She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice Your advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath Broken hymen of 'Your Highness', I'm left black Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice Your advice
She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint Forever in debt to your priceless advice Your advice, your advice, your advice
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From what I recall in documentaries and past reading, Kurt tended to latch on to his lovers, seeking motherly care. Courtney seems like a girl who would use and abuse, and hell, with his own emotional instability, and just the general environment the two fostered, I bet shit got really dark. Throw ideals of attachment and devotion into that and this kind of "love song" seems about right.
I'd buy that. I recall reading that the line "I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black" was inspired by a documentary that he had watched about cancer. Not sure why that stuck in my head all these years. I just pulled this from his Wikipedia entry: He would be 44 now. IMO probably making great music that was quite different than Nirvana's.Dave Grohl stated that Cobain believed that music comes first and lyrics, second. Cobain focused, foremost, on the melodies of his songs.[55] Cobain complained when fans and rock journalists attempted to decipher his singing and extract meaning from his lyrics, writing "Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second-rate Freudian evaluation of my lyrics, when 90 percent of the time they've transcribed them incorrectly?"[56] While Cobain would insist on the subjectivity and unimportance of his lyrics, he was known to labor and procrastinate in writing them, often changing the content and order of lyrics during performances.[57] Cobain would describe his lyrics himself as "a big pile of contradictions. They're split down the middle between very sincere opinions that I have and sarcastic opinions and feelings that I have and sarcastic and hopeful, humorous rebuttals toward cliché bohemian ideals that have been exhausted for years."[58]
He was so far from fading away. I still cherish what he made and it's sad that it all had to destroy him so early. I think it would be exciting to see what he might be making today, although that thought sends me into inevitable fears of the decline and Christmas album of the Dylanesque artist.
"Courtney loves Vagina" sounds like the worst sit-com ever.
I don't know I just capitalized the "Love's" and lost interest.
I consider Cobain a huge inspiration--and I love Nirvana--but I've never put a lot of stock in his lyrics. To me it always sounded like he was putting together phrases eh thought sounded cool a la John Lennon in songs like Across the Universe, beautiful but perhaps meaningless.
What's cool about using that type of writing is that it may seem like random phrases (even to the author) but as time passes, you start to see what it is you were going through which inspired the lyrics. I speak from some experience, it took me a couple years to realize what the hell I was writing about in a song I wrote called Bone White Skin Tight That said, Heart Shaped Box seems more cohesive than just a random series of image driven phrases. He's saying something here and I don't think it's flattering. Pisces in greek mythology were two fish that were tied together so that they wouldn't lose each other. I think perhaps he's suggesting he's been trapped, tied to this person through his desire sexually and in this weakened state he's forced to be with someone with some major personality disorders -which he wishes he could mend. I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black.
Apparently Kurt is a pisces and Courtney a cancer and "Forever in debt to your priceless advice" is what Kurt would yell during fights with her. I don't get that loving feeling from it.
Thanks for the post, it's caused me to scour over some old Nirvana lyrics. I actually find that many of them are pretty cohesive even if heavily laden in imagery. Great stuff.I don't get that loving feeling from it.
Me either. Far from it.