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"Heart-Shaped Box" lyrics

Nirvana Lyrics

"Heart-Shaped Box"

She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of 'Your Highness', I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back

Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice

She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks
I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black

Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Your advice
Your advice
Your advice


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Thanks to Veronica O'Brien for correcting these lyrics.
Writer(s): Kurt Cobain
The first single from the album "In Utero".
The title of this track was inspired by a heart-shaped box given to Kurt Cobain as a present from his girlfriend Courtney Love.
Most of this song's music video was laid out by Kurt Cobain. The clip won "Best Alternative Video" at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1994.
The song topped the Billboard Modern Rock charts despite not being released as the single in the USA.
"Heart-Shaped Box" turned out to be the last song which Kurt Cobain performed live in public in Munich, Germany, on the 1st of March 1994.
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album: "In Utero" (1993)
Nirvana - In Utero album cover
Serve The Servants
Scentless Apprentice
Heart-Shaped Box
Rape Me
Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
Dumb
Very Ape
Milk It
Pennyroyal Tea
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Tourette's
All Apologies
Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip
Marigold
Moist Vagina (2013 Mix)
(20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Track)
live album: "From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah" (1996)
Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah live album cover
Intro
(Instrumental)
School
Drain You
Aneurysm
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Been A Son
Lithium
Sliver
Spank Thru
Scentless Apprentice
Heart-Shaped Box
Milk It
Negative Creep
Polly
Breed
Tourette's
Blew
box set: "With The Lights Out" (2004)
Nirvana - With The Lights Out box set cover
Heartbreaker
Anorexorcist
White Lace And Strange
Help Me, I'm Hungry
Mrs. Butterworth
If You Must
Pen Cap Chew
Downer
Floyd The Barber
Raunchola / Moby Dick
Beans
Don't Want It All
Clean Up Before She Comes
Polly (Solo Acoustic)
About A Girl
Blandest
Dive (Demo)
They Hung Him On A Cross
Grey Goose
(Instrumental)
Ain't It A Shame
Token Eastern Song
Even In His Youth
Polly (Demo)
Opinion
Lithium - Live Solo Acoustic
Been A Son (Solo Acoustic)
Sliver (Solo Acoustic Demo)
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (Solo Acoustic)
Pay To Play
Here She Comes Now
Drain You
Aneurysm (B-Side)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Rehearsal Demo Version)
Breed
Verse Chorus Verse
Old Age
Endless, Nameless
Dumb
D-7
Oh, The Guilt
Curmudgeon
Return Of The Rat
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Rape Me (Solo Acoustic)
Rape Me
Scentless Apprentice
Heart-Shaped Box
I Hate Myself And Want To Die (Demo)
Milk It
Moist Vagina (Demo)
Gallons Of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through The Strip
The Other Improv
Serve The Servants
Very Ape
Pennyroyal Tea
Marigold
Sappy
Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam
Do Re Mi
You Know You're Right (Solo Acoustic Demo)
All Apologies
Talk To Me
Seasons In The Sun
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