Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle Lyrics

This song describes what feeling the victim of a sociopath/psychopath is left with... it's hopeless, it's un-ending, you can't fight, it's relieving when you say you're going away after you can use me but I know you'll be back and I'll be at the butt end of a new lawsuit. If only he could just be "sad", if that's all there was left to feel, that the sad eventually smothers the survivorship instinct, just give up, just give in, you'll never win.

He knew exactly what it's like to be the victim of a psychopath. Courtney Love is a violent psychopath murderer.

This song from Curt was his clue to the world what was going on behind closed doors.

Maybe he's just talking about the actress. Remember that Kurt didn't really put his feelings in most of his songs. And some other songs don't even have to do anything with him (Like "Scentless Apprentice" he writes about a book) So since he was so inspired by the attitude of Frances Farmer, he just decided he would give her a kind of tribute by doing this song. If you think about it, it really doesn't make any sense or has any kind of coherence. I do believe however that the song "Heart-Shaped Box" does have to do with Courtney Love.

Say as you will.

I think your interpretation of "I miss the comfort of being sad" is more correct in b.

Even though sadness, depression, etc. can feel horrible it is familiar. As humans, we are more comfortable with familiarity. Not always but generally speaking. The "comfort" being that one knows how it feels, how to react, etc. One can become so accustomed to that feeling that anything else can be very uncomfortable. Even something as simple as happiness. If you're not used to it-it just doesn't feel right.

I think that his comment explains perfectly how I personally about this song and I can't anymore related to thus song because this is one of the songs that no technical fixes were due to the lyrics disunderstandable meaning and the rythem/rhymes, just pure emotions pyres through the ink into the paper... In my opinion Kurt is one of the greatest rock creators ever was because I, personally, feel like his pschycologist and he just know exactly how I feel, every nirvana song (especially in the Courtney period) are so damn good, it's beyond me, beyond description by words. Truly amazing what music can make you feel

As a non-native speaker I am always wondering about the line: "I miss the comfort in being sad" To me it can have two different (even opposite) meanings:
a) When I feel sad it feels terrible, totally uncomfortable.
b) I miss the comfortable feeling of being sad. It comforts be to be sad. / When I am sad I feel comfortable.

Any comments on that?
Thanks,
Markus

Kurt was leaving Courtney, it is a fact. I find it extremely funny that people sympathize with Courtney, a woman that gets in physical altercations with her own child! The woman is a complete lunatic who manipulates anyone that is dumb enough to let her. She admittedly manipulates the press at will. But when Tom Grant comes out with hard evidence, a guy with a reputable background and several big cases under his belt (the Clinton scandal to name one off the top of my head), nobody wants to believe him because he's trying to boost his rep... So everyone believes an admitted liar over a reputable man?? I just don't get it. Courtney is also always looking to sue as well (read comments that have been quoted by Frances Bean about her ranting and wanting to sue everyone). She could very easily win a lawsuit if she could prove her innocence with slander charges and get his liscence revoked. There were intravenous puncture wounds, which for the uneducated means multiple, in his arms, no fingerprints on the shotgun, and his credit card was being used, not just once but several times, up until his body was discovered. Not to mention the fact that "Cali" wrote a nasty letter addressing Kurt that was left in the house after Kurt was dead with Cali acknowledging that Kurt was in the house... How do you know he's in the house and not dead two nights before his body is found?? What was the reason for love calling a guy to very specifically fix something over the garage?? Rosemary Carrol heard Courtney tell Dylan Carlson to check the greenhouse in which after Kurt was dead he claimed "a dirty little room above the garage". After they went to the house and there was no news of a dead Kurt, Courtney (with such "important business" to attend to in LA) decides that instead of wondering about her suicidal husband she will call to have a handyman do work over the greenhouse of all places when she knew cali seen him in the house... C'mon people.

I think people are so unfair with their opinions about Courtney, I mean yes Kurt and Courtney had alot of problems but then what relationship doesnt? I write these type of lyrics when things are going bad with my boyfriend, but that doesnt mean I dont love him. When you love a person so much and you feel dissapointed you write the worse things you can, but that doesnt mean you dont love that person. It's just like heaven and hell sometimes. If he didnt love her, he would have left her. We do know that Kurt also had other personal problems though, not everything is related to their relationship.... This is a great song, love it :)!! Nirvana <333

Like many of Kurts later songs, it seems apparent that they have some connection with his relationship with Courtney Love. This is especially noticable in the "In Utero" album. It is no secret that Kurt and Courtney had a rocky relationship and many beleive his deep depression was caused by his deep love for Courney and her lack of it for Kurt. I think Kurt may have quietly/privately realized after his marriage that Courney was using him and this saddened him greatly. He most likely thought his relationship was over and she would be leaving him. I beleive he named this song after Frances Farmer (a crazy actor from old black and white films) to disguise that he is really talking about his crazy wife who will eventually will sue him for divorse and leave when she "gets paid".
When he say's "I miss the comfort in being sad" he is longing for the time before he met Courtney and the initial good times that originally broght them together. He would rather be sad like he was before he met her than be with her and see what used to bring him joy fall apart.
When he say's "my favorite patient, a display of patience" he is talking about how because of his greif he (the patient) is going crazy because of his patience and understanding towards Courney. The "Disease covers Puget Sound" (an area in Washington state) line is the idea that other have had patience for her too and the "disease" is spreading around Seattle.

"I miss the comfort of being sad." To me this line screams of utter despair. He doesn't even feel sadness anymore. He yearns for the days when, by virtue of his sadness, he at least felt something. Because of the drugs, he has lost any connection to his humanity.

Kurt cobain once said in an interview how he doesnt like people anayising his lyrics and how he just writes what he feels.. so i am just going to say that i am Kurt Cobain's number one fan and i loveee this song! :)
R.I.P Kurt.. I <3 you. x and i will never forget your talentness and morbidness :)

this is a powerful song, and the insight to the human condition stands out amongst the rest of the Nirvana catalog (though there's a lot of good stuff there).

To me, the line "I miss the comfort in being sad" has always been about hope. If you're sad, if you're at rock bottom, there's little that can make things worse. Things are bound to get better. This line is one of my life lessons and one that I'll fit into conversations with my friends and family.

When I listen to this song, I think of like this: If it makes people relaxed, soothed, relieved--basically happy--to know that people in general are so money hungry and selfish; he misses the comfort in being sad. It's almost like the whole "ignorance is bliss" idea; you'll be happier than anyone if you're completely ignorant, but some people would rather be informed, and have knowledge even if it may make them sad... I don't know if that made sense to anyone else, I'm kind of bad at explaining things, but whatever. Oh, and sorry for the improper overusage of commas and semi-colons, it's a bad habit of mine.

First time I heard this song was in 2003 and for the 1st time ,now,Im reading the lyrics.I heard this song on a another way the words are different in my head,maybe because I didnt understand the meaning...Good night poz from cacak

This song is somewhat nonsensical but I know Cobain clearly identified with Frances Farmer and the fact that she was considered insane and wacky. He always had a weird, deviant sense of humor (if you read about him in the book, "Heavier Than Heaven" and Frances Farmer was just bizarre enough to attract his attention and lyrical devotion!

Kurt Cobain was a genius on many levels, and this song just goes to prove it. He had a way of capturing his audiences attention, and relating with them without really trying to do that. Not many can do what he has done.

RIP Kurt Cobain, you helped to save the world.