Song Meanings

IN UTERO

Serve the servants
Autobiographical, recounting and summing up the experience of being in a band fraught with the stress of success.

Scentless apprentice
Based on the novel "Perfume" by Patrick Suskind.

Heart shaped box
Heart shaped box manages to convey complex themes of love and entrapment. It deals with the aspects of Kurt's relationship with Courtney and his addictions to her and heroin.

Rape me
Rape me tells the tale of poetic justice when a rapist is put in prison for his crimes and is then raped there himself.

Frances Farmer will have her revenge on Seattle
Inspired by Frances Farmer and the injustices she suffered at the hands of Mccarthy's America and her own parents.

Dumb
Dumb is a drug themed song which basically draws the conclusion that 'ignorance is bliss'.

Very ape
About the macho male in all its stereotypical splendour of stupidity.

Milk it
A kind of sequel to 'Drain you'. It examines co dependancy.

Pennyroyal tea
About abortion, the dilemmas and difficult issues surrounding the subject, the arguements for and against, and the inevitable guilt that will follow.

Radio friendly unit shifter
About the record industry marketing techniques, particularly the corrupt 'plugger' system used to get radiplay for singles.

Tourette's
Tourette's takes it's name from the syndrome which causes sufferers to move jerkily and shout, spit, or swear spontaneously and without control.

All apologies
Dedicated to Courtney and Frances.

Gallons of Rubbing alcohol flow through the strip
A poem with guitars. it's about Kurts feelings of impotence and romantic lonliness, and the disatisfaction he has with nirvana's sound.

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