1. Blew The whole song conveys themes of entrapment.
2, Floyd the Barber A song about a small town that goes bad, the title is taken from a character on The Andy Griffith Show. Everyone turns out to be a mass-murderer. The song also shows Freudian castration fears.
3. About A Girl A song written for Kurt's girlfriend Tracy, she threatened to kick him out if he didn't get a job.
4. School A song about the incestous Seattle Scene. The bands seem to resemble high school cliques.
5. Love Buzz A cover song from the group Shocking Bluefrom the Netherlands.
6. Paper Cuts Part of the lyrics are based on a true story of a family that Kurt was acquainted with, who locked their children in a room. Other lyrics have to deal with parents, and neglect.
7. Negative Creep The first person narrative from an anti social person.
8. Scoff A song that's directed towards the people who didn't believe in Kurt's musical aspirations.
9. Swap Meet A battle of the sexes put in the background of a Sunday swap meet.
10. Mr. Moustache Speaks out against the stereotypical male macho image.
11. Sifting Seems to take on authority figures with it's mention of preachers and teachers.
12. Big Cheese This song is written about Sub Pop man Jonathan Poneman and the pressures he put on the band.
13. Downer Kurt's attempt at a political song.
1991 1. Smells Like Teen Spirit An attack on the apathy of our own generation.
2. In Bloom An attack on people who listen to certain music for the wrong reason. Imagine the macho, gun toting guy who sings along to Nirvana, but has no clue what he's singing about.
3. Come As You Are A song full of contradictions on how we act versus how we think society thinks we should act.
4. Breed Growing up and being trapped by Middle Class America.
5. Lithium A first person narrative of a nervous breakdown, or an update of the Marxist description of religion as 'Opiate of the masses'. An ode to disconnection.
6. Polly Based on the actual kidnapping of a 14 year old girl and her torture.
7. Territorial Pissings Multi-themed song that attacks macho men.
8. Drain You A song about (plainly and simply) love. Highly medical theme.
9. Lounge Act A song about having a certain vision and being smothered by a relationship.
10. Stay Away An attack on any conformist clique.
11. On A Plain Many small lines of poetry having multi themes.
12. Something in the Way A song about Kurt's experiences living under a bridge when he was kicked out of home.
13. Endless, Nameless Previously called “The Noise Jam.” An experimentalsong created when one of the takes on Lithium (Territorial Pissings according to Guitar World) went bad.
1992
1. Turnaround Cover of a Devo song.
2. Aneurysm Possibly about shooting heroin.
3. D7 Cove of a Wipers song.
4. Son of a Gun Cover of a Vaselines song.
5. Even in His Youth Those who where born to the burgoise, and never saw their way out of it, and how Kurt is glad he wasn't one of them.
6. Molly's Lips Cover of a Vaselines song.
1992
2. Sliver
A semi-biographical song about being deserted by your parents.
4. Been A Son Song about a girl whose parents wanted a boy.
5. Turnaround Cover of a Devo song.
6. Molly's Lips Cover of a Vaselines song.
7. Son of a Gun Cover of a Vaselines song.
8. (New Wave) Polly Based on the actual kidnapping of a 14 year old girl and her torture.
9. Beeswax Seems to be about sexuality and confusion. Also speaks of the objectification of women in society.
10. Downer Kurt's attempt at a political song.
11. Mexican Seafood Some people seem to believe this is about a yeast infection. Most likely another one of Kurt's songs where he just throws a bunch of lyrics together. 15. Aneurysm
Possibly about shooting heroin.


1993
1. Serve the Servants An autobiographical song about the whole Nirvana experience, the 'witch hunt' on Courtney Love, and a sarcastic response to the emphasis placed on the divorce of Kurt's parents.
2. Scentless Apprentice Based on the novel “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind, about a perfume maker who kills virgins for their scent.
3. Heart Shaped Box Themes of co-dependancy and many other themes.
4. Rape me In Kurt's words, the song is a sort of poetic justice. A guy rapes a girl, he ends up in jail, and is raped there.
5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle A song about the story of Frances Farmer, who was declared insane and lobotomized.
6. Dumb Ignorance is bliss. There is a certain care-free happiness involved in being dumb. Drug related themes dominate the song.
7. Very Ape An attack on the stereotypical macho man.
8. Milk It A song about co-dependancy, it heavily carries the medical theme.
9. Pennyroyal Tea A song about making a tough decision and the difficult choices around it and the guilt following it. Pennyroyal Tea is an abortive substance.
10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter According to Kurt this song is a throwaway. A bunch of random poetry lines thrown together. The title is a reference to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and it's slick, radio-friendly sound.
11. Tourette's This song has no meaning at all. Kurt just screamed a lot. Based on tourette's syndrome, which causes one to shout out obscenities at any time.
12. All Apologies Contrary to popular belief, this song is not about Francis and Courtney. He wrote it for them, but none of the lyrics really apply.
13. Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip More or less, a poem to words. This is an improv-style song.
19941. About A Girl A song written for Kurt's girlfriend Tracy, she threatened to kick him out if he didn't get a job.
2. Come As You Are A song full of contradictions on how we act versus how we think society thinks we should act.
3. Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam Cover of a Vaselines song.
4. The Man Who Sold the World Cover of David Bowie song.
5. Pennyroyal Tea A song about making a tough decision and the difficult choices around it and the guilt following it. Pennyroyal Tea is an abortive substance.
6. Dumb Ignorance is bliss. There is a certain care-free happiness involved in being dumb. Drug related themes dominate the song.
7. Polly Based on the actual kidnapping of a 14 year old girl and her torture.
8. On A Plain Many small lines of poetry having multi themes.
9. Something in the Way A song about Kurt's experiences living under a bridge when he was kicked out of home.
10. Plateau Cover of Meat Puppets song.
11. Oh, Me Cover of Meat Puppets song.
12. Lake of Fire Cover of Meat Puppets song.
13. All Apologies Contrary to popular belief, this song is not about Francis and Courtney. He wrote it for them, but none of the lyrics really apply.
14. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Cover of Huddie Leadbelly song.
1996
1. School A song about the incestous Seattle Scene. The bands seem to resemble high school cliques.
2. Drain You A song about (plainly and simply) love. Highly medical theme.
3. Aneurysm Possibly about shooting heroin.
4. Smells Like Teen Spirit An attack on the apathy of our own generation.
5. Been A Son Song about a girl whose parents wanted a boy.
6. Lithium A first person narrative of a nervous breakdown, or an update of the Marxist description of religion as 'Opiate of the masses'. An ode to disconnection.
8. Scentless Apprentice Based on the novel “Perfume” by Patrick Suskind, about a perfume maker who kills virgins for their scent.
9. Heart Shaped Box Themes of co-dependancy and many other themes.
10. Milk It A song about co-dependancy, it heavily carries the medical theme.
11. Negative Creep The first person narrative from an anti social person.
12. Polly Based on the actual kidnapping of a 14 year old girl and her torture.
13. Breed Growing up and being trapped by Middle Class America.
15. Blew
The whole song conveys themes of entrapment.
Sappy
About weeklings who cling to people with powerful ideas, even though they nay be sucking themselves into something that is less than possitive. Could also possibly be aimed at the church.