AbouT a Unplugged in NeW YorK Lyrics


  • 1. About A Girl
  • 2. Come As You Are
  • 3. Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam
    (Written by Eugene Kelly/Fancis McKee)
  • 4. The Man Who Sold The World
    (Written by David Bowie)
  • 5. Pennyroyal Tea
  • 6. Dumb
  • 7. Polly
  • 8. On A Plain
  • 9. Something In The Way
  • 10. Plateau
  • 11. Oh Me
  • 12. Lake Of Fire
    (Oh Me, Plateau, and Lake of Fire written by The Meat Puppets)
  • 13. All Apologies
  • 14. Where Did You Sleep Last Night
    (Written by Huddy Ledbetter)

  • Information about Unplugged In New York

    Kurt Cobain: Vocals, Guitar
    Krist Noveselic: Bass, accordian on "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam," guitar on "Plateau," "Oh Me" and "Lake of Fire"
    Dave Grohl: Drums, Vocals, bass on "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam"
    Pat Smear: Guitar
    Lori Goldston: Cello on tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13 and 14
    Curt Kirkwood: Guitar on tracks 10, 11 and 12
    Cris Kirkwood: Guitar on tracks 10 and 11, bass on track 12, and back-up vocals on tracks 10 and 12

    Recorded for MTV's "Unplugged" at Sony Studios, New York, NY on November 18, 1993

    About A Girl


    I need an easy friend

    I do, with an ear to lend

    I do think you fit this shoe

    I do, won't you have a clue

    Take a advantage while

    You hang me out to dry

    I can't see you everynight

    Free, I do

    Im standin in your line

    I do hope you'll have the time

    I do pick a number two

    I do keep a date with you

    Take a advantage while

    You hang me out to dry

    I can't see you everynight

    Free, I do

    I need an easy friend

    I do, with an ear to lend

    I do think you fit this shoe

    I do, won't you have a clue

    Take a advantage while

    You hang me out to dry

    I can't see you everynight (2x)

    Free

    I do (4x)


    Come As You Are


    Come as you are, as you were

    As I want you to be, as a friend, as a friend

    As I've no enemy, take your time hurry up

    The choice is yours don't be late

    Take a rest, as a friend,

    As I've no memory, memory, memory, memory

    Dowsed in mud, soaked in bleech

    As I want you to be, as a trend, as a friend

    As I've no memory, memory, memory, memory

    And I swear that I don't have a gun, don't have a gun

    No I don't have a gun, no I don't have a gun

    Memory, Memory, Memory, Memory

    No I don't have a gun, and I swear I don't have a gun

    No I don't have a gun, no I don't have a gun

    No I don't have a gun, no I don't have a gun

    Memory, Memory


    Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam


    Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam

    Sunbeams are nothin like me

    Don't expect me to cry

    For other reasons that often die

    Don't ever ask your love of me

    Don't expect me to cry

    Don't expect me to lie

    Don't expect me to die for you

    Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam

    Sunbeams are nothin like me

    Don't expect me to cry

    For other reasons that never die

    Don't ever ask your love of me

    Don't expect me to cry

    Don't expect me to lie

    Don't expect me to die for you

    Don't expect me to cry

    Don't expect me to lie

    Don't expect me to die for you

    Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam

    Sunbeams are nothin like me

    Don't expect me to cry

    For other reasons that never die

    Don't ever ask your love of me

    Don't expect me to cry

    Don't expect me to lie

    Don't expect me to die

    Don't expect me to cry

    Don't expect me to lie

    Don't expect me to die for you


    The Man Who Sold The World


    We past upon the stair

    Spoken walls of when

    Although I wasn't there

    Said I was his friend

    Which came as a surprise

    I spoke into his eyes

    I thought you died alone

    A long, long time ago

    Oh no, not me

    We never lost control

    Your face to face

    With the man who sold the world

    I laughed and shook his hand

    Made my way become

    I searched the foreign land

    For years and years I romed

    I gazed a pazly stare

    We walked a million hills

    I must have died alone

    A long, long time ago

    Who knows?, not me

    I never lost control

    Your face to face

    With the man who sold the world

    Who knows?, not me

    We never lost control

    Your face to face

    With the man who sold the world


    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


    Dumb


    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)


    Polly


    Polly wants a cracker

    Think I should get off her first

    Thinks she wants some water

    To put out the blow torch

    Isn't me, we have some seed

    Let me clip your dirty wings

    Let me take a ride, cut yourself

    Wants some my help, please myself

    Got some rope, havn't told

    Promise you, I have been true

    Let me take a ride, cut yourself

    Wants some my help, please myself

    Polly wants a cracker

    Maybe she would like some food

    She asked me to untie her

    A chase would be nice for a few

    Isn't me, we have some seed

    Let me clip your dirty wings

    Let me take a ride, cut yourself

    Wants some my help, please myself

    Got some rope, havn't told

    Promise you, heaven true

    Let me take a ride, cut yourself

    Wants some my help, please myself

    Polly said, Polly says her back hurts

    Shes just as bored as me

    She caught me off my guard

    Amazes me, the will of instinct

    Isn't me, we have some seed

    Let me clip your dirty wings

    Let me take a ride, cut yourself

    Wants some my help, please myself

    Got some rope, havn't told

    Promise you, heaven true

    Let me take a ride, cut yourself

    Wants some my help, please myself


    On A Plain


    I'll start this off without any words

    Got so high, I scratched till I bled

    Love myself, better than you

    I know its wrong, so what should I do

    The finest day that Ive ever had

    Is when I learned, to cry on command

    Love myself, better than you

    I know its wrong, so what should I do

    I'm on a plain, I can't complain I'm on a plain

    My mother died every night

    Its safe to say, dont quote me on that

    Love myself, better than you

    I know its wrong, so what should I do

    The black sheep got, black mailed again

    Forgot to put on the zip code

    Love myself, better than you

    I know its wrong, so what should I do

    I'm on a plain, I can't complain I'm on a plain

    Somewhere I have heard this before

    In a dream, my memorys stored

    As defence im neutered and spayed

    What the hell am I trying to say

    It is now time

    To make it unclear

    To write off lines

    That dont make sense

    Love myself, better than you

    I know its wrong, so what should I do

    And one more special message to go

    And then im done and I can go home

    Love myself, better than you

    I know its wrong, so what should I do

    I'm on a plain, I can't complain (5x)


    Something In The Way


    Underneath the bridge

    The top has sprung a leak

    And the animals ive trapped

    Have all become my pets

    And im, livin off of grass

    And the drippins from my ceilin

    Its ok to eat fish

    Cause they don't have any fealings

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Underneath the bridge

    The top has sprung a leak

    And the animals ive trapped

    Have all become my pets

    And im, livin off of grass

    And the drippins from my seamen

    Its ok to eat fish

    Cause they don't have any fealings

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah

    Something in the way

    Something in the way, yah


    Plateau


    Many of hand, a skilled de grand

    Oh the face of the plateau

    Some belonged to strangers

    And some the folks you know

    Holy ghosts and talk show hosts

    Are planted in the sand

    Beautify the foothills

    Shake the many hands

    Nuthin on the top

    But a bucket and a mop

    And a illustrated book about birds

    You see alot up there, but dont be scared

    Who needs action when you got words

    You've finished with the mop

    And you cant stop

    And look at what youve done

    The plateaus clean

    No dirt to be seen

    And the work, it was fun

    Nuthin on the top

    But a bucket and a mop

    And an illustrated book about birds

    You see alot up there, but dont be scared

    Who needs actions when you got words

    Many hands began to scan

    Around for the next plateau

    Some say it was greenland

    Some say mexico

    Others decided it was nowhere

    Except for where they stood

    Those were all just guesses

    Wouldn't help you, if they could


    Oh Me


    If I had to loose a mile

    If I had to touch feelin

    I would loose my soul

    The way I do

    I dont have to think

    I only have to do it

    The results are always perfect

    But thats old news

    Would you like to hear my voice

    Sprinkled with emotion

    Then its your birth

    I can't see, the end of me

    My holy expense

    I cannot see

    If only laid effinitiy

    Stored deep inside me

    If I had to loose a mile

    If I had to touch feelin

    I would loose my soul

    The way I do

    I dont have to think

    I only have to do it

    The results are always perfect

    But thats old news

    Would you like to hear my voice

    Sprinkled with emotion

    Then its your birth

    I can't see, the end of me

    My holy expense

    I cannot see

    If only laid effinitiy

    Stored deep inside me

    If only laid effinitiy

    Deep inside me


    Lake Of Fire


    Where do bad folks go when they die

    They dont go to heaven where the angels fly

    They go to a lake of fire and fry

    See them again until the fourth of july

    I knew a lady came from Deluth

    Bit by a dog with a rabid tooth

    She went to her grave a little to soon

    Flew and laid down on the yellow moon

    Where do bad folks go when they die

    They dont go to heaven where the angels fly

    They go to a lake of fire and fry

    See them again until the fourth of july

    People cry, and people moan, look for a dry place

    To call there home, try to find a place to rest there bones

    While the angels and the devils try to make it on there own

    Where do bad folks go when they die

    They dont go to heaven where the angels fly

    They go to a lake of fire and fry

    See them again until fourth of july


    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)


    Where Did You Sleep Last Night


    My girl, my girl don't lie to me

    Tell me where did you sleep last night

    In the pines, in the pines where the sun dont ever shine

    I will shiver the whole night through

    My girl, my girl where will you go

    Im goin where the cold wind blows

    In the pines, in the pines where the sun dont ever shine

    I will shiver the whole night through

    The house them walls a hard working man

    Just about a mile from here

    His head was found in a drivin wheel

    But his body never was found

    My girl, my girl don't lie to me

    Tell me where did you sleep last night

    In the pines, in the pines where the sun dont ever shine

    I will shiver the whole night through

    Shiver for me

    My girl, my girl where will you go

    Im goin where the cold wind blows

    In the pines, in the pines where the sun dont ever shine

    I will shiver the whole night through

    My girl, my girl don't lie to me

    Tell me where did you sleep last night

    In the pines, in the pines where the sun dont ever shine

    I will shiver the whole night through

    My girl, my girl where will you go

    Im goin where the cold wind blows

    In the pines, in the pines sunshine

    I will shiver the whole night through