NIRVANA: IN UTERO

Big Long Now


TRACKS:


1. Serve the Servants


Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old
Self appointed judges judge
More than they have sold

If she floats then she is not
A witch like we thought
A down payment on another
One at Salem's lot

Serve the servants - oh no
That legendary divorce is such a bore

As my bones grow they do hurt
They hurt really bad
I tried hard to have a father
But instead I had a dad

I just want you to know that I
Don't hate you anymore
There is nothing I could say
That I haven't thought before

Serve the servants - oh no
That legendary divorce is such a bore

2. Scentless Apprentice


Like most babies smell like butter
His smell smelled like no other
He was born scentless and senseless
He wa born a scentless apprentice

Go away - get away, get away, get a-way

Every wet nurse refused to feed him
Electrolytes smell like semen
I promise not to sell your perfumed secrets
There are countless formulas for pressing flowers

I lie in the soil and fertilize mushrooms
Leaking out gas fumes are made into perfume
You can't fire me because I quit
Throw me in the fire and I won't through a fit

3. Heart Shaped Box


She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart shaped box for a week
I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt for your priceless advice
Hate
Haight
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt for your priceless advice
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt for your priceless advice

Meat-eating orchis forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel's hair and baby's breath
Borken hymen of you highness I'm left back
Throw down your umbillical noose so I can climb right back

4. Rape Me


Rape me, my friend
Rape me again

I'm not the only one

Hate me
Do it and do it again

Waste me
Taste me, my friend

My favorite inside source
I'll kiss your open sores
Appreciate your concern
You'll always stink and burn

5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle


It's so releaving to know that your leaving as soon as you get payed
It's so relaxing to hear that your asking whenever to get your way
It's so soothing to know that you'll sue me, it's starting to sound the same

I miss the comfort in being sad

In her false witness, we hope your still with us, to see if they float or drown
Our favorite patient, a display of patience,
disease-covered Puget Sound
She'll come back as fire to burn all the liars, and leave a blanket of ash on the ground

I miss the comfort in being sad

6. Dumb


I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun

I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
my heart is broke
But I have some glue
help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around]
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
And I have a hangover...Have a hangover

Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up

I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun

7. Very Ape


I am buring up to my neck in
Contradictionary flies
I take pride as the king of illiterature
I'm very ape and very nice

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate
To ask someone else first
I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive
I've seen it all I was here first

Out of the ground
Into the sky
Out of the sky
Into the dirt

8. Milk It


I am my own parasite
I don't need a host to live
We feed off of each other
We can share our endorphns

Doll steak, test meat

I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit is her milk

Doll steak, test meat

Look on the bright side of suicide
Lost eyesight, I'm on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and/or sleeping
Protector of the kennel
Ecto-plasma
Ecto-skeletal
Obituary birthday
Your scent is still here in my place of recovery

9. Pennyroyal Tea


I'm on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea
I'm anemic royalty
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh enternally
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I'm a liar and a thief

Sit and drink pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty
I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids

10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter


Use just once and destroy
Invasion of our piracy
Afterbirth of a nation
Starve without your skeleton key

I love you for what I am not
I do not want what I have got
A blanket acne'ed with cigarette burns
Speak at one while taking turns
Second-rate third degree burns

What is wrong with me
What is what I need
What do I think, I think

This had nothing to do with what you think
If you ever think at all
Bi-polar opposite attract
All of a sudden my water broke

Hate, hate your enemies
Save, save your friends
Find, find your place
Speak, speak the truth

11. Tourette's


They can't hurt me, it's my life
Get it out, our of sight of my heart
We're all addicted to my heart
We all lost everything to my heart

Heh
Heh
Hehhhh (x3)

Out of talent, out of fire is my heart
We're all addicted to my heart
Woah no, it's the fall of my heart
Woah no, it's the call of my heart

Heh
Heh
Hehhhhh

Mean heart
Cold heart (x6)

12. All Apologies


What else could I be
All Apologies
What else should I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the right
What else should I be
All Apologies

In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the Sun
I'm married
Burried

I wish I was like you
Easy amused
Find my nest of salt
Everything's my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame
Sunburn with freezerburn
Choking on the ashes of her enemy

All in all is all we all are


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