I couldn't help but think of Nirvana's song, "Heart-Shaped Box" while reading Hill's novel this week. Hill mentions Kurt Cobain throughout the novel as well. According to Wikipedia, Cobain originally titled the song "Heart-Shaped Coffin" and it was inspired by a heart shaped box his wife, Courtney Love, gave him. He also said the song was inspired by children with cancer. Here's the lyrics (which I got from www.sing365.com):
She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart Shaped box for a weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
hey
wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
...your advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on Angel Hair and babys breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
...Your advice
*SOLO*
She has me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your Heart-Shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could Eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
hey!
wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey!
Wait!
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Your advice
Your advice
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I totally thought of this song too, and I used to listen to it all the time. There's no doubt in my mind he's a Nirvana fan
ReplyDeleteAnd here's the surreal video of that song. (I just watched the Tom Petty video that Charlie wrote about.)
ReplyDeleteBy the time the Nirvana song was released, I was in graduate school, and laying plans to spend summer 1994 in Seattle -- little knowing Kurt Cobain would be dead by then. (I doubt I would have met him anyway.)