Kurt Kobain Lyrics

[Intro]
This my last letter right here
Fuck this world
Let's get the fuck outta here


[Verse 1]
I put my soul through the ink
Bless a pad with thoughts, add my faults, before I grow extinct

My back-bone disowned by zone
Why roam? Called home, but now on I'm all alone
Just Proof, no shine, no friends, just fans
No wonder my hands tight where the Internet ends
I take back most of the flack
The stress smokes press me close to the crack
Like my pops, the ghost of my past
Thyme and Mudd, Jay Dee and Stuckey
Lately I'm lucky, I don't hate me to touch me
Maybe I'm ugly inside but smilin' to make it
I love y'all, dawg, and that's however you take it

The fame is an illusion, I'm still losin'
In this game, with the rules and I feel clueless
The streets with the hills blueless
Cops knockin' at the door, got me lookin' real foolish
But I still do this, like I love it
Even though I thug it, keep flossin' lights in public
The subject y'all don't know
Stars won't grow, wounded dreams with scars to show
Minus the MTV videos with Slim
"Up in Smoke," D-12, and many shows with Em
It's still me, dawg, no change for change
It's strange, when it pours it rains; I take it back
[Hook]
I wish I could take it back
I wish I could take it back, but it's too late
I wish I could take it back
I wish I could take it back, but it's too late


[Verse 2]
Always talkin' to Snook, hopin' he speak back
Wishin' my first son was here to reach at
Feelin' detached; my brother Earl, and Wayne
That bail money for jail, y'all can keep that
I've been deep before, ask Stillman
My heart's meltin', tell the truth I need help, man
My heart's big, but my sins bigger
Fuck the world, I don't feel like I can win, niggas
It's like I'm lost and I find only demons
I wanna quit, it's like I'm tired of breathin'
So my stress confess to a famous song
Em, I love you — don't let this money change us, dawg
1st Born, when I'm gone, grab Nasaan
Leave Naeem with the cream and his mom
And dear Momma, I used to hate you
Now I relate to everything you did to make Proof
I love you! Take it back…

[Hook]
I wish I could take it back
I wish I could take it back, but it's too late
I wish I could take it back
I wish I could take it back, but it's too late

[Verse 3]
All y'all see is Free from 106 & Park
Y'all don't know I risk my heart with this apart
From the streets, the groups, the friends, the foes
The jewels, the dick lickers and the hoes
What about me? Sheltered with no guidance
Look at the finest, royal highness on some hot shit
Still livin' with the liquor and bud
Sometimes I wish for my demise, so I can kick it with Bugz
I wish it was real between us all
In the past, you should've seen us, dawg

I'd die for Em and save Hailie
Brave maybe, but just let them tears roll off my grave, Shady

Kuniva and Swift, how live does it get?
I meant to teach y'all niggas to survive in this bitch

If we die to be rich, that makes me happy
And on another note, shit, don't hate me, Pappy
It's just that we look the same; you let the game take you
Your son came along and took the game
Since I took my own life, y'all feel a killer for sho'
Bizarre, on the real, you the realest nigga I know
Strappin' and bustin' ain't real, just tell your mans the truth
And that's why you've always been friends with Proof
Answer to all, I've always lied with truth
And before I pull the trigger, Denaun, I'm proud of you

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Genius Annotation

In this song proof writes a fictional suicide letter.
The theme of suicide is evident on the album ‘Searching for Jerry Garcia’ also in the song ‘Jump Biatch’.

There is a dead celebrity theme on the album as well. Jerry Garcia, along with that Jump Biatch was originally called Eric Clapton Jr. Hence why this song is named after Kurt Cobain who committed suicide in 1994. Although Proof thought his death was suspicious and was uncertain it was suicide.

Q&A

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What did Proof say about "Kurt Kobain"?
Genius Answer

That’s definitely the most special record I’ve ever done and will ever do. It’s Proof saying goodbye to the world. It’s a really heavy song. The day that we did it, we were driving around in his car listening to my beats, and we kept listening to that one over and over and we were going to see his uncle who was on his death bed. I went to the hospital with him to see his uncle. Like I said, when you went to Detroit to see Proof, you were with Proof.

I think that might have triggered the theme of that song because we were listening to that beat all day, which is like a sad, somber beat. I think his uncle passed away two days later. And my dad just passed away a couple months before that, so it was like, death was in the air and that was the soundtrack for both of us who were dealing with losses.

We spent a lot of time talking about death, losing family members, my dad, and his uncle. So that was the theme, and meanwhile this beat was playing the whole time in the car. It was a heavy day and it made that record happen.

Two years after Proof passed, I was listening to that song, and for whatever reason, I got inspired to find the sample I used. It was by Lamont Dozier. Proof’s dad was a pretty legendary Detroit musician and producer and performer named McKinley Jackson. He had a band called The Politicians. He produced tons of classic Detroit soul records.

When we were cutting the song, we brought in a bass player that used to play with Proof’s dad back in the day. And he’s playing bass on the record and he used to play bass on all Proof’s dad’s stuff. He’s like, ‘Man, I know this music. I can’t figure it out, but I know this music.’ It wasn’t a big deal, but he said it a few times. And in Proof’s lyrics he’s talking to his dad on the song.

Fast forward to years later, and I’m looking at the record that I sampled, and I look at the credits on the back, and it says, ‘Produced by McKinley Jackson.’ Talk about a moment of getting chills. My jaw hit the fucking floor.

The song that Proof wrote that he speaks to his dad on, that’s kind of a goodbye letter, the music [from the sample] was written and produced by his dad.

We had no fucking idea. This was a total coincidence. Only in hip hop would something like this happen. Like I said, it’s the most special record I’ve ever done and will ever do.

I’m sure there’s so many stories like this about Proof, these special stories. That’s the type of dude he was. He was made for these stories. He was one of the nicest people I’ve ever met. He launched my career and did it because he loved hip-hop and loved stuff that he thought was good. He had no other motives.

He loved to see his people working on stuff together and liking each other. That was his favorite thing. You don’t meet a lot of people like that. He was just a special dude.

via Complex

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Release Date
August 9, 2005
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