![]() ![]() It added a whole new layer to this song in my opinion. Sorry for rambling and thank you for pointing out the structure. “He likes to sing along”, “But he knows not what it means”. ![]() Something to the effect of, ‘life comes so easy for everyone else and you all take that for granted’. It doesn’t seem like a stretch that he would express his frustration about life in this way. I may be off base, but from what I understand Kurt Cobain was self-medicating to treat multiple health and psychological issues with heroin. They are wide open to be viewed from different angles. ![]() Spring normally represents youth and renewal, but in this context Spring is a time of decay for the writer youth and illness.Īgain I fully admit that my experience is coloring my interpretation, but that is the great thing about songs like this. “Spring is here again”, but there are “Bruises on the fruit”. The imagery is intentionally shifted from the expected meaning to the polar opposite. To me it is about seeing everyone around you take, what is natural for the majority of society, for granted. The D Lines expound on this, and to me express the frustration of being young and being sick, in a sarcastic way. The B & C Lines hold a different mean for me, that being, illness/addiction/pain. I believe the A Lines are about hypocrisy, not valuing what should be valued. Again I am basing this on my life and the little that I know about Cobain. All of the best songwriters have the ability to write in a way that is both personal to them and personal to the listener as well. I’m not sure I buy into the whole seemingly abstinence related message that you took away, but I can agree that it’s written as a cipher.Īs far as what I take away from it, as with everyone, it is largely colored by my experiences in life. ![]() From what I know about him, it seems to me that this is exactly the way that Cobain would write a song. It's still wide open to interpretation, but the stream of thought is a lot more coherent this way. Just in case it would help others, I’ll list them all together: The meaning seems to become a bit more clear when you read it that way. each line in the first verse corresponds with the same line in the second verse. I'm not so sure about the message that you took away from it, but I think that you are spot on about the structure of the song i.e. It's been a while since I've read the liner notes from Nevermind, but I'm inclined to believe your interpretation. I have to say that this has to be one of the most well thought out comments that I have ever seen about lyrics. The song no doubt has a meaning describing people who listen to catchy, "pretty" music without really paying attention to what it means, but I think there's a much deeper meaning about adolescents who sleep around as soon as they start getting horny, as soon nature lets their little bodies develop. The first line of the verse is about using the reproductive system of plants for food, and the chorus is about using the reproductive system of humans for fun, without paying it any respect. Shooting his gun is shooting your load, and the man doing it is blissfully ignorant of the importance of the creation of life that it represents. He's the one who likes all our pretty songs The most literal sentence here, again using the nature theme to describe human fertility. Spring is here again, bruises on the fruitĪnother reference to entering puberty and this time abused genitalia (abused in that it's used carelessley too often). Mother nature is a whore because she makes us so volatile. This is about the mood swings that girls experience going into puberty and pregnancy (the weather of her body). It's about using the reproductive system for something other than what it is meant for (in this case food, the theme is linked to again in the chorus). The kids in nature would be fruits, which you'd sell as food, since you'll always be able to have more fruit. Sell the kids for food, we can have some more He uses nature as a metaphor for human fertility. It makes more sense that way (on the inside cover it is written that way in a poem) Look at it this way, the first line of the first verse goes into the first line of the second verse, the second line of the first verse goes into the second line of the second verse, and so on. It's not random, you have to read into it. You guys are doing exactly what Kurt is talking about. In other words someone who does have't a clue about what the song means likes to tell others what it means. "Likes to shoot his gun" means likes to shoot his mouth. Everything before the chorus it just random words. I love how this song is in the video game 'The Rock band' or whatever, hypocritical, much?īecause we all know it was Kurt's choice to put his song in a video game p ![]()
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