Do Re Mi Lyrics - Nirvana

I think you're hugely underestimating Kurt as a lyricist, especially on such a fragile song, to think he's actually singing "don't rape me" in the chorus. That's just my opinion, though.

I absolutely love this song no doubt about it. It's a simple yet amazing piece. I disagree with the majority of the comments on this thread being that in Kurt's own words he said my lyrics are all bullshit and they contain random garble. Bits and pieces I've taken from my poems. He was a genius nonetheless I think people should just let him rest and not over evaluate something because of its simplicity.
Rest in ease Kurt

I am a hopeless fifteen year old. Listening to this beautiful song and turning on the radio afterwards is beyond frustrating. I play the guitar and enjoy listening to rock and alternative songs but kids out there just don't appreciate me. They think what I listen to is crap and what they listen to which consists of pop and techno and all of that shit is absolutely amazing. To be perfectly honest, I hate my generation and my all time dream is to travel back to listen to Kurt live. That is all I have to say.

i believe that this whole song is a story of his life. from birth to death and he pretty predicted his death in this song! if you disagree than that's OK but tell me what you think the meaning to it is then.

I've heard the expression many times in my life that people try to predict the future by making sense of the past, or something like that. I think that's why so many people are still obsessed with his work.

Why are people even arguing about this? Dumb people don't have to learn and probably wont learn by words on the net, honestly. Maybe we all think he was an interesting person and make up things and meanings in our heads while others try to find out EVERYTHING about him to go tell others to fuck off because they don't know shit? I agree with the person that wrote that none of us knew him, so why argue about interviews and meanings? Can't people see that everyone possibly sees different meanings in different things, because people are different.. But allright, if none of you got anything better to do I suppose neither all these arguments would matter.

people are also trying to make sense of his death, so its kinda double morality. I know there was a meaning in his song, I write songs myself and I always look into myself and just write from heart the feelings and make the words flow together.

band like smashing pum. or corgan write music in a special beutifull way in romantic armony. Corgan know the music teory much and much. but kurt was a genius . Genius Are person Who do thing in a different way and open a new territory. cobain was very simple( look how he create jag-stang!) . He was so simple that he respect in his sing. the human mind formula of perciveeng. his talent was is purely BASIC ingenius that make him revolutionRy. sorry the argoument is complex and maybe i express bad it. the riff of him Are true enchant that loked the mind i. A circle and cricle.
effect-affect ; kurt was a like a mage. he craft enchant for thinking . he was q guy and he was so so talent. he was very practicL i. His song. he simplify for playing , he copy qrmonic circle and he paly play play until he finish the possibility of it.
he SAId that a certain tupé of music will finish. he knwo his word because he try all combinatin. try your self to' create a song UPon his song !! is difficult!!! with a combination he create 4 o 5 songs!! he appear much abstract and yes is true but in his work he was very effective and practice.
Kurt you Are incredible, after 15 year you remain incredible for me

his lyrics ment stuff to him no one else. he didn't like that everyone was taking him sooo seriously. the songs themselves are to be interpreted how you want. seriously or non seriously. his lyrics are good but not ever as good as his melodys. RIP Kurdt Donald Cobain.

Everyone writes there version of the lyrics then tries to make sense of them. The songs are just ruff ideas and mostly incoherent babble. Stop trying to give "deep" meaning to the lyrics. If he lived long enough to finish these songs the lyrics would be very different. Thats why he killed himself.... because people were trying to make him into a god and he was just a songwriter.

the stupidity is stupendous. gotta agree with the last guy on 10/7/10, fucking 12-year olds man. I'm writing because it actually makes me sad.

the ambiguity of how he uses the sound of a word against itself to create dual meanings is part of what makes it so brilliant. take a look at the end of all apologies for an obvious one: All in all is all we are/all alone is all we are. they sound the same while spoken or sung but it is only when language attempts to explain them that they are separated or locked to separate meaning. they're all over his lyrics if you listen. if you think cobain didn't think about how these things work your wrong. do re me/dont rape me...erased from his woman(moment)/raised from his woman(moment)...raised from his woman is fucking cool when you look at the wording. "from" seems to simultaneously suggest that it was not "by" the woman, the "from" makes me want to insert an "away" as in, he was raised "away from" his woman, but without including the away there remains a connecting to the woman, lingering somewhere beween "by" and "away from". The more you look the more you can see, which is what gives the music such infinite depth. On the surface of the song, and maybe the reason cobain gave himself reason to sit down and write it is the melody. So many of you are not wrong in describing what he found to be important, just don't reduce or limit the songs or the person because you think you know

Shut up. He said himself that he learned the importance of lyrics after recording Bleach. If you notice, he said a lot of contradictory things, constantly.
You are as bad as the people you think you are blasting. Sourcing an interview years before (where he, as usual, minimized everything he did) and applying that to every song he ever wrote is the approach a 12 year old would take.

Ok, people, listen up good, STOP trying to decode his lyrics because he said himself way back when that his lyrics are garbage put together on a whim. Plus did any of you know him personally?...no? I didnt think so, so shut the fuck up and stop assuming shit about him. So stop dwelling on the past and move the fuck on, hes dead, whats done is done, its sad but get over it...jesus

All these claims of Kurt being such a great lyricist are overexaggeated. He confessed himself that half the time he wrote, it was all "dribble and garbage" he put together from poems he tried to write with no actual meaning at the beginning. Most are all random abstractions. Look it up. Besides, Kurt Cobain does not make up all of Nirvana... jeez, give some credit to the rest of the guys who made it happen and are equally as important

Yes some lyrics are great, like this one, but to say he was an amazing writer and musician is just putting him on an undeserved pedestal. Quit analyzing and appreciate... I did, and Nirvana is still my favorite band; I love everything they've made

It sounds to me like he didn't really have the words all figured out. just a few and then he just went along with it and sang what ever came to mind. Most likely he was just recording this to get the main ideas of the song recorded so he would have them later. But if that's true, in its own way that's even better than if he had all the lyrics planned out. Kinda lets you peer into his soul just a bit.