AbouT a In UterO LyricS


  • 1. Serve The Servants
  • 2. Scentless Apprentice
  • 3. Heart Shaped Box
  • 4. Rape Me
  • 5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
  • 6. Dumb
  • 7. Very Ape
  • 8. Milk It
  • 9. Pennyroyal Tea
  • 10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifer
  • 11. Tourette's
  • 12. All Apologies
  • 13. Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohal Flow Through The Strip (Hidden track on import versions only)

  • Information about In Utero

    Kurt Cobain: Vocals, Guitar
    Krist Noveselic: Bass
    Dave Grohl: Drums
    Kera Chaley: Cello on Dumb and All Apologies

    Recorded by Steve Albini

    Versions of In Utero bought at K-Mart just have 1 big turtle on the back of the case instead of babies and body parts.

    Serve The Servents


    Teenage angst has paid off well

    Now I'm bored and old

    Self-appointed judges judge

    More then they have sold

    If he floats than she is now

    A witch like we had thought

    A down payment on another

    One a salem's lot

    Serve the servents - oh no (5x)

    That legendary divorse is such a bore

    As my bones grew did they hurt

    They hurt really bad

    I tried to have a father

    But still 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 havn't thought before

    Serve the servents - oh no (5x)

    That legendary divorse is such a bore


    Scentless Apprentice


    Like most babies smell like butter

    He smelled like no other

    He was born a 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

    Elecolytes smell like semen

    I promise not to 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 fertalize mushrooms

    Leaking out gas fumes made into perfume

    You can't fire me, cause I quit

    Throw me in the fire and I won't throw a fit

    Go away - get away, get away, get-a-way


    Heart Shaped Box


    She eyes me like a pieces when I am weak

    Ive been locked inside you heart shaped box a week

    I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap

    I wish I could eat you cancer when you turn back

    Hey, wait

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your priceless advice

    Hate, Haight

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your priceless advice

    Hey, Wait

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your priceless advice

    Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet

    Cut myself on angels hair and babys breath

    Broken hymen of your highness i'm left back

    Throw down your umbillical noose so I can climb right back

    Hey, wait

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your priceless advice

    Hate, Haight

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your priceless advice

    Hey, Wait

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your pricless advice

    She eyes me like a pieces when I am weak

    Ive been locked inside you heart shaped box a week

    I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap

    I wish I could eat you cancer when you turn back

    Hey, wait

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your priceless advice

    Hate, Haight

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your priceless advice

    Hey, Wait

    Ive got a new complaint

    Forever in debt to your pricless advice

    Your advice (4x)


    Rape Me


    Rape me, rape me my friend

    Rape me, rape me again

    Im not the only one (4x)

    Hate me

    Do it. And do it. Again

    Waste me

    Rape me, my friend

    Im not the only one (4x)

    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

    Im not the only one (4x)

    Rape me (17x)


    Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle


    Its so relieving to know that your leaving as soon as you get paid

    Its so relaxing to hear that your asking wherever you get your way

    Its so soothing to know that you'll sue me, this is starting to sound the same

    I miss the comfort in being sad (3x)

    In her false witness, we hope your 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 (3x)

    Its so relieving to know that your leaving as soon as you get paid

    Its so relaxing to hear that your asking wherever you get your way

    Its so soothing to know that you'll sue me, this is starting to sound the same

    I miss the comfort in being sad (3x)


    Dumb (Cool cello on this song)


    Im not like them

    But I can pretend

    The sun is gone

    But I have a light

    The day is done

    But im having fun

    I think im dumb

    Or maybe just happy

    Think im just happy (3x)

    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 well come down

    And have a hangover....have a hangover (3x)

    Skin the sun

    Fall asleep

    Wish away

    The soul is cheap

    Lesson learned

    Wish me luck

    Soothe the burn

    Wake me up

    Im not like them

    But I can pretend

    The sun is gone

    But I have a light

    The day is done

    But Im having fun

    I think im just dumb

    Or maybe just happy

    Think im just happy (3x)

    I think Im dumb (12x)


    Very Ape


    I am buried up to my neck in

    Contradictionary flies

    I take pride as king of illterature

    Im very ape and nice

    If you ever need anything please don't hesitate

    To ask someone else first

    Im too busy acting like im not naive

    Ive seen it all I was here first

    Out on 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

    Im too busy acting like im not naive

    Ive seen it all I was here first

    Out on the ground

    Into the sky

    Out of the sky

    Into the dirt

    Out on the ground

    Into the sky

    Out of the sky

    Into the dirt


    Milt It


    I am my own parasite

    I don't need a host to live in

    We feed off of each other

    We can share our endomorphins

    Doll stake, test meat

    Look on the bright side is suicide

    Lost eyesight im 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

    Her shit is my milk

    Test meat, doll stake

    Look on the bright side is suicide

    Lost eyesight im on your side

    Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing

    Lack of iron and/or sleeping

    Doll stake, test meat

    Look on the bright side is suicide

    Lost eyesight im 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


    Im on my time with everyone

    I have very bad posture

    Sit and drink pennyroyal tea

    Distill the life thats inside of me

    Sit and drink pennyroyal tea

    Im anemic royalty

    Give me Leonard Cohen afterworld

    So I can sigh eternally

    Im so tired I cant sleep

    Im a liar and a thief

    Sit and drink, pennyroyal tea

    Im anemic royality

    Im on warm milk and laxatives

    Cherry-flavored antacids

    Sit and drink pennyroyal tea

    Distill the life thats inside of me

    Sit and drink pennyroyal tea

    Im anemic royalty


    Radio Friendly Unit Shifter


    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

    Second-rate third degree burns

    What is wrong with me

    What is what I need

    What do I think, I think

    This had nothing to do with what you think

    If you ever think at all

    Bi-polar opposites attract

    All of a sudden my watter broke

    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

    Second-rate third degree burns

    What is wrong with me

    What is what I need

    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 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 what I need

    What do I think, I think

    What is wrong with me

    What is what I need

    What do I think, I think


    Tourettes


    Moderate rock..

    Here's your enemy in my life

    Get out, out of sight, of my heart

    Will no [additive] of my heart

    Pull hard, sever free, of my heart?

    Hey!(3x)

    I don't care, I'm [afraid], it's [my heart]

    [Clear all] effigy of my heart

    Oh no! it's the fall of my heart

    Oh no! it's the call of my heart

    Hey! (3x)

    [Wring a knot],

    Cold heart (7x)


    All Apologies


    What else should I be

    All apologies

    What 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

    Im 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 freezer burn

    Choking on the ashes of her enemy

    In the sun

    In the sun I feel as one

    In the sun

    In the sun

    Im married

    Buried

    Married

    Buried

    All in all is all we all are (20x)


    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 can, my honest friend.

    My shyness, pet her flow.

    She's only been five months late,

    Even though we haven't had sex for a week.

    A meal a day, a meal, I say.

    And my heart's made 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!

    Wish I had more...more opportunity,

    more chances to remember some things

    so I couldn't have so much pressure on my...

    on my...on my, um...ah, on my...um...um...head.

    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.

    Ha!...Come on, Dave, think of one...

    Girls In Trouble

    It should be GIC, geeks with Charvels

    No, GWC

    Fuck, man, this is a waste of time!

    (laughs) One more solo? Yeahhhhhhhhh! Yeaaaahhhhh!

    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.