Black heart shaped box1/1/2024 It was released as the first single from Nirvana's third and final studio album, In Utero, in 1993, and appears as the third track. These all come from the book 'heavier than heaven' an amazing biography about kurt, highly recomend it."Heart-Shaped Box" is a song by American rock band Nirvana, written by vocalist and guitarist Kurt Cobain. Though the song has many meanings, Kurt wrote some liner notes for the single, that weren't used, including thems like 'leonardo da vinci, male seahorses (who carry their young), rasism in the Old West and there are a few other I haven't listed because they're so strange I did't think people would take this seriously! 'Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back' is a plea for the women in his life, courtney, his wife, wendy, his mum and kim, his younger sister, to support him. The line 'forever in debt to your priceless advice' comes from a letter he sent to courtney.Īppently, the line 'i wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black' means 'i love you' (i can't see how personally, but that's what I've read). ![]() The name came from a gift that courtney gave to kurt before they were together, with was a silk and laced heart shaped box with some strange things in it, and you could say that this was his gift back to her. This song is about Courtney Love, in fact the 'In Utero' was largely written with her in mind, as 'Nevermind' was written about Tobi (can't remember second name!), his ex. Perhaps, it takes on a different meaning to a different audience (a lover, himself, or God), with each repetition of the refrain. ![]() Or maby musically, it's inner voice/outer voice blurring, were the lister doesn't really know what is trully tought or said (or double-spoken). Two simple line: it's as if, in the first line, he is trying to make a stand, confronting the oppressor(s), but then in the second line, he sort of whimps out and says the opposite. I guess the question is, what are Kurt's reasons and what are his cryptic meanings, and reserved for what audience exactly: his lover, his God, himself, or all of them. Her feelings and the people around her were so bound together, like a pile of peperclips - that to pull at one, you had to pull at all of them to undertand her, those in her circle would have had to be willing to honestly look at themselves in the mirror and know their true nature, but they were unwilling, or unable, and therefore Ophelia's outburts were all painted with the same 'madness brush' and she became their scapegoat. She was so deep in melancholie, and trapped by famliy(and social) dynamics, that she could only express herself (sometimes in song) by making vague, abstract raferences to flowers that had then historical meanings. In shakespeare's Hamlet, Ophelia (Hamlet's once love interest) in her madness, wears a "fantastic garland" made up of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples. What I find interesting in this song, are all the flower referecences angel's hair, babies breath, and meat eating orchids. ![]() Interesting how kurt identified with Hamlet, the prince of Denmark right towards his end, in his suicide note. Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back. Meat-Eating orchids forgive no one just yet.Ĭut myself on angel hair and baby's breath.īroken hymen of your highness, I'm left black, I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black.įorever in debt to your priceless advice, I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap, I've been locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks. She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak,
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