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Originally Posted by BTown787
I don't know if its because the lyrics have more meaning or if they are more clear, for a song like "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seatle" the message kind of just jumped out at me, where in Nevermind you really had to look for meaning as Cobains lyrics were contradictory at times.
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His lyrics were to me always less about any particular subject and more indicative of what an artistic, tortured soul he was. Lore holds that a lot of Nirvana's lyrics were pieces of poems he had written, creating that choppy, self contridictory style.
Some of them had messages or archs but to me the fragmented, sometimes nonsensical, sometimes cryptic lyrics always deepened the emotional impact of the band.
Black Francis was also in my mind a lyrical genius. He took a cryptic approach and still drove it home somehow - I could feel it but i didn't really know/care what I was feeling.
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