Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea

Nirvana

Pennyroyal Tea

Pennyroyal Tea Nirvana

Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea [Live]

Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea

Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea

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Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea

Pennyroyal Tea

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Nirvana – Pennyroyal Tea

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I’m on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture

Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea
Distill the life that’s inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea
I’m anemic royalty

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally
I’m so tired I can’t sleep
I’m anemic royalty
I’m a liar and a theif
I’m anemic royalty

I’m on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids

Sit and drink Pennyroyal tea
Distill the life that’s inside of me
I’m anemic royalty
I’m anemic royalty

“Pennyroyal Tea” is a song by the American grunge band Nirvana. Featured on the band’s third and final studio album, In Utero (1993), it was initially scheduled to be released as the third singlein April 1994. After Nirvana’s front-man Kurt Cobain was found dead that same month, the planned release was abandoned.

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to Michael Azerrad’s 1993 Nirvana biography, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, “Pennyroyal Tea” was written by Cobain in 1990 in an Olympia, Washington, apartment he shared with Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl. “Dave and I were screwing around on a 4-track,” said Cobain, “and I wrote that song in about thirty seconds. And I sat down for like half-an-hour and wrote the lyrics and then we recorded it.” The band played the song live many times in 1991 and 1992. However, it didn’t receive studio treatment until 1993, when it was recorded by Steve Albini for In Utero. A remix by Scott Litt appears on the censored Wal-Mart and Kmart versions of In Utero; this remix is also available on the band’s 2002 best-of compilation, Nirvana, and is, incidentally, the same mix that was to appear on the single (see below).

Meaning

The herb Pennyroyal is sometimes used as an abortifacient. An alternate explanation is that the song is just what it seems about at face value: a person “sitting and drinking pennyroyal tea.” In Cobain’s Journals, there is an entry where he explains (as much as possible for someone who said that his songs did not have a single meaning) the tracks on In Utero. The explanation simply reads: “herbal abortive… it doesn’t work, you hippie.”

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Kurt Cobain’s suicide letter, addressed to his childhood imaginary friend Boddah, written while he was high on herion.

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