Nirvana: All Apologies Meaning
Song Released: 1993
All Apologies Lyrics
All apologies
What else could I say
Everyone is gay
What else could I write
I don't have the RIGHT
What else should I be
All apologies
In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the...
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nirvanalover Apr 17th 2006, 22:46 report
This song is written for Frances and Courtney but has nothing to do with them. The song is about Kurt's loss of interest with the rock and roll world, an apology for all the fake passion. Lyrics like aqua sea foam shame refers probaly to his shame of how commercial Nevermind was. Though, that's what he wanted of his inner conflict with the world this was Kurt's way of saying goodbye.
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anonymous May 6th 2007, 17:20 report
Kurt Cobain never really said the true meanings of his song. People have come up with many different opinions about its meaning and all of them can be true, but the truth is no one will ever know the true meaning of this song unless he told them. My opinion which I think is also a very good opinion is that Kurt Cobain never wanted to become a mainstream band. He just wanted to be a little garage band having fun, singing, playing guitar with his friends… He obviously eventually did and I think that’s why he wrote it. He wrote this song right before he died and I think he wrote because of his lost in interest with the band. In the song I think he expresses a lot sorrow and pain for Courtney Love and all his fans such as the lyrics “aqua seafoam shame, and sunburn with frezerburn”. I think this song means that he’s sorry for letting everyone down, that he’s sorry for ruining Courtney Love’s life and he doesn’t know a better way of telling the world how he feels then by doing what he does best, writing music.
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anonymous Mar 22nd 2006, 17:23 report
It's about how he got Courtney Love hooked on drugs.
easily amused--when high
my nest of salt--its his drug she found
his fault--it was his fault she is hooked
take the blame--he knows she first did it with him
aqua seafoam shame--describeing his guilt--he is blue
sunburn with freezer burn--when she is high his guilt makes him feel bad, he becomes...
"freezer burned"--ashamed--blue/cold
ashes of her enemy--proof he knows drugs do her harm
all in all is all we are--they are both stars who are hooked on drugs....
He actually explains his guilt in the first verse...but that is done vaguely -
anonymous Apr 5th, 04:19 report
This is my way of interpreting this song:
The first verse is a statement of no longer seeing future in his band, lucking inspiration and not being able to get satisfied by writing music anymore.
I think the sun is refering to happiness, maybe he wants to say that getting married and having a family was the only light in his life.
The second verse is about all his negative feelings. "I wish I was like you easily amused" this lyric is refering to his depression and how it was wearing him down in an extent of wanting to be like everyone else around, happy. "Everything is my fault, I'll take all the blame" he is making clear (to courtney and frances probably, or to everyone) that it's nobody's fault that he is so sad and can't enjoy his life, cause it all comes from within his own mind.
all in all is all we are, i can't get this one. -
anonymous Jan 3rd, 04:06 report
I've made poetry many times and it came out like this. Just random stuff that didn't make any logical sense, but was very easy to do. What it was was just random feelings comming out intuitively. It could be that he just made a bunch of stuff up like that to make the deadline. It is possible that it didn't mean much. Or, it could have been him just sharing random stuff. But, I've seen interviews with him saying lots of it meant nothing. I hate that. I want it to mean something, but it is what it is. We'll never know for sure. He was hard to get to know.
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anonymous Dec 30th 2012, 00:50 report
Its a quite sad song and when I myself listen to it i really can relate to it because some people came to the point that they think all the things they are doing good or bad are wrong, i guess at that time Kurdt flet like that,he was sorry that he is doing wrong but he knows he cant do anything about it,he is overwhelmed and wants to be anyone else but Kurt cobain
it can be about anything. Kurt made this song somehow that some of the people can relate to it and think about it as they like
in his case i guess he was sorry that he wanted to leave Courtney and Frances but he didnt know which is better, leaving or staying cuz in his mind he thought if he staus with them he would somehow ruin their life
And kurts songs did not always have true meanings,he never wanted his lyrics be analysed,but yet he had deeper meanings in some songs
and some were just for you to figure out the meaning you like -
anonymous Dec 30th 2012, 00:43 report
Its a quite sad song and when I myself listen to it i really can relate to it because some people came to the point that they think all the things they are doing good or bad are wrong, i guess at that time Kurdt flet like that,he was sorry that he is doing wrong but he knows he cant do anything about it,he is overwhelmed and wants to be anyone else but Kurt cobain
it can be anout anything. Kurt made this song somehow that some of the people can relate to it and think about it as they like
in his case i guess he was sorry that he wanted to leave Courtney and Frances but he didnt know which is better, leaving or staying cuz in his mind he thought if he staus with them he would somehow ruin their life
And kurts song did not always have true meanings,he never wanted his lyrics be analysed,but yet he had deeper meanings in some songs
and some were just for you to figure out the meaning you like -
anonymous Nov 8th 2012, 02:06 report
This song is real simple; it’s about Kurt Donald Cobain’s lack of being able to love someone therefore, no one can be in-love with him. So Kurt is apologizing for “being himself “ that so many people loved.
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anonymous Jul 9th 2012, 15:29 report
In my humble opinion, it's a suicide note written like a nursery rhyme. Imagine Kurt on the floor playing with his daughter and just feeling overwhelmingly guilty for anything and everything. I think it's a big picture song. The words were not intended to be broken down into debatable realistic ideas.
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natez May 31st 2012, 09:43 report
Sorry this may come off as over-analyzing or superstitious but I hope you'll take me seriously when I tell you what this song means to me and, I believe, for everyone. I had a pretty intense experience in the days directly before and after I came upon this and all of a sudden all the words (which I've always heard everyone say make no sense) made sense.
The last verse of 'On a Plain' lets us in to the message he was giving. "It is now time to make things unclear, to write off lines that don't make sense... One more special message to go and then I'm done and I can go home" Home is to heaven (in the sun I feel as one, married, buried). This is the second "special message", All Apologies. All in all is all we are, over and over and over again he says it. We are all One, all souls are parts of the whole which is God (John 17:21-23).
'Come as You Are' is written from the Father of all children as a message to them to come. Reread the song from this perspective. Look at Luke 15:11-32, the story of the prodigal son. Come doused in mud or soaked in bleached, the dirty "sinners" and the pure of heart. What do you feel when we know someone has a gun? Fear. Don't be afraid to come before the goodness of goodness, there's only deeper peace for you. You can take forever but the sooner the better, there's only higher truth to know. The memory is where we all came from, the absolute before we were planted into a body.
Smells like Teen Spirit is written from peoples view, they prefer to be in the dark, fearful and just want to be entertained. That's why everyone loved it and why Kurt said he didn't understand why Pennyroyal Tea wasn't a hit, because it was about the same thing. The last line that he yells, "A denial" is exactly what it is (check out 'House of Cards' by Radiohead). We were meant to live in freedom and love, not trapped in this material bulls--t, self-serve, stress inducing world we seem so attached to. Kurt set into motion the 90's, a great time where anyone could have a song on the radio and being modest was cool. -
anonymous Mar 20th 2012, 06:28 report
He didn't kill himself. Courtney paid some skinhead $50k to do it
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anonymous Oct 2nd 2011, 02:08 report
This is about the illuminati and media when he says I dont have the right he is saying he cant fully express himself because he doesnt wanna die .
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anonymous Aug 8th 2011, 01:03 report
The meaning of every song kurt wrote was to get you to think, I think.
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anonymous May 17th 2011, 14:42 report
For me this song is all about coming clean with life. Like Curt realized: Whatever you you are,who ever you are and whatever you think or feel, someone can be offended or judge you for whom you are. We don't want to be blamed so we start with saying sorry for everything. That's why he sais: Ill take all the blame- everything is my fault... all those alligations he takes on himself just so he can be 'what he is". So in the end all one can be is 'all apologies'.
For me it represents the whole idea/ philosofy of Generation X. -
anonymous Apr 7th 2011, 16:09 report
Am I the only one who thinks this song is about Kurt's ex Mary Lou Lord? The 'Mary' in the song is my main clue, but the others come from the fact that he dumped her by saying on TV 'Courtney Love is the best fuck I ever had.' Courtney even chased Lord down the street once and attacked her, so I think this is Kurt's way of apologizing to her.
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anonymous Mar 2nd 2011, 22:34 report
I think Kurt just lost interest in punk rock music.The tune of the song was unusual,so different from their other songs and the singing of that song was just his way to fell sorry.
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anonymous Feb 19th 2011, 20:34 report
Well I actually think this song is about the effects of marijuana in the brain his lyrics repeat marry and then he says "choking on the ashes of her emeny" well this is what I interrupt from this song. Then he also wrote "i wish I was like you easily assume" also could mean the effect of marijuana .
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anonymous Jan 22nd 2011, 04:37 report
In my opinion I think the song may mean that he wishes he could be happy like everyone else instead of feeling depressed. Or it may mean that the song has to do with his girlfriend doing drugs. So the title of the song all apologies is referring to himself and his girlfriend. This is what this song means to me.
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anonymous Nov 15th 2010, 19:45 report
The idea that this was written for Courtney and Frances and/or as an apology to the fans is a popular theory, but a version of "All Apologies" was actually written and recorded back in January of '91 - albeit with different lyrics. IIRC this was before he met Courtney. It's possible that "All Apologies" was written to be a different song entirely (the early version is much more upbeat) and re-purposed to be a tribute to his wife and child.
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shanon2885 Jun 14th 2010, 23:03 report
This song was indeed written to Courtney and frances. Kurt was planning on divorcing Courtney and taking full custody of frances as he and Courtney fought constantly (violently) and he had found out about numerous affairs Courtney was having, including with smashing pumpkins billy corgan. Kurt felt overwhelmed with trying to mend his marriage, raise his daughter, and carry on a career he no longer had passion for. It is rumored in the Kurt Cobain murder theory that his "suicide note" was in fact a retirement letter from rock to his fans. RIP KURT
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anonymous Jan 2nd 2010, 10:27 report
"all in all" is a conclusion or a way to sum things up. In life terms, our conclusion is our death. Perhaps Kurt was foretelling his legacy after death. A lot of people that never listened to Kurt's music know about his death. To them, "all in all" was all he was.
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anonymous Dec 29th 2009, 12:00 report
Jude 1:12
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
All APOLOGIES
I'll take all the blame , aqua sea foam shame
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