Nirvana - I Hate Myself and Want to Die (Demo Tape) [Lyrics] video free download

Song Author: Kurt Cobain

Writing Period: Unknown

Recording Session: 19-21/01/93 Ariola BMG Studios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alternate/Working Titles: 2 Bass Kid

Common Mislabels: Calssics - Here I Am - I Hate Myself - I Hate Myself and I Want to Die - Oh, the Guilt - Something - Untitled

Adam Kasper remix. This track was not available on versions circulating amongst traders prior to the release of the boxset and so is a genuine boxset exclusive!

Kurt Cobain originally intended to call the band's third studio album (In Utero) I Hate Myself and Want to Die, but feared that the dark humor of the title would be lost on some critics and fans. The song itself was also originally going to be included on the In Utero album but was later pulled by Kurt Cobain. He later donated it to the Beavis and Butthead compilation album after Geffen offered him $60,000 for it.

During the original song, Kurt Cobain reads the following from "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey: "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." However, the demo features a solo in its place, in addition to a feedback-laden intro also not present on the original version.

In an interview with Guitar World, Kurt Cobain said that it was dropped from In Utero because Cobain thought there were too many noise songs in a row. "It was just a typical, boring song," he says. "We could write that song in our sleep. There was no point to putting it on the record. If you look back on the record, there are so many noise songs all in a row that it makes it seem like it's nothing but a noise record. It's really not; there are plenty of soft spots to it."

It is also quite likely that the commercial single of "Pennyroyal Tea" was withdrawn after his death because the B-side was "I Hate Myself and Want To Die," which could arguably be described as an unsuitable epitaph that Nirvana's record company would not like to release.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die was what Elizabeth Wurtzel originally wanted to title her first book, but she instead opted to name it Prozac Nation.

Noel Gallagher from Oasis said in an interview included in the bonus DVD of the Oasis compilation Stop the Clocks that this song inspired him to write "Live Forever", as he thought it was a bit too depressing and set about writing an uplifting song, although Gallagher is a Nirvana fan. Gallagher observed: "I remember Nirvana had a tune called I Hate Myself And I Want To Die, and I was like, 'Well, I'm not fucking having that'... I can't have people like that coming over here, on smack, fucking saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That's fucking rubbish."

This was never played live.

from Disc 2 of "With the Lights Out"

Lyrics

Ready?

Even if you own a wide

Even if you rack, I may say

I could never want a bribe

I've been there for matter, well said

In the someday, with my sound

In the someday, with my sound

In the someday, with my sound

In the someday

Even if you wanted light

I could never matter to play

Even if you want a life

Even if I like it, you're sad

In the someday, in my sound

In the someday, in my sound

In the someday, in my sound

In the someday, in my sound

Even if you own a wife

Even if you wanted one thing

I could never want a life

I could never, only one day

In the someday, in my sound

In the someday, in my sound

In the someday, in my sound

In the someday, in my sound