The lyrics are intentionally contradictory and confusing, with one line. Nirvana has gone on to enjoy a musical afterlife in the hearts and ears of successive generations of fans comparable to that of the beatles and black sabbath. Come as you are, as you were as i want you to be as a friend, as a friend as a known enemy take your time, hurry up choice is yours, dont be late take a rest as a friend as an old memoria, memoria memoria, memoria come doused in mud, soaked in bleach as i want you to be as a trend, as a friend as an old memoria, memoria memoria, memoria. Come as you are is a song by american grunge band nirvana, written by frontman kurt cobain and released as the second single from the bands second studio album nevermind in march 1992. The story of nirvana paperback september 1, 1993 by michael azerrad author. Come as you are, as you were as i want you to be as a friend, as a friend as an old enemy take your time, hurry up the choice is your. Thanks to my friend, paul stanley niklewicz, for sending me kurts vocal track. Nirvana came out of nowhere in 1991 to sell nearly five million copies of their landmark album nevermind, whose thunderous sound and indelible melodies embodied all the confusion, frustration, and passion of the emerging generation x. Come as you are, as you were as i want you to be as a friend, as a friend as an old enemy take your time, hurry up choice is yours, dont be late take a rest as a. New clue to kurt cobains come as you are lyric origin. Best of all, because this book was written before cobains death, it is not tinged. It may be because kurt cobain many times wrote the lyrics almost impromptu just. Nirvana s genius, you might say, was to reveal the attitude of the outcast teenager toward the popular kids as identical with that of the mature artist toward the corporate world. Ok, what is the standard tuning for this piece, as every tab has its listed differently.
Nirvana was arguably the most successful act of the early 1990s grunge movement that originated in seattle, washington. Come as you are, as you were as i want you to be as a friend, as a friend as a known enemy take you. Come as you are is the closeup, intimate story of nirvana the only book with exclusive indepth interviews with bandmembers kurt. The bands former manager danny goldberg discusses his memories of cobain and his new book. Nirvana the complete guide this is a wikipedia book, a collection of wikipedia articles that can be easily saved, imported by an external electronic rendering service, and ordered as a printed book. While nirvana survivors dave grohl and krist novoselic wanted a box set of all the bands rarities. Nirvana smells like teen spirit official music video.
It was the bands second american top 40 hit, and second uk top 10 hit, reaching number 32 on the billboard hot 100. Come as you are is a song by american grunge band nirvana, written by frontman kurt. Come as you are, as you were as i want you to be as a friend, as a friend as an old enemy take your time, hurry up choice is. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title come as you are. Cobain described the lyrics of come as you are as contradictory, and said the song was about. Last week was the 25th anniversary of nirvana singer kurt cobains death, and the various emotions of sadness surrounding the nirvana frontman have come back into. Nirvana s official music video for smells like teen spirit, remastered in hd. Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau some belong to strangers, and some to folks you know holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand to. About genius contributor guidelines press advertise event space. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Nirvana where did you sleep last night live on mtv unplugged unedited duration.
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