Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Number 10 from Patti Smith’s 2007 album Twelve.
She takes a big departure from Nirvana’s original. She chooses to go back before Nirvana to an Appalachian sound of acoustic instruments, upright bass and banjo. She strips away everything we think the song is about. She takes away the grunge, the stu...
[Verse 1]
Load up on guns, bring your friends
It's fun to lose and to pretend
She's over-bored, myself assured
I know, I know a dirty word
[Pre-Chorus]
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
[Chorus]
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah
[Verse 2]
I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift, I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end
[Pre-Chorus]
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
[Chorus]
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Yeah
[Verse 3]
And I forget just what it takes
And yet I guess it makes me smile
I found it hard, it's hard to find
Oh well, whatever, nevermind
[Pre-Chorus]
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
[Bridge]
The empty hand of innocence
Transfusing street of the sorrows
And children of the wood
Hounded, shredding all veils
And winding all sheets of the dead world droning
Overturning tables laden with silver sacrificial birds
Beating goat-skin drums
Advancing with hands outstretched
And we keep filling them with mercury nitrate, asbestos
Baby bombs blasting blue
Scavengers picking through the ashes
Children of the mills, children of the junkyards
Sleepy, illiterate, fuzzy little rats
Haunted, paint-sniffin'
Stoned out of their shaved heads
Forgotten, foraging, mystical children
Foul-mouthed, glassy eyed, hallucinating
[Pre-Chorus]
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Hello
[Chorus]
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido
Ah, la la da, ah, la la da
Ah, la la la, ah, ma la ta
An albina, a mosquito
My libido, oh, my libido
[Outro]
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Smells Like Teen Spirit was written by Krist Novoselic & Dave Grohl & Kurt Cobain.
Smells Like Teen Spirit was produced by Tony Shanahan & Lenny Kaye & Jay Dee Daugherty & Patti Smith.
Patti Smith released Smells Like Teen Spirit on Sat Apr 07 2007.