| | By Pages: 1 2 3 Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Jesus Doesn't want Me for a Sunbeam (page 2/ 3) ------ performed by Nirvana ohhh god | Reviewer: max guevara | 11/15/2007 So I think there are many different ways to believe. Somebody "make" it as a religion, somebody according to his own rules, and somebody only feels it, that there is maybe a god above. Kurt wasn't religious, but it doesn't mean that he couldn't feel sometimes the chance of god's existing, or that he didn't feel sometimes the thirst after it. (To be quite frank if there was certainly a god who forgived everything so we were certainly able to live after we die, it would be high reposeful.) So I don't know if Kurt was a believer or not, but I'm sure that the "narrator"(poetic ego) of this lyrics/poem is a doubter, frustrated, but apparently longing believer. Without this, the poem would be much less effective, meaning and heavy. This aspect (the configuration of a believer who can't join his god because he is weak, but he devolve it to god because it's his fault because "he doesn't want me for a sunbeam")is an important poetic tool. forever 27 | Reviewer: Benjamin | 10/28/2007 I think this song is for 'Forever 27'. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Jopplin, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones. Not only this but this song was written close to the death of River Pheonix. I think this song has a lot to do with the deaths of many famous people. Think About This One.. | Reviewer: Billy Malice | 10/17/2007 ive read quite a few of the comments posted adn theyre all very good, except the one that says he did kill himself.. that person cannot see beyond all the propaganda himself. but anyways. Id First like to say that im pretty sure if it werent for nirvana id probably been dead a long time ago. and all their music is very inspirational to me, and i can connect to it in a way that, i cant wiht any otehr music. secondly. this song, and my interpretaion of it, is that, Kurt did believ in god, and jesus, but felt like, he wasnt good enough, that it wasnt for him, that sure there were ppl that god had blessed but he wasnt one of those ppl. i only think this because yeah, i guess i do blelive in god, but, not for me. religion and hope and all that other crap is not what my life has been about ever. maybe other ppl feel teh same way, because i guess some ppl were just meant to fight for everything, every step of the way and every minute of the day a constant battle for survival. whereas you see some ppl, like a man i know, who had a really amazing job and all this stuff and one day he just quit, sold his house divorced his wife, and when i asked him why, he told me god had told him to. and i laughed in his face. he was living wiht his mother for a year, when all of a sudden he got this million dollar home, he was handed a bunch of stuff, and it was jsut nuts. lol. i coudlnt believe it. and i think thats more then jsut coincidence. but this song to me, is that, yeah sure jesus exists and shit, but exactly liek it says, he dont want me for a sun beam, because sunbeams, are not made liek me.. if you agree or disagree, right on, this is just my interpretation. and yeah. havea good one guys. Hmmm.... | Reviewer: Lithium!!! | 10/15/2007 I think this is a song that is going out to the people who just weren't given, genetically, what it takes to be a 'sunbeam' to society. It also mocks the whole idea of god within it by pointing out the circular logic in the whole concept of people judging people's worth by the sum of their genetic (dis)position which is pure luck, and the fact that the majority of society believes some higher being is responsible for this- 'Jesus don't want me for a sunbeam, because sunbeams are not made like me.' I guess that may or may not be a stretch, only the vaselines probly know real meaning.... but w/e it's about, I think it's a song of frustration/sadness. Kurt Cobain | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/17/2007 Has anyone read the biography of Kurt Cobain? Kurt had a rough life. His parents were broken up and he had been passed around to live with relatives and friends many times before his 16th birthday. Was this really a song of hate to God, a song of faith, or just a song that provoked you to you think a little bit deeper? Then again, was it just a light hearted song about having a rough life? Yes, Nirvana did not write this song themselves it is a Nirvana version. It was not to disrespect The Vaselines or the Meat Puppets, it was to show respect to them for their song and work. Kurt was not happy about being "Unplugged." Novoselic was actually playing a bass guitar that was plugged in. Really, the only person who could explain this is the man himself. After all, he did the rendition of the song. Lets just leave it at that. atheists | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/27/2007 Kurt Cobain was a hardcore atheist so I highly doubt some of your theories about this song is really about jebus loving. (The jebus was intentional) thoughts | Reviewer: MrSteve | 7/30/2007 I think in performing Vaselines songs, KC changed the whole feel of this and 'Molly's Lips' (which in the Nirvana version seemed to become more about dependency - emotional and narcotic - than sex). 'Sunbeam' in the Vaselines version disavows JC and Christianity; KC, I'd argue, by the way he performs it, makes it an ode to the outsider's lack of self-esteem/ feeling of not being worthy. Nobody get's it, This is not an antichristan song, | Reviewer: Jamie | 7/29/2007 First of all I think the lyrics are written wrong here for the fourth paragraph down. Instead of "Thee" I could almost swear he is saying me. which is very possible with kurt. This song is about someone telling God that they are not good enough to be as pure as a sunbeam and be able to die on a cross for there own sins or anyone else's. Kurt had a brilliant way of turning things around, He loved to mess with people and norms, Anarchy rules. If you notice this song at first glance may appear to be offensive to Christians but it is definitely not. Have you ever known Kurt to present a song at purely face value. One of Kurt's many gifts was the ability to get people to think about things from a different point of view, I personally believe he was so good at doing this sometimes it was almost automatic. And If Kurt was so angry at God, why would he sing a pro god song right after this one during nirvana's set during unplugged. It makes no sense. Kurt was a very clean performer, language word usage. some of the songs hinted at some things, ex. I am convinced polly is about a weekend of bondage, But overwhelmingly Kurt could entertain us like no other and at the same time make you think and have a different perspective about things and at the same time not be Obscene or even really that rude. Something no group has really ever done before or sense with the exception of maybe foo fighters. Nirvana was not only more peaceful then ANY CHRISTIAN SINGER OR BAND. They were also much more talented. Kurt Cobain was depressed | Reviewer: Alex | 7/7/2007 if you think courtney killed him youre a fucking idiot. read something other than those cynical conpiracy books, be real. Listen to his music, read about his life, be rational. This was only covered by Nirvana.. | Reviewer: Tom | 6/19/2007 This was one of many songs covered by Nirvana for the Unplugged in New York show/album. Most of the songs were by Meat Puppets and The Vaselines - both awesome bands too. This particular song was by the Vaselines, so any meanings for Kurt are only inherited from the other bands... Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages: 1 2 3 | | | |||||||||
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