Nirvana - In Utero
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1993 GEFFEN
Kurt Cobain: lead vocals, guitar
Krist Novoselic: bass
Dave Grohl: drums, background vocals
SERVE THE SERVANTS
Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old
Self-appointed judges judge
More than they have sold
If she floats than she is not
A witch like we had thought
A down payment on another
One at Salem's lot
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants
That legendary divorce is such a bore
As my bones grew they did hurt
They hurt really bad
I tried hard to have a father
But instead I had a Dad
I just want you to know that I
Don't hate you anymore
There is nothing I could say
That I haven't thought before
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants
That legendary divorce is such a bore
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants - oh no
Serve the servants
That legendary divorce is such a bore
SCENTLESS APPRENTICE
Taken from "Perfume" a novel by Patrick Suskind
Like most babies smell like butter
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He was born a scentless apprentice
Go away - get away, get away, get a-way
Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not sell your perfumed secrets
There are countless formulas for pressing flowers
Go away - get away, get away, get a-way
I lie in the soil and fertilize mushrooms
Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume
You can't fire me because I quit
Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit
Go away - get away, get away, get a-way
Go away - get away, get away, get a-way
HEART-SHAPED BOX
She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week
I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hate
Haight
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel's hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hate
Haight
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
RAPE ME
Rape me
Rape me, my friend
Rape me
Rape me again
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
Hate me
Do it and do it again
Waste me
Rape me, my friend
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
My favorite inside source
I'll kiss your open sores
Appreciate your concern
You'll always stink and burn
Rape me
Rape me, my friend
Rape me
Rape me again
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
I'm not the only one
My favorite inside source
I'll kiss your open sores
Appreciate your concern
You'll always stink and burn
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
Rape me
FRANCES FARMER WILL HAVE HER REVENGE ON SEATTLE
It's so relieving to know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing to hear that you're asking wherever you get your way
It's so soothing to know that you'll sue me,
this is starting to sound the same
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
In her false witness we hope you're still with us,
to see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient, a display of patience, disease-covered Puget Sound
She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars,
and leave a blanket of ash on the ground
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
It's so relieving to know that you're leaving as soon as you get paid
It's so relaxing to hear that you're asking wherever you get your way
It's so soothing to know that you'll sue me,
this is starting to sound the same
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
I miss the comfort in being sad
DUMB
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy
My heart is broke
But I have some glue
Help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
And have a hangover... Have a hangover
Have a hangover
Have a hangover
Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up
I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The song is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb
Or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy
Think I'm just happy
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
I think I'm dumb
VERY APE
I am buried up to my neck in
Contradictionary flies
I take pride as the kind of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate
To ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive
I've seen it all I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
If you ever need anything please don't hesitate
To ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive
I've seen it all I was here first
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the ground
Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt
MILK IT
I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphins
Doll steak, test meat
Look on the bright side is suicide
Lost eyesight I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and/or sleeping
I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit is her milk
Test meat, doll steak
Look on the bright side is suicide
Lost eyesight I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and/or sleeping
Doll steak, test meat
Look on the bright side is suicide
Lost eyesight I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and/or sleeping
Protector of the kennel
Ecto-plasma
Ecto-skeletal
Obituary birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery
PENNYROYAL TEA
I'm on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm a liar and a thief
Sit and drink Pennyroyal
I'm anemic royalty
I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty
RADIO FRIENDLY UNIT SHIFTER
What's your name
Do you like me
Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starve without your skeleton key
I love you for what I am not
I do not want what I have got
A blanket acne'ed with cigarette burns
Speak at once while taking turns
What is wrong with me
What is wrong with me
What is what I need
This had nothing to do with what you think
If you ever think at all
Bi-polar opposites attract
All of a sudden my water broke
I love you for what I am not
I do not want what I have got
A blanket acne'ed with cigarette burns
Second-rate third degree burns
What is wrong with me
What is wrong with me
What do I think I think
Hate, hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth
What is wrong with me
What is wrong with me
What is what I need
What do I think I think
Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starve without your skeleton key
What is wrong with me
What is wrong with me
What is what I need
What do I think I think
What is wrong with me
What is wrong with me
What is what I need
What do I think I think
TOURETTE'S
Cufk, Tish, Sips
(Fuck, Shit Piss)
Moderate Rock
"I just babbled" "I didn't make any sentences or any words, I just screamed"
-Kurt Cobain
(thoughts on tourette's lyrics)
"An early lyric sheet for the song merely printed the words `Fuck shit piss'."
-Mike Azzerad
(Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana pg. 328)
ALL APOLOGIES
What else should I be
All apologies
What else could I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the right
What else should I be
All apologies
In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun
I'm married
buried
I wish I was like you
Easily amused
Find my nest of salt
Everything is my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua Seafoam Shame
Sunburn with freezerburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy
In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun
I'm married
married
married
buried
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
All in all is all we all are
GALLONS OF RUBBING ALCOHOL FLOW THROUGH THE STRIP
It hurts when you have to press that dull little thing
that you're only supposed to use once and then discard
Where do you put it
In the garbage, in my harness, in my chain, just let her flow (?)
She's only been five months late
Even though we haven't had sex for a week
A milliday, a millisecond, Fires make my (?)
Somebody else already used the word Aurora Borealis
She was tied up in chains and Sam had helped her in the freezer
She's only five weeks late and I haven't had a date forever
Ever
Ever
Forever
I Wish I had more
More opportunity
More chances to remember some things
So I couldn't have so much pressure on my
my
on my, um
on my, um
um, I forget
We'd have so much more diversity and so much more input
So much more creative flow if we had someone in school, a GIT
GIT... geeks in town
Come on David, think of one
Dave: (?)
It should be GIC, geeks with ______ (?)
No, GWC
Fuck man, this is a waste of time
One more solo
Yaaa!
Yaaa!
You're personally responsible for, the entire strip, to be washed away
Cleansed, as if gallons of um, rubbing alcohol flowed through the strip
And were set on fire
It didn't just singe the hair, it made it straight
And then Perry Ellis came along with his broom
And his... silk
And he... he erected a beautiful city
A city of stars
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