not naive/ I was here first Ive seen it all"-very ape. I think that after being clean for a small time he saw himself as a monster that was a burden to the world.

@kittysixx<br /> <br /> "I truly believe that Kurt didn't end his life because he was depressed."<br /> I honestly enjoyed your comment until I got to this hilarious remark. I understand this is merely your opinion, but seriously? Why is it so hard for people to accept reality? Kurt was a miserable, angry, unhappy person. Always in pain. Always hating himself. Everything about the man told us this. His fans LOVE to make up excuses. From the passion of anger in his music, his lyrics, his paintings, his journals, his suicide note, etc. etc. etc. Even in interviews he admits there were points where he was suicidal. His aunt even admitted to finding a song he wrote when he was 15-17, talking about attempting suicide. Then in Montage of Heck we find out it's true that suicide was in his mind years before Nirvana. Frances, if anything, blew him over the edge. The one line that stands out is: "and a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can't stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I've become." ..... he wasn't going to live much longer. With or without Nirvana, his wife/best friend, or heroin. He always desired to seek oblivion. And it clearly terrified him that one day, his daughter would end up like him. A failure. Yet another reason why he thought he was better off dead. I always laugh when people are under the impression he wasn't suicidal. HAH. Do some research, mate. It's like trying to convince me the sky isn't blue.

@kittysixx I agree with @ornicus107 as well. <br /> <br /> Another thought I had was that the whole "killing himself to immortalize his music" thing is pretty ridiuclous. Like that's pretty much the biggest selfish sell-out thing a person could concieve of. There's no way he'd do that. He was in a very very bad place, and the pressures of fame, heroin, and his personal life with Courtney pushed him over the edge. He didn't care about the fame, he hated it. Look up why he even wrote In Utero the way he did. He wanted to get rid of all the fans who had bandwagoned onto the popularity of Nevermind by making a noise album. The fact that his music was so incredibly big and known everywhere was a contributing factor to why he felt so awful towrad the end. The limelight hurt him like no other.

@kittysixx <br /> I think he said<br /> I have never felt to feel pain<br /> As in when did I ever have a heart in order to feel pain. <br /> You know you're right for pointing that out<br /> I think he was faced by choices he didn't want to make. Like getting a divorce and leaving his daughter behind. Like he was left by his dad. He wanted to stay loyal and loved. He didn't want to leave them. I'll bet his wife was like (leave us alone. Don't come near us. Dont follow us.) Because he was a drug addict and he was ruining his lil girls life. <br /> But he wouldn't be able to live with the thought of staying and getting sober because living was never his thing. Normal was never his thing. He needs extraordinary. Because he is terrified of sitting alone with his thoughts and getting to knw himself. Because he didn't love himself. Because no one ever loved him. Not the real him. Not the self destructive him. And he wrote this song to assure his wife that he won't do anymore harm to them. He's not killing himself because of the drugs. He's warm and calm inside as he decided this. <br /> He just wanted to be normal but couldn't bear the thought of being normal.. <br /> And once he realized not the band nirvana was not his way to the actual nirvana. He chose to move to the next life. Or the no life. Because no one commits suicide thinking about the afterlife and hell. He was just confused as fuk.

@kittysixx silly, Courtney is/was not behind Cobain Killing himself. What a shitty thing to say about his wife and mother of his daughter. Grow the fuck up!

@kittysixx I loved this interpretation of the song, its probably the best I've seen and love how deeply you analysed everything<br /> I also had my own thoughts about the title that becomes frequently repetitive within the song, I thought it could have meant one of two things, now I know Kurt has said in interviews that many of his lyrics dint have a meaning and that it was often open to interpretation by the listeners of his music but sometimes without the intention he will have reflected his music off his state of mind at the time, so I believe it was either him repeating this phrase trying to reassure himself that killing himself and all these dark thoughts were the right choice and correct path to follow and convince himself that he was in his right mind while choosing his destiny. My other interpretation of the lyric 'You know your right' is that he was telling everyone else: Courtney, his bandmates trying to get him off heroin, the press (who had previously published news that him and Courtney were bad parents to their newborn and that he was unfit to be a parent to Francis - which I dont believe) etc, that they were all right, he sarcastically was repeating this with no genuine reasoning just trying to make them happy and get them off his case and just brush their opinions off as invalid because he knows that they think they right and there's no convincing them otherwise, so he might as well in his final time give them the satisfaction of what could convince those people that all their negative opinions about him were right because he even began to believe them himself. <br /> Final comment is that these replies have really shown me other really valid perspectives that I had never thought of but really agree with, for example someone in the comment section brought in the quote 'killing himself to immortalize his music' which is genuinely one of the most valid reasons for why he did kill himself, he had always been depressed, addicted to heroin and had been in a long term (often unstable) relationship with Courtney, the only thing that changed is his popularity from a small cult following who listened to lyrics and liked the music for what it was, to mainstream where people listened to it for the brand and its popularity rather than actually appreciating the music. and mainstream listeners and what they brought to the nirvana following is the exact opposite of what kurt intended with his music (in my eyes at least). proven thru his response in the song in bloom referencing the macho men and jocks who didn't listen or appreciate the music for what it was and instead ignored the meanings and interpretations that Kurt had poured into this passion. I think nirvana's music unfortunately becoming mainstream resulted in Kurt losing the passion he had for music and songwriting which did seem (from research in documentaries and interviews) to be the only thing keeping him alive at times, and once things went south with Courtney and his music became mainstream led him to dark thoughts including the fact he concluded he could not be a good enough father to Francis because of his own upbringing and addiction and how his upbringing made him who he was - which at times he even knew wasnt right or healthy. <br /> Anyway whatever the meaning for the song or his death, I will always have the deepest appreciation and fascination for Kurt Cobain and the life and legacy he's lived and left and the immortalisation of his music could keep him alive even after his truly tragic death almost 30 years ago. Rip Kurt :)

@kittysixx its now almost 2024 and his music is still having found a big community and is saving lives like my own! im so sad kurt is gone, and my mind feels like it cant accept he is, but i know he‘s happier now in the afterlife. rest in peace bud, gone too soon.