Kurt Donald Cobain (1967 – 1994)
Lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the American grunge band, Nirvana.
I found it hard,
It was hard to find
Oh well, whatever, never mind.
Kurt Cobain was so young
Sad to see this poet's gone.
I would only wear a tie dyed T Shirt if it were dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia. [p. 269]
Cobain, Cobain
She blows my brain.
He's the one
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along
And he likes to shoot his gun
But he knows not what it means.
Congratulations, you have won
It's a year's subscription of bad puns.
Neither side is sacred; no one wants to win
Feeling so sedated; think I'll just give in.
And the flowers sing in D minor
And the birds fly happily.
If I could get that girl to publish her poetry, the world would change. (On Courtney Love)
There was this boy who played in a rock n' roll band
And he wasn't half bad at saving the world
She said he could do no right, so he took his life
The story is true.
Cobain changed the course of where the music went. There are certain people where you can see the axis of musical history twisting on them: Hendrix was pivotal, Prince was pivotal, Cobain was pivotal.
And so I parallel the brains of Cobain.
They all stand straight and swing to the side
No heads, but they feet still glide
Take a step back, twist and dive
I even seen Kurt Cobain get live.
I'll finish with a bang like Kurt Cobain's biography.
Just because you're paranoid
Don't mean they're not after you.
Toward another, he has gone
To breathe an air beyond his own.
Yes I eat cow I am not proud.
I mean it seems like there are only two options for songwriters [sic] personalities either theyre [sic] sad, tragic visionaries like morrissey or michael stipe or robert smith or theres [sic] the goofy, nutty white boy, Hey lets party and forget everything people like Van Halen or all that other Heavy metal crap. [p. 44]
They say that white phantom look so cocaine
I hop out the suicide lookin' so Cobain.
I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.