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1) About a Girl, written for a girl Cobain lived with before he was successful. Hmmm... a reference to Courtney? In this record maybe..

2) Come as You Are ~ come as you are, as you were, as I'd want you to be, as a friend as a trend, as a known enemy. Take your time, hurry up, choice is yours, don't be late....Man I swear it I don't have a gun ~ Need lowly me say more?

3) Now a cover, Jesus doesn't want me for a Sunbeam. It is about someone so sorry not even "We love everyone!" Jesus would have anything to do with them. A statement about Cobain's emotional state? Possibly.

4)(cover) Man who Sold the World is next. Too obvious.

5)Pennyroyal Tea. An abortive substance, although in this reference probably referring to an inner death.

6)Dumb, one of the few hits played. Drug addiction, the let down, and the loss of reality................

7)Polly, seems to rationalize abuse from the perspective of the abuser. ~ got some rope, heaven's hope,. Promise you heaven true. ~ Did he feel he was the abuser? Or the abused?



8) On a Plain ~ it is my time, to make it all clear, to write out lines that don't make sense....one more special message to go, then I'm done and I can go home, know it is wrong but what can I do? ~ plains are flat. There is no where to go, not down, not up, just on and on. Cobain choose to go home instead. This one song could be said to crystalize matters.

9)Something in the Way is next. A sad song, lots of emotion If the preceding song is logos, then this is pathos.

10)Plateau, another cover, about the endless search for truth....drugs vs. thought... Remembering all truth is subjective, and to each his own, even if wrong.

11) (cover)Oh Me, losing himself, loss of himself for the use of others to find themselves? Makes sense to me.

12) (cover)Lake of Fire, his fears, his mind is made up by now, but what will happen, and it seems he believed something might, and it would be petty.
13)All Apologies There was no other way, he had said what he came to say, did what he had to do, and now like the Jesus who would not take him, he HAD to die. The reasons had been clarified. It was time to go.

14) ( cover)Where did You sleep last Night? is the last song. This song has the form of a very traditional folk song. And it is. It has been around a lot longer then that Ledbelley guy. The question and answer format is found in the oldest Irish and Scottish songs. (The tradition was continues even today.) This is important. This song is full of very traditional death and dieing imagery. "Sleeping" meant to die. To "go where the cold wind blows". More death. "Where the sun never shines", referencing to the land of the dead, said to be a dark place. Then the subject of the song, a head without a body. This particular song seems to be the epitaph.)

This is the end result of things I have read, and discussed over the years. I have also heard certain songs reference the suicide note but I don't know which ones. If you, Gentle Reader, do, kindly share!!! Everlasting gratitude if you would!


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