You Know You're Right - Nirvana

Artist: Nirvana
Song: You Know You're Right
Year: 2002
Album: Nirvana

After all the legal troubles with the Nirvana catalogue, I was beginning to think that there was never going to be any further studio material released. It had been eight years since Kurt Cobain had passed away. The members of Nirvana and Courtney Love were bickering about how to release the material. Somehow, the music got out and I am better for it.

The timing could have been better. If this stuff was released a few years earlier, it would have been a much bigger deal. By 2002, the musical landscape had changed. Grunge was no longer king, it was classic rock. It still had a following, but nothing like its time in the mainstream.

The grunge era died a slow death with that shotgun blast. After April 8, 1994, the long and slow decline of grunge and that type of alternative music was apparent. All it takes is one key event to start the downfall of a trend. Kurt Cobain's death was the catalyst.

A few years later, the Smashing Pumpkins would turn almost electronica, angry frat boy rock would take over, and the heroes of the early nineties alternative scene were dropping like flies. The last gasp happened on April 5, 2002. Exactly eight years to the day of Kurt Cobain's estimated death, Alice In Chains singer Layne Staley died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine.

It's hard to predict how trends will play out. It's even harder to predict how long the public will embrace a certain type of music. The public is fickle when it comes to that. Where a person has a free mind to choose whatever suits them, the public moves in lightning quick movements that are both jarring and confusing.

"You Know You're Right" is a great example of a classic Nirvana song. If it were released at almost any other time, the song would have been a monster hit. Six months after the last remnants of the grunge movement were swept away forever is not the time to release a song of this caliber.

I heard this song on the radio for exactly one month. Then it disappeared into the ether of the airwaves, never to be heard from again. This song deserved better.

Lyrics:
I will never bother you
I will never promise to
I will never follow you
I will never bother you

never speak a word again
I will crawl away for good

I will move away from here
you wont be afraid of fear
no thought was put into this
I always knew it would come to this
things have never been so swell
I have never failed to fail

PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
you know you're right...
you know your right...

I'm so warm and calm inside
I no longer have to hide
lets talk about someone else
steaming soup begins to melt
nothing really bothers her
she just wants to love herself
I will move away from here
you wont be afraid of fear
no thought was put into this
I always knew ot would come to this
things have never been so swell
I HAVE NEVER FAILED TO FAIL

PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
PAIN...
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right
you know you're right

PAIN...