Nirvana - Serve The Servants

Here is some background information about "Serve the Servents" from songfacts.com :

This is Kurt Cobain's most autobiographical song. The lyrics contain references to his father ("I tried hard to have a father but instead I had a dad"), his wife Courtney Love ("If she floats, then she is not a witch") and his own success.

The witch reference about Courtney Love in the first verse was Cobain's frustration with the press for constantly vilifying Love as a horrible wife, mother, drug addict and detriment to Nirvana.

The divorce of Cobain's parents inspired the line, "That legendary divorce is such a bore."

This is a very personal song, which is not unusual, but the fact that it is so direct is unusual for Nirvana. It discusses many topics that were important in Kurt's life and was a perfect album opener. The line "if she floats, she is a witch" is one of the many examples of Courtney's influence on Kurt's lyrics on In Utero, as she had always had an obsession with the Salem witch trials. It is also a reference to the "witch hunts" in the media against her, portraying her as an awful person.

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[jjc19461]

no this song is about serving the servants. he is serving the "true" fans music. this album was not meant for the fake fans who only liked smells like teen spirit.

[fsfsfsfsfsfsg]

I find myself deeply in this song I also had familiar and personal problems specially because my father left me when I was like 3 abandoned in a park :( so I also " tried to have a father, but instead I had a dad"

[Adrian4713]

After reading Journals, I discovered Kurt's method to writing lyrics was quite favorable. He seemed to always be thinking. So he wrote a bunch of stuff down. From those stream of thought writings, he took all the best parts, the meaningful little lines he liked the best, and put that in his songs. I like that style of writing. He took the best parts from his poems and strung them together. Nirvana is like the musical form of abstract art.

[mvivanc]

Happy Birthay Kurt Cobain we love you

[19ayden96]

angst*



[19ayden96]

"teenage ants has paid off well but now i am bored and old" smells like teens spirit was good but if you expect music like that from me all the time u can go fuck yourself, love it

[stratotega]

@fsfsfsfsfsfsg :(



[TheLol509]

@wilmotaustin Dude quit being a prick!

[pfive]

@123456751261

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA­HA

[Rageagainsttm1]

@123456751261

Dude... What are you talking about???

[scottiehenry]

@123456751261 what! they really do man. If your not obsessed with kurt cobain like I am, you won't understand them. They're about how a lot bands thought nirvana had sold out (teenage angst has payed off well) about how they judged them (self appointed judges judge) him saying he loves his dad and that courtney isn't a witch, its him saying thankyou and sorry all at the same time...