Someone mentioned Kurt Cobain in a comment recently (or not-so-recently, I don’t keep track of time too well) … for some reason made me think of this song by The Mountain Goats, ’cause his name is mentioned at some point.
Anyhow, it’s an odd song…called Love Love Love, yet so much of it is about death/suicide/the negative side of human nature…which might be a pretty accurate depiction. Or it might not…love’s a hard thing to understand.
Also a quote about the song from an NPR interview with John Darnielle … “…that love can eat a path through everything–that it will destroy a lot of things on the way to its own objective, which is just its expression of itself…that to me is something worth commenting on in the hopes of undoing a lot of what I perceive as terrible damage in the way people talk about this–love is this benign, comfortable force. It’s not that. It’s wild, you know?”
(http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=4651778)
King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong
And Joseph’s brothers sold him down the river for a song
And Sonny Liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove
Some things you do for money
And some you do for love, love, love
Raskolnikov felt sick, but he couldn’t say why
When he saw his face reflected in his victim’s twinkling eye
Some things you’ll do for money and some you’ll do for fun
But the things you do for love
Are going to come back to you one by one
Love, love is going to lead you by the hand
Into a white and soundless place
Now we see things as in a mirror dimly
Then we shall see each other face to face
And way out in Seattle, young Kurt Cobain
Snuck out to the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain
Snakes in the grass beneath our feet, rain in the clouds above
Some moments last forever
But some flare out with love, love, love
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I love Kurt Cobain. ^-^ This song is a little deep. To make even “love” seem sad…
Everyone is talking about Kurt f***ing Cobain (KFC) lately.
Did someone remix Teen Spirit or something?
His voice is very soothing