Take a look at Kurt Cobain’s powerchord-fuelled anthem for the dispossessed.
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
