Nirvana Come As You Are

Here is some background information on Come As You Are from : This could be about not being judgmental when someone changes after you haven t seen them for a long time. In hindsight, it can be seen as a song about suicide, since lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide less than three years after this was released. The chords in this song are a slowed down replica of Killing Joke s 1985 song The songs were so similar that Nirvana considered holding off releasing this as a single. Killing Joke decided not to sue Nirvana, and in 1992, Dave Grohl helped them out by playing drums for them on an album. Cobain sings over and over, And I swear that I don t have a He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The lyrics, Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach were taken from a campaign in Seattle that encouraged heroin users to soak their needles in bleach after injecting to reduce the risk of s