anonymous January 4th, 2006 11:17AM  
I believe this song is truly about Courtney because he keeps mentioning about being married and I honeslty belive there is a message in this. I think he is saying how he doesn't really like the married life but he is guilty of it because he was the one that proposed. He wishes he could be anyone else right now. I believe he wrote this when Courtney gave him a hard time on drugs and going to rehab.

anonymous March 22nd, 2006 05:23PM  
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

Cobainfan420 August 29th, 2006 09:56PM  
I believe that this song is about him being sorry for his loss of the love of music. He never wanted to be mainstream, and whoever said nirvana's lyrics have no meaning should be ran over

anonymous March 28th, 2007 08:54PM  
I think it's about how the media attacked his lyrics and song. "what else could I write/ I don't have the right" the mass media was giving him real shit for his ways of expression.

anonymous April 12th, 2007 07:18PM  
AGREED... Kurt actually NEVER once wrote a song without a meaning... How he wrote was he started with what he wanted to say, and the made it a song... Therefore, no meaning, no song...

and yes a lot of these interpretations are correct...

BURN IN HELL COURTNEY!!

anonymous May 6th, 2007 05:20PM  
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.

anonymous May 11th, 2007 04:32PM  
lol I saw this documentary by Kurt when he said HIMSELF so you can oppose this, that.. all apologies was well written by curt for his daughter and wife and for all his fans cause he was doubting suicide

and I TAKE ALL THE BLAME says it all straight. He felt guilty for everything he did which took a big part on he's suicide.

anonymous August 6th, 2007 12:07PM  
Personally, I think it's the beginning of the end. He's semi-sarcastically apologizing for everything he's done because no matter what he does, he ends up intentionally hurting someone he cares about. He just wanted to make music because he enjoyed it, but even that was ruined by fame and fortune ad he got bored and had to sacrifice his life of comfort and peace.

anonymous September 12th, 2007 11:46PM  
Before you guys jump on the guy who said Kurt's song has no meaning he's partly true whether he meant to be a jackass or not. Kurt says throughout his career that the vast majority of his songs are "about nothing basically" . The point is even Kurt left his lyrics up to interpretation to him and all of us, and he did so very intentionally. granted the guy said it in a disrespectful manner its partly true, it's about whatever we want it to be about. There's not one single nirvana song you can pinpoint and say that's exactly what it's about, hell there's barely any lines in any songs you can be too sure of.

anonymous February 7th, 2008 10:42PM  
See Primus and Les Claypool, "Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People."

What else should I be? All apologies.

BE AS YOU ARE, it's a favorite hat I wear. Animals should not try to act like people...but that's what we are. We're animals trying to act like people.

It's about the human condition and Jung's concept of the shadow, IMO. We are born whole, we must become civilized, but during the civilization process, we lose some of the best parts of our selves...we unconsciously reject some of our best qualities and the purpose of life is to reclaim those qualities that society destroyed.

Kurt killed himself, IMO, because society didn't understand him and wanted to use him in ways that were impure and dishonest. Claypool, on the other hand, has a sense of humor and mental stability that allows him to live on, giving the middle finger to those who deserve it...but creatively.

yeaitsfingme September 16th, 2008 01:03AM  
Umm to me it means being really ashamed of who you are. and you feel like no one really gets it or understands and you think well know its your fault that they don't. and your really sad cause nothing funny anymore more and you never really feel complete cause you're so ashamed around people.

anonymous February 18th, 2009 09:26PM  
its about how he wants to die but cant because he is "married...buried" and cant kill himself because courtney and frances need him. "sunburn and freezerburn" sound like "someday free as a bird" when he sang live for mtv. suicide for him was a way to be free from all the media and pain and addiction.

anonymous April 15th, 2009 01:08PM  
That last anonymous guy I'm afraid is so off, if he wanted to kill himself, then wrote a song about being unable only to, why would he then kill himself less than a year later?

anonymous April 23rd, 2009 08:19PM  
I always thought he said "I'll proceed from shame" instead of "Aqua seafoam shame," which seems fucking random. Are you guys sure he isn't saying "I'll proceed from shame?" I keep trying to listen for both lyics, but it's hard to draw a conclusion.

anonymous May 15th, 2009 09:45PM  
Ive listened to this song many many times before.. and always thought the same old things as to what the meaning was. But there is something deeper.. I've realised u have to look very deeply into his music to truely understand what he's talking about. I believe Kurt Cobains mind had been "fugged up" by drugs.. Now i say screwed up but is that really the case? Much like the song Dumb, Kurt's mind is stuck in a continuous loop trying to formulate infinity. So when Kurt said his lyrics mean nothing he's talking in riddles. He talks in riddles alot. "all in all is all we are" When i found myself trying to formulate and work out the point to everything i found myself coming to this same conclusion. A lot of people dont realise it but Kurt Cobain was that intelligent that he got to a point where he thought he was dumb. Perhaps thats why we humans only use 10% of our brain??

Dreamerswrite June 22nd, 2009 03:19AM  
What else should I be
All apologies

**He doesn’t know what he should be other than what he is, which is “conflicted” so he apologizes to himself for wanting to commit suicide.


What else should I say
Everyone is gay

**He can’t come to terms with the fact that everyone has duality in themselves, and are conflicted. He has good and bad in him and feels happy on the drug, while sad when straight. He thinks that everyone is gay (happy) but he is depressed so he doesn’t know how to deal with the mood swings. Here he is making a pun on words; gay and straight. Also, happy (gay) straight (has his act together and not on the drug)

What else could I write
I don't have the right
What else should I be
All apologies

**He doesn’t know how else to convey his issues or problems honestly. He doesn’t feel that he has the right to express himself due to society holding men to a standard of being strong, and holding their emotions in, while woman let their emotions go. Because he is emotional he thinks people might think he is gay even though he isn’t. So he apologizes to himself and others for making that judgment, in that gay men are allowed to express their emotions without ridicule while if he did the same he would be wrong. Therefore he doesn’t know if he is right or wrong in his thought process?

In the sun
In the sun I feel as one
In the sun
In the sun

**Most spiritual people feel that everything in the universe makes up the whole, but in the same instance are separate. So here he feels the “colloid quartz” (which represents him) is part of the whole (the salts - Amphetamines, the sea, the chemicals, AND the particles that need to be removed from his body to make him think “clear” like the crystal he really knows he is.)

**Also, colloid suspensions are intermediate between homogeneous and heterogeneous mixtures. Heterogeneous is consisting of dissimiliar or diverse ingrediants or constituents, while homogeneous is of uniform stucture or composition throughout. He doesn’t know if the way he feels is normal.

I'm married
buried

**Burying something is an unwillingness to deal with whatever that object represents, which could be the whole universe, the quartz metaphor that he uses to represent himself, or the drugs.

**Marriage represents two things or people coming together to make one “whole”. He doesn’t think he will ever be whole because he is conflicted in the way he feels about life. He wonders if he belongs to the universe as a whole, or if he is separate, or maybe both, which is driving him crazy because he can’t figure it out.


I wish I was like you
Easily amused

**Amphetamine salts are used for ADHD. So he probably was very focused or an obsessive thinker, which can lead to madness. Usually people with ADHD are easily amused and distracted from life’s difficulties. He feels the salts, “are what they are”, and don’t think, so he feels they are amused. He just wants to be like the drug itself so he can relax. Another metaphor because one can’t relax on stimulant salts.

Find my nest of salt
Everything is my fault

**Seawater consists of salt. The nest could be his mind. When mixed with amphetamine salts along with heroin it creates an easy feeling, like being at home with yourself. The addiction and confliction - Mixing uppers and downers probably by injection. This is becoming a habit and he apologizes for not being able to deal with his afflictions on his own.

**Anatase (sometimes known by the obsolete name 'octahedrite'), a tetragonal mineral of pseudo-octahedral means HABBIT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutile

**The Irish word for quartz is grian cloch, which means 'stone of the sun'.
Other sources insist the name is from the Saxon word Querkluftertz", meaning cross- VEIN- ore . Mixing uppers and downers in the vein.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la981608c

**Colloid is a particile that won't disolve. Micron-sized particles adhering to collector surfaces can be detached by passing a liquid air interface over the adhering particles. Theoretically, the efficiency of particle detachment depends on the interface velocity, the liquid surface tension, the viscosity, and the particle substratum interaction forces. In this study we perfuse an air bubble through a parallel-plate flow chamber to study detachment of polystyrene particles from a quartz collector surface, at different interface velocities and liquid surface tensions and upon multiple air bubble passages. A linear relation was found between particle removal and the liquid air interface velocity, with negligible removal at elevated velocities. Linear relations were also found between particle removal and the liquid air surface tensions, with different slopes for different air bubble velocities. Particle removal could be increased by the passage of multiple air bubbles. In summary, this study shows that liquid air interfaces can be employed to detach micron-sized particles from collector surfaces. The detachment process can be optimized by adjusting the air bubble velocities, the surface tensions, and the number of bubbles applied.


I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame

**Aqua is Latin for water.
Seafoam creates colloidal quartz, which is a particle in quartz crystals that is removed to make the crystal quartz clear. Because he has particles (a chemical imbalance in his body, he feels ashamed)

**Sunburn with freezerburn
The Irish word for quartz is grian cloch, which means 'stone of the sun'.

**Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder believed quartz to be 'water ice', permanently frozen after great lengths of time. Here he is expressing his mood swings. Detaching and feeling cold, and then using drugs to feel warm and happy, yet he knows both burns and eventually he will remain cold and detached.

Choking on the ashes of her enemy
All in all is all we are

**Chocking by trying to communicate from the place within himself where he doesn’t understand life, due to the degeneration from his enemy (drugs)(chemicals)(substances) He can’t communicate his thoughts freely (openly and honestly) so he apologizes for using metaphors.

All in all is all we are. I believe he feels insignificant due to his chemical imbalance that causes mood swings and he looses faith in himself.

anonymous June 22nd, 2009 03:20AM  
This song was written as demonstration of Kurt's love for candy corn. (I don't care much for it myself) but Kurt sure as hell did! He chewed on that stuff everywhere he went, to the guitar store, at the Grammys, he even ate it in the shower. All the time!

anonymous August 5th, 2009 05:48PM  
I disagree with the people that say all Kurt's song had meanings... I remember him stating in an interview that some of his songs had no true meaning, they were bits of poetry and things he enjoyed. He stated his appreciation for music with strange and bizarre music, comparing it much to abstract art... stating it was unique, and beautiful. Kurt was a very misunderstood, his lyrics were genius.

anonymous October 5th, 2009 01:43AM  
I think some people are reading too much into the lyrics. This song is most likely just explaining how he feels ( I remember hearing that he had manic depression), So this could be about his lows. He feels like anything bad that happens is his fault, that he loses passion in life, for his music.

anonymous December 29th, 2009 12:00PM  
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