Monday, April 05, 2004
Ten years later......
"He said I was his friend
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes -- I thought you died alone
A long long time ago"
-Man Who Sold The World
Ten years ago I was twelve, I probably liked the gayest music ever, I didn't discover the intense passion and hurt in Nirvana's music until I was 15, and Kurt had been gone for over three years.
Thismusic movement had passed by, this guy understood so much, he wrote lyrics about rage, lust, pain that I was feeling experiencing, he was expressing brilliantly.
The eeriness of him singing about being an outcast in a world that suddenly made outcasts cool. How can you show how unique and angry you are when everyone is mimicking everything that you say and do?
He wrote some of the most beautiful and intriguing lyrics, set to music that magnified all the emotions behind it.
I made out with my first real boyfriend listening to Rape Me, I cut my arms up to "All Apologies", I listened to "The Man who sold the World" (a David Bowie cover) and wondered if I really should be teaching Sunday school. I cried when I listened to "Come as you are" with my friend Jenn after she drank a bottle of Bleach and got thrown in the psychiatric wing of the hospital. I listened to "Smells like Teen Spirit" when my parents pissed me off, and I wanted to die. When I was drunk, alone and walking home in the dark I used to sing "Lake of Fire" at the top of my lungs.
"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
-Kurt Cobain's suicide note
People were shocked when Kurt killed himself, "people don't understand suicide"
bullshit.....
We have all contemplated what the world would be like without us, we have all felt extreme pressure in our lives at some point in time. I don't agree with what Kurt did, I don't think it's acceptable, but I think it's important to realize that it is not something easily dismissed.
"The World Health Organization projects that one million people will die from suicide this year - a global mortality rate of 16 per 100,000, or one death every 40 seconds."
Taken from:Centre for Suicide Prevention
"I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light"
-Dumb
This didn't go in the direction I expected, I wanted to pay tribute to someone whose words touched me at a point in my life when I struggled so much to comprehend why I was struggling. I am unable to find the proper words to express what this musicmeant means to me.
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes -- I thought you died alone
A long long time ago"
-Man Who Sold The World
Ten years ago I was twelve, I probably liked the gayest music ever, I didn't discover the intense passion and hurt in Nirvana's music until I was 15, and Kurt had been gone for over three years.
This
The eeriness of him singing about being an outcast in a world that suddenly made outcasts cool. How can you show how unique and angry you are when everyone is mimicking everything that you say and do?
He wrote some of the most beautiful and intriguing lyrics, set to music that magnified all the emotions behind it.
I made out with my first real boyfriend listening to Rape Me, I cut my arms up to "All Apologies", I listened to "The Man who sold the World" (a David Bowie cover) and wondered if I really should be teaching Sunday school. I cried when I listened to "Come as you are" with my friend Jenn after she drank a bottle of Bleach and got thrown in the psychiatric wing of the hospital. I listened to "Smells like Teen Spirit" when my parents pissed me off, and I wanted to die. When I was drunk, alone and walking home in the dark I used to sing "Lake of Fire" at the top of my lungs.
"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
-Kurt Cobain's suicide note
People were shocked when Kurt killed himself, "people don't understand suicide"
bullshit.....
We have all contemplated what the world would be like without us, we have all felt extreme pressure in our lives at some point in time. I don't agree with what Kurt did, I don't think it's acceptable, but I think it's important to realize that it is not something easily dismissed.
"The World Health Organization projects that one million people will die from suicide this year - a global mortality rate of 16 per 100,000, or one death every 40 seconds."
Taken from:
"I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light"
-Dumb
This didn't go in the direction I expected, I wanted to pay tribute to someone whose words touched me at a point in my life when I struggled so much to comprehend why I was struggling. I am unable to find the proper words to express what this music
