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""Those guys [Kurt and Courtney] went off into their own world and they were kind of thought of as vampires because they'd be gone and sleep all day," says Chris.

They barely spoke for five months, even at rehearsals.

But Chris was very upset about what was happening to his old friend. He would rant at Dave or Shelli, "Kurt's a fucking junkie asshole and I hate him!" Chris was angry with Kurt, he says, "Probably because I felt like he left me. I was really concerned and worried about him and there was nothing I could do about it. I was just taking my anger out on him.

"It was hard to understand," says Chris, "I couldn't get over the whole hurdle of heroin."

Part of the problem was that as usual, Chris didn't confront the problem with Kurt directly. "We've never really communicated very well when there's been a problem between us," Kurt says. "We never talk about it, we just let it pass. We've never confronted one another about things that piss each other off.""

-Krist and Kurt (1993), Come As You Are by Azerrad, page 255

Rolling Stone: Neither you nor your former band mate Dave Grohl has talked publicly about Kurt Cobain since his suicide. Why?

[...]

Krist: It’s not proper to say anything. The emotional stake that Dave and I have in it is a lot more invested than the person who got to know Kurt through his music. There are things that are private and nobody should know. You can’t go through life tragedy-free. Your parents die, and one day you or your spouse is gonna die. Life is heavy, and it still hurts a lot.

-8 February 1996

"Kurt was just like, really quiet and really edgy and we got to the bar and Kurt just announced, 'I've got to go out.' And just disappeared. So there was Dave and Krist and [Luke] the publicist sitting there. After about 20 minutes Krist is like, 'This is fucking ridiculous. We're supposed to be doing an interview, he walked off, I'm going home.' Krist walked out, so now there's Dave and me and Luke.

So, Dave and I are talking about antique clocks (he's a collector) and all of a sudden Kurt just bounces in, smiling, and goes, 'I'm sorry, I had to go see my chiropractor.' It was about 40 minutes. There was a big change in his attitude. Broadway is not renowned for chiropractors. His mood had completely changed, he was so bouncy and Luke was sitting there looking completely horrified. So, Kurt asks where Krist is, and we tell him he's gone. Kurt just launches into this rant about how much he hates Krist. Every time he sees him when he's out, Krist backs away like, 'Oh god, here comes the junkie' and it's like he can't stand him and he's always walking off."

-Dave Thompson, journalist & author, recalls the growing tension in July 1993 between Kurt and Krist as a result of Kurt's addiction (Nirvana: The Day to Day Illustrated Journals by Carrie Borzillo, pg. 145, 2000)

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)

Star Machine
Giants in the Trees

If you see it coming
When you feel divine
Did you see it coming
I hope you recognize

And I know we've been worlds apart
Can you find your way through the dark
And it's crossed my mind that
You'll never wanna see my face again

Here comes the part
Can you hear the heart
Star machine
I feel it coming down

I remember how it felt when I put you down
And I know you'll be back for me someday

And I know we've been worlds apart
Can you find your way through the dark
And it's crossed my mind that
You'll never wanna see my face again

Here comes the part
Can you hear the heart
Star machine
I feel it coming down

Yes, I've been walking down this road
Yes, I've been walking down this road
Yes, I've been walking down this road
For miles and miles and miles

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

Archivist's note: Corrections welcome, particularly for the parts in brackets.

For two other songs that use the word "faded", click here and here. Kurt and Krist seem to have had their own special meaning for the term, which appears to be used as slang for orgasm.

"They really liked the studio's monitors, because they were so huge-sounding. When Been A Son was done, Kurt and Krist asked, 'Can we dance on the tables?' They jumped on one table and I jumped on another, and as we listened to the song, we rocked."

-Steve Fisk, engineer & producer, remembers a Sept. 1989 recording session (Jan. 2005 Mojo Magazine)

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

Archivist's notes: I love how Kurt finishes Krist's sentence here. Two black sheep sharing a vibe and a brain, apparently.

Just want to make note of the heavy sarcasm, black humor, and bullshittery going on here in the comments about their dads, since sarcasm doesn't translate well by text. For full body language cues, watch the complete interview on YouTube.

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.

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

Archivist's Notes: The vocals have heavy effects and are hard to understand in the first verse, so suggested corrections are more than welcome! I loaded this into Audacity and isolated the vocals, used vocalremover.org, and compared with another fan's transcription, so I'm pretty confident about the rest of the song.

To see another song that explores the concept of "the in-between", click here.

Artwork of Nirvana by Kurt on a drumhead.

Archivist's note: Y'know, this pretty much looks like Kurt drew himself getting a boner (which he made sure to label) after hearing Krist dedicate the song to "all the pretty blondes". Krist doing it in all innocence, hence his halo, and Kurt interpreting it how he wanted to hear it, hence his "horniness"/devil horns.

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""I don't think he [Kurt] had a hell of a lot of friends," [Matt] Lukin recalls. "He was always trying to start bands, but it was hard to find people who wouldn't flake out on him." [Buzz] Osborne introduced him to Novoselic, a shy youth so tall (he's six feet seven) that he bumped his head on the beams in Cobain's house. Cobain formed a band with this kindred spirit two years his senior. [...]

A vandal with a cause, Cobain loved to spray-paint the word "queer" on four-by-four trucks, the redneck vehicle of choice. Other favorite graffiti included "God is gay" and "Abort Nirvana Christ." In 1985, Novoselic, Osborne, and 18-year-old Cobain wrote "Homosexual Sex Rules" on the side of an Aberdeen bank (Osborne swears it said "Quiet Riot"). While Osborne and Novoselic hid in a garbage dumpster, Cobain was caught and arrested. A police report lists the contents of his pockets: a guitar pick, a key, a beer, a mood ring, and a cassette by the militant punk band Millions of Dead Cops."

-16 Apr 1992, Rolling Stone magazine

Archivist's note: Kurt listed Millions of Dead Cops as one of his top 50 favourite albums. Check out the lyrics to "America's So Straight" from the album Kurt had in his pocket.

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"Novoselic and Cobain come from rural Aberdeen, Washington. [...] One of the more popular bars in town is actually called the Pourhouse, which is where two young men about Cobain's age, Joe and James, sit down for a pitcher of beer--each. [...]

"Yeah, I know the Cobain kid," says James, "Faggot."
He's a faggot?" asks Joe, taken aback. Recovering quickly, he declares, "We deal with faggots here. We run 'em out of town."

This is where Cobain and Novoselic grew up. That's why they kissed each other full on the lips as the Saturday Night Live credits rolled. They knew it would piss off the folks back home--and everybody like them.

"I definitely have a problem with the average macho man--the strong-oxen, working-class type," Cobain says wearily, "because they have always been a threat to me. I've had to deal with them most of my life--being taunted and beaten up by them in school, just having to be around them and be expected to be that kind of person when you grow up.

"I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male--or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be," Cobain continues. "Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean."

Of course, Cobain was miserable in high school. [...] [He] was a sensitive sort, small for his age, and uninterested in sports. "He was terrified of jocks and moron dudes," recalls Cobain's old friend, Mudhoney bassist Matt Lukin.

"As I got older," says Cobain, a fan of Beckett, Burroughs, and Bukowski, "I felt more and more alienated--I couldn't find friends whom I felt compatible with at all. Everyone was going to become a logger, and I knew I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be some kind of artist.""

-16 Apr 1992, Rolling Stone magazine article by Michael Azerrad

"He's [Krist's] fantastic. I mean, he's highly underrated, or at least overshadowed as a musician, but he's such a huge part of Nirvana. I think Dave once said, "I've played in so many shows, you know how many Krist played in? All of 'em." And that's really true.

And I know from stories that Krist told me, you know, like, even in the early days, Krist was doing a lot of the load-ins. Krist was very protective of Kurt. It was very much a Sam and Frodo kind of a thing. Krist really fostered Kurt's ability to do what he did. And I think that you really need these two elements."

-Earnie Bailey, Nirvana's guitar tech, 13 Jun 2020, Daniel Sarkissian interview

Lithium (early acoustic version)
Lyrics: Kurt Cobain

I'm so happy
Cause today I found my friends
They're in my head
I'm so ugly
That's ok, cause so are you
We broke our mirrors
Sunday morning
Is everyday for all I care
And I'm not scared
Light my candles
In a daze, cause I found God

Hey hey hey, hey!
Yeah hey!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!

I'm so lonely
That's ok, you shaved your head
And I'm not sad
And just maybe
I'm to blame for all I've heard
And I'm not sure
I'm so excited
I can't wait to meet you there
And I don't care
I'm so horny
That's ok, my will is good

Hey hey hey, hey!
Yeah hey!
Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Archivist's note: In this early acoustic version of Lithium, recorded in 1990, we learn who the "you" is that Kurt is addressing in the song:

Here's a picture from 1989. Kurt was not happy with Krist's new look, comparing it to a "Nazi".

For another alternate set of lyrics for Lithium, click here.

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)

Archivist's note: An older working title (around 1987) for this song was "Breaking The Law", which gives us a strong hint as to what the song is about. Both gay sex and LSD were illegal in the USA at the time the song was written, and both were of interest to Kurt and Krist at this time. The song appears to be about both.

It should be noted that Kurt frequently changed the lyrics of this song to use different pronouns for the other person he sings about, sometimes "he", sometimes "she", and sometimes both.

[interview cuts in]

Kurt: It could have been painful. Well, it kinda was. [reaches up to touch the bump on Krist's head]

Interviewer: What happened to your forehead?

Krist: Well, I did my bass toss routine and my eye-hand coordination was a little out of sync.

Kurt: You need to really brush up on your choreography.

Krist: Yeah, that's right. I've gotta practice more. And I got beaned on the noggin.

Kurt: I didn't realize that happened to you, or I wouldn't have prodded you in the butt like that. [smirk]

Krist: When did you prod me in the butt?

Kurt: When you fell over backwards after we were done playing the song and I was prodding you in the butt and I was gonna jump on you and attack you, but I didn't realize you were in pain at that time.

Krist: I just wanted to get off stage, man. I was kinda embarrassed.

-10 Sept 1992, interview prior to No On 9 benefit

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

Interviewer: What do you get by smashing guitars? [footage of Krist and Kurt bashing their guitars together]

Kurt: Satisfaction. Climax.

Krist: [not audible]

Kurt: [smiling] What??

Krist: [grinning] Don't have to do encores.

-1991 French TV interview

[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

quote of the day

"God is gay and so am I."
-Kurt
Journals (hardcover ed.), pg. 123
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rocknroll1968 - Quote: Left him for someone else (1993)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Losing Kurt was like losing a spouse (1996)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: You reject me? I'll reject you first! (2000)
rocknroll1968 - Lyrics: Weight of the World (2019)
rocknroll1968 - Lyrics: Star Machine (2019)
rocknroll1968 - Lyrics: Pretend (2017)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Dancing on the tables (1989)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Krist feels married to Kurt (1990)
rocknroll1968 - Lyrics: The in-Between (2017)
rocknroll1968 - Lyrics: Feel You Now (2019)
rocknroll1968 - Art: "All the pretty blondes" (1993?)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Homosexual Sex Rules (1992)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: The Cobain kid is a faggot (1992)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Krist & Kurt = Sam & Frodo (2020)
rocknroll1968 - Lyrics: Lithium - early acoustic version (1990)
rocknroll1968 - Lyrics: Spank Thru (1989)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Kurt cares about Krist's pain (1992)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Krist on Kurt's chronic illness (2008)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: Double meanings (1991)
rocknroll1968 - Quote: They're all queers (1989)

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Entries tagged with pairing:krist/kurt

Quote: Left him for someone else (1993)

Quote: Losing Kurt was like losing a spouse (1996)

Quote: You reject me? I'll reject you first! (2000)

Lyrics: Weight of the World (2019)

Lyrics: Star Machine (2019)

Lyrics: Pretend (2017)

Quote: Dancing on the tables (1989)

Quote: Krist feels married to Kurt (1990)

Lyrics: The in-Between (2017)

Lyrics: Feel You Now (2019)

Art: "All the pretty blondes" (1993?)

Quote: Homosexual Sex Rules (1992)

Quote: The Cobain kid is a faggot (1992)

Quote: Krist & Kurt = Sam & Frodo (2020)

Lyrics: Lithium - early acoustic version (1990)

Lyrics: Spank Thru (1989)

Quote: Kurt cares about Krist's pain (1992)

Quote: Krist on Kurt's chronic illness (2008)

Quote: Double meanings (1991)

Quote: They're all queers (1989)

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