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"The whole thing seemed sort of surreal, and it raced by in a heartbeat and it seemed like a dream. It’s not unlike these recurring dreams that I’ve had for the past 24 years, y’know.
I still dream that Nirvana is still a band, and Kurt just appears – like he’s been in hiding (laughs). We look at him and go, ‘What the fuck?! Where have you been?’
And we’ve got a gig in an hour, and I get this feeling, like, ‘Oh my gosh, I get to play these songs again.’ I have that dream at least once or twice a year and have done for the past 24 years. Getting up to play those songs is like living in that dream."
-Dave, on the 2018 Cal Jam Nirvana reunion, Kerrang Magazine 3 Jan 2020
“I have dreams all the time. I have dreams about once a month. [...] Well, they’re usually all the same, but in all of them it’s prior to his [Kurt's] death. He shows up in my dreams, and I’m like holy shit! You’re not dead, and it’s like it was some big secret or some big joke and then you can’t wait to tell everyone. Then you wake up. Within them there’s the same conversations that always happen. In those dreams, he’s never dead; he’s always alive, so I think it’s kind of cool.
I think there’s a whole lot more to the spirit than people can even comprehend. I think there’s more … it’s even too much bravado and egotistical for human beings to think that we’re the end, or that their minds are capable of understanding the universe. It’s not possible. Fuck you for telling me life can’t exist outside planet Earth. How do you know? There’s romance and mystery or the thrill of the chase, whatever. I’m not willing to make up my mind yet.”
-Dave Grohl, Flaunt Magazine, Nov 2002
Weight of the World
Giants in the Trees
Can you feel it?
Everybody's got their own style
Everybody walks their own mile
Everybody's got their own scene
Come on baby, yeah, let's live off of dreams
And then it comes, yeah!
It's the weight of the world
Oh, you could be drinking up, drinking up
Oh, it always comes in a disguise
Oh, say to lift you up
Here's the van [He's the man]
I load it up
Come to grind
Yeah, burn it up [off]
Don't let go
I lose control
You're the one
Who can make it when it comes, yeah!
It's the weight of the world
I could be drinking life, drinking life
It always comes in a disguise
Oh, say to lift you up
And I know that you're the key
I see you in my dreams
I love the way you are ('cause we're going far)
I see the work of art [world go by]
'Cause everybody's got their only life
Rise in our own time
That's life in the sunshine
It's always the right time
Everybody's got their own fire
Come on baby, take me higher and higher!
When it gets to you
Will you see it through
I don't know, I don't know
If your low is so flow[?]
Let it come, yeah!
It's the weight of the world
Oh I could be drinking life, drinking life[?]
Oh, it always comes in a disguise, yeah
Oh, say to lift you up
Like a flash
I hit the gas
Roll it up
I knew you'd come
I only told ya
Thought I warned ya
Yeah, you're the only one
Who can make it when it comes, yeah!
It's the weight of the world
Oh, you could be drinking life, drinking life[?]
Oh, it always comes in a disguise
Oh, say to lift you up
And I know that you're the key
I see you in my dreams
I love the way you are ('cause we're going far)
I see the work of art
Everybody's got their only life
Rise in your own time
That's life in the sunshine
So, we both can't live some season
Watch for the fireflies
Now it's a sure sign
It's always the right time
Archivist's notes: I isolated the vocal and compared with another fan's transcription. Corrections welcome, especially on the parts in brackets.
I absolutely love the double meaning in the "come to grind/burn it up" line. Weed, sex, or both? Probably both. Krist, king of puns. X)
The in-Between
Giants in the Trees
Dream dream dream dream
Dream dream
Am I still asleep?
Nothing is real here, is it?
The touch of a flower petal
The scent of your skin on my life
Looking for love that makes me forget
I'm blind
'Cause we're all right
So hold me close
Hold me tight
'Cause I'm stuck in the in-between
I'm nothing and everything
And the only thing that gets me through
Knowing that you see me the way I see you
Dream dream dream dream
Dream dream
Am I still asleep?
Inside the dreaming tree
You meet me there just when I'm all alone
Call your name and wait
And how will you save me save me
When I am blind?
We'll be all right
So hold me close
Hold me tight
'Cause I'm stuck in the in-between
I'm nothing and everything
And the only thing that gets me through
Knowing that you'll see me the way I see you
Are you gonna wait til I die?
To take, to take and breathe
To live for the sign
Are you gonna wait, wait til I die?
Yeah
All right
Will you come, too? [When I come to you]
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
'Cause inside the dreaming tree
You'll meet me there just when I'm all alone
Calling your name in me
And how will you save me save me
When I am blind?
We'll be all right
It's knowing that you see me
Knowing that you'll see me the way I see you
Archivist's notes: Loaded this into vocalremover.org to hear the words better, as well as comparing with another fan's transcription.
To see another song that explores the concept of "the in-between", click here.
Interviewer: "Do you still have dreams about Kurt?"
Krist: "I do. And it's beautiful! It's just loving. You know when you lose somebody and you see them in a dream and you just feel all this love? It's nice."
(7 Oct 2015 FOX Business Network Interview)
"We were at our best when we were playing. We liked to rehearse, we liked to make songs, and play together. That's what we did best, that's when we were happy. I have dreams about Kurt. I'm so happy to see him in a dream, like, 'Oh my god, it's so good to see you.' Then we're always like, 'Okay, let's go play.' We're always going to go play music."
-Krist, Young Turks Interview 2014
