Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: Lyrics-Nevermind
From: "Philip F. Gomez" <pg25+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri,  2 Oct 1992 21:51:46 -0400 
Organization: Freshman, H&SS general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Since someone asked me to post this, I will.  Here are the entire lyrics
to Nirvana's _Nevermind_ Lp according to the inside cover of the Lithium
single.
[I will put in brackets what is actually said, since these lyrics aren't
entirely accurate.]

-SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
Load up on guns and bring your friends, it's fun to lose and to pretend.
She's over bored and self assured. Oh, no. I know a dirty word.
Hello, hello, hello, how low?

I'm worse at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed.
Our little tribe [group] has always been and always will until the end.
Hello, hello, hello, how low?

And I forget just why I taste? Oh yeah, I guess it makes me smile.
I found it hard, it was hard to find. Oh well, whatever, nevermind.
Hello, hello, hello, how low?

With the lights out, it's less dangerous.
Here we are now, entertain us.
[I feel stupid, and contagious. Here we are now, entertain us]
A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido.  Yay, a denial.


-IN BLOOM
Sell the kids for food. Weather changes moods.  
Spring is here again. Reproductive glands

....and he's the one
who likes all the pretty songs
and he likes to sing along
and he likes to shoot his gun
but he knows not what it means [but he don't know what it means]
And I say aahh  [And I stay In...Bloom,...In...Bloom]

We can have some more. Nature is a whore.
Bruises on the fruit.  tender age in bloom.


-COME AS YOU ARE
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 [memory yeah]

Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach, as I want you to be.
As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria [memory yeah]

And [Well] I swear that I don't have a gun.
No I don't have a gun.


-BREED
I don't care if I'm old
I don't mind if I don't have a mind
Get away, get away from your home
I'm afraid, I'm afraid of a ghost [I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, 'fraid]

['cause]
Even if you have, Even if you need
I don't mean to stare, we don't have to breed
We could plant a house, we could build a tree
I don't even care, we could have all three
She said


-LITHIUM
I'm so happy, because today I've found my friends...They're in my head
I'm so ugly, but that's okay, 'cause so are you...We broke our mirrors
Sunday morning is everyday for all I care...and I'm not scared
[To] light my candles in a daze...'Cause I've found God.  Hey, hey, hey.

I'm so happy because today I shaved my head...And I'm not sad.
[I'm so lonely, that's okay you shaved my head...And I'm not sad.]
And just maybe, I'm to blame for all I've heard...But I'm not sure
I'm so excited, I can't wait to meet you there...but I don't care
I'm so horny, but that's okay My will is good.  Hey, hey, hey.

[I like it, I'm not gonna cry.]
[I miss you, I'm not gonna cry]
[I love you, I'm not gonna cry]
[I killed you, I'm not gonna cry]


-POLLY
Polly wants a cracker
I think I should get off her first
I think she wants some water
To put out the blow torch

It isn't me.  We have some seed
Let me clip Your dirty wings
Let me take a ride, Don't hurt [cut] yourself
I want some help, to help [please] myself
I've got some rope, you have been told.
I promise you, I have been true
Let me take a ride, don't hurt [cut] yourself
I want some help, to please myself

Polly wants a cracker
Maybe she would like more [some] food
She asks me to untie her
A chase would be nice for a few

Polly says her back hurts
And she's just as bored as me
She caught me off my guard
It amazes me, the will of instinct


-TERRITORIAL PISSINGS
When I was an alien, cultures weren't opinions

Never met a wise man, If so it's a woman

Just because you're paranoid, Doesn't [don't] mean they're not after you

Gotta find a way to find a way when I'm there
Gotta find a way [to find a way] a better way
[Gotta find a way to find a way] I had better wait


-DRAIN YOU
One baby to another said, I'm lucky to have met you
I don't care what you think unless it is about me
It is now my duty to completely drain you
A travel through a tube And end up with your infection

Chew your meat for you
Pass it back and forth in a passionate kiss
From my mouth to yours because I like you

With eyes so dilated, I've become your pupil
You've taught me everything without a poison apple
The water is so yellow, I'm a heathy student
Indebted and so grateful, Vaccum out the fluids

Sloppy lips to lips
You're my vitamins because I like you


-LOUNGE ACT
Truth covered in security
I can't let you smother me
I'd like to but it wouldn't [couldn't] work
trading off and taking turns
I don't regret a thing
And I've got this friend you see
Who makes me feel and I wanted more
Than I could steal. I'll arrest myself
I'll wear a sheild. I'll go out of my way
to prove I still smell her on you.

Don't tell me what I want to hear
Afraid of never knowing fear
Experience anything you need
I'll keep fighting jealousy 
until it's fucking gone

I'll go out of my way to make you a deal
We've made a pact to learn from who-
ever we want without new rules
We'll share what's lost and what we grew
They'll go out of their way
to prove they still smell her on you.


-STAY AWAY
Monkey see monkey do
I don't know why I'd rather be dead than cool
Every line ends in rhyme
Less is more, love is blind
Stay away
Give an inch, take a smile
Fashion shits fashion style
Throw it out and keep it in
Have to have poison skin
Stay away
God is gay, burn the flag ["burn the flag" is printed on the Lithium single but
                            is not actually said in the song.]


-ON A PLAIN
I'll start this off without any words
I got so high that I scratched 'til I bled

I love myself better than you
I know it's wrong so what should I do?

The finest day that I've ever had
Was when I learned to cry on command
My mother died every night
It's safe to say don't quote me on that
The black sheep got blackmailed again
Forgot to put on the zip code
It is now time to make it unclear
To write off lines that don't make [no] sense

Somewhere I have heard this before
In a dream my memory has stored
As a defense I'm neutered and spayed
What the hell am I trying to say

One more special message to go
And then I'm done and I can go home

I'm on a plain
I can't complain


-SOMETHING IN THE WAY
Underneath the bridge,
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
But it's okay to eat fish 
'Cause they don't have any feelings

Something in the way


    Well that's all the lyrics to _Nevermind_. If someone can, please
post these on the Lyric Server.  If anyone has the lyrics to bleach or
the singles soundtrack, please post them.  Hope you've enjoyed this.

Thanx
-Philip F. Gomez