"Anybody know about whiteknot.org? You know what that's about? It's I believe in love and I believe in equality and I believe in marriage equality."
-Dave, 6 Feb 2009, MusiCares benefit (he was wearing a white knot)
Pretend
Giants in the Trees
Let's play pretend
Oh, love
Oh, love
Sitting on the porch
Contemplate my own mind
I line up my last week [there?]
And watch the world go by
And now the movies of my mind
Are playing again
Times when we faded
We were so outta sight
Come on
Let's pretend to
Fly
Into the night
Down
Darkness fills our light
Fly
Spiral down with you
Lie near
Just learn to be good to yourself
You're falling down, love
Oh, love
You know I'm changing skin again
Looking toward the moon
Seeking violence from our mother
And wings to stir us, too
And together we run
Dusted by the desert's empty sand
[Glass grates too great?]
I fill our buckets
With the love that fills our hands
And we fly
Into the night
Down
Darkness fills our light
Fall
Spiral down with you
You're near
Just learn to be good to your soul
You're falling down, love
Interviewer: So, how did you guys meet? Come together?
Krist: Well, Kurt and I originally lived in this small community in Washington, and we just kind of found each other, because, uh...
Kurt: There's not too many people in that small community that like punk rock.
Krist: Yeah, yeah.
Kurt: It isn't too hard.
Krist: Yeah, yeah, it's like, you meet somebody and: "Oh, this is just another one of those fuckin' geeks." [makes chronic geek face] Then we fell in love. Yeah. It's been great. We're married.
Kurt: [sarcastic] Then we fell in love with each other's father's. [shakes head]
Krist: Yeah, it's like, father and son--fathers' and sons' relationships are really heavy. We like, swap fathers and stuff.
Kurt: We were part of the man-love-boy association.
Krist: We met through our fathers. Our fathers were kind of notorious in our town.
Kurt: [grins]
-18 Apr 1990
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
Feel You Now
Giants in the Trees
One more time [Long, long time]
In our [Made of] time and space
Far away, [For always] not inside
Is when my thoughts and my memories
Fly
And baby I can feel you now
And baby I can feel you now
I knew we'd get through somehow
And baby I can feel you now
In the place of the in-between
Futures dance in my tense eyes [archivist: cryingforeverplz.gif]
We said we'd show the world, they'll see
Tonight
And baby I can feel you now
And baby I can feel you now
I knew we'd get through somehow
And baby I can feel you
Ahhhh!
It's all I can say now
And the connection, connection
The only direction
Now
And baby I can feel you now
And baby I can feel you now
I knew we'd get through somehow
And baby I can feel you
And baby I can feel you now
Son Of A Gun
Written by The Vaselines
Up, up, up and down
Turn, turn, turn around
Round, round, round about
And over again
Gun, gun, son-of-a-gun
You are the only one
Who makes any difference
What I say
The sun shines in the bedroom
When we play
The rain it always starts
When you go away
Lithium (early electric version)
Lyrics: Kurt Cobain
I'm so happy
I can't wait to find my friends
They're in my head
I'm so lonely
That's ok 'cause will is good
And I've got wood
I'm so horny
That's ok 'cause I've got God
And he's got you
I'm so happy
That's ok, you broke my bed
Hey, hey, yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Hey, hey, yeah!
Sunday morning
Is the day I think of you
And I'm not blue
I'm so ugly
That's ok 'cause so are you
We broke our mirrors
I'm so ugly
I can't wait to find my friends
They're in my head
Sunday morning
Is the day I think of you!
Hey, hey, hey!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!
Yeah, yeah, hey, yeah!
I like it
I'm not gonna cry
I miss you
I'm not gonna cry
I love you
I'm not gonna crack
I killed you
I'm not gonna crack
I need you
I'm not gonna crack
I miss you
I'm not gonna crack
I love you
I'm not gonna cry
I made you
I'm not gonna cry
I'm not 'baby'
I'm to blame for all I've heard
And I'm a turd
Sunday morning
Is the day I think of you
And I'm not blue
Light my candles
Keep my friends[?]
From going too[?]
And I love you
I'm so happy
'Cause today I think of you!
Hey! Hey! Yeah!
Yeah, hey, yeah!
Hey, hey, yeah!
I like it
I'm not gonna cry
I need you
I'm not gonna cry
I love you
I'm not gonna crack
I need you
I'm not gonna crack
I need you
I'm not gonna crack
I miss you
I'm not gonna crack
I love you
I'm not gonna crack
I killed you
I'm not gonna crack
Spank Thru
Lyrics: Kurt Cobain
And as the soft pretentious mountains
Glisten in the light of the trees
All the flowers have gingivitis
And the birds die happily
We'll be together once again my love
Need you back, oh baby, baby
I can't explain just why
We lost it from the start
Living without you, girl
You only break my heart
I can feel it, I can hold it
I can bend it, shave it, mold it
He can cut it, he can taste it
Spank it, beat it, ejaculate it
I've been lookin' for Day Glo
Always hearing the same ol'
Sticky boredom with a book
I can make it do things you wouldn't think it ever could
I can feel it, I can hold it
I can bend it, shave it, mold it
He can cut it, he can taste it
Spank it, beat it, emasculate it
I've been lookin' for Day Glo
Always hearing the same ol'
Sticky boredom with a book
I can make it do things you wouldn't think it ever could
-22 Nov 1989 (live recording)
"I remember one time during their [Nirvana's] 1992 Australian tour and we were in the tour bus. Everyone was drinking wine and Dave Grohl took out a notebook. Dave Grohl had a diary or journal of some sort, whatever it was, and during that tour he wrote in it everyday. He might have written in it afterward, too, but I wouldn't know.
Dave started writing and Krist Novoselic asked him what he was doing. Dave ignored him and Kurt Cobain became curious, too. Kurt grabbed the journal and picked a random page from it and read it out loud. This journal entry described Kurt Cobain in somewhat interesting detail.
Dave called Kurt Cobain his best friend and said getting that call from Kurt and Krist was the best day of his life. The journal entry also said Kurt Cobain saved his life because he felt very confused, or lost, while in Scream and contemplated life-threatening situations, if you know what I mean.
Kurt Cobain gave the book back to Dave Grohl, took another sip of wine, and hugged him. He told Dave Grohl that he is his best friend and asked him to never leave the band no matter what, because he couldn't do this [the band] without him. Krist shook his head in agreement. Dave Grohl said he would die before that happened and they smiled. Krist Novoselic, Kurt Cobain, and Dave Grohl had a group hug.
I laughed hysterically at them with warmth in my heart. The next day Kurt Cobain said it was just the wine talking, but I know he meant what he said. You can't fake a moment like that."
-Youri Lenquette, 1995
Blew (11 Jun 1988)
Lyrics: Kurt Cobain
We were in a garden wastin' time
And we were in our love and we like to blew
We were in a garden, like to use
And if you wouldn't mind I would like to spew
Seen it, believe it, need it, is it sane?
Is there another reason for a man?
Is there another, horny, next to me?
And if you wouldn't mind I would like to blew
And if you wouldn't mind if we overdo
Let me sit it down I would like to use
And if you wouldn't mind I would like to grew
Is there a reason you never seem insane?
Is there another madness? To make you mine
Is there another reason for your stain?
Is there a meaning for this? I'm insane
Is there another time for most to fade?
Is there another madness for this soul? / meaning for this song?
You could be anything x3
You could do anything x5
Novoselic: Jazz drug [referring to heroin]. Then you’re inclined for medication. I can see how it was attractive. You know, people medicating themselves …. And then there’s this whole whirlwind.
Hughes: About that stomach ailment that he was cursed with?
Novoselic: It was weird. It was real, I mean it was real. I remember he would throw up so much he couldn’t throw up any more. I took him to doctors, specialists.
Hughes: You would think that some of those specialists could have hit on something.
Novoselic: I don’t know what it was. I don’t know what, that’s a mystery. You’d think they’d find something. I think it was just the crap food. Here’s the deal, like, we don’t have a lot of money, OK. So we go to like AM/PM, in Olympia. Right behind the lottery office there was an AM/PM there. And it was like, OK at least I got a hot dog. We’re hungry, right. He gets a fucking ice-cream cone. And I’m like, “No wonder your stomach hurts. Why are you eating ice cream?” And then he looks at me and gets all pissed off , like I’m telling him what to do. But I’m the dude who drove him to the frickin’ hospital, or hanging out with him while he’s puking his guts, and trying to help him. So it’s just like, you know, “Oh, don’t do heroin.” And I’d get the same look. You know what I mean? So where the heck am I going to go? What am I going to do? What can I say? “You eat this greasy hot dog instead of the ice cream cone.”
-14 Oct 2008, Interviewed by John Hughes for the Washington State Heritage Center
[A heckler has been shrieking at the band to play a song about "fucking girls". They respond sarcastically, at first, mocking his misogyny and homophobia, but then switch tactics:]
Krist: I'd like to tell you about this next song. It's about homosexual love. Cause we're all queers. We're all butt-pirates here. We're butthole surfers.
Kurt: By the way, Chris is a girl. This song is About A Queer. [starts playing About A Girl]
-22 Nov 1989 during a gig
Interviewer: Your house containing everything you own catches fire. After saving loved ones and pets, you have time to save one item. What would it be?
Dave: "Probably this letter I got from Kurt in 1992. That sounds terribly melodramatic, but it's true. I lose everything: passports, wallets, car keys, credit cards, but that letter is absolutely irreplaceable. He wrote it to me when everything was going nuts. We were all living in different places- he was in Los Angeles, I was in Virginia and Krist was in Seattle- and some decisions were being made without me. I got really bummed out and Kurt sent me this letter about my role and stature in the band. It was all, 'I love you like a brother.' It was just before we did 'In Utero' and it said, 'I can't wait to get back in the studio and make a record so we can whittle ourselves back down to a comfortable level,' Which of course never really happened."
Melody Maker (sometime between 1997-2000)
On behalf of Dave, Pat, and I, I would like to thank you all for your concern at this time. We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it... Forever. Kurt had an ethic towards his fans that was rooted in the punk rock way of thinking. No band is special, no player royalty. But if you've got a guitar and a lot of soul just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar. Plugged in the tones and rhythms that are uniquely and universally human: music. Heck... use your guitar as a drum, just catch the groove and let it flow out of your heart. That's the level Kurt spoke to us on: in our hearts, and that's where he, and the music, will always be, forever.
-Krist's eulogy for Kurt, 10 April 1994 Seattle Center Flag Pavilion
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)
"Dear Kurt,
It's been 20 years since you left and I think about you every day.
- Love, Krist"
-5 Apr. 2014, Krist's Twitter
"It's like the greatest love affair, but with three people."
-Dave, describing his relationship with Kurt and Krist, 1999 allstarnews.com (recorded in Nirvana: A Day by Day Eyewitness Chronicle by Carrie Borzillo)
Fan question: If you could see Kurt Cobain one more time, what would you say to him?
Krist: I love you.
-Q Magazine, March 2003
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