Nirvana's Palace - Bleach Song Meanings

Song Meanings

BLEACH

Blew
Blew explores entrapment, being in a rut and being unable to get out.

Floyd the Barber
About the rot of subsurface paranoia and psychosis behind the all-american facade of small town USA.

About a girl
About Kurt's Ex-girlfriend Tracy Marander

School
Compares the new wave of grunge bands to high school cliques.

Paper cuts
About parental neglect and the lyrics carry references to a family Kurt knew who used to lock their kids up for punishment.

Negative creep
A character portrait of an unhappy, antisocial individual.

Scoff
Scoff is a jibe to all the people who lacked confidence in kurt's ability and dismissed Kurt's musical ability.

Swap meet
Is a comment on the attractions and differences between the sexes, what unites and divides.

Mr. Moustache
A satire of macho male stereotypes.

Sifting
Sifting is antiauthoritarian.

Big cheese
About the pressures people are put under to pleases the boss

Downer
Kurt's attempt at a political song. It talks about people who believe the world is going to end soon, wars, etc

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