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The Steve Albini-recorded studio version of “Pennyroyal Tea” was originally released on 1993’s In Utero, Nirvana’s final studio album before Cobain’s death, and had been set to become their next single in April 1994. However, after Kurt Cobain’s death pre-empted its release, this live, Unplugged ren...
[Verse 1]
I'm on my time with everyone
I have very bad posture
[Chorus]
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty
[Verse 2]
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I can sigh eternally
[Chorus]
I'm so tired I can't sleep
I’m anemic royalty
I’m a liar and a thief
I’m anemic royalty
[Verse 3]
I'm on warm milk and laxatives
Cherry-flavored antacids
[Chorus]
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
Distill the life that's inside of me
Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea
I'm anemic royalty
[Spoken]
That sounded good
Shut up
Pennyroyal Tea (MTV Unplugged) was written by Kurt Cobain.
Pennyroyal Tea (MTV Unplugged) was produced by Alex Coletti & Scott Litt & Nirvana.
Nirvana released Pennyroyal Tea (MTV Unplugged) on Tue Nov 01 1994.
In Michael Azerrad’s 1993 Nirvana biography, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain explains how he wrote “Pennyroyal Tea” with Dave Grohl in 1990 in an Olympia, Washington apartment they shared:
Dave and I were screwing around on a 4-track, and I wrote that song in about thirty seconds...