Nirvana - Come As You Are Lyrics

Nirvana Lyrics

"Come As You Are"
(MTV Unplugged Version)

Come as you are, as you were
As I want you to be
As a friend, as a friend
As an old enemy

Take your time, hurry up
Choice is yours, don't be late
Take a rest, as a friend
As an old enemy, yeah

Memoria
Memoria
Memoria

Come doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend
As a known enemy, yeah

Memoria
Memoria
Memoria

When I swear that I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun

–ria
Memoria
Memoria
Memoria

When I swear that I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun
No, I don't have a gun

Memoria

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Thanks to Chelsea for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Kurt Cobain

This song was originally intended to be the main single off of the album, but "Smells Like Teen Spirit" turned out to be a huge success and was chosen instead.

Kurt Cobain said about these lyrics on "Nevermind: It's An Interview", "The lines in the song are really contradictory. One after another they are kind of a rebuttal to each line. It's kind of confusing, I guess. It's just about people, and what they are expected to act like."

This song's guitar riff is very similar to another band's song. Danny Goldberd, Nirvana's manager, said, "Kurt was nervous about 'Come as You Are' because it was too similar to a Killing Joke song 'Eighties', but we all thought it was still the better song to go with. And he was right: Killing Joke later did complain about it."

This track was commercially successful, reaching number 32 on the Billboard and number 9 on the UK singles charts.

live album: "MTV Unplugged In New York" (1994)

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