Nirvana - Plateau [Lyrics] video free download

Recorded: 18 November 1993

Sony Music Studios, New York, NY, USA

Transmission: 16 December 1993

MTV Unplugged in NY

Lyrics

Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau

Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know

Holy ghosts and talk-show hosts are planted in the sand

To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands

Nothing on the top, but a bucket and a mop

and an illustrated book about birds

You see a lot up there, but don't be scared

Who needs action when you got words

Finish with the mop, then you can stop

and look at what you've done

Plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen

and in a word, it was fun

Nothing on the top, but a bucket and a mop

and an illustrated book about birds

You see a lot up there but don't be scared

Who needs action when you got words

Many hands began to scan around for the next plateau

Some said it was Greenland and some say Mexico

Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood

Those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could

(The pitch was changed to avoid copyright issues)

Song Facts:

• This is a cover of a Meat Puppets song

• Nirvana played it with Meat Puppets' members Curt Kirkwood (guitar) and Cris Kirkwood (bass and backing vocals), Novoselic played guitar

• It was performed just once by Nirvana