Alex99
02-24-2003, 03:47 PM
Ok, I know this is going against what I said before but a few ideas have popped into my head.
He had alot to say.
He had alot of nothing to say.
We'll miss him.
(He certainly did have a lot to say
and some people would consider that the world is a far worse off place without him)
So long.
We wish you well.
You told us how you weren't afraid to die.
Well then, so long.
Don't cry.
Or feel too down.
Not all martyrs see divinity.
But at least you tried.
(Maybe this is talking about how Cobain's message hasn't got through to as many people as he wanted it to.)
Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud.
We'll miss him.
Ranting and pointing his finger
At everything but his heart.
We'll miss him.
(Did Cobain write one love song?)
No way to recall
What it was that you had said to me,
Like I care at all.
(Maybe this refers to the actual time when Nivarana were popular and Maynard did go along with the crowd. Now that it's all over he doesn't wish to repeat it).
So loud.
You sure could yell.
You took a stand on every little thing
And so loud.
(They certainly did write a lot of protest songs and Kurt sure did make a lot of noise)
Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice so strong and loud and I
Swallowed his facade cuz I'm so
Eager to identify with
Someone above the ground,
Someone who seemed to feel the same,
Someone prepared to lead the way, with
Someone who would die for me.
(This bit may be about how Maynard went along with the crowd, thinking that he had found his leader and that he wasn't that diffrent from him)
Will you? Will you now?
Would you die for me?
Don't you fuckin lie.
(Slowly begining to reliease that Cobain was full of lies and wasn't a matyr for him, Btw, I love the way this bit comes off in the song, it's like Maynard has just considered something he has not thought of before and needs time to think out his logic)
Don't you step out of line.
Don't you fuckin lie.
(Cobain going too far?)
You've claimed all this time that you would die for me.
Why then are you so surprised to hear your own eulogy?
(Telling Cobain to fuck off because he knows he is lying)
You had alot to say.
You had alot of nothing to say.
(Taking joy in the fact that he has worked him out?)
Come down.
Get off your fuckin cross.
We need the fuckin space to nail the next fool martyr.
(He is often spoke of a martyr and maybe that's the image that soicety has given him. Maynard is saying that he was a prat for doing what he was doing.People would like to think of him as a martyr but even if he was then what did he martyr himself for? - himself? Certainly not his fans - see "rape me" - Hardly a martyr in that case then)
To ascend you must die.
You must be crucified
For your sins and your lies. [sic]
Goodbye...
I think the promblem is that everybody looks at the first sentence as the literal rising of Christ after his death. Certainly it works that way but it also has a metaphoical meaning. What if the ascending is because of the death. Cobain is looked as a God by many, many people because of his death due to his aparent self-belief in his lack of ablity to be true to himself (the ulimate ego death - when one cannot be true to themsleves). The following of him has turned him into a God and people believe his lies.
Just my view though
He had alot to say.
He had alot of nothing to say.
We'll miss him.
(He certainly did have a lot to say
and some people would consider that the world is a far worse off place without him)
So long.
We wish you well.
You told us how you weren't afraid to die.
Well then, so long.
Don't cry.
Or feel too down.
Not all martyrs see divinity.
But at least you tried.
(Maybe this is talking about how Cobain's message hasn't got through to as many people as he wanted it to.)
Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud.
We'll miss him.
Ranting and pointing his finger
At everything but his heart.
We'll miss him.
(Did Cobain write one love song?)
No way to recall
What it was that you had said to me,
Like I care at all.
(Maybe this refers to the actual time when Nivarana were popular and Maynard did go along with the crowd. Now that it's all over he doesn't wish to repeat it).
So loud.
You sure could yell.
You took a stand on every little thing
And so loud.
(They certainly did write a lot of protest songs and Kurt sure did make a lot of noise)
Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice so strong and loud and I
Swallowed his facade cuz I'm so
Eager to identify with
Someone above the ground,
Someone who seemed to feel the same,
Someone prepared to lead the way, with
Someone who would die for me.
(This bit may be about how Maynard went along with the crowd, thinking that he had found his leader and that he wasn't that diffrent from him)
Will you? Will you now?
Would you die for me?
Don't you fuckin lie.
(Slowly begining to reliease that Cobain was full of lies and wasn't a matyr for him, Btw, I love the way this bit comes off in the song, it's like Maynard has just considered something he has not thought of before and needs time to think out his logic)
Don't you step out of line.
Don't you fuckin lie.
(Cobain going too far?)
You've claimed all this time that you would die for me.
Why then are you so surprised to hear your own eulogy?
(Telling Cobain to fuck off because he knows he is lying)
You had alot to say.
You had alot of nothing to say.
(Taking joy in the fact that he has worked him out?)
Come down.
Get off your fuckin cross.
We need the fuckin space to nail the next fool martyr.
(He is often spoke of a martyr and maybe that's the image that soicety has given him. Maynard is saying that he was a prat for doing what he was doing.People would like to think of him as a martyr but even if he was then what did he martyr himself for? - himself? Certainly not his fans - see "rape me" - Hardly a martyr in that case then)
To ascend you must die.
You must be crucified
For your sins and your lies. [sic]
Goodbye...
I think the promblem is that everybody looks at the first sentence as the literal rising of Christ after his death. Certainly it works that way but it also has a metaphoical meaning. What if the ascending is because of the death. Cobain is looked as a God by many, many people because of his death due to his aparent self-belief in his lack of ablity to be true to himself (the ulimate ego death - when one cannot be true to themsleves). The following of him has turned him into a God and people believe his lies.
Just my view though