Artist
Nirvana
Lyrics
(Music: Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic & Dave Grohl)
(Lyrics: Kurt Cobain)
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 yours, don't be late.
Take a rest, as a friend, as an old-
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
And I swear that I don't have a gun,
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
Memoria
Memoria
Memoria
Memoria
(No, I don't have a gun.)
And I swear that I don't have a gun,
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
Memoria
Memoria
(Lyrics: Kurt Cobain)
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 yours, don't be late.
Take a rest, as a friend, as an old-
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
And I swear that I don't have a gun,
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
Memoria
Memoria
Memoria
Memoria
(No, I don't have a gun.)
And I swear that I don't have a gun,
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
No, I don't have a gun.
Memoria
Memoria
RS500_rank
445
Length
3:37
BPM
120.9
Released Year
1991
Genre Era
Genre
Key
E m
Produced By
Butch Vig, Nirvana
Released Info
Sept. '91 on Geffen
Chart Weeks
18 weeks
Chart Top
No. 32
Musicbrainz ID
226c6077-d93d-e9f0-9d27-a6b6721b026b
Song Note Source
Rolling Stone 500
Song of Day Date
Written By
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana
Album
Nevermind (Geffen)
Song Status
"It's just about people and what they're expected to act like," Kurt Cobain told an interviewer when asked about the second major hit off Nevermind. "The lines in the song are really contradictory. One after another, they're kind of a rebuttal to each other." The track is driven by a simple, undeniably catchy riff that producer Vig goosed with a flanged, subaquatic guitar effect. Cobain created a stir when news surfaced that he'd lifted the main riff from a 1985 song by U.K. art-metal band Killing Joke, whom Dave Grohl "paid back" twelve years later by playing drums on their 2003 album.