Nirvana: Rape Me Meaning

Song Released: 1993

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Rape Me Lyrics

Nirvana
Rape Me

Rape me
Rape me, my friend
Rape me
Rape me, again

I'm not the only one[4x]

Hate me
Do it and do it again
Waste me
Rape me, my friend

I'm not the only one [4x]

My favorite inside source
I'll kiss your open...
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   anonymous

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   Mar 14th 2006, 21:13 report

   
   

   Actually in a interveiw kurt's exact words were "it is an anti let me repeat that anti-rape song" he later on said it was a "Just reward for a man who rapes a women violates her and then goes to prison and gets raped there himself"

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Feb 11th 2006, 09:51 report

   
   

   I always thought it was about the media taking and saying what they want and doing what they want to your life exposing everything you've ever done that you didn't want anyone else to know and he's not the only one that it's happening too.But I never saw anything about the meaning of this song in his journals.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Jun 1st 2006, 07:07 report

   
   

   Kurt was such an enigma, that it is hard to interpret his songs 100 % correctly, but I feel this song speaks for itself more than any other he wrote.
   
   The song is about what he viewed as unfair treatment by the media. Especially in regards to the Vanity Fair article that reported that both mommy and daddy were shooting up heroin before and during the pregnancy.
   
   This nearly took their child away from them so Kurt wrote a song that was intended to be a direct slap in the face of the media, in true punk fashion.
   
   "My favorite inside source/ I'll kiss your open sores/ I appreciate your concern/ You're gonna sink and burn"
   
   Also note the mocking tone of the song. "Rape me... Rape me my friend."
   
   If you feel like telling me just how wrong I am, hit me up at foohalo27@yahoo.com

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Oct 13th 2005, 10:42 report

   
   

   It's obviously about Kurt feeling depressed and he feels like he's so vunerable so he's saying "Just use me and do what you will" and calls them his "friend" when they really aren't.

   
   
   
   

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   illumanati76

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   Oct 31st 2005, 20:45 report

   
   

   Actually, this song is a first person narrative of a rape victim, provoking her assailant. Kurt Cobain himself said this song was about bad karma - reaping what you sow. I personally think it's a visionary of a song, and leaving the listener to determine whether or not the victim was a man or a woman.

   
   
   
   

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   babykicker

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   Nov 1st 2005, 13:49 report

   
   

   It's what the previous guy said, it's ironic because the person is saying 'rape me' but in the end, the rapist will just get raped once he is placed in jail.

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   anonymous

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   Nov 9th 2005, 15:15 report

   
   

   This song is an ANTI rape song. Kurt Cobain did not mean this literally. It is about how rapists go to jail and are raped there temselves.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Dec 15th 2005, 10:08 report

   
   

   I don't think any of you really no much about Kurt cobain. Kurt Cobain suffered from depression. Most people who suffer from depression disrespect themselves and consider others better than themselves. This is Kurt Cobain saying that you are better than me and you are allowed to do whatever you want to me. Cobain had an idea of what rapists thought, this was that they were making their mark upon you. He was saying he deserved this; he basically had VERY low self-esteem.

   
   
   
   

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   anonymous

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   Dec 22nd 2005, 03:13 report

   
   

   If you'd like to research it yourself, it IS actually about karma and how a guy raped a girl then went to prison and was raped himself... Kurt's words.

   
   
   
   

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    Dec 24th 2005, 19:02 report

    
    

    When Kurt Cobain was in high school there was a girl that most people knew who was mildly retarded, but she could still function. Late in his highschool career he became very suicidal and decided that he didn't want to die a virgin.
    he had sex with her because he was under the impression that she knew exactly what she was doing because she wasn't severely retarded.
    
    However, afterward she had mixed feelings about it, and rumors spread that he had raped her because her disability wasn't very severe there was much confusion about what had really happened and if she was telling the truth. Cobain was never convicted.
    
    This is what the song is about, it's in his journal; read it.

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    Degenerate19893

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    Jan 3rd 2006, 10:44 report

    
    

    Simply put, this song is about someone getting raped, then the rapist going to prison and getting raped themselves. This part is evident from the phrase 'I'm not the only one'. Effectively it is a anti-rape song.

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    Mar 13th 2006, 15:29 report

    
    

    I think it is mainly about Kurt Cobain being depressed and he wants people to see the real him as a human being not a celebirity. He is using "rape me" as see me maybe it's what I think.

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Mar 14th 2006, 21:13 report

    
    

    Actually in a interveiw kurt's exact words were "it is an anti let me repeat that anti-rape song" he later on said it was a "Just reward for a man who rapes a women violates her and then goes to prison and gets raped there himself"

    
    
    
    

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    anonymous

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    Mar 20th 2006, 12:13 report

    
    

    This song is abvout a guy that rapes a girl then goes to prison for it and gets raped himself.

    
    
    
    

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    ILuvKurtCobain

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    Mar 25th 2006, 11:24 report

    
    

    First of all, I own journals, books almost everything of Kurt Cobain's and this song is about a time in his life when he was depressed in rehab, and the media was really on him bad. So Rape me was a song that let out his feelings. Kurt did a lot of songs on his feelings and mind.

    
    
    
    

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    Jul 14th 2006, 11:20 report

    
    

    ...it could mean a LOT of different things..he was depressed on drugs and may have(I heard) had multiple personalitys, so there ya go my opion on it is that it's about bad karma,him being lower then others and they can do what ever they want to him and such ;)
    
    I agree with who said you can not interprete his songs 100%

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    Jul 29th 2006, 22:51 report

    
    

    This song should be open for any interpetation. So I think rape me could be about how Kurt felt his orchastative talents are raped and mis used and misinterpetated as well.In the lyrics"rape me my freind" I think he is talking about his fans raping him of everything he had to offer. I think he feel's talent is like virginity. And in a ironic twist our magigcal apostle of grunge interpetated his talent to virginity. And people are using up his talent, and raping his virginity

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    Sep 13th 2006, 10:13 report

    
    

    I feel this song doesn't really have a female or male connotation, but is merely a comment on other humans taking advantage of others. The fact that he considered changing the lyrics to waif me suggest this.
    
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    anonymous

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    Sep 15th 2006, 16:08 report

    
    

    Yall are all stupid! Rape Me is about MTV selling Kurt & Courtney out to vanity fair. MTV was an inside source that provided info for the article. "My favorite inside source" It's not about an actual rape

    
    
    
    

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    Sep 24th 2006, 09:17 report

    
    

    It's about a rapist who went to jail and was raped there himself.

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    Oct 16th 2006, 19:07 report

    
    

    It's about a girl that got raprd.An actual girl.True story. Not about Kurt or anyone in the band being depressed. There's another part of this song called poly.
    I think that was the name of the girl who got raped.
    
    
    Macayla

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    Oct 19th 2006, 14:51 report

    
    

    I think that guy who first talked about talent to virginity is right.
    It would be really smart if the song was about his fans and t.V raping him of his talent.
    But he said it himself
    the song is poetic justice a guy rapes a girl adn then the guy gets raped in jail

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    Oct 21st 2006, 02:35 report

    
    

    I've read a lot of books and they said in many that this song is a way for Kurt to apologize to women for the way he and other guys have treated women as a whole...Also because he basically raped a mentally challenged person when he was younger but ran out in the middle of it because the smell of her vagina disgusted him.

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