Sappy Lyrics

Performed by Nirvana

And if you save yourself
You will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar
And you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
Then you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with grass
And you'll think you're happy
Now

You're in a laundry room,
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you, oh

And if you cut yourself
You will think you're happy
He'll keep you in a jar
Then you'll make him happy
He'll give you breathing holes
Then you'll think you're happy
He'll cover you with grass
Then you'll think you're happy
Now

You're in a laundry room,
You're in a laundry room
Conclusion came to you, oh (x2)

(solo)

And if you fool yourself
You will make him happy
He'll keep you in a jar
And you'll think you're happy
He'll give you breathing holes
Then you will seem happy
You'll wallow in your shit
Then you'll think you're happy
Now

You're in a laundry room (x3)
Conclusion came to you, oh

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Amazing | Reviewer: Jer | 12/9/11

People can take this song... and put so many idealistic meanings behind it. Cobain is no longer alive to tell us the meaning. We can take this, because of that fact, and apply it. Teach it. Use it as a tool or a medium to support our process of thinking. in this sense, Kurt Cobain is a revolutionary. In a egotistical sense of the word, he's a god. The father of grunge. Who died to live amongst kings and angels. He left us only his words to remember him by. Each one a riddle about life. Each one a lesson to be learned. He was young, but he discovered a lot about human nature in his time on Earth. Through this he passes his teachings to us.

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WRONG | Reviewer: TV | 11/24/11

You are all reading into it way too much!!! This song is about his pet turtle. Any other explanation is purely coincidental and comes after the fact. Thats the beauty of ambiguous lyrics. They can mean literally anything to anyone, and you can apply your own meaning.

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Luv u homey. Miss u | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/11/11

This song uses a catipiler in a jar as a metephore for our relationship to God. Not that kurt necccesarily believed in God but if there is one kurt is expresing it wouldnt change his apathy and he'd probably even be angry toward God. The idea came to him thinking bak to youth, wen he wz pist off looking at his pet catipiler, thinking thats probly all we are to God

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I love kurt | Reviewer: arun | 10/18/11

I think, he is talking about the creation of man. Like he put the soul in a jar (body), gave breathing holes, and covered it with grass (hairs). We think we are happy to be human and we are making fool of ourselves.

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potential origin of 'laundry room' line | Reviewer: Kermit Cobain | 10/16/11

Nirvana used Laundry Room Studios in Seattle several times in 1992, so I would hypothesise that Kurt was revising these lyrics as he did so often, at least the chorus, around about that time. He had form for taking lyrical inspiration from 'found objects' or things at hand: 'Teen Spirit' itself famously being the name of a deodorant.

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Moses | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/26/11

Sappy
A song barely anyone knows about by Nirvana. The song is genious and is about doing things to make yourself happy for a temporary time and then realizing where you are and how its ruining your life. The main example of the song is doing drugs to calm you down for a short period of time and then you snap back into reality. This sounds ironic because Kurt does drugs but Kurt tried to get people to not do what he did like do drugs, smoke, and live a life of anger.

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God what? | Reviewer: Joao | 8/30/11

The tip of turtle´s Kurt show:
People say "I am happy", and all what we have is few, very few...
Is it anti-system? Is it a suicide manifesto? Maybe. It is poetry! It is rock!
And I am sure this is not a gospel!!!!

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Simple, yet interesting analogy | Reviewer: michaelw | 7/3/11

People seem to be reading too much into this song. It is about God and his relationship to us. In a broad sense it can be boiled down to this: a child keeping an insect (or other creature) in a jar. God is analogous to the child and does things that he thinks will make the captive insect happy. I think many of us have kept some sort of creature in a jar as children and often it doesn't end well. Ultimately, this song challenges the traditional Christian concept of who God is and how he relates to us. I doubt the individual verses mean anything deeper than what the entire song is trying to convey.

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sappy | Reviewer: Alex | 5/9/11

I love how so many people say that to them this song is about relationships and how the girl is being controlled..
Good job interpreting the lyrics in any way that pleases your own desires and needs.

The FACTS, however, are as follows;
FIRST: Cobain recorded a solo acoustic demo of this song in 1988. The lyrics are very similar, but the first lines are; "And if you say your prayers, You will make God happy". He clearly says God. This demo is easy to find on the internet, here is one link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPRNcqrANDY

SECOND: The entire lyrics seem to me, to be obviously about religion. And yet, at second thought they can be interpreted in many other ways. However, the strongest lines suggesting a religious theme are these; "He'll cover you with grass, And you'll think you're happy". This seems like a simple analogy of being buried in a graveyard under a christian tombstone, believing you'll be happy because you should be going to heaven. But the relationship theme fanatics have many ways to interpret this in their own way. BUT, there is one line that most people seem to have troubles with. "You're in a laundry room". The chorus of the song. People who interpret the song as about relationships have only come up with bullshit explanations for this line. But in the context of religion, the meaning is clear and simple. "You're in a laundry room". Think. Laundry and religion? What connection is there? Money laundry?...No, it's more like Brainwashing.
It's a metaphor, kids. "You're in a laundry room" = You've been brainwashed. It is well known that religion is often compared with brainwash, and it often is very simple, cold and brutal brainwashing.
And then the "Conclusion came to you" line is evidently about realizing this, that you're in the laundry room. That you've been brainwashed by society. That you believe a lie.


And to sum up; The entire lyrics match this perfectly, Cobain himself says "God" in the demo instead of just "him", and this explains the elusive chorus line "You're in a laundry room". Now, I'm not against religion or anything, I don't think I have any vested interest. This just seems like the logical and neutral conclusion to interpret the song. Otherwise, I am not forcing this on anyone. And of course, it is possible I am wrong, this is a Nirvana song after all. Still, this is by far the most likely theme I've come across.

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Nirvana and Kurt wrote thier songs to have multiple meanings, | Reviewer: BassicMusician | 4/18/11

alot of other bands try and mimic this, such as Incubus and Breaking Benjamin,
but i take it like this. the 'Him' is the man guessing that sense Nirvana was pretty punk and durring Nirvana's time it was alot about punk music and fast rock n roll

this song is about just sitting around making other people happy, and you'll 'think' that you are as well.
like just do what they want and all will be gravy, lmao !!! wallow in your own escrement,and pretend to be happy, and they'll be happy and let you live (the breathing holes)

just my take on it, lol !!!!
FTS

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Sappy = sad/happy | Reviewer: Cimmy | 4/9/11

This song is about Kurt's pet turtle. He said in an interview he was f'd up one day and looking at his turtle in its cage and decided to write a song. He re-recorded it several times and never quite liked the way it sounded, so it was never formally included in an album.

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meaning | Reviewer: somethingintheway | 4/12/11

IMO, the meaning behind the song is just telling people to live life to the fullest. Be yourself, take chances and experience the world.

The only other alternative is acting like the world is a museum and you are an observer. The song demonstrates a belief in inevitability too. That no matter what you do, the same outcome will occur.

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why not depict it..thats what music is about..besides pure enjoyment. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/2/11

I'm not religious by any means but I thought he was singing about religion/jesus , thoughts of suicide by cutting yourself and confessing in a church to make yourself feel better about cutting yourself. And for the laundry room..I dont know? Maybe it represents the church...everyone goes there to come clean. The conclusion is maybe the realization that you dont need to be there or a part it all, to be happy.

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My Opinion | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/11/11

When i understood that the ones involved in this relationship were the society and me everything maked sense. Its like modern society keeps us inside this jar and constantly loads us with all kind of shit like morals, religion, god and we still think we're free and happy...so our routine sucks and i cant imagine a place as depressive as a laundry room to realize that. We're not free and most of us are so far to be happy that it would be easier to pretend to be than realize we are the bugs in this jar. Only my opinion

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This Song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/24/10

Every boy catches bugs and puts them in jars. Puts grass in there to feed them, or "keep them happy". Metaphor is blatantly, and brilliantly applied to a relationship. Being in a laundry room means your mom will let you only keep your pets in the laundry room, but not in the rest of the house. As applied to the relationship, trapped in a laundry room serving a man?

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