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    NIRVANA LITHIUM

    Dec 18, 2020 2 minutes

    Seemingly written through the eyes of a character, Lithium is a song that evolved lyrically to reflect Cobain’s own dark feelings. It was “some of my personal experiences, like breaking up with girlfriends and having bad relationships, feeling that death void that the person in the song is feeling – very lonely, sick,” the frontman related to Musician magazine.

    If its subject matter is bleak and morose, it’s contrasted and lifted by. The structure of is an example of the influential quiet/loud dynamic Nirvana were spearheading, and it can also be heard on fellow singles and .

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